<p>What’s a quote that you would want over your head while you’re sleeping? Like on the wall, and it would be above your pillow.</p>
<p>Right now I have:</p>
<p>She ran away in her sleep
Daydreaming
I can’t sleep, but I sure can dream
Castles in the air</p>
<p>Suggestions would be great!</p>
<p>LOL on my bedroom ceiling there’s this quote that’s been there for the last year … it’s </p>
<p>“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” and there’s a picture of Charles V right there. </p>
<p>Yeah. I don’t know why the quote appealed to me when it did, because now, I don’t even notice it on the ceiling (except when it falls off thanks to the AC).</p>
<p>I would have any John Green quote. His books are filled with awesome stuff like that. He’s amazing!!!</p>
<p>Oh goodness. John Green and his bizarre, inexplicable cultural influence. The Fault in Our Stars was really good. His other books are just him anthropomorphizing his teenage insecurities, giving the resultant characters ridiculous, borderline-autistic obsessions and stupid nicknames, and throwing them into pretty much the same situation type: something is missing, where is it where is it, oh I found it, it is not satisfying but I am content.</p>
<p>As for the quote: “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning—”</p>
<p>A lyric from Paradise by Coldplay </p>
<p>“She dreamed of para-para-paradise”</p>
<p>Or</p>
<p>“When she was a girl, she expected the world, but it flew away from her reach, so she ran away in her dreams.”</p>
<p>I should put those on my wall. Haha.</p>
<p>I’m going to get a quote for above my bed too! haha.
Mine will be from either Harry Potter, Studio Ghibli, or something similar.</p>
<p>“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“In dreams we enter a world that’s entirely our own.”</p>
<p>I’d probably put a prayer, hymn, or bible scripture.
A popular little one:
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the lord my soul to keep
And if I to die before I wake
I pray the lord my soul to take</p>
<p>There are many variations of said above.</p>
<p>If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie</p>
<p>“I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas” TS Elliot</p>
<p>@ JimboSteve I wouldn’t call John’s characters borderline autistic, just extremely quirky. If you’ve seen him you’d know that he’s a GIANT nerd and pretty quirky himself, so maybe you’re right about all his characters being a reflection of himself :). I don’t think all of his stories have that exact plot line though, only Paper Towns but, the rest do have that coming-of-age feel to them.</p>
<p>If I’d pick any quote from Gatsby it would be from that last passage too!</p>
<p>^^you want that above your head when you sleep?</p>
<p>I just minimized my window and had Charlie Dalton staring back at me reminding me that Dead Poet’s Society has some solid quotes. ^_^.</p>
<p>@AllyJay</p>
<p>Looking for Alaska</p>
<p>Bizzarre autistic obsession(s): Last Words
Stupid Name-related thing: Pudge
What’s Missing: Knowledge about Alaska.
Satisfied?: No
Content: At peace with Alaska’s SPOILER and his incomplete understanding of her. </p>
<p>An Abundance of Katherines</p>
<p>Bizzarre autistic obsession(s): Becoming a Genius. Judge Judy. Relationship forumlas.
Stupid Name-related thing: More than half the characters in the book, if implicit characters are included, are named Katherine. TOC.
What’s Missing: A girlfriend who gets him and whom he can stick with, preferably not named Katherine.
Satisfied?: No
Content: At peace with not being important and not being a genius. Gives up his dreams and settles with human connectivity. </p>
<p>Will Grayson, Will Grayson</p>
<p>This is an exception, but it does not count. </p>
<p>The Fault in Our Stars</p>
<p>Bizzarre autistic obsession(s): Do I really need to say? An Imperial Affliction.
What’s Missing: Knowledge about what happens after the end of An Imperial Affliction.
Stupid Name-related thing: Nothing, really.
Satisfied?: No
Content: At peace with the SPOILER</p>
<p>lol i appreciate your insight about John Green and his novels very much jimbo. I’m not familiar with them, but i feel like i would share those sentiments. it just sounds right.</p>
<p>expose the writers and their work for what they really are! yeah! that stuff is fun.</p>
<p>@JimboSteve Okay maybe you’re right. Lol. I still love him though. It’s funny that you’ve seem to have read all of his books though … or read wikipedia … either way. ^_^</p>
<p>@AllyJay</p>
<p>Never read that Christmas collaboration he did. </p>
<p>He’s a good writer, but in the YA field he’s not quite as good as, say, Jerry Spinelli, Laurie Halse Anderson, Louis Sachar, etc. And yet, because he’s a vlogbrother and he founded the strangest social group ever (that being the nerdfighters, which in my experience have been super-awkward faux-nerds who try really hard to be nerdy) he has way more influence. I find it… sort of off-putting. Or wrong. Something. Not sure what.</p>
<p>The beauty of this poem touched me. After I read it for the first time, I copied it down on a scrap of paper and hung it on my wall. Now I know it by heart:</p>
<p>"What if you slept?
And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to Heaven
and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?</p>
<p>Ah, what then?"</p>
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<li>Coleridge</li>
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