I don’t want reality. I like fiction!

Just how gorgeous is this photo?

“I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth.”
– Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

I found this quote here and I was absolutely taken from there on. I haven´t read this book. But I feel that I must.

After spending nearly half the entire day waiting for inspiration to strike and to be honest for a second there I was worried I was going to make another day in January without an uploaded posts, thankfully it hasn´t come to that because — well here I am, typing away and with nothing less than exhilarating joy within me… okay, maybe I have over-done here with the emotion but if you are a blogger or know any bloggers when inspiration strikes after many many minutes spent contemplating, trust me, this is probably the best thing that will happen to you all day, probably.

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
– Victor Hugo, Les Les Misérables

One of the things I absolutely enjoy doing and have recently realised that I haven´t written much about are BOOKS. I love Books, I love to read — non-fiction. I love fictional stories, and I can say almost certainly that a lot of intellectual people would wonder and ask why? Recently I was watching “They came together” (highly recommendable and very fully of romantic cliches but in a funny sort of way, cute.), the one movie I have watched where they have made it very clear that preference over fictional stories is totes better than non-fiction. I could not NOT love it after that. See many people I know love to ready autobiographies and other non-fictional related dramas etc etc, but I am a fictional girl, I shamelessly love to be transported from my reality to a fantasy. If someone were to ever give me an option to live in a world where my mind, body and spirit fully embraced, this world that is created by someone on a piece of paper with ink, I worry that I would happily accept it and never look back, sadly, back to reality, that´s probably never going to happen. But then again, I guess that´s why we have books.

“When life has gone into overtime it’s easy to take liberties,”
– Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Reading is not just an act of having to move from one state of mind and connecting to what the writer/author wanted you to visualise, to feel, to experience, it´s a lot more than that. I feel like reading is life lessons, its little memoirs that stay with us for most of our lives, its a practice that sometimes helps us define who we are and where we stand. A self realisation at best. I say this because I find myself remembering a wave of some of my favourite quotes, sentences, lines that I have read over time. These that I can remember, I want to share with you, maybe they might be the inspiration you need after all, or just the push to read the book, which ever way, I hope they bring some sort of experience to you.

“Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There’s nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.”
– Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker

I would love to hear some of your favourite”good reads” quotes

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