And On a Grassy Hill, The Lion Will...Lay Down With the Lamb

I enjoy reading and writing. I'm wordy and I can have a love affair with a good description. & I people watch and get too lost in the lyrics of my favorite songs. I'm that girl bobbing her foot to the beat, watching the strangers go by. & I'm afraid that I'm nowhere near as interesting as I seem. Friend me, I dare you. You'll see what I mean. & Fictional characters have more potential than real people. Think about it, real people have limits. Background characters are my favorites. I like to build them myself. & Don't let that cloud your mind. Real people have potential too. ♥ & I want to move to Stockholm with Thibault Oberlin. We'll play footsie under the table while drinking coffee. I'll giggle and write in my moleskin. He'll grin and try to distract me. A girl can dream, no? Tom Sturridge can come as well. I don't think I'd mind sleeping between the two.

Music: The Decemberists, Noah and the Whale, The Wombats, The Postal Service, Bright Eyes, Regina Spektor, Blondie, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Ting Tings, The Police, The Cars, Azure Ray, Franz Ferdinand, Coldplay, James Blunt, A Fine Frenzy, Kings of Convenience Movies: Marie Antoinette, Closer, The Warriors (1979), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Empire Records, I Love You, I Love You Not, Romeo + Juliet (96), Harry Potter, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, Heathers, Love Songs (Les Chansons d’Amour), The Princess Bride-or as we grew up calling it (The Kissing Book), Gangs of New York, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Amelie, Cowboy Bebop, Peter Pan (animated and not), The Science of Sleep, Motorcycle Diaries, The Dreamers, Stardust, Auntie Mame, The Chronicles of Narnia (BBC and Disney), Atonement, Blood in Blood Out, Brideshead Revisited (2008)- possibly due to the loveliness of Matthew Goode, Goodfellas, Tombstone Books: Harry Potter series, The Bell Jar, Romeo & Juliet, The Alchemist, Siddhartha, Veronika Decides to Die, Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan in Scarlett, The Outsiders, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Inkheart Trilogy, The Warlord Chronicles, The Silmarillion, The Time Travelers Wife, Stardust, Pablo Neruda collections, Federico Garcia Lorca collections, Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Ordinary People, The Catcher in the Rye Toons: Family Guy, Futurama, Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Chowder, Fairly Odd Parents, Home movies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Spongebob Squarepants, Dora the Explorer, 6teen, Total Drama Island Fandom: Harry Potter, Skins, Gossip Girl, Fashion, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Twilight (I love to hate it sometimes) Characters: Luna Lovegood, Theodore Nott, Dean Thomas, Neville Longbottom, Daphne (Queenie) Greengrass, Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson, Regulus Black, Young Sirius Black, Tracy Davis, Astoria Greengrass, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Fred (why oh why?!) and George Weasley, Fleur and Gabrielle Delacour Effy Nico & Bianca di Angelo, Luke Castellan, Thalia Grace, Percy Jackson Serena & Blair = Frienemies for Life ♥♥♥ Tanya, Irina, Kate, Eleazar, Carmen, Alistair, Liam, Garrett, Siobhan, Felix. (Breaking Dawn never really happened in my opinion...so the Denali coven remains untainted by mediocrity) Boy Crushes: Thibault Oberlin (my Theodore Nott), Louis Garrel, Tom Sturridge, Adrian Brody, Lucien Thomkins, Vincent LaCrocq, Henry Cavill Girl Crushes: Milagros Schmoll, Bruna Tenorio, Jeisa Chiminazzo, Clemence Poesy, Constance Jablonski, Monika 'Jac' Jagaciak

This is What I'm Writing Alex is nervous again. He bites his fingernails and flicks his cigarette ashes constantly. All the while, Isabel watches, too worried and in love to laugh at his frazzled state. She watches him bow down and surrender to this false self- the Alex supplied and fostered by white coats and gray walls. He stubs out his cigarette as if he were waving a white flag to the enemy but his struggles are not done. She stands and crosses the room when he attacks his fingernails again. And with a gentle smile Isabel pulls his hand away, extracting the last pitiful nail from his unforgiving mouth. To Alex's delight and bewilderment she places soft kisses on his fingertips and calms him, sitting down in the comfort of his lap. They give and take in this way often these days. So fresh in their new beginning together. More and more- no, from the beginning Isabel has believed that she gives more than she is given. There is a constant protection that she offers him, keeping his own damaged mind at bay. But in these moments, when she perches on his lap and his arms snake around her, as if they were brought there by gravity and she strokes the soft hair at the nape of his neck, with the pungent smell of his stubborn nicotine habit heavy in the air...in these moments she realizes that he has given her everything that is his to give. In that life Alex may have been another man; he may have protected and soothed her, but this life is a new one. Strange and unfamiliar as it is recognized. She wraps one arm behind his shoulders and very gently, she brings his head to her chest, feeling his shoulders shake and shudder. She knows these as well. As well as she knows Alex. As well as she knows the backs of her own hands. Isabel runs her fingers through his curly brown hair, careful not to let them snag. She smiles when his shame passes and he is her Alex again.