Please Ignore Vera Dietz - A.S. King (The Quote Book 6)

   

Gave this book 4-stars on Goodreads, but the truth is I'm itching to give this one a 5. Now why? I'm a sucker for happy endings, and the end wasn't really bad or something. Vera was fine with her Dad, Charlie's name was cleared...but somehow, for me that wasn't enough. I just felt really bad that Charlie had to die (Of course he must, that's what the whole story is all about) without even telling Vera that he loved her (so much it scared him). Yes, Vera eventually found out because of a stupid note. BUT a NOTE isn't really enough for me (Gawd! I can't believe how demanding I am).

Okay, the characters.

Charlie...This guy confused me. A lot. I think I actually went in the same emotions as Vera. I fell in love with the guy, seriously, who wouldn't?! His eccentricity only adds to the attraction. (Even though napkin-eating is sort of, gross). I hated him too. For a lot of things. For being a coward. The guy should've just told Vera that he loved her. He should've just dealt with his feelings for his best friend and not ran away from it and seek some comfort with that Jenny Flick (UGH. Major UGH!).

Vera...I like the girl. And her guts. And her ability to use "big words" as Charlie puts it so wisely. lol

James...I dunno why, but I wasn't really into James. Just like Charlie, I also didn't want Vera to end up with him even though that guy was kind of, nice, actually. I just don't. Period.

Jenny Flick...Really. Just three words for this girl. I HATE HER.

I've been raving about this book a lot on Twitter. And there's a lot of good quotes in the book which I've posted in there...and I'm posting in here (again!)

"I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is."

'i want to tell her that the only thing you get from walling yourself is empty'

'i missed him long before he was dead, and that's the bitch of it all. I missed him long before he was dead'

'but you're still my best friend, Veer. You'll always be' - Charlie Kahn to Vera Dietz

'i felt a mix of wanting to kill him and wanting to kiss him at the same time'

...but somehow it was that not-like-us that made me love Charlie more.'

'even in death, Charlie is frustrating as hell'

'loving Vera Dietz was the scariest thing that ever happened to me'

“Is it okay to hate a dead kid? Even if you loved him once? Even if he was my best friend? Is it okay to hate him for being dead?” 

“The thing you don't see while you're still there on Earth is how easy it is to change your mind. When you're in it and you're mixed up with feelings, assumptions, influences, and misconceptions, things seem completely impossible to change. From here, you see that change is as easy as flicking a light switch in your brain.” 

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (The Quote Book 5)

 After a strong urge to just dump this book and forget that I ever started reading it...I've finally finished it! I was battling with myself  because half of me wants to stop punishing myself by reading it since I don't even understand some of the words, and the other half of me which screams, "that for the LOVE of Shakespeare, please finish the book!" I guess the good angel won, so here I am...saying what I think about Romeo and Juliet, one of the greatest love stories of all time.

To be honest, I was disappointed. Scratch that. VERY disappointed. And at the same time, I was IMPRESSED. Okay, go figure that one. 

Disappointed, because of the plot. Seriously, at 14 years old (if I understood the story right, please, correct me if I'm wrong) Juliet fell madly IN LOVE with Romeo?! (PBB Teens lang ang peg). I mean, Hello?! In our generation, that is called PUPPY LOVE. And here comes Romeo, which fell in love the first time he saw Juliet...considering the fact that during that time..he was currently "in love" with Rosaline. What the heck! Love at first sight?! Even if you felt strongly attached to someone. No. Not plausible for me. Or maybe. I'm just cynical when it comes to these things. Since I have this belief, that teenagers don't fall in love just like that. For me, romantic love develops in a span of years and not in the mere three seconds that you held your eyes together for the first time. Tsk. But, enough of that. Who am I to judge Romeo and Juliet if they really fell in love that fast?! Duh! It's just a story. A fiction. (Affected ako. Bakit?LOL)

IMPRESSED. Yes! Very much. As I've told you earlier, I don't understand half of what the book is saying. It's hard to explain, but even if I don't understand it, I feel what it supposed to mean. I know. It's weird that instead of understanding it, I'm feeling it. But maybe, that made Shakespeare a great writer. 

