"The question that sometimes drives me crazy; am I or the other crazy?"- Albert Einstein

Hello, my name is Lizzy.

I am 17 and live in Texas. Yes I know when you hear/see Texas you think horsey's and cowboys running around wrangling up Indians, but I live in Houston. We don't do that here. I have known I was going to be writer since fifth grade when I read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and thought, " I want to do that", meaning create a story like J.K. did. I wont pretend to be some hot shot gold star writer who cant go wrong, because in reality I'm only 17. I will however try my best to please whoever is reading my stories, but I will not let anyone control them but me. I enjoy reading everything, especially fanfic because these are the people who will grow up one day to become the new Richelle Meads and Anne Rice's. How rad would it be to say you read so and so's fanfic before they became that brilliant writer? Pretty fucking rad thats how. I do curse, sorry but thats me, don't like then you don't have to read. Cursing is apart of teenage Americans life, so seeing as most of my future stories will be based from American writer, yes there will be cursing. I do feel this whole "introduction" thing i just wrote is inconsequential but I know, for me atleast, I like to know a little about the author who just wrote this amazing/terrible (depending on yourself) story. So keep writing and reading fellow fanfictioners and I shall do the same!

Alot of what inspires me to write comes from quotes, poems, songs and lyrics Ive read/heard. So here is my favorites of said list and I hope these too will inspire you whether it be to write, read, or draw.

-Quotes(not in any specific order, just my fav. ones): "It is important to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for then, and only then could evil be kept at bay. Though not quite eradicated"- J.K Rowling

"The Truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution"- J.K. Rowling

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more"- Dumbledore (HPGOF)

"It is an honor to die at your side. It is an honor to have lived at yours"- 300

"Death is just another path. One that we all must take"- Gandalf (LOTR)

"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none"- Shakespeare

"Love leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering"- Yoda

"I will fight when needed, revel when theres and occasion, mourn when there is suffering, and die if my time must come... but i wont let anybody use me against my will"- Paolini (Eragon)

"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy"- Dumbledore (HPGOF)

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice"- Francis Bacon

"If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking"- Rose (VABP)

"Veni, Vidi, Vici"- Caesar

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world"- Albert Einstein

"Evil brings men together"- Aristotle

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"- Shakespeare

"Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once"- Shakespeare

"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"- Shakespeare

"Fairy tales do not tell children dragons exist. Children already know that. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed"- GK Chesterton

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him"- Voltaire

"The minute people fall in love they become liars"- Harlan Ellison

"Posterity- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it"- President John Quincey Adams

"To write something, you risk making a fool of yourself"- Anne Rice

"I love words. I love to sing them, and speak them, and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them"- Anne Rice

"I am gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the rose"- Anne Rice (Lestat)

"And then suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in cowboy duster"- Richelle Mead (Rose-VA)

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends"- Gandalf (LOTR)

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't, no proof is possible"- Stuart Chase

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind"- Shakespeare

"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth"- Dumbledore (HPHBP)

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel"- Mark Twain

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence whether much that is glorious whether all that is profound does not spring from disease of thought from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."- Edgar Allan Poe

-Poems (or the likes):

"Some say the world will end in fire.
Some in ice.
From what Ive tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is just as great and would suffice."- Robert Frost

"O' Miss Manette, when the picture of a happy fathers face looks up in yours,
when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet,
think now and then that there is a man who would give his life,
to keep a life you love beside you!"- Sydney Carton (ATOTC)

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is new does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crown less again shall be King."- J.R.R. Tolkein

Alone
"From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were I have not seen
As others saw I could not bring
My passions from a common spring
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone
And all I lov'd I lov'd alone
Then in my childhood in the dawn
Of a most stormy life was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still
From the torrent, or the fountain
From the red cliff of the mountain
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by
From the thunder, and the storm
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view"- Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe:
Annabel Lee
Dream Land
The Raven
The Masque of Red Death
Eleonora