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среда, 08 декабря 2010

20:06

Day 15 - Favorite male character

Life goes on; life stays the same; everything changes (с)

Теоретически их много, начиная Корвином из "Амбера", Блудом из "Валькирии" и Олегом из серии "Трое из Леса" и оканчивая Далглишем из книг Ф.Д.Джеймс. Мне мало надо, чтобы любить мужского персонажа. Но пусть будет из последнего. Вилл Грейсон номер один из "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Покидаю цитаты его слов и мыслей сюда, так как все равно так и не собралась написать про всю книгу.

цитаты, цитатыI feel that crying is almost totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Don’t care too much. 2. Shut up.
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And I say, “You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
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As lives go, I’ll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.
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Nothing violates the rules of shutting up and not caring so much as flirting—except possibly for that enchantingly horrible moment when you act upon the flirting, that moment where you seal your heartbreak with a kiss. There should be a third rule, actually: 1. Shut up. 2. Don’t care too much. And 3. Never kiss a girl you like.
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“I’m not asexual. I’m arelationshipal.”
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“I would never come on to you, because you’re not gay. And, like, boys who like girls are inherently unhot. Why would you like someone who can’t like you back?”
The question is rhetorical, but if I wasn’t trying to shut up, I’d answer it: You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing. Noticing the way she smells like oversugared coffee, and the difference between her smile and her photographed smile, and the way she bites her lower lip, and the pale skin of her back. I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance—I don’t want to have to acknowledge that I am noticing. I don’t want to talk about it or do stuff about it.
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You know how people are always saying your parents are always right? “Follow your parents’ advice; they know what’s good for you.” And you know how no one ever listens to this advice, because even if it’s true it’s so annoying and condescending that it just makes you want to go, like, develop a meth addiction and have unprotected sex with eighty-seven thousand anonymous partners? Well, I listen to my parents. They know what’s good for me. I’ll listen to anyone, frankly. Almost everyone knows better than I do.
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Being in a relationship, that’s something you choose. Being friends, that’s just something you are.

А, и Ник из "Ника и Норы". Потрясающий мальчик, который не может существовать таки.

@темы: книжный моб, Книги, Флэшмоб

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