Amari is the founder and head writer of Wherever-I-Look.com and has been writing reviews since 2010, with a focus on dramas and comedies.
Best Of (On Kurt Cobain) […] I think there’s no getting around that twenty-something roadblock. That point in your life […] when [you] have to take a massive reality check. You finally have to face the fact that things are never going to be the way you thought they would be. It’s at this point…
Overview From her childhood to her adult years, Diane Guerrero takes us through the highs of her family being a cohesive unit, to one by one them being deported and her being forced to rely on friends, her parents, and a boyfriend, to be her main support system.
Best Of Truth is, among low-wage earners busting their tails to make the rent, one’s feelings are seldom discussed or acknowledged. Emotional wellness is a First World luxury. “Chapter 3: Underground.” In The Country We Love (My Family Divided) – Page 37 In immigrant communities all over the globe, celebrating is part of the culture….
Overview While, arguably, there wasn’t much of a need for another Annie adaptation, it doesn’t keep this film from perhaps being one of the best renditions. Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When a young girl claims everyone is against her, will you believe what she says, what you see, or what everyone else believes? Review (with Spoilers) Though perhaps I shouldn’t be reliant on one film, or show, being a reason to take interest in any actor’s career, especially after watching The Quiet Ones, just…
Overview A junkie love story which has us watch how far the two will go to find a score. Trigger Warning(s): Depictions of Drug Use Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Overview After the death of one boy’s mother he finds himself living with the family she left behind, likely for good reason. Rating: Watch It Trigger Warning(s): Blood, Drug Use, and Guns Characters Worth Noting Smurf (Ellen Barkin) | Andrew (Shawn Hatosy) | Barry (Scott Speedman) | Joshua (Finn Cole)
Overview This film explores a sense of numbness, for a lack of a better way to put it. Be it because of isolation, drugs, or because you put logic over emotion. Which I’m probably not selling that well, but believe me when I say it is worth seeing this. Trigger Warning(s): Self-Harm (Burning one’s self),…
People don’t mix races; they abandon them or pick them.” — “Tar Baby.” Toni Morrison “It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end. Work? At what? Marriage? Work and marriage? Where? Who? What can I do with this…
“[…] my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.” — Sula Peace – Sula: Page 143 “The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.” — Toni Morrison – Sula –…
“She needed what most colored girls needed: a chorus of mamas, grandmamas, aunts, cousins, sisters, neighbors, Sunday school teachers, best girl friends, and what all to give her strength life demanded of her and the humor which to live it.” — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, p.307 “Slave names don’t bother me; but slave status…
“[…] sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.” — Mr. Bill – Page 24 – Perks of Being a Wallflower “Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse.” — Dad – Page 28 – Perks of Being a Wallflower “[…] I think it’s bad when the…
Year of Yes Chapter by Chapter Review Best of In public, I smiled. A lot. I did a HUGE amount of smiling. And I did what I called “Athlete Talk.” […] Athlete Talk is when the athlete goes before the press and keeps a smile on her face, voice bland and pleasant as she deftly…
Best of I realized that leaving wouldn’t be like I had imagined, like casting off a weight. Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me. — “Chapter 11.” Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Best Of “Nothing before you counts, and I can’t even imagine an after.” — “Chapter 40.“ Eleanor & Park – Page 184 “I love your name. I don’t want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.” — Park – “Chapter 19.” Eleanor & Park – Page 89
Quotes from Maya Angelou’s books: A Song Flung Up to Heaven, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Heart of a Woman and more.
Best of […] it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. — Bad Beginning (Page 34)
In this post, you will find a collection of quotes from the Thirteen Reasons Why (Th1rteen R3asons Why or 13 Reasons Why) franchise. I hope you’ll enjoy what you find.
