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"The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces." "Sometimes, love can bloom like the tiny flower hidden in the tree's shadow, found only by those who know where to look." "They waged war for decades, never realizing that they were fighting for the same cause." "He wanted to live in a house built on a delusion, would rather believe in a million lies than face one truth." "It is better to have an enemy who will fight you in a open field than a lover who will kill you in your sleep." "'Now, are you happy? Have you finally achieved all you set out to do? What will you do next, little assassin, with no one left to see you?" "Such blinding dreams of white ice and spinning dice, I watched them all vanish in a trice. What will be your sacrifice?"

" They think they can keep me out, but it does not matter how many locks they hang at the entrance. There is always another door."  "It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe." " Once upon a winter I met a man in the woods  The man beckoned me over To see a satchel of goods He offered three wishes I asked for beauty, love, riches And he froze me in stone where I stood." "To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear." "Trust is when we plummet into the depths of an abyss and reach out for each other's hands." There are four places where the spirits still wander. . . the snow-covered Dark of Night, the forgotten paradise of Sabri Elan, the G...

     "Our best defense is distance. Six feet is the golden rule," she says, before bending over to pick up a pool cue from next to her bed. " This is five feet. Five. Feet." . . .       She holds up the pool cue defiantly, fighting for every one of us. " I'm stealing three hundred and four point eight millimeters. Twelve whole inches. One freaking foot of space, distance, length" . . .       "Cystic fibrosis will steal no more from me. From now on. I am the thief." If I'm going to die, I'd like to actually live first. - Will To be fair, though, anything can be optional if you're creative enough. - Will "Okay, okay. I'd like to travel the world and really get to see it, you know? Not just the inside of hospitals." He looks back down and keeps sketching. "They're kind of all the same. Same generic rooms. Same tile floors. Same sterile smell. I've been everywhere without actually seeing...

It all felt so similar. But if Mariko could be certain of nothing else now, she could be certain her life would never be the same again.  But honor never held much weight for her. Especially not in the face of injustice. The girl almost smiled to herself. But she did not have time for the luxury of emotion.  Nor could they continue to allow their painful past to direct the course of their future.  Her brother wore his smiles like she wore these paints. A grinning mask, concealing fury and heartbreak. Their mother used to say they should be careful of the masks they chose to wear. For one day, those masks could become their faces. They say her actions as foolish. But they were afraid, and they'd built their lives upon this fear. It was time to dismantle it from within. Strike it down at its very foundation. But beneath this hushed intensity seethed something sinister. And the lies this city wore - liess cloaked in silk and steel - shimmered beneath the sufac...

Bravery did not come easily to her naturally. She spent too much time weighing her options to be brave. Too much time calculating the many paths before her. But Mariko knew it was time to do more. Time to be more.  In the lie she heard the truth. The darkness that had recently become her refuge would also likely bring about her ruin. Her thoughts began to wind through her mind with the slow squeeze of a snake. This was an experiment, and experiments of all sorts intrigued her. They offered a way to glean knowledge. To use it - shape it, mold it - into whatever she needed it to be. It was all unfathomably frightening. Darkly fascinating. Death follows indecision, like a twisted shadow. Her resolve hardened once more. Hardened like folded steel shaped and reshaped under a red-hot flame for countless days and nights. Until nothing could best it. Sometimes we must fall forward to keep moving. Remain motionless - remain unyielding - and you are as good...

           New Year's is a time of celebration (and resolutions that we probably won't keep). I think that sometimes we all need some inspirational words especially at the beginning of the year. So, here they are . . . 1. No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. - Robin Williams 2. If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. - Martin Luther King Jr. 3. Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory. - Dr. Seuss 4. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore 5. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. - Robert H. Schuller 6. Keep your Eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt 7. I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed. - Robert H. Schuller 8. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your ow...

           Here are some book quotes that will put things in perspective and will make you appreciate reading.  1. The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know. - Alek Wek 2. I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved. - Kate DiCamillo 3. Reading makes immigrants of us all. it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. - Jean Rhys   4. Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. - Mary Schmicha 5. A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. - William Styron 6. Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. - Mark Haddon 7. Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Joseph Addison 8. I never feel lon...

      These past few years i haven't really had a normal thanksgiving, with the abundant amount food and the overwhelming amount of family. So, this is the first year, in a long time, that i'm actually going to have a lot of family in one place. It's kinda weird to think about. I'm kind of dreading it and looking forward to it at the same time, if that makes any sense.         As i was reading these quotes i was thinking about how we don't really know or realize how much we have until its gone. I know we're told this all the time, but we don't really think about it. We often times just nod our heads and move on with our busy schedules.        Please, just think about this topic, and everything you have, while your reading these quotes.             1. " There are an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, ...