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Flameworthy Confession
I think I am a lot like Bella. I never thought she was whiny and annoying through the whole series. I felt like I totally understood everything she did. With the exception of the marriage aversion thing. I am very quick to trust people, can't hold a grudge to save my life, and I am WICKED stubborn.
The more I read all of your complaints about her, the more I realized this.
::slips into flame-retardant suit::
Re: Flameworthy Confession
ME TOO!!! Everything you just said is so what I thought too
We're so meant to be buddies
Nope...part of the whole thing I just said on AHPATT.
When reading... Bella really resonated with me and I felt like it was me and all my secret yearnings when I was that age. I didn't realize she was a bit of a whiny butt until others pointed it out. Then I could see it but I still already had my feelings of here in place.
I just don't like how KS completely portrays her. Of course it could have been the directing so we shall see!?
Our biggest breakup only lasted 2ish months, but YES.
New Moon is downright painful for me to read. It stirred up all the awfulness that I had repressed years ago. I was a wreck reading NM the first time and ended up skipping over the breakup scene and then some on my second read.
Absolutely!
PS it's about damn time you were my friend on goodreads, I just got the email :-P I was beginning to think I hadn't asked you after all, and was going to look for you again hahaha
Yep. I had trouble looking at DH. I got so angry with him again! We broke up for "good", as in moved on and stopped speaking. It was devastating.
Those aren't any of the things that bug me about Bella and I don't consider them bad qualities. What really bugs me about Bella is her complete and utter lack of self-esteem. I realize most of us as teenagers dealt with low self-esteem at some point, but Bella?embarrasses?me. Also, her lack of awareness when it comes to hurting people (see: Eclipse).?
I had zip self-esteem. It may have looked it from the outside but there wasn't much on the inside. Back then too....I did hurt a lot of guys and not even know it. I was also flirting with them and didn't even know it because they took my friendship and being nice to them as flirting. So I wasn't trying to hurt people but I did.?
Same with us. He started dating someone the week after we broke up. Tore. Me. Up.?
Glad to know someone else understands. DH actually lived with another girl while we were broken up. I ended up becoming a pretty good stalker.
I would have been a good stalker had I not been away at school at the time. I e-stalked her, though. Stupid b*tch was barely online, though.
I e-stalked and had her address, phone number, and old pictures of her when she used to be a model - B*tch. I also found out a lot of info about her brother and sister, and then e-stalked them.
No flames from me. I identify with her quite a bit. Even in the stupid stuff she did, I could see myself making the same mistakes at 17. It's easy to forget when you get into the last books that she's still very, very young and making decisions that most people never have to make, especially at that age
Plus, I fall down and get hurt a lot like she does.
Ditto. I get the feeling that a lot of adults who read it and have issues with the characters silliness at times have forgotten how silly teens can be.?
i'm quite like Bella too. i'm like what you said plus i was also that girl in HS that didn't like the attention when i was the new girl, and i've been known to trip going UP stairs. i think that's part of why i liked the books so much
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See that's the thing though - I never thought she was whiny. That's where I thought I was going to get flames!
Oh and Hula - my mom call's me Grace. As a joke. Because I literally walk into door ways instead of through them. I am the clumsiest person ever!
I do that too. I have a bumper sticker on fb that says so :-P
Nice! I have a "dent" as my DH calls it, about an inch long in my forehead. A scar from literally running into the corner of a wall when I was younger. Hott
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I had the same reaction that Edward did - she's willing to DIE and be with him forever, yet she was embarrassed about what her mom would think? It seemed like she was too immature for the decision to become a vampire. I understood why he made her wait until she was really ready to commit.