“Living by other people’s definitions and perceptions shrinks us to shells of ourselves, rather than complex people embodying multiple identities.” — Redefining Realness: Chapter 18 “New York, 2009” – Page 249 “I could no longer maintain the shiny, untarnished, unattainable facade of that dream girl. […] In mere moments, through the intimate act of storytelling,…
“[…] lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. Lives fall apart when the foundation upon which they were built needs to be relaid. Lives fall apart, not because God is punishing us for what we have or have not done. Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they…
Best Of “It was right then […] that I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls’ bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to should to the…
Best Of “Each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen: these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack open in places. And I mean, yeah, once…
““You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, […] but you do have some say in who hurts you.” — Augustus Waters – The Fault in Our Stars – Page 313 “My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” — Augustus Waters – The Fault in Our Stars – Page…
Chapter 14 “Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.” — “Chapter 14.” If I Stay (Page 99) “I had broken through some invisible barrier and could finally play the pieces like I heard them being played in my head, and the result had been something transcendent: the mental and physical, the technical and…
Collected quotes from the Gayle Forman book, “Where She Went.”
Best of My love for science doesn’t preclude my faith. For me, science is another language we use to talk about the same miracles that faith talks about. — “WWN Double-D?” Sense8 In this country, sometimes the only place you can find a brave and honest woman is in prison. — “WWN Double-D?” Sense8 Our…
Best Of “I have prayed to God over and over and where there once was his voice, the warmth of how love, there is now only cold silence. […] Without him, without the sign of his love, I am worse than dead.” — “No Sun on the Horizon.” Scandal “You’re running like you are being…
“Real, and uncensored, aren’t exactly the same thing.” — Hunter – “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car.” Red Band Society “I can handle harsh, what I can’t handle is condescending and rude.” — “There’s No Place Like Homecoming.” Red Band Society “Luck isn’t getting what you want, it’s surviving what you don’t want.”…
Season 4 Treatments do not mean a cure. — “The Redesign of Natural Objects.” Orphan Black Season 1 “Whenever somebody talks about the future I always say ‘show, don’t tell.’” — “Variations Under Domestication.” Orphan Black “Count your blessings, then move on to your worries.” — “Unconscious Selection.” Orphan Black“
Best Of “Do you know what it means when there ain’t nobody out there punishing the evil doers? It means there ain’t nobody giving out prizes for the good ones, neither.” — “Fool Me Once.“ Orange is the New Black “You gotta hit rock bottom before you know which direction to go in.” — “WAC…
Best of Is any of it real? […] Synthetic emotions in the form of pills, psychological warfare in the form of advertising, mind-altering chemicals in the form of food, brainwashing seminars in the form of media, controlled isolated bubbles in the form of social networks. Real? You want to talk about reality? We haven’t lived…
Collected quotes from the Monogatari series.
Best Of “I never got to be that. Dumb, maybe, but never a kid. They called me ‘The Little Grown-Up.’ I was so proud of that, being good and following the rules. Anything to be the teacher’s pet. But then you grow up and there’s no teacher to please, just some idea of what people…
Best Of “The pain you feel isn’t because of what you are, it’s the life you’ve had. But life can change, you can become better.” — “Episode 7.” Humans
Best Of “Discussions are not the same as commitment.” — “Chapter 29.” House of Cards “You’re thinking about where we are instead of where we’re headed.” — “Chapter 25.” House of Cards “Pay attention to the fine print, it’s far more important than the selling price.” — “Chapter 16.” House of Cards “Decisions based on…
“Therapy only works when we have a genuine desire to know ourselves as we are, not as we would like to be.” — “Shiizakana.” Hannibal “Memory gives moments immortality, but forgetfulness promotes a happy mind.” — “Shiizakana.” Hannibal “You’ve spent a lot of time building walls […], it’s natural to see if someone is clever…
Best Of Only you get to decide when you quit. No well intended friend, no parent who’s only trying to protect you, and no teacher who’s supposed to bring out the best in you, can make you turn your back on something you’re passionate about. — “Girl Meets Rah Rah.” Girl Meets World “We cannot…
“In this world, when you face forward, that’s the future; When you look back, it’s a memory; and if you clip part of it out, that becomes a story. This is no more than a snippet of that story.” — “Vox in Box.” Grisaia no Kajitsu “At this point, no matter how I change, the…
The Best of Game of Thrones “I’ve had an exciting life, I want my death to be boring.” — “The Sons of the Harpy.” Game of Thrones I have been a cynic for as long as I can remember. Everyone is always asking me to believe in things: Family, gods, kings, myself… It was often…
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