Practice, Divya. Study. Prepare yourself. Think. Act. Face the beasts. Pay the piper whatever dues you think you have to pay. Do the dance, walk the fire, wait in line. Plant the seeds, hoe the field, go to market. Because on the day that you become all that you now dream of becoming... Oh my gosh, there is simply no price that would seem too great ( Read more... )

What a lovely quote :)

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently ( Read more... )

Keep writing. Know that some of the things you write will be really bad. Write anyway. Write because it makes you happy. Write because it’s important to have hobbies. Write because sometimes, on very rare occasions, the things you write will be more powerful than you would have ever thought possible.    

Books read since August 2012

1. Midnight's Children
2. The Magus
3. The Sense of an Ending
4. South of the Border, West of the Sun

Books enjoyed the most in 2012

1. Midnight's Children
2. Norwegian Wood
3. The Magus (after 300 pages)
4. Sputnik Sweetheart

Been a good year for books, me thinks. On straight on for next year.  

Focus on the good things ( Read more... )

I'm officially in a concrete jungle. I was pretty excited by this move, but now I'm having second thoughts ( Read more... )

Happiness comes in unexpected snatches. 

14-year-old me was crabby. And how! 
Quite surprised.

Toodles. I'm okay... :) and I'll be better than okay tomorrow, the day after and the day after that and after that.. You get the drift. :) 

This is my wallowing space. I will wallow. No one will stop me. Because I feel like wallowing somewhere. Not in real life. I'm a happy, shiny face going *wheeeeeeeee* all the time in real life.

But this shall my wallowing space. I am allowed. Yes, I am. 

I feel lost. It's an eerie feeling.

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