My name is Grace. I don't have much to say, but I have a lot to write. I'm not a person of importance, so read with a hesitant mind.

“Style is a very simple way of saying complicated things”

—Jean Cocteau

2 o’clock

2 o’clock

Oak Glen

Oak Glen

“Life rose around my island like a sea, and presently I was swimming”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A man who is master of himself can end sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be the mercy of my emotions.”

—Oscar Wilde ( Dorian- A Picture of Dorian Gray)

Summer Reading Recap

I know I am always looking for book suggestions so here is what I really enjoyed reading this summer. I read some duds but I never like discouraging anyone from reading anything so I won’t list those. 

- The Beautiful and Damned  F. Scott Fitzgerald

-The Octopus: A Story of California  Frank Norris

- The Picture of Dorian Gray  Oscar Wilde 

-At Fault  Kate Chopin

The Picture of Dorian Gray

In case anyone hasn’t noticed I am kinda of obsessed with this book and author at the moment. I just started it on Friday and am a little over half way through. Some of the philosophical concepts are a little extremist but the philosophical character, Lord Henry (who I am guessing is the mouthpiece of Wilde himself) speaks with such authority that as readers, in these moments, we become just as naive as Dorian eating up every word as truth. 

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

My little town. At least they try…

My little town. At least they try…

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance.”

—Oscar Willde ( Lord Henry to Dorian Gray -The Picture of Dorian Gray )

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

—Oscar Wilde

Btw

I haven’t really gotten into the whole re-blogging thing on here yet. So, until I run out of material or just get bored all the pics and stuff are my own :)

Fail-blog

This whole blogging experience would probably be better if I didn’t wait and post a bunch of stuff all at once…. Oh well. I’m addicted to Instagram at the moment so that take priority!

I just started The Beautiful and the Dammed by Fitzgerald. I’ll write a review after!

I just started The Beautiful and the Dammed by Fitzgerald. I’ll write a review after!

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