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ME: "Hi! Thank you very much for your kind words. Messages like this make me feel awesome and reassure me that I'm not the only one reading my posts! So thanks, you're the best.
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I do need to apologise for the lack of posting. I have been incredibly busy with University and exams and the rest. I make this promise to you - I WILL (note the caps - must be legit) post within the next week.
So thank you again!
All the best,
thegirlinpink.."

friends.

"If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”
― P.C. Cast

Great Expectations (And Chocolate Currency)

We all have expectations... Of our friends, family, lecturers, shop assistants, even that boy-who-should-spit-his-gum-in-the-bin-but-will-probably-spit-it-on-the-ground. However, no expectation is or will ever be as great as the expectation we have of ourselves.

I'm always thinking up scenarios in my head. Scenarios that I think are life-like - and thus going to happen - but are really just pieces of my imagination playing with me. You know? We all think of them: Meeting the Perfect (yes, capitol 'P') boy, getting paid excessive amounts of money to do nothing.. etc. But why is it that right after crashing back into reality, we long to go back. To go back to the world where you left the house without a care for anything, where responsibilities disappeared, where there was no crime, where "I was eating chocolate..." is a legitimate excuse to have not done homework or assignments.

It's true, the "Real World" may not be as exciting as "Imaginary World". In fact, in my personal "Imaginary World" I'd be broke as our currency would be in the form of chocolate and, well, if you knew me well enough I shouldn't need to further explain myself. But it's time that I come down from my cloud because if there is one piece of advice I'll live by for the rest of my life it's this:

Life is NOT a fairytale.

And that gets me through everyday. Because when we doubt ourselves and give up, that's when we need to snap back into reality. One day, we will realise that what we have achieved is something to be proud of. One day our dreams and wishes will come true. One day I hope to meet some of my inspirations (I have to call them inspirations because the list started to get a bit excessive and suddenly everyone was 'My Idol'.) . And when this day comes we will look back and know that we have achieved a greatness that our Imagination could not give us. We will have the sense of accomplishment to have worked so, so hard to get to where we are. And to me, that's all that matters.

Nothing gets handed to you on a silver platter.
Unless you're the Queen, which you aren't.
So get studying.
-Me.

For your information:
My List of Inspirations (Thus Far):
Julie Andrews
Verity Hunt-Ballard - Saw her perform, didn't get to meet her :(
Gigi Edgley - WANT TO MEET
Colin Firth
The Dog from The Artist
Simon Burke - Met him
Debra Messing
... and the list goes on!

So tell me, if you like, what is your greatest expectation of yourself? Or perhaps, Who is your idol/inspiration?

Ciao!!
--thegirlinpink...

“What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.”
On The Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta

30 Day Jellicoe Challenge

‘Do what to me? I don’t think that leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs,’ I lie.
‘You being on that platform changed mine.’
This isn’t romance. This isn’t a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.
‘I wasn’t there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass,’ he says. ‘I was there to throw myself in front of it.’”
- On The Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta

Belated 30 Day Jellicoe update!

I sincerely apologise for this delayed post - I know it's supposed to be every day. But unfortunately I have been studying like a crazy person and doing exams and been extremely busy being sick! So, with that said and my apology out of the way, here are two quotes to make up for my absence.

“I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?"
"I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues.
"Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look.
"Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name."
"It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again.” 
- On The Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta

“I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.” 
- On The Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta

These two quotes are funny and moving respectively. These are the moments I look forward to reading because Taylor is so intense and sometimes you need Raffaela to try and get through to her. But Taylor's determination to locate the absent Hannah always keeps me reading and, no matter how many times I've read it, I always struggle to pull myself away from the world of Taylor Markham and back into my own.

-thegirlinpink...

30 Day Jellicoe Challenge - Day 3

“This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying.
"Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen."
"Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets."
Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.”
- On The Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta

30 Day Jellicoe Challenge - Day 2

This quote always makes me laugh.

“If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more.” 
- On The Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta

30 Day Jellicoe Challenge - Day 1

“It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.” 

- On The Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta

30 Day Jellicoe Challenge

So I've decided that I'm going to share with you 30 of my most favourite On The Jellicoe Road quotes in 30 days. They will appear in no particular order. I hope they make you laugh, deeply think, sigh and cry just like they do to me! I'd love for you leave a comment regarding your thoughts on either the book or others Melina Marchetta has written or your thoughts on the quote for the day.

--thegirlinpink..

My drug, On The Jellicoe Road

**Please note this is not a review, though SPOILER ALERT is activated (just in case I get ahead of myself)**

When I doubt myself I turn to my favourite book. For inspiration and guidance and for funny and meaningful quotes. But most of all I go to escape. I escape the world around me and for however long - ten minutes or 3 hours - it's just me and my book. Just me and the story of Taylor Markham and how she finds she came to be on the Jellicoe Road.
That's the title you know? On The Jellicoe Road.

It's written by my cousin, Melina Marchetta.

To be completely honest with you I don't know what it is about this book that has me wrapped around it's (pages) so to speak. But there are times when I find myself completely lost and in need of reassurance. I don't sleep or eat my worries away like some would, I pick up this book and read it because for some unknown reason, the story of Taylor Markham's life and how she came to be on the Jellicoe Road, is my fix.  Kind of like a drug. This book is my drug.  It's not shortening my lifespan nor does it affect my relationship with those around me. It's a safe drug, my drug.
Sometimes I read my favourite chapters or sometimes I read the whole thing. I'm currently in the midst of reading it for the 9th time. And I don't have to exaggerate that fact.

Melina has set this book out beautifully and has the two-stories-in-one thing happening. But I'm not a reviewer so I'm not going to get into every damned detail to prove its worth to you. I'm simply going to say this...
Read it because it may change your life and, if it fails to do so (which it won't, but if it does), you have supported my wonderfully talented cousin, so thanks.

Anyway, I can't really put into words how or why this book is so close to me because I don't know yet. Maybe one day, when the fog clears something will hit me SMACK! in the face saying 'this is why you love it so much. This is why it's meaningful!' but until then I'm going to love it and read it 'til the edges are even more worn (if that's possible which I'm sure it is).
So here is a small piece of the Prologue. Enjoy.
--the girl in pink..

“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

I counted.

It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.” 

- On The Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta

Daily Inspiration

Here's some inspiration.

There are times in life when things don't always go your way. There are times when successes almost always result in losses. There are times we blink and miss things and times we wait for no reason. I live and love and learn because that's what I was put on this Earth to do. So there.
- Me

--thegirlinpink..

Welcome!

Hi.

I don’t know who you are but if you’re reading this thanks!

Ok, well I’d ask how you are but I think we both know that, that could possibly be the most ridiculous thing anyone who is blogging can do. But you know what? I want you to tell me how you are. I want you to feel good about yourself. Feel good about running late to UNI because your Vanilla Latte took longer to make than usual. Feel great about the dog poo you almost stood on but missed by a few centimetres. Feel ALIVE. You know why? Because there is only one you and that one you has only one life and in case that wasn’t clear you only live once.

So, with that said. I’m me and I feel great and I hope that by creating this blog it makes you feel great everyday. The name typewritersandall was chosen by a friend of mine and does my love for writing a great deal of justice.

I’m hoping this blog will not only be led by what I’m digging at the time, but also by what you guys think so make sure to let me know by leaving a comment!

Well, until we meet again - in my next post or whatever.
Au Revoir!
-thegirlinpink..