A Girl You Should Date
I smile every time I read this because, as a girl who reads, I find it to be quite true.
Neurotic, ha!” I let out a scornful laugh. “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
—The Bell Jar
(Source: sentimentalhearts)
There is nothing quite like a book: the smell, the feel of the paper in your hands, the sound of turning pages.
A drawing from my train ride from NYC to VA. Here’s to hoping something productive will come off of the next train.
Take no heed of her, she reads a lot of books.
—Jasper Fforde
Introductions.
My name is Andrea. I’m 20 years old. I’m a new New Yorker studying fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
I’ve wanted to move to New York since I was three, and now I’m finally starting my life here.
I love to read. I could spend hours with a good book.
Just the same, I could spend hours looking at fashion editorials and stills from runway shows.
My biggest pet peeve is poor grammar.
My favorite color is purple.
Speak to me in French and I’ll fall in love with you.
I am horribly directionally challenged in any place other than Manhattan.
I’m vegetarian.
I’m obsessed with the 1960s. If I could go back in time and participate in the Civil Rights movement, the beginning of the Women’s Movement, protest the Vietnam war, go to Woodstock…I would jump at the chance.
I love art.
My younger sister is my best friend. As much as I love living in NYC, I hate not being able to talk to her in person every day and listen to her crazy stories.
And I have absolutely amazing friends. Everyone says it, but it’s true: I wouldn’t be where I am now were it not for them.
I love movies: old movies, foreign films, horror/thriller movies, documentaries. I’ll watch almost anything.
Music is so important to me; it’s gotten me through so much. Sometimes I even make soundtracks or playlists for certain periods of time in my life, or certain emotions I might be feeling.
I have big dreams for my life. Big, scary dreams.
And last but so, so far from least, I believe in love, despite the universe’s every attempt to destroy my faith. Because if love doesn’t exist, is anything really worth it?
—A
