Book I Recommend: Seriously....I'm Kidding

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 My favorite lines from this book...

To me beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin.

It's important to let go of things and give things away.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

We are all different people and we're allowed to be different from one another.

It's the same with every career and life decision. You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

Be nice and be on time.

Honesty is so important and yet a lot of times it's hard to find in people.

No one likes to be around Negative Nellies. Try and spend more time with Positive Peters and Happy Helens.

Be happy. Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in.

Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.

I know sometimes it seems like a world that has a blanket with sleeves can't get any better, but I think it can.

Books I Recommend: Crazy Rich Asians

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My favorite quotes in this book...

Every one is more relaxed at lunchtime.

In Asia, there is a proper time for everything, a proper etiquette.

Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.

Remember, every treasure comes with a prize.

Funny how you could be so intimate with someone for so many years and yet feel so painfully awkward around them now.

There's something really cathartic about that, about owning up to your truth.

>I've gotten only a few quotes from this book because I've enjoyed it so much that I wanted to finish it in one sitting but also careful not to as I don't want it also to end. It's a peek of the life of the crazy rich Asians, the one you never thought existed, it kinda seemed unreal but it is real. It is fabulous and fascinating you get jealous but sometimes it's scary and sad. Above all that, it's a love story. A love story you'd hope also belongs to you. :)

Books I Recommend: The Cuckoo's Calling

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  Favorite lines from the book...

Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.

The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees; all times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name...

Books I Recommend: 11/22/63

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My fave lines from the book...

Life turns on a dime.

I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don’t we?

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story is just a story.

My dad used to say you can tell a lot about a person’s health just by the state of his or her fingernails.

Sometimes there’s nothing to say. Sometimes you’re just stumped.

I know death’s embarrassing to folks, especially when the one dying has nothing but his own bad habits to blame.

“Butterfly effect”. It means small events can have large, watchamadingit, ramifications.

Because being ninety-five percent sure isn’t a hundred.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Keep it simple. It’s the only sure way home.

Humans were built to look back; that’s why we have that swivel joint in our necks.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

The past doesn’t want to be changed.

Loose lips sink ships.

That’s the curse of the reading glass. We can be seduced by a good story even at the least opportune moments.

But if you’re going to lay it on, my father used to say, you might as well lay it on thick.

Life turns on a dime, and when it does, it turns fast.

The past isn’t just obdurate; it’s in harmony with both itself and the future.

I heard a psychology prof opine that humans actually do possess a sixth sense. He called it hunch-think, and said it was most well developed in mystics and outlaws.

My advice to you in situations where danger appears in threaten, is heed the hunch.

Life’s simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don’t you think?

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

Familiarity breeds disinterest as well as contempt.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren’t choices at all.

Time is a tree with may branches.