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Category: Literary Reflections

Book discussions, literary analysis, thoughts on authors

  • Gift

    Hello to the people reading this, today I have a gift for you all. The gift of hope, the gift of magic, the gift of love and the gift of words. All of us have always heard people say that books are our best friend, but why do they say so? They do it because, at the times of grief, uncertainty and self-doubt, there is nothing better than a few words that can provide you hope, faith and strength. So today I have brought my 10 all-time favourite lines for you. This is my gift for you. For supporting my blog my work and showering your love upon me. Thank you.

    10 All-Time Favourite Lines

    • “ I can do this…I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish upon and people to still love.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
    • “ I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don’t want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.” – Charles De Lint
    • “ Believe something and the Universe is on it’s way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow.” – Diane Duane
    • “ Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” – Lady Gaga
    • “ Not knowing you can’t do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.” – Ally Carter
    • “ Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
    • “ Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classic, good, and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner
    • “ The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie
    • “ Home is the people inside your heart, not the place where you all sleep.” – A.M.Hudson
    • “ Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.” – Taylor Swift

    Bonus Lines

    • “ You’ve got this life and while you’ve got it, you’d better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone’s hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people’s eyes like they’re the last you’ll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there’s no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head where there is none, and eat cake like it’s the only one left in the world!” – C.JoyBell C
    • “ Believe in your heart. Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles. ” – Roy T. Bennett
    • “ And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. ” – Roald Dahl

    I hope you all liked it. Thanks once again guys and write if there are a few lines which you would like to share with us in the comments section below. Love each and every one of you reading this.

    Thank you for reading.

  • The Velveteen Rabbit

    I have been reading children books these days, it’s my “back-to-basics” method. Before the age of 12 I never really liked books so I haven’t read many which brought me here, reading stuff I should have read (10 years) before.

    I landed over a book called “The Velveteen Rabbit ”

    The Velveteen Rabbit is a British children’s book written by Margery Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson. It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit’s desire to become real through the love of his owner. The book was first published in 1922.

    Image Source: Google Books. Information Source: Wikipedia.

    and I read something I couldn’t keep myself from sharing. So in case, you haven’t read this book or you don’t have time to, I am sharing one of the most beautiful things I came across.

    Here it is.

    ‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’

    ‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit.

    ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’

    ‘Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,’ he asked, ‘or bit by bit?’

    ‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.

    – The Velveteen Rabbit

    By Margery Williams Bianco

    I’m so in love with this book and I recommend this. So if you have time or you are stressed and need a book to just relax your mind, do try this one.

    Thank you for reading.

  • Don’t Kill Yourself Today

    Poem source: tumble.com

    Don’t kill yourself today

    Because your Netflix trial still has a week left

    Don’t kill yourself today

    Because no one else will finish off the chicken in the fridge

    Don’t kill yourself today

    Because I know for a fact that Starbucks is releasing a new Frappuccino sometime next month

    Yes, your mother will miss you

    Yes your bully will make a sappy Facebook post about how what a wonderful person you were

    And yes

    Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem

    You know that

    You’ve known that

    Everyone and anyone has been shoving that down your throat since they first learned what the word suicide meant

    So don’t kill yourself

    Until you finish your shampoo and conditioner at the same time

    Don’t kill yourself

    Until Doctor Who is finally cancelled

    Don’t kill yourself

    Until you tell someone your best pasta recipe 

    Don’t kill yourself 

    Because I will keep coming up with reasons for you not to

    And I need you

    To hear all of them

    Don’t kill yourself

    I love you

    You’re important

    It’s a bad day

    Not a bad life

    There is more to this

    The world will keep spinning on its axis without you

    But

    Think of all the sunrises you’d miss

    I know this sounds pointless

    But when you’re sitting in front of everything deadly you own

    Revising your goodbyes

    There will be too much darkness 

    To see anything else

    But this is not about seeing anything else

    This is about turning off the lights

    This is about finding the bed instead of the noose

    This is about giving yourself one more day

    Even if it takes ten thousand of those

    One more morning’s

    Until

    “I can’t wait for tomorrow”

    This is about staying alive

    Because there’s gonna be a new Marvel movie

    No one should miss that

    This is about staying alive

    Because the future is coming 

    And it’s ready for you

    I don’ t need you to see it

    I just need you to believe you can make it 

    Until then

    – Hannah Dains

  • So You Want To Be A Writer?

    This poem was the first thing I wrote in my diary, and now I want to share this with all of you. The poem isn’t mine but i love it, and so will you all. Hopefully.

    Henry Charles Bukowski
    was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambiance of his home city of Los Angeles. 
    Born: 16 August 1920
    Died: 9 March 1994

    Image Source : wikipedia Information : wikipedia

    “If it doesn’t come bursting out of you
    in spite of everything,
    don’t do it.
    Unless it comes unasked out of your
    heart and your mind and your mouth
    and your gut,
    don’t do it.
    if you have to sit for hours
    staring at your computer screen
    or hunched over your
    typewriter
    searching for words,
    don’t do it.
    if you’re doing it for money or
    fame,
    don’t do it.
    If you’re doing it because you want
    women in your bed,
    don’t do it.
    If you have to sit there and
    rewrite it again and again,
    don’t do it.
    If it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
    don’t do it.
    if you’re trying to write like somebody
    else,
    forget about it.

    If you have to wait for it to roar out of
    you,
    then wait patiently.
    if it never does roar out of you,
    do something else.

    If you first have to read it to your wife
    or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
    or your parents or to anybody at all,
    you’re not ready.

    Don’t be like so many writers,
    don’t be like so many thousands of
    people who call themselves writers,
    don’t be dull and boring and
    pretentious, don’t be consumed with self-
    love.
    The libraries of the world have yawned themselves to
    sleep over your kind.
    Don’t add to that.
    Don’t do it.
    Unless it comes out of
    your soul like a rocket,
    unless being still would
    drive you to madness or
    suicide or murder,
    don’t do it.
    Unless the sun inside you is
    burning your gut,
    don’t do it.

    When it is truly time,
    and if you have been chosen,
    it will do it by
    itself and it will keep on doing it
    until you die or it dies in you.

    There is no other way.

    And there never was.”

    – Henry Charles Bukowski

  • Reality of Fear

    I read it on the internet two years back and this is something I want all of you to read. It helped me so much at that time, you know, when you are a complete teenager, so full of dreams, so full of life and you have this passion to achieve everything you have ever wanted to and all. And deep down you are scared of whats and buts. Fear is the only thing that will limit you and stop you from being yourself. But ones you learn to accept the worst you will be the best, you have my words on this.

    Here’s the poem.

    “You are not scared of the dark, you are scared of what’s in it.

    You are not afraid of hights, you are afraid of falling.

    You are not afraid of people around you, you are afraid of rejection.

    You are not afraid to love, you are afraid of not being loved back.

    You are not afraid of letting go, you are afraid of excepting the truth that the person is gone.

    You are not afraid of trying again, you are afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.”

    – Ezinwanne Dominion

    Now ask yourself, do all these things really matter? Can’t we overcome them and be the untamed, unedited version of yourselves? Yes sometimes we need to change for our own good but never for someone else to accept us.

    We need to learn that it’s okay to have fears, it’s okay to be imperfect, it’s absolutely okay to not be okay but what is not okay is to let you fear limit the potential in you.

    Think about it and share your thoughts in the comment.

    Thank you for reading.