From quotes to souls.

      I saw this on Tumblr, and I have no idea why but I took great interest in it. It is a passage from Sarah Dessen's "Lock and Key". Apparently, Sarah Dessen is somewhat of a genius when it comes to love stories, because I seem to come across plenty of inspiring quotes from her books. Then one thing led to another in my mind, and I got to thinking about quotes to put in the 8th grade yearbook. A lot of people seem to put that same quote from Kung Fu Panda, the one that goes, "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That is why they call it a present." That's nice, I guess, but it's a little too Confucius for me. I particularly like C.S. Lewis' quote (which I recently saw as my cousin's facebook status), "You don't have a soul, you are a soul. you have a body." which makes a lot of sense. You are your mind. Your mind is encased in your brain, and your brain is in your head. Then the brain does all these things behind your back, so to speak, like breathing and making your body move. Anyway, I always seem to think about things that are bigger than me. For example, when I went to North Carolina on vacation, I saw a shooting star. The first thing I thought after I made a wish was, "How many people in the world saw that?" Is it wrong to think in an "Over the Rainbow" mindset? Society tells us to dream big, the sky is the limit. So once you reach over the sky, I guess it's too much.
         Going back to quotes, good writers make good plots. But the genius writers, the ones who really got it all figured out, they're the ones who create memorable quotes, right?
                                        Signed,
                                                   Victoria.