52 List Monday

Hello there!

So I know I am jumping on the bandwagon a bit late but I don't even care.
I am going to dub Mondays - "52 List Monday" - original right.
So if this is your first time reading about this list business and you are sitting there wondering what the hell I'm talking about, fear no more...

It's pretty much a weekly list writing initiative started by awesome blogger Morea Seal (click the link to go straight to her 52 List Page)
As a big fan of lists in general, I thought this was perfect for me! Rather than spam everyone with 15 weeks of lists I'd rather just start from this one & go from there. At the end of the road I will just go back and do the ones I've missed (woohoo prolonged listing pleasure)

Any-who, back to all things listing, I'm sure you guys are familiar with the Listverse books? No? Check 'em out!


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Without further ado, here is my first list... *drum roll*

"Beware of "everybody says" 

- We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

“The world breaks everyone & afterward many are strong in the broken places”

 – Ernest Hemingway

“He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammer to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. Whenever he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone”

- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

“Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe”

- Unknown

“The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution”

- John F. Kennedy

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night”

- The Old Astronomer by Sarah Williams

“I was born with an enormous need for affection & a terrible need to give it”

- Audrey Hepburn

“When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire”

- Your Ex-Lover Is Dead by Stars

"We accept the love we think we deserve"

- The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Steven Chbosky

"I feel infinite"

- The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Steven Chbosky

"This moment will just be another story someday" 

- The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Steven Chbosky

"In life, as in art, some endings are bittersweet. Especially when it comes to love. Sometimes fate throws two lovers together only to rip them apart. Sometimes the hero finally makes the right choice but the timing is all wrong. And as they say, timing is everything"
- Gossip Girl

"You know, it's kind of funny how you can find meanings from things you wouldn't think to look at. Like on a TV Show - the truth always comes out, it's one of the fundamental rules of time. And when it comes out it can set you free, or end everything you've fought so hard for. Another way truth comes out - when you don't even meant it to, or when, without saying a word, it's still heard loud and clear. But the worst thing the truth can do? Is when you finally tell it, it doesn't set you free, but it locks you away forever" 

- Gossip Girl

"Shoulder pads may come and go but a BFF is forever. Because even when you're not sure where you're headed, it helps to know that you're not going there alone. No one has all the answers. Sometimes, the best we can do is just apologise and let the past be the past. Other times, we need to look to the future and know that even though we think we've seen it all, life can still surprise us and we can still surprise ourselves" 

- Gossip Girl

"All cats can see futures and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different. And we follow them with our eyes, ghost things and the humans see nothing."

- Sandman #18 "A Dream of A Thousand Cats" by Neil Gaiman 

"People who hate cats will come back as mice in their next life"

- Faith Resnick

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory"

- Oscar Wilde

"I am patient with stupid but not with those who are proud of it"
- Edith Sitwell