tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post4416780576666479029..comments2024-01-08T17:41:57.541-07:00Comments on Yat-Yee Chong: Grab-A-Line Monday: The Inaugural postYat-Yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04028075516122778317noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-2499430398560114902009-09-17T09:11:28.071-06:002009-09-17T09:11:28.071-06:00All right, since it is such a great one, I'll ...All right, since it is such a great one, I'll not give you a hard time for making click on your link.Yat-Yeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04028075516122778317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-30256903557923170062009-09-16T22:08:36.461-06:002009-09-16T22:08:36.461-06:00Favourite line of all time: http://www.facebook.co...Favourite line of all time: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1976442&l=92e7e867e5&id=752788324<br /><br />...linked only because I'm a lazy bugger who hates typing.CLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16255695487419388292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-1243299545281513482009-09-15T07:51:25.758-06:002009-09-15T07:51:25.758-06:00What a rich quote. Thanks so much. Like Marjorie, ...What a rich quote. Thanks so much. Like Marjorie, the only I can say to that is: good night.Yat-Yeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04028075516122778317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-44904854727260094112009-09-15T03:50:56.408-06:002009-09-15T03:50:56.408-06:00There was another silence, while Marjorie consider...<i>There was another silence, while Marjorie considered whether or not convincing her mother was worth the trouble. People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.<br /><br />Having decided this, Marjorie said good night. </i> - Bernice Bobs Her Hair, F. Scott Fitzgeraldtanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-62947255244729144992009-09-14T19:49:38.023-06:002009-09-14T19:49:38.023-06:00Hi Melissa: I am looking forward to what you jot d...Hi Melissa: I am looking forward to what you jot down next week! I don't know this book, but now I am intrigued.Yat-Yeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04028075516122778317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-27509248177730445522009-09-14T19:47:21.986-06:002009-09-14T19:47:21.986-06:00I'm not in the habit of keeping track of great...I'm not in the habit of keeping track of great lines, but now that you're doing this post every Monday (which I think is a wonderful idea, BTW) I'm going to make it a habit to jot them down. One of my favorite recent reads is The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp and just flipping through it I found: <br /><br />But with this February sun, see, the light's absolutely pure and makes the colors of the sky and the tree limbs and the bricks on these suburban houses so clean that just looking at them is like inhaling purified air.MG Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584010470283038023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-54566165341046155262009-09-14T19:29:53.399-06:002009-09-14T19:29:53.399-06:00Made you want to write for children. that's th...Made you want to write for children. that's the kind of power a great sentence can do. <br /><br />BTW: how do you view this new movie thing?Yat-Yeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04028075516122778317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-64328339699823870902009-09-14T19:24:54.557-06:002009-09-14T19:24:54.557-06:00"The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mi..."The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him, "Wild thing,"........"<br /><br />Maurice Sendak<br /><br /><br />Made me want to write for children.<br /><br />shelleystoryqueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07039684494823420722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-44668206653054575762009-09-14T18:29:46.905-06:002009-09-14T18:29:46.905-06:00Nope, not too late at all. I"ve never read Sa...Nope, not too late at all. I"ve never read Salman Rushdie so this is eye opening for me. Thanks!Yat-Yeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04028075516122778317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-72947897081102284822009-09-14T18:08:40.729-06:002009-09-14T18:08:40.729-06:00Is it too late to join in? Here's mine ...
&q...Is it too late to join in? Here's mine ...<br /><br />"There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name."<br /><br />First line of Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Love that book!Nandinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14288011387138842112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-91025357235886097902009-09-14T15:06:48.623-06:002009-09-14T15:06:48.623-06:00Yes, this is one of those moments that make me ach...Yes, this is one of those moments that make me ache. Thanks Glam.Yat-Yeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04028075516122778317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-11451345188237038002009-09-14T13:58:25.712-06:002009-09-14T13:58:25.712-06:00"I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and ..."I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."<br /><br />- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3Michelle D. Argylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09696465137285587646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-23936001085466719552009-09-14T12:30:12.415-06:002009-09-14T12:30:12.415-06:00Thanks, T. Anne.
Apply your heart, apply you ear...Thanks, T. Anne. <br /><br />Apply your heart, apply you ears: not words we typically use but so true, to perfectly appropriate.Yat-Yeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04028075516122778317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4980381933042572592.post-21185990186892513752009-09-14T12:03:37.323-06:002009-09-14T12:03:37.323-06:00Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to w...Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge. Proverbs 23:12Tanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10518718614911804428noreply@blogger.com