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“I feel like wanting to make my own Jane Eyre. But there’s always a little voice in my head saying I don’t have it in me.” —

Trisha Sales

I’m having some internet connection problems that is causing me to not be able to put this on my twitter. I shall put this here instead. Haha

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“O how I want to be known for the good things and marvelous virtues I can bring about. But how can I be known when the scale of my perverseness and evil soil the image I see whenever I look at the mirror? There will always be someone who’ll stare back at me saying, “Sorry dear, you’re just not it.” —

Trisha Sales (2007 on a letter to Rachel Katimbang)

Me and my troubled mind back then. Hahaha :))

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“You know the saying, “The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long,”? Well, that was us. And then he was gone.” —Peyton Sawyer

Jun 25, 2009

“Suddenly it was as if the roar of the crowd, the echo of the final buzzers, the cheers of my teammates were all sounding from 1000 miles away, and what remained in that bizarre, muffled silence was only Peyton. The girl whose art, passion, and beauty had changed my life. In that moment, my triumph was not a state championship but simple clarity. The realization that we had always been meant for each other. And every instinct to the contrary had been simply a denial of the following truth—I was now and would always be in love with Peyton Sawyer.” —An Unkindness of Ravens by Lucas Scott

“The boy saw The Comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him. It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning. There are many who couldn’t understand, and sometimes he walked among them. But Even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday it would return to him, and his world would be whole again. And his belief in God and love and art would be re-awakended in his heart.” —The Comet by Lucas Scott

“Somewhere I just want to find someone that’s going to love me forever no matter what; I want someone to show the inside of my head to. That thought keeps me going.” —Pete Wentz

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“I wish I could be like that, you know, write something that can actually inspire people to move. Even just the ability to make people feel as if they’re not alone in this world is already satisfying for me. To be able to write and have people understand what you’ve written—that would probably be the best achievement there is. If not, then there must be something far greater than we can be.” —Trisha Sales

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Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned?

Why could I never please? Why was it useless to try to win anyone’s favor?

” —

Jane Eyre

Ever since school started, I always read the copy of Jane Eyre that Lou gave me as an 18th birthday present whenever I had the free time. I find it a lot easier to read than Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for some reason. It’s probably because of the way the story is being narrated in the novel. The fact that Jane Eyre was written in the first person point of view makes it easier to understand how the main character feels.

I’m thankful that Lou gave this book as a present. I find it a wonderful read. :)

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded; appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is—I repeat it—a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.” —From the Preface of the second edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.