Dreaming Wanderer: I'm SLAMMED and travel to a POINT OF RETREAT!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOOD!! I have cried so much reading them that i'm beginning to lamely excuse that it's cuz of PMS!!!!! I was sooooooooo apprehensive about finally getting down to read this raved book because the last book with the same genres had been my worst mistake ever!! I sarcastically went over the appreciating comments as they reminded me of the comments of the worst book i had ever read.... but i decided to go ahead anyway and GOD AM I SOOOO THANKFUL AT MY TINY COURAGE!! If I would not have read this series, i would really have missed out on a great author and a great person!! Sure there are melodramatic sappy parts after all which book doesn't have flaws?? All the would-be-annoying-and-irritating things about the book literally washed off of me and drowned away by the mind blowing and fantastic never-before-seen prose of Ms. Hoover. *RESPECT!!* I won't give you any spoilers cuz it's best read without having known any but it's also not fair of me as i already had read them when i decided to continue from my 2-pages-only-read book. i decided to trust it and DID IT PAID OFF OR WHAT!!?? I love the author, cuz somehow an instinct tells me that the books reflect the authors character maybe cuz she loves the Averette Brothers so much??! LOL!! Because of her, i've also fallen in love with them now i cant help myself from researching them!! Also i would recommend that you get to know what slam poetry is before starting this series but either way you're gonna LOVE it!! ;) !! I'm ecstatic even after going through the roller coaster of emotions i went through as i started the book at dawn and finished the series by dusk.... I can't help loving every character she has created!!!! although in the first installment, i was a bit disgruntled at Layken it soon left me, Ms Hoover worked a magic which very many precious few, of the infinite stretch of books i read, manage to do...! I would recommend this to everyone! It's inspiring and every other sappy crappily 'fitting' emotion out there in everyone's review !! I can't get over some of the poetry! *sigh* even when this was supposed to be realistic but Ms Hoover couldn't pull it off, she managed to make me not care about the melodrama which surprisingly few authors can do... Read it for the emotions and not the realism... Though do read it!! actually there are too many that i would like to mention but i will try to list some beautiful quotes from the memorable series that i will find very hard to forget too soon!

...the slam that will forever be in my heart, makes me proud of my decisions, happy about the way i am is-

Write poorly.

Suck

Write awful

Terribly

Frightfully

Don’t care

Turn off the inner editor

Let yourself write

Let it flow

Let yourself fail

Do something crazy

Write fifty thousand words in the month of

November.

I did it.

It was fun, it was insane it was one thousand

six hundred and sixty seven words a day.

It was possible.

But, you have to turn off your inner critic.

Off completely.

Just write.

Quickly.

In Bursts.

With joy.

If you can’t write, run away for a few.

Come back.

Write again.

Writing is like anything else.

You won’t get good at it immediately.

It’s a craft you have to keep getting better.

You don’t get to Julliard, unless you practice.

If you want to get to Carnegie Hall, practice,

practice, practice.

…or give them a lot of money.

Like anything else it takes ten thousand hours to

get to mastery.

Just like Malcolm Gladwell says.

So write.

Fail.

Get your thoughts down.

Let it rest.

Let it marinate.

Then edit.

But don’t edit as you type,

that just slows the brain down.

Find a daily practice,

for me it’s blogging every day.

And it’s fun.

The more you write, the easier it gets. The more

it is a flow, the less a worry. It’s not for school,

it’s not for a grade, it’s just to get your thoughts

out there.

You know they want to come out.

So keep at it. Make it a practice. And write

poorly, write awfully, write with abandon and

it may end up being

really

good.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow incredible every time i read it.... i just can't believe it!!!!

that's all i'm limiting myself to say.... :)

some quotes worth reading are below but honestly?? the whole series is worth reading!!

― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“Imperfections define perfection”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“God Layken. How do you do it? she says. She blows her nose and grabs another tissue out of the box. How do I do what? I sniff as I continue to wipe the tears from my eyes. How do you not fall in love with him? The tears begin flowing just as quickly as they had ceased. I grab yet another tissue. I don't not fall in love with him. I don't not fall in love with him a lot!”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: heartbreaking

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“Sometimes life gets in your way.
it gets all up in your damn way.
But it doesn't get all up in your damn way
because it wants you to just give up and let it take control.
Life doesn't get all up in your damn way because it just wants you to hand it allover and be carried along.

Life wants you to fight it
Learn how to make it your own.
it wants you to grab and axe and hack through the wood.
It wants you to get a sledgehammer and break through concrete.
It wants you to grab a torch and burn through the metal and steel until you can reach through and grab it.

