Thrift Store Quotes & Books W/bent pages
Original Publication Date June 1, 2020
I want to cover two essential subjects here today:
Missing persons and used books.
We will start with used books-
I like getting used books – the first reason being that they are usually much much cheaper than the brand new ones and, most importantly, there’s always the possibility that someone had written notes in the pages or highlighted or left a plane ticket or photograph tucked in it. I order books off of thrift books, and they give you the option to pick the quality of the book you’re getting. ‘New’ and ‘Like new’ allllllll the way to ‘acceptable.’
I 10/10 will pick the acceptable ones. They have character, bent pages, usually lots of notes and thoughts written down in them, and they almost always smell like cigarette smoke. Coffee rings on the cover—what a win.
There is also the issue of Mass Media Paperback books, which Isaiah [middle name redacted for legal reasons] Crossman, Carey, Confusion? (Didn’t quite catch the last name) voiced his opinion last weekend as being something he “Didn’t like” (Not a direct quote). And I have to agree. I don’t like the little, boxy, easy to break books that are sold at a much lower price, however, I purchase them anyway (since they’re so inexpensive) so I can get even more books. I fuel the fire I hate—a vicious cycle.
It’s a sour deal, purchasing books – so many stupid options (like hardcover) who the HeLL wants a hardcover book? Just give me a regular-sized paperback with a few years of wear and tear on her, and I’ll be set.
What I love the absolute most of all – like I love this more than a bowl of blueberries and heavy whipping cream with a dash of stevia on top… is finding old classics with notes in them that are obviously from some English class. HecK YeS, my guys. Not only am I reading classic stories, BUT I am getting a taste for whatever miserable soul ended up in some English Lit. classroom.
I thrive off of it. Sometimes you can even tell if they liked the class or not – they’ll either have some excellent notes and in which I’ll imagine some nice gal with lots of cardigans and coffee punch cards reading it. Or it will have sparse notes and messy highlighting, and in that case, I imagine some boy who is only taking the class to have the minimum credits needed to play on the football team. He probably only wears sweatpants and smells like cheap hair gel.
Okay, okay, enough about used books and all that jazz.
Let us move on to missing persons—specifically me. Theoretically speaking. Obviously.
I got this quote through a friend, Isaiah [redacted] Crossman (the last name confirmed) and it goes as follows:
“Some days all I want to be is a missing person.”
To which his wife, Jordyn Grace (last name undecided) said, “Ava, that’s you” (Also not a direct quote, it was either that or “That’s an Ava Quote,” and I can’t remember which so I’m just going to go with ????)
Anyway, I do relate to that a lot – which is an odd thing to relate to. I want to make it clear that I don’t want to be a missing person because I was kidnapped. After all, ew, that’s horrible, no thanks. But would I want to be a missing person because I took off with Peach and Winn in the night to go live in the woods and drink black tea and write horror novels and grow a veggie garden?????? Yes. Yes, I would.
(I would also like chickens for the aesthetic and eggs, but I am terrified of chickens, so if someone wanted to go missing with me???? To feed chickens, I wouldn’t be upset!!!!! Send me an email if you are someone who likes chickens and doesn’t mind being a missing person)
So, overall, if I do go missing and you cant find me someplace in my dad’s hunting land attempting to be a wild woodland woman, please send out a search party because I have for sure been taken. I repeat, if I were to run away in the night, it would only be to Crosby, on my dad’s hunting land, and if I am not somewhere on that 105 acres, well, then we have a real problem.
I also found a quote or little paragraph thing about going missing someplace lovely and I will include it below:
Nice sounding, isn’t it?
Who knows.
Concluding thoughts- Thrifted books: good. Going missing: good, but only if by choice.
Safe sailing.
-A.Ray
