Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

Thursday, December 29, 2016

"Possession is forbidden": How Fandoms Look at Love

"Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi’s life. So you might say, that we are encouraged to love.” Star Wars

"I realized, I minded." The Hunger Games

"'You are going to marry another man. How dare you come here--demanding to know of my son--as if you had a right?' 'No right perhaps--except the right of loving him.'" Emily of New Moon

From a galaxy far, far away, to a dystopian future in a not-too-far-off United States, to Victorian Canada, three fandoms all seem to, in part or totally, describe love as a possession by someone else. Of course, the girl-power enthusiast in me immediately rejects this: how can love be at you and not with you? Is that how love, the most powerful and innate emotion of human nature, works?

(This is just a little rage post I threw out there.)
~Citali

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Stuff is Infinitely Quotable, Don't You Think?

Hello again, spectacular readers! Willow and Citali here. As you know, both of us are avid fangirls, and we love to quote works of fiction. So, to celebrate a universe of infinitely quotable stuff, we've decided to have a quote war.

It works like this: one person states a quote and the person(s) who said it. The next person states her own quote, trying to rival the awesomeness of the first one. This repeats for five rounds. At the end, whoever stated the more awesome quotes wins!

Let's get started!
Round 1
W: "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly time-y wimey stuff." ~The Tenth Doctor
C: "The future is unpredictable." "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice." ~Colin Singleton and Hassan Harbish

Round 2
W: "I don't know where you get your delusions, laser brain." ~Leia Organa
C: "Why aren't thrones just falling into MY lap, I'd like to know." ~Tsunami

Round 3
W: "I am going to read this terrible book with the boring title that does not contain stormtroopers." ~Augustus Waters
C: "You're lucky you're a feeble old man laid up in bed, or I'd kick your bum up between your ears." "You're both so adorable I feel a hair ball coming up." ~Beka Cooper and Pounce the cat

Round 4
W: "If I get one more owl telling me you've-- you've blown up a toilet or--" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea, though, thanks, Mum." ~Molly, Fred, and George Weasley
C: "This papaya tastes boring. I guess I normally like papaya. But this one is sort of boring all the way through. Like eating water. Boring water." ~Coconut

Round 5
W: "I'm going to need a distraction... and an eyeball." ~Clint Barton
C: "Stop hitting him!" "Just one more time, Master Harry, for luck?" ~Harry Potter and Kreacher

Whose quotes do you think are better? Comment and we'll decide in a later post!

Want to know what we've been reading and watching to find these quotes? These are all amazing quotes from amazing books/movies/episodes that you should totally read/watch!
Round 1: Doctor Who (television series) and An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Round 2: The Empire Strikes Back (movie) and The Brightest Night by Tui Sutherland
Round 3: The Fault in our Stars by John Green and Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
Round 4: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling and Moon Rising by Tui Sutherland
Round 5: Marvel's The Avengers (movie) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

Happy reading/watching!
~Willow and Citali