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 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…
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