"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75"
- B. Franklin

"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week".

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.

"Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving.
There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand."

Sylvia Plath

"After four years of college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father still shakes his head and even now and says I wasted all that education."

from Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros

"Do you know what a foreign accent is?
It's a sign of bravery."

Amy Chua. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom

"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the ones that I have loved, all the cities I have visited."

Jorge Luis Borges

Title: my friend is still alive
Pairing: jongho (SHINee)
Genre: friendship, angst, character death
Rating: pg 13
Word count: 2780
A/N: This oneshot is inspired by the special drama "my friend is still alive". As you may notice, some lines of dialogue are quoted from the song "some die young" by Laleh. Oh I posted this oneshot on aff too so if you ( Read more... )

Wow I really joined livejournal didn't I? I promised myself "no more accounts!" but here I am nonetheless...I guess I couldn't really resist when a lot of my favourite writers post only here...I felt bad about not being able to leave comments and not keeping track of the updates so I decided to create an account (finally!). As you may understood, I ( Read more... )