Life wants you to grab all the organized, the alphabetized, thechronological, the sequenced. It wants you to mix it all together,
stir it up,
blend it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“So you keep your ocean, I'll take the Lake.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“Life wants you to fight it.
Learn how to make it your own. ”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“Find a balance between head and heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“To my babies,

Merry Christmas. I'm sorry if these letters have caught you both by surprise. There is just so much more I have to say. I know you thought I was done giving advice, but I couldn't leave without reiterating a few things in writing. You may not relate to these things now, but someday you will. I wasn't able to be around forever, but I hope that my words can be.

-Don't stop making basagna. Basagna is good. Wait until a day when there is no bad news, and bake a damn basagna.

-Find a balance between head and heart. Hopefully you've found that Lake, and you can help Kel sort it out when he gets to that point.

-Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for.

-I'm stealing this snippet from your favorite band, Lake. "Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name."

-Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.

-And Laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once.

-Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.

-Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passions. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

-Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people.

-Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.

-Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.

-And last but not least, not the tiniest bit least. Never regret.

Thank you both for giving me the best years of my life.

Especially the last one.

Love,

Mom”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: advice, letters, mom

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“According to the thesaurus... and according to me... there are over thirty different meanings and substitutions for
the word
mean.
(I quickly yell the following words; the entire class flinches- including Will)
Jackass, jerk, cruel, dickhead, unkind, harsh, wicked,
hateful, heartless, vicious, virulent, unrelenting, tyrannical, malevolent, atrocious, bastard, barbarous, bitter, brutal, callous, degenerate, brutish, depraved, evil, fierce, hard, implacable, rancorous, pernicious, inhumane, monstrous, merciless, inexorable.
And my personal favorite—asshole.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: judgement, prejudice

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“Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: inspirational-love

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“I've never regretted it. Questioned it? Sure. But never regretted."

"Is there a difference?" I ask.

"Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: questioning, regret

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“BLUE SWEATER

Bom Bom...

Bom Bom...

Bom Bom...

Do you hear that?

That's the sound of my heart beating...

Bom Bom...

Bom Bom...

Bom Bom...

Do you hear that? That's the sound of your heart beating.

It was the first day of October. I was wearing my blue sweater, you know the one I bought at Dillard’s? The one with a double knitted hem and holes in the endsof the sleeves that I could poke my thumbs through when it was cold but I didn't feel like wearing gloves? It was the same sweater you said made my eyes look like reflections of the stars on the ocean.

You promised to love me forever that night...

and boy

did you

ever!

It was the first day of December this time. I was wearing my blue sweater, you know the one I bought at Dillard’s? The one with a double knitted hem andholes in the ends of the sleeves that I could poke my thumbs through when it was cold but I didn't feel like wearing gloves? It was the same sweater you said made my eyes look like reflections of the stars on the ocean.

I told you I was three weeks late

You said it was fate.

You promised to love me forever that night...

and boy

did you

ever!

It was the first day of May. I was wearing my blue sweater, although this time the double stitched hem was worn
and the strength of each thread tested as they were pulled tight against mygrowing belly. You know the one. The same one I bought at Dillard’s? The one with holes in the ends of the
sleeves that I could poke my thumbs through when it was cold
but I didn't feel like wearing gloves? It was the same sweater
you said made my eyes look like reflections of the stars on the
ocean.

The SAME sweater you RIPPED off of my body as
you shoved me to the floor,

calling me a whore ,

telling me

you didn't love me

anymore.

Bom Bom...

Bom Bom...

Bom Bom...

Do you hear that? That's the sound of my heart beating.

Bom Bom...

Bom Bom...

Bom Bom...

Do you hear that? That's the sound of your heart
beating.

(There is a long silence as she clasps her hands to her stomach, tears streaming down her face)

Do you hear that? Of course you don't. That's the silence
of my womb.

Because you

RIPPED

OFF

MY

SWEATER!”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“That's not a good idea.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: will

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“Understanding a situation doesn't always make it easier”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“My name is Olivia King

I am five years old.

My mother bought me a balloon. I remember the day she walked through the front door with it. The curly hot pink ribbon trickling down her arm, wrapped around her wrist. She was smiling at me as she untied the ribbon and wrapped it around my hand.

“Here Livie, I bought this for you.”

She called me Livie.

I was so happy. I’d never had a balloon before. I mean, I always saw balloons wrapped around other kids wrists in the
parking lot of Wal-Mart, but I never dreamed I would have my
very own.

My very own pink balloon.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

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“There are three questions every woman should be able to answer yes to before they commit to a man. If you answer no to any of this question, run like hell.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

tags: mother-daughter-advice

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