It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst, and then I remember to relax and stop trying to hold on to it and it flows through me like rain and I can feel nothing but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid, little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure, but don't worry. You will someday."
Lester Burnham from American Beauty

A man once told me, "Death smiles at us all, and all a man can do is smile back."
Gladiator

"In the beginning there was Chaos,
And within this Chaos was Power,
Great Power without Form.
Yet within Chaos there was Motion,
And within Motion was Form,
And within this Motion were the Words,
Which shaped the Motion, and gave it Form.
And the Great Speakers were awakened,
And the Great Words were spoken,
And the Great Magick was wrought,
The Birth of the World.
And in the Image of the Great Speakers were we awakened,
And in the Image of the Great Words have we spoken,
And in the image of the Great Magick have we wrought our world.
As it is said, so shall it be done."
from The Verrah Rubricon of Verena,
Book One, "The History of the World."

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Dante, "Dante's Inferno" (Above the entrance to Hell)

We make the dragons as we make the gods, because we need them, because somewere deep in our hearts, we recognize that a world without them is a world not living in. No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world wihtout magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"That one person was one person too many..."
Unknown

"As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you."
Bonnie Parker

"Romance is like a knife through the heart if you survive the stab wound then you will have the scar forever."
Unknown

"I would rather have one breath of her air, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, then an eternity without it."
City of Angels

"You are everything I never knew I always wanted."
-The Perfect One by LIT

"The course of true love never did run smooth."
Shakespeare

-Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, and what we did was wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions, you see us as: a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7 o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed.
Breakfast Club

The rest is silence.
Shakespeare