Some Favorite Book Quotes

Since I haven't been blogging much, I've decided to put together a post with five of my favorite quotes from books. Yeah, I know, it's almost like cheating since I'm not writing much of anything. I've done things like this before, and I'm not sure if I ever made a post with just favorite book quotes. I genuinely do enjoy quotes though.

Aside from the first two, which are two of my three favorite quotes, this isn't my definitive list of favorite quotes. There are just too many awesome ones to narrow them down like that.

So, here we go:

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” 

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” 

― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” 

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” 

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Life Post: Adjusting to Things

I haven't been blogging for the last week or so largely because I don't feel like I have the brain power to write much after student teaching every day. Most of the time, I would rather read or watch Netflix if I'm being entirely honest.

That isn't to say that I haven't been writing at all. I actually spent the last week writing a new fanfiction, so there was that. I guess that took up what energy I had to write, but I also felt kind of inspired while writing it whereas just thinking about writing blog posts felt draining.

Right now I'm feeling like I'm adjusting to things though and that it won't be as difficult in the future. Since it is Saturday, we'll see if that holds true over the next week. What I can say is that I'm going to be part of a blog tour soon, so there's at least that to look forward to, and since it's a guest post, I don't even have to worry about writing it.

After a week, I feel like I should have more to say. Plenty has happened, but all of it has been related to student teaching. I honestly can't say much is happening beyond that, and I have a feeling that will hold true over the next several months.

This coming week is my first actual class for the semester (the one that corresponds with student teaching), and I'm feeling excited about that. We'll see if that adds to how busy I feel or not. At least the class itself is only once a week.

Why Do I Blog?

That isn't as easy of a question to answer as it might seem. Primarily because the answer has changed a lot over the years.

One thing that has remained a constant is that I enjoy to write. That was true when I started this blog back in 2009, and it's true now. I do think that a big driving factor for me starting the blog when I was sixteen was that it gave me space to write, and on top of that, there was a chance people could read it. Even if no one really did, that was exciting for me.

Back then, I wasn't aware of what book blogging was. I talked about books on my blog, but it was only because books were naturally such a large part of my life. I wasn't trying to write about any particular topic on the blog other than things I was interested in or doing.

Actually, I can't remember when I discovered book blogs. If I were judging based on my own blog, I'd hazard a guess that it was around late 2010 or early 2011 because that's when I can see my own posts changing to imitate what I know I had to be seeing on book blogs. It would take longer before I would go so far as to call this blog a book blog because, really, this blog was a mess of many different things. It still is truthfully, but it was even more so back then.

However, once I found that community my motivations for blogging shifted a bit. There was still the writing aspect, but now I also saw it as a way to write about (and, by extension, discuss) books, which was always something that I wanted to do. I discovered that the book blogging community was a great way to actually learn what was going on in the book world and that I could always find someone else who had read a book that I had. This blog became an outlet in another way.

From then on, I'm not sure that my motivations for blogging have changed all that much. Maybe they have in small ways that I don't notice, but the larger reasons are unchanged. I still enjoy having an outlet to write, and now I particularly enjoy writing about books (and other fandom things). Sure, I could do both of those things without this blog, but I think the blog intersects them both in a way that I might not get otherwise. I think that's the truly great thing about this blog.

Life Post: I'm 23

So... I'm 23 now, and it feels weird to even say that. Somehow, it feels entirely different than 22 even though I don't feel different at all. Does that make sense? Not really. I don't even get how I feel about it.

I don't even have much to say about it. Possibly, because I don't really feel like I'm a year older. I decided to write a post to acknowledge my birthday though because it felt like something I should do. Now, I'm going to go do the same thing I was doing as at 22.

Life Post: Moved into My Dorm

I got lucky this weekend. I got to move into my dorm two days earlier than originally planned, which worked out for the best. For one thing, I'm not at my sister's anymore, but also, I got to move in over the weekend instead of dealing with it on a school day when I'm typically tired by the time school's out.

Something else also happened this weekend: Cursed Child was released. It was the day I moved in actually, and I got it that day. I haven't begun to read it yet. I've been reading a lot less since student teaching began because there's just not enough time for everything. I'm trying my best to get as far ahead with the big project we have to complete for student teaching as I can. I still have time for other things, just a lot less of it.

That's pretty much all that's been going on other than student teaching. When it comes to school, I'm definitely feeling more tired than last week, although I'm getting an adequate amount of sleep. I think my body is still adjusting to the change in schedule. Hopefully it will get better. Before you think I'm staying up super late, writing this post is the last thing I'm doing before bed, which is why I want to wrap this up quickly. I took a forty minute nap after school today, but I'll still fall asleep the moment my head hits the pillow. I'm looking forward to it.