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She thinks age is relative. If she were to be perfectly honest, she'll tell you she actually thinks she's an old soul. Her energy, though, says otherwise. She's a double major in Politics and Psychology, but her biggest dream is to work for National Geographic.

She'll never admit it to anyone, but she's always wanted to be a princess, and no, not the Disney kind. She loves anything Arabic and Russian, and she likes chocolate more than she likes a lot of things, and there are a lot of things she likes. She likes cameras, the military, dogs, Lego, Batman, and Harry Potter.

On random days, she refers to herself in the third person, and people think it's weird. She doesn't care, though, a friend once told her that weird is good.

Her mind's essentially Hotel California.





Young. Christian. Happy.

She's a Youth For Christ.

That's not to say she's a holy person, or that she's a righteous one. All it actually means is that she believes in living her life for something far greater than who she is. People sometimes look at her with scorn, especially since she lives in a world where no one wants to get associated with religion, but she doesn't mind.

Because everyday she's becoming a better version of herself.




Some days I believe we can rule the world.

She can't be angry. She tries, but she just can't. The simplest, shallowest things make her laugh. Mess with her friends, though, and she'll rush to you and make you remember why that wasn't such a good idea.

She's boyish, which can be because she has a lot of guy friends more than she has girls, but the ones here below, she's been friends with them since forever.

And she's planning to keep it that way.

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“Oh! The places you can go!”

On Bucketlists
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 || 4:46 AM

I've always been a firm believer of books, so it shouldn't come off as surprise that I love reading them as much as - or perhaps more than - I like writing.

I was rummaging through the books in my makeshift library under my bed (my bed's one of those bunkbed types but with a shelf and a study table underneath instead of another bed. What can I do, I had to save space. My rooms minuscule.) and I realized I haven't read about seven of the books there and yet I have a lot more titles in my phone just waiting to be bought.

Anyway, I found (online!) this list of books everyone should have at least skimmed through before they die.

donnallusional:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Bible by Various
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Money by Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
— From a metal bookmark I got from B&N. I just wanted to share the list with all of you :)

  1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
  2. 1984 by George Orwell
  3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  4. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  8. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  9. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  11. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
  12. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  14. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  16. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
  17. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  18. The Bible by Various
  19. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  20. Ulysses by James Joyce
  21. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
  22. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  23. Money by Martin Amis
  24. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
  25. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  26. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  27. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
  28. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  29. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  30. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  31. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  32. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  33. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  34. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
  35. The Outsider by Albert Camus
  36. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  37. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  38. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  39. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  40. Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
  41. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  42. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  43. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  44. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  46. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  48. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  49. The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
  50. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

(And no, movies don't count.)

So far, I've read 11, and I have 4 out of the pending 7 made it into this list.

What's your book bucketlist? And how many have you read? 

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