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Pack of Pop: An Entertainment Blog
"Do you know how lucky you are? You're a writer; you get to live life twice." ~ Dawson's Creek
Casey Tolfree, Online Editor
Issue date: 9/27/06Section: Editor Columns
Using a quote from a television show to introduce this blog is probably cheesy but, I love the cheese. Cheesiness might just be what makes my entertainment saturated mind work so well. Let me get to my point and I promise I have one. This is part one of the three week journey I'm going to take you on. I want to show you why I use quotes as my titles and how they really can say everything. This first part is about quotes from books.
I'm not going to use classic quotes from novels and plays. There will be no "to be or not to be." I've chosen three quotes that I've had in my away messages at different times in the past year and will use these quotes to help prove my point.
The first quote is from the book The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart. The book is about friendship and if the title didn't say enough about the grandness of friendship within its pages then the story will continue to prove why friendship grow and die and always remain in the back of our minds. The book shows that friendships like love never truly die and we will forever think back to the friend we left behind for whatever reason.
"I mean, you're so familiar, but then you're not. I don't know the rules for how we should interact. When I saw you, my first feeling was relief, you know, like thank God, Camazon's here, she'll understand, I can tell her everything...but then I remembered that's not who we are to each other anymore." She looked up. "Is it?"
"There's a reason for that," I said.
When I read this book for the first time, I had just lost a not so nice best friend to not so nice circumstances and that line just explained everything in my life. A friend asking for forgiveness she doesn't deserve and still just expecting you to be by her side. It's also about holding onto grudges for longer than necessary. People grow up and people change and maybe what they did to you at 19 isn't something they could ever do to you now.
The Saturday issue of the Journal News, the local paper in Westchester County, ran an article on cutting ties and how sometimes breaking off a friendship is just as bad as getting out of a relationship. The article says, "The dumped pal gets a free ticket on an emotional rollercoaster ride that can last for years. She might endlessly rehash the past, doubt herself, blamer her friend, seethe with anger, even go into therapy." Gal-pals are what holds a woman's life together when everything else has fallen apart and that is what the quote from The Myth of You and Me is trying to explain and what the entire book is about. It's about the familiar in an unfamiliar situation.
I'm not going to use classic quotes from novels and plays. There will be no "to be or not to be." I've chosen three quotes that I've had in my away messages at different times in the past year and will use these quotes to help prove my point.
The first quote is from the book The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart. The book is about friendship and if the title didn't say enough about the grandness of friendship within its pages then the story will continue to prove why friendship grow and die and always remain in the back of our minds. The book shows that friendships like love never truly die and we will forever think back to the friend we left behind for whatever reason.
"I mean, you're so familiar, but then you're not. I don't know the rules for how we should interact. When I saw you, my first feeling was relief, you know, like thank God, Camazon's here, she'll understand, I can tell her everything...but then I remembered that's not who we are to each other anymore." She looked up. "Is it?"
"There's a reason for that," I said.
When I read this book for the first time, I had just lost a not so nice best friend to not so nice circumstances and that line just explained everything in my life. A friend asking for forgiveness she doesn't deserve and still just expecting you to be by her side. It's also about holding onto grudges for longer than necessary. People grow up and people change and maybe what they did to you at 19 isn't something they could ever do to you now.
The Saturday issue of the Journal News, the local paper in Westchester County, ran an article on cutting ties and how sometimes breaking off a friendship is just as bad as getting out of a relationship. The article says, "The dumped pal gets a free ticket on an emotional rollercoaster ride that can last for years. She might endlessly rehash the past, doubt herself, blamer her friend, seethe with anger, even go into therapy." Gal-pals are what holds a woman's life together when everything else has fallen apart and that is what the quote from The Myth of You and Me is trying to explain and what the entire book is about. It's about the familiar in an unfamiliar situation.
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