Hi.

I'm Arin, and I am a compulsive reader who spends most of her time reading fanfiction or tvtropes between schoolwork and library runs. I lurk. Occasionally I stop lurking enough to leave a review. I do it on an irregular enough basis that if anyone's reading this, I'm honestly curious as to how you found yourself here.

Myself: I like walking around barefoot, cats, cooking, translating manga, and making jewelry. I appear to contain a small portable heating system and spend most of winter walking around in sandals and light jackets while being asked by random strangers if I'm cold.

Quotes:

"This is, at best, counter-productive."

- Those Who Hunt Elves

"In the midst of the word he was trying to say

in the midst of his laughter and glee

he had softly and suddenly vanished away

for the Snark WAS a Boojum, you see."

- Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark

"You’d think he’d be use to me denying every law in existence by now."

- Lyfe vah Genki e Kiyah y Liana y Liah, regarding her relationship with her Arranger, Cantos.

“Eternity is all the time in the world. It is every dance of the stars that ever has and ever will be danced, every moon that ever has and ever will set, and every day the sun ever has and ever will rise. It is every hunt that the tribe ever has been on and ever will be, every child the tribe has ever raised and ever will raise, and every feast we ever have eaten and ever will eat. It is every eternal flame that has ever burned and ever will be burned, and it is, in essence, greater than the tribe, for eternity will continue when the tribe has long since vanished, and was there long before the tribe ever was.”

- the definition of eternity from Ariena's stepfather to Ariena.

On one level, I wonder how it’s possible, even in the drunk, demented minds of human males, for a female to one moment be an easy slut and the next a frigid bitch.

- Jade, while drunk, and in a bar.

Urg. Alphas. They’re insane sex machines when they’re younger and then they turn into Holier Than Thou’s who dispense more advice than a fortune cookie factory.

- Jade, expressing a common and universal opinion about alpha males.

“Blunt, spunky, rude, assertive, spiky, dominant, bitchy, determined, aggressive, egotistical, and more. Actually, thinking about it, it kind of turns me into an alpha for the night.”

- Jade, even more drunk, explaining about the effects alcohol has on her.

"I appreciate that you were brave enough to calm me down and stand up to me. However... WAS IT REALLY NECESSARY TO KICK ME IN THE TESTICLES REPETIVE TIMES?

(defensively) "You were going crazy on me! What did you want me to do, wait until you attacked me?"

"You could at least have stopped after the first time!"

"I wanted to make sure you were down!"

"Then why not stop the second time?

"I thought three was a good number! It's lucky!

"THEN WHY DID YOU KEEP ON GOING?"

"You know damn well I can't count worth shit!"

Eeren and Lyfe, after Lyfe's infamous and successful (if somewhat unorthodox) attempt to contain Eeren's demon blood.

"There are three things I refuse to tolerate. Cowardice, bad haircuts, and military insurrection. And it is unfortunate that our friend Vegeta possesses all three of these."
Furiza from Dragonball Z. Oh, my roots. :-D

This is the way the world ends
this is the way the world ends
this is the way the world ends
not with a bang but a whimper.
-T.S. Elliot, the Hollow Men

We can't cure the world of sorrow, but we can choose to live in joy.
-Joseph Campbell

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
- Maggie Kuhn

Hope and despair aren't cousins, they're one and the same. Despair just lives up to its potential.
- Lilith from Lead Us Not Into Temptation

The meaning of life is to live it.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
-Bertrand Russell.

"Hun, no matter how many nightgowns it wears, a wolf ain't never gonna be a Grandma."
- The Butterfly Effect by Anaphalis

"I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me that I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry."
- Maxine Waters

"When making love, there is no man, no woman. It is hot, messy, and feels good. Feeling good is the only important thing."
- Taki from Yellow

Blood, Cats, Sex and the Sohma Curse

2oo8

Removed on account of it sucking quite painfully. In the off-chance anyone is saddened by this turn of events, I am more than happy to email you a copy.