Quotes (yeah, I found some)

"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn"

"True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes..."

"...Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-brow'd night; Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine. That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun..."

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Persuasion - Jane Austen (The Quote Book 4)

After reading Wuthering Heights and got a little bit disappointed, I decided to stick with Austen (for now) since I liked Pride and Prejudice. I chose Persuasion because I got curious after reading its plot summary on Goodreads. I wouldn't write a review for this. Just want to share some "passages" from the book.

"No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like joy, senseless joy!"

"For the first time, since their renewed acquaintance, she felt that she was betraying the least sensibility of the two. She had the advantage of him in the preparation of the last few moments. All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery."

"..Yes, I do. Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time more than all the rest of the world put together."

"I can listen no longer on silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, than his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.  Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.....For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes?...."

"I was six weeks with Edward, (said he,) and saw him happy. I could have no other pleasure. I deserved none. He enquired after you very particularly; asked even if you were personally altered, little suspecting that to my eye you could never alter"

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Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

I decided to take on the classics after reading Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I decided on Wuthering Heights after reading its plot summary on Goodreads. Phew, it was a long read. I cannot endure to read the book for a long time since I'm afraid I'd suffer from intellectual indigestion. Maybe the book was too much for my cute little brain. (LOL). Anyways, I hated Catherine Earnshaw...and so Mr. Heathcliff. They were both conceited and selfish. They made hell out of the lives of everyone surrounding them. Another character which I couldn't help but despise was Isabel's (and Heathcliff's) son, Linton. Boy, I never met someone as coward and as selfish as Linton. Good thing there were characters I loved like Catherine Linton (the daughter) and Hareton. I felt really happy that they ended up together. I just felt sorry for Edgar and Isabel Linton for being caught in the middle of Heathcliff and Cathy's emotional dilemmas.

The Quote Book 3

Oooh, and by the way, let me share some of my favorite quotes from the book. (yes, surprisingly I did find some quotes worth posting. HaHa):

"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."

"You teach me now how cruel you've been-cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears; they'll blight you--they'll damn you. You loved me--then what right you had to leave me? What right -answer me- for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart--you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"

"May she wake in torment...Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - not in heaven- not perished-where? Oh! You said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you-haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderes, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot leave without my soul!"

*See how emotionally exhausting it is?

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The Quote Book 2

Secrets, Lies and Algebra - Wendy Lichtman

"Zero seems all round and sweet and 'oh, nothing" but really, it can be very powerful. First of all, zero is an identity thief..."

Masque of the Red Death - Bethany Griffin

"Life is sacred. Death is even more so"

"And I'm falling in love with you," he whispers. "But I would throw you in the water and watch crocodiles tear you to bits, if I thought that doing so would accomplish my goals. Do. Not. Trust. Anyone. Especially me."

"Grief is warm, but guilt is very very cold."

Graffiti Moon - Cath Crowley

"Let me make it in time. Let me meet Shadow. Let me meet Poet, too, but mainly Shadow. The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and people lost in ghost forests. Paint guys with grass growing from their hearts and girls with buzzing lawn mowers. A guy who paints things like that is a guy I could fall for. Really fall for."

"And like Dad says, love and romance are things worth waiting for."

"Train's coming and you have to go to a party to look for a guy you'll never find. A guy who exists in your head not the guy who did that piece. Not the guy who's me."

"About how love is harder to solve that sudoku puzzle."

Dash and Lily's Book of Dares - Rachel Cohn, David Levithan

"Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire" (Seriously, I don't even know why I "bookmarked" this one)

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer Smith

"Marriage for when everything sucks"

"Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world"

"He's still her dad. The rest is just geography."

The Quote Book 1

Looking for Alaska - John Green

"You just use the future to escape the present."

"So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane."

The fault in our stars - John Green 

"Flirting was new to me, but i liked it"

"That's the thing about pain, It demands to be felt"

"But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does."

"The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and disappoint."

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you." (Own thoughts: How sweet of you Augustus Waters)

"Oh, I wouldn't mind Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."

"But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him."

*More quotes to come. =)