Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self respect and your dignity.
Prince Charming by Julie Garwood
Bonjour Garden Bakery Cafe @ Intermark Mall
cry
“Did you just tell me I cannot weep?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“I don’t like it.”
“I do”
“You can’t be serious.”
“I’m very serious, I like to weep. Not all the time, of course, just sometimes. I feel better afterward. Sometimes, when the frustrations build inside me and everything gets so cluttered up inside my mind, crying makes me feel better. Now do you see?”
The Prize by Julie Garwood
Jibby by The Park
lucky
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
Blue-Eyed Devil by LISA KLEYPAS
Hoshino Coffee
Words
Sometimes words didn’t go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart’s sentiment…
Lover Enshrined by J. R. WARD
someone special
There have been a dozen times in the past when I should have liked a particular gentleman. When it would have been convenient, and appropriate, and easy. But no, I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it’s been trampled by elephants, thrown into the Amazon, and eaten by piranhas.
Love in the Afternoon by LISA KLEYPAS
Walk into 2020
My very first blog post. My favorite poem from one of my favorite novels. A piece called ‘write poorly’.
“Write poorly
suck
write awful
terribly
frightfully
don’t care
turn off the inner editor
let yourself write
let it flow
let yourself fail
do something crazy
write fifty thousand words in the month of November
I did it
it was fun, it was insane, it was one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven words a day
it was possible
but you have to turn off your inner critic
off completely
just write
quickly
in bursts
with joy
if you can’t write, run away for a few
come back
write again
writing is like anything else
you won’t get good at it immediately
it’s a craft, you have to keep getting better
you don’t get to Juilliard unless you practice
if you want to get to Carnegie Hall,
practice, practice, practice
…or give them a lot of money
like anything else, it takes ten thousand hours to get to mastery
just like Malcolm Gladwell says
so write
fail
get your thoughts down
let it rest
let it marinate
then edit
but don’t edit as you type
that just slows the brain down
find a daily practice
for me it’s blogging every day
and it’s fun
the more you write, the easier it gets
the more it is a flow, the less a worry
it’s not for school, it’s not for a grade, it’s just to get your thoughts out there
you know they want to come out
so keep at it. make it a practice
and write poorly, write awfully, write with abandon
and it may end up being
really
really
good”
Point of retreat by Colleen Hoover
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