I was nominated by Shashank, Amrit, Tejas and Helen for the Three Days, Three Quotes Challenge 🙂 I am going to cheat a bit and go for nine quotes at one go! Yeah 😛 I get off the grid and come back all lazy instead of pumped up!
To make it a little fun, I went for three authors and selected quotes that I liked the most. Without further ado, let’s jump right in!
First up, Alice Hoffman.
“Books may well be the only true magic.”
“Just because something is unspoken doesn’t mean that it disappears.”
“Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.”
Next, Charles Schulz.
“I love mankind … it’s people I can’t stand!!”
“Be yourself. No one can say you’re doing it wrong.”
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong’.
Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.”
Last but not the least, Ernest Hemingway.
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
And because I took the easy way out, here is a bonus quote by Ray Bradbury.
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
If you were feeling too lazy to go through ten quotes at one go – Enjoy this… Apparently this is true! ❤
A little tribute to summer 🙂 Caught the golden beauties on my way to work.
Day 1 of the Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge for which the wonderful Rob nominated. His sense of humour is one of the best I have come across 🙂 Check out his lovely blog!
My first nomination for this is Tonya. Her blog is breathtaking, tranquil and poetic. The challenge is – “Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge”
C: The guy you were ignoring for your jalapeno cheese balls….
Me: Oh him!! 😐
A typical scene from my life! I have had approximately 13.5 conversations (I abandoned one half-way; my Bailey’s shot had arrived) that fall into this pattern. After long hours of pondering, I have narrowed down the top reasons why I never know when a guy flirts with me –
Food
Dog (generally a lab)
Food
Music
Sheer Dumbness/Ignorance
Food
I am NOT joking. I am completely clueless at zooming in if a guy is genuinely being nice or actually flirting – especially with yummy cheesy food around. Yes, I am a woman with priorities sorted out really well!
I see friends fall for people in a matter of days. Or hours. They hop, skip and jump from one “relationship” to another in a matter of weeks. They decide that it clicks and off they ride into the sunset – or the nearest coffee shop. It is just their scene, you know! And then you have me, who takes months if not years to realize that someone was into me – let alone even the possibility of a relationship. At parties, I see couples everywhere and wonder where was I when they were collecting “getting together” skills!
I checked and double checked myself. Yeah, I am fine. I have those moments of insane attraction – so clearly nothing wrong in the biology department. I am pretty by most standards. And I am not a total retard. The tiniest of problems lies in missing the skill of subtly deducing that the guy talking about trying out that new place might just be asking me for a date. Apparently it is not rocket science! Generally, it is shoved into my face by a not-so-sympathetic friend who doesn’t even hide rolling her eyes. Once, someone actually deigned to share a few flirting templates for my understanding.
Yeah, woe is me.
So anyway, a friend was telling me about this girl he met sometime back and they hit off pretty well (really, where does all this happen???). They are now on a perpetual flirt mode overflowing with innuendos. I casually asked, “So, what next?” No clear answer there. A lot about having someone and not necessarily having someone. I am guessing that the idea of being in a relationship is often more enticing than the person you are with! Which is fine, all God’s children… I am not judging.
But again, my really confused unexposed mind questions, how do you fall out of this habit or how do you know that this time it is different? That your generic flirting scene has dug deeper feelings for someone. I mean, people fall in love and get together all the time right. For life! How do they know? How is that love different from… err regular love?
‘You just know’ is what I get, which hopefully I will understand one fine morning.
Until then, I am calling up some academy to register for Flirting 101 – they got a prize candidate here!
The perfect prompt over at Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda: “scene/seen” When the dam bursts inside my head when faced with, “What’s your scene with him?” – this is what happens!
An Armchair Perfectionist 