July 2010
brumalblues asked: Whenever I scroll through the posts on my dashboard, I don't directly look at people's icons but I can still see them from the corner of my eye. So whenever I get to your posts, your icon looks like a T-rex head on display in some museum.
cheescakefever-deactivated20130 asked: I noticed on your profile that it says that when you turned 17 you discovered novels. So, since I've always been wondering but always forgot to ask, what exactly did you read to change your world?
“The reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself.”
– Rita Mae Brown
dalecaipareson:
Short Story Number One Hundred and Sixty One
He was new in town and he was lonely and he wanted to speak to someone but he was shy. So he went to a bookstore and bought a novel. He liked stories. He liked to read. And then he went to a coffee shop and bought a coffee and started to read. Someone sat next to him and ‘wow, that book is amazing.’ He looked up and saw a girl. A girl who had an amazing face and a book in her hands....
“Our bones were shaking with excitement and hope.”
– Kerem Mermutlu
“I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is...”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via gandhilove) (via cingcang-keling11) (via loveyourchaos) (via avantlecrepuscule)
“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I...”
– Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart) (via bodywithoutorgans)
Short Story Number One Hundred and Sixty
We looked at each and knew that something was going to happen. Our eyes held each other and i knew that something strange was happening to my insides, right near my heart. I turned away and looked at the wall opposite us. Someone had written something on the wall, in big pink letters. ‘Nothing exciting or beautiful or brutal ever happened here.’ I smiled. The wall knew nothing about...
Short Story Number One Hundred and Fifty Nine
He was trying to get back to sleep because his most favourite thing to do in the world was dream. Only the other day he dreamed that he was a soldier and that he was made of gold and steel. And then yesterday he dreamed that he was a famous piano player with long strange fingers. And just now he dreamed that he was someone who could travel the world and fix anyone who had a broken heart. He...
piratessavvy asked: hey there. thankyou so much for the follow, just had a quick look through the first few pages of this blog and wow, definitely followed you back I am very very grateful, you seem very inspirational and I look forward to getting to read your stuff in the future! ^^ <3
easternbound asked: I saw you started following me...though, to be honest, I have no idea why haha I was looking at your tumbler and found "The Books I Love" tab and I'm already infatuated with it. How did you put it on your tumblr?
I'm computer illiterate when it comes to that kind of thing.
I'm computer illiterate when it comes to that kind of thing.
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
– Looking for Alaska, John Green (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via theplagiarist) (via breathingbooks) (via rachelinajolie2010)
“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them—with the books...”
– Eudora Welty (via awritersruminations) (via booklover)
Short Story Number One Hundred and Fifty Eight
I like to look at you when other people are talking to you. I like to look at your hair and your clothes and your little hello kitty bracelet that i bought for you all those years ago. I keep my eyes on you and know that my heart is growing and building. I used to think being alone and sad was ok. But now i know better. Now i know that you are in in this big huge place that is crazy and strange...
“You creep up and haunt me like love.”
– Kerem Mermutlu
“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and...”
– Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via tevelision)
jakcc asked: You're such an inspiration.
You've actually inspired me to begin writing more seriously, but not seriously as in "OH I HAVE TO DO THIS," but as in, I'm going to do it everyday.
Thank you.
I'm definately looking forward to that novel(:
You've actually inspired me to begin writing more seriously, but not seriously as in "OH I HAVE TO DO THIS," but as in, I'm going to do it everyday.
Thank you.
I'm definately looking forward to that novel(:
luxxus asked: Dearest Kerem
thankyou for providing such a good read everyday
as a creative writer myself
I have alot of respect for you
please keep up the good work
and send me over a novel when you finish it.
:)
thankyou for providing such a good read everyday
as a creative writer myself
I have alot of respect for you
please keep up the good work
and send me over a novel when you finish it.
:)
“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via lacreativite) (via dostoyevsky) (via booklover)
Short Story Number One Hundred and Fifty Seven
He was wondering what she was doing right now. He was wondering if she was awake or if she was sad or if she was washing her hair or if was thinking about him. He had the feeling that she was going to disappear from his life forever, like broken old things that people throw out. He didn’t want to think about her, but he couldn’t help it. She had amazing arms. She had arms that were...
Short Story Number One Hundred and Fifty Six
She was waiting for him in the kitchen and she had a million things to say to him. She was very forgetful so she got out her favourite blue marker pen from her favourite left pants pocket and started to write on the fridge. She wrote about how she wanted him and how she needed him and how she imagined their future was going to be. She wrote about her dreams and favourite colours and why she...
domesticabusewillsaveusall asked: No idea if my last message sent or not - fucking tumblr...
anyway, thank you for the follow, I really love your short stories they're swift and to the point xD
and Im jealous that you have a debut novel in line xD
anyway, thank you for the follow, I really love your short stories they're swift and to the point xD
and Im jealous that you have a debut novel in line xD
“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via julie911) (via underdogvictorious) (via libraryland) (via suchsmallhands)
Short Story Number One Hundred and Fifty Five
I was driving and you were next to me and the road was clear and wide. We were on our way to somewhere new. We had finally left our old town because our old town was falling apart and dying and there was nothing we could do to stop it. So we were on our way. We were waiting for the road to fill up with new futures. And I had that feeling in my head. That same feeling when i first saw you. Where...
“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one...”
– Jean Paul Sartre (via gondorgirl) (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via bledintothesea) (via indesirablesparadis)
nurulainibm asked: You're a good writer. I have always wanted to be a writer. I love reading novels so much, and i hope to write too. Well at least now i can produce good essays in my tests. But I do wanted to try to express my feelings and my surroundings trough writing. Any advice?
“There are many reasons why novelists write– but they all have one thing in...”
– John Fowles (via libraryland) (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover)
Short Story Number One Hundred and Fifty Four
It is the beginning of summer and he is waiting for her in the library. She had said that library’s were her favourite things in the whole world and her only ambition this summer to was to visit every small library in every small town. She wanted to sit and read and then get something to eat and then travel to the next library, and do this day after day after day. He is waiting for her...
