must read for semestral break :)

on Time Traveler's Wife quotes overload

"Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"

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"I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble"

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"Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?"-Clare Abshire

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"Do you ever miss him? "

"Every day. Every minute."

"Every minute," she says.
"Yes, it's that way, isn't it?"

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"But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins."

— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

on a quote from a book

I wish.. I really do.

on a book

"Emily, London's famous twenty-four-year-old virgin, has to wonder if it's really so crazy to wait for Mr. Right. To enjoy the anticipation. To make sure she's totally, truly, no-turning-back in love. Especially when her friends fall in and out of lust on a daily basis.

But Emily gets the surprise of her life when Oliver Mills comes back to town after a year in America. When they were sixteen, she and Oliver made out behind some sand dunes at the beach, and deep down, he's the one she's been waiting for all this time. Already, Emily can feel her defenses crumbling. She's got six good reasons to stay a virgin. But six might not be enough." (via Amazon)

I saw this title at a bookstore earlier, I didn't bought it because I thought it was some self-help book, but i got curious about it so I did some research. I found out it's a fiction novel and I think it sort of interesting. I think this is something different and I want to know how well it is written with regards to peer pressure, values and beliefs. Yeah...so maybe I'll go back to that bookstore and gosh... I hope it's still there :p

on my favorite book

This is my all time favorite book. It never fails to surprise me whenever a page is flipped. The book itself is a mystery, and it unravels the endless mysteries of the world as well. Perfectly written in such a way that it'll not only make you fall... it'll make you believe.



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I will not tell the story of the book for it might just ruin the magic that it could bring to an individual, although a story was told in the book that is somehow similar to the real story of the book itself.

from pp. 171 of the book

Before I closed my eyes, I began to hear my mother's voice. She was telling a story she had often told me when I was a child, not realizing it was a story about me.

" A boy and a girl were insanely in love with each other," my mother's voice was saying." They decided to become engaged. And that's when presents are always exchanged."

"The boy was poor--- his only worthwhile possession was a watch he'd inherited from his grandfather. Thinking about his sweetheart's lovely hair, he decided to sell the watch in order to buy her a silver barrette."

"The girl had no money herself to buy him a present. She went to the shop of the most successful merchant in the town and sold him her hair.With the money, she bought a gold watchband for her lover."

"When they met on the day of the engagement party, she gave him the wristband for a watch he had sold, and he gave ger the barrette for the hair she no longer had."

*sigh* the real story would make you feel ten times than what this story made you feel.


btw, here's an excerpt from the book that has somehow changed the way I deal with life and love...