Fave Five Friday: Lines From Literature

And this week for Fave Five Friday, an initiative by BUZZ Magazine, we are going to be sharing our favourite lines from literature. The rules said they do not have to be first or last lines. So I shall be sharing with you lines from books that have always held some meaning for me.

1. “There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It’s such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away at the wall of separation between friendship and kissing. Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle— oh, look, we broke down this wall, I’m going to look at you like a girl and you’re going to look at me like a boy and we’re going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There. And sometimes that happy middle looks so great that you can convince yourself that it’s not the middle but will last forever.”

― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday

My Thoughts: I have held this quote dearly to my heart because I know from personal experience how one wrong move can ruin years' worth of friendships! And because I have always been blindsided when it comes to matters of the heart. The middle doesn't last forever no matter how much we fool ourselves into believing it does. And no matter how hard you try - once you break the wall between friendship and kissing, there is no going back. This quote made a lot of sense to me when I read the book years ago. It still does. 

2. "It is so hard to leave until you leave and then it becomes the easiest goddamn thing in the world." 

- John Green, Paper Towns 

My Thoughts: I have lived in the same house for nearly twenty-eight years now. While I am fascinated by the thought of leaving someday, I am also scared by the whole new world out there. I didn't believe this quote when I first read it. But now I do. It just seems impossible until you do it. 

3. “Perhaps when two people are exactly in accord, and always happy when together and lonely when apart, they ought not to let anything in the world stand between them.” 

― Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs

My Thoughts: When I finished reading this book I was all of sixteen years old with a heart full of love and a head filled with thoughts of romance. I always believed in the crazy, passionate kind of love. Not the quiet, domestic, mediocre kind. I have held on tight to this quote. I haven't found anyone yet who is worthy of this quote though. 




4. “The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.” 

― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

My Thoughts: I always believed this. From a very young age. It was clear when my friend and I were speaking about the same person and have two completely opposing perspectives. How befitting that years later I found a book which had a quote that perfectly summed up what I already knew?

5. “You can love someone so much,' he thought. 'But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

My Thoughts: This one needs no explanation. Every time I have had bitter breakups - be it friendship or romantic or otherwise, I found myself missing them and realizing that more than loving them they had become habits. I still miss some of them terribly. But that doesn't mean that I want any of them back in my life. Missing someone is not synonymous with wanting someone back.