Random Quote #237

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. 

Edward Abbey

Random Quote #236

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee

It's Intro & Teaser Time!

To take part in Tuesday Intros simply share the first paragraph of the first chapter of the book you are reading or are going to read. Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile By The Sea.

To take part in Teaser Tuesday turn to a random page in the book you are reading, and share two teaser sentences from that page, without sharing spoilers. Teaser Tuesday is hosted by A Daily Rhythm.


Here's mine:


Tuesday Intro

The journey of my life is no different than the journey of anyone else on this planet. There have been brilliant moments and moments that still make me cringe when I think about them. I'm haunted by my past, and worried about my future just as much as anyone else. I'm confident that I'm not the only one going through the peaks and valleys of life. The realization that I'm not alone allows me to understand how normal these things really are. We tend to amplify our problems and sink into a centre-of-the-world mentality, thinking that the entire universe is conspiring against us; it's not.


Teaser Tuesday

Don't care what others think until you've taken your own thoughts into consideration. You can't predict what other people think, and even if you could, it's impossible to make everyone happy.

Page 32, Unlearn by Humble The Poet

Random Quote #235

Happiness can be found in the darkest of times when only one remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore

Fast Friday Five - Cancelled Shows

Fast Five Friday is a weekly meme hosted by the Cover Girls. Basically each week there will be a subject for you to list 5 things... that's all there is to it. Once you've posted your list go and leave a comment on the Cover Girls FFF post for that week so other people can read yours.








This week's subject: 5 cancelled/retired shows you miss

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - more casually know as CSI: Las Vegas. In the UK the last episode was only show a couple of weeks ago and there's still the TV movie to come but I already miss it
• Samantha Who? 
• Pushing Daisies
• Whitechapel
• Luther - the weird thing is I didn't actually watch any of Luther when it was on TV - I saw it on Netflix!

Are there any TV shows you miss?

Random Quote #234

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. 

J. R. R. Tolkien

Intros & Teasers

To take part in Tuesday Intros simply share the first paragraph of the first chapter of the book you are reading or are going to read. Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile By The Sea.

To take part in Teaser Tuesday turn to a random page in the book you are reading, and share two teaser sentences from that page, without sharing spoilers. Teaser Tuesday is hosted by A Daily Rhythm.

Here's mine:

Tuesday Intro

Annie Graham studied the selection of keys on the rusty hook behind the kitchen door, looking for the one to the crumbling Victorian mansion. Recognising the white, plastic key ring she plucked it off the hook and pushed it into the bottom of her pocket. Earlier she had filled her rucksack with a torch, some rope, a bottle of water, a bag of Quavers and a bar of chocolate: all things a girl couldn't live without. She felt like Indiana Jones, about to go on an adventure.

Teaser Tuesday

Her hands trembling, she opened it and read the inscription on the inside front cover: This is the private diary of Alice Hughes. A chill spread down the back of her neck: the man in the house had been shouting for Alice.

Loc 286, The Ghost House by Helen Phifer


This book counts towards my totals for the New Author Challenge 2015 hosted by Literary Escapism

Random Quote #233

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. 

Philip Jose Farmer