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 Author has written 53 stories for Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Harry Potter, and Kane Chronicles. Does anyone know what today is...? (9/2/14) ((2/9/14 for non-Americans)) Anybody? Of course not. Today is the day that I have officially been writing on here for one year. In that time, my writing has gone from... well, the Tartarus that is the grammar of Luke's Secret to Who Are You? I Am the Ghost King, which is the ninth most reviewed HP/PJO crossover. In the past year, I wrote a first draft of a real book. I don't know if people celebrate things like this, but I am. I swear on the River Styx that Who Are You? I Am the Ghost King will have an update by... Friday. If I don't then you all have permission to kill me. In other news my birthday's this month and I'm excited. Um... what else did I have to say...? Oh, yeah. I wanted to say thank you to all my readers and friends on this site. One year ago, I was still in the 'don't talk to strangers on the internet' mindset and now I have friends, if friends that I often forget to respond to (sorry). I think that was it. Signing off (For now) imnotgoodwithusernames1234 Now you all get to hear about me! How exciting! Not. But if you do want to hear about me here you go. If you don't hit the little hide bio button at the top. By the way, feel free to PM me anytime about whatever. Whether it's one of my stories or you want to know if unicorns poop rainbows seriously PM me. I'll probably fangirl about getting a message. (Did you know that this site thinks fangirl is a misspelling?) By the way (By the way, I say stuff like by the way a lot), I am obsessed with quotes, so that's what half this profile is. If you know a really cool quote, once again, feel free to PM me. Age: I'm not telling you. Favorite Book in PJO and HOO: Um I have to choose one. I'd have to say Battle of the Labyrinth for PJO and Son of Neptune for HOO. Favorite ship: Caleo (Calypso/Leo) they are so cute. Obsessions: PJO, Reading in general, this site. Favorite Male Characters: Percy duh. Um also Nico I love Nico and I am proud of him for reveling his secret. And Bob *Cries* Favorite Female Characters: Annabeth is my absolute favorite. I like Silena and Clarisse too. Favorite God: Poseidon. Ok this is not just because he is Percy's dad I just think he's awesome. Favorite Goddess: Athena because I think being smart can get you out of anything. Current song obsessions: Remembering Sunday by All Time Low Song that I'm listening to: Bleeding Out by Imagine Dragons Some books (And series)(Okay mostly series) that you should try (And I'm obsessed with)(My favorites are underlined.): Ranger's Apprentice series and Brotherband Chronicles by John Flanagan (I read 9 of the 12 Ranger's Apprentice books in three days. Read these now!) Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer (Artemis is sorta like me. Smart, but physically incapable. I like him.) Graceling, Bitterblue, and Fire by Kristen Cashore (I'm in love with these.) Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas (It's about an assassin. Read it. Very good.) Literally anything written by John Green (Do I even have to comment on this one?) Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes (This one will rip you heart out and tear it into thirty-seven pieces. Read it!) The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson (Really good!) The Selection by Kiera Cass (This is probably the most girly book I've ever read that was still good.) King of Ithaka and Dark of the Moon by Tracy Barrett (Both Greek Mythology themed.) Every Day and The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan (I think I left my soul in the first book. Would someone please retrieve it?) Godless by Pete Hautman (This one is... strange. It's about a guy that worships a water tower. Worth a read.) Sapphique by Catherine Fisher (I've read it three times.) So good.) The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke (This book is amazing! Read it or else...) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (This is more well known, but I love it so I had to put it.) The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen (I read it for a school report and it was so good.) The Shadow Grail series by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (Only read the first one, but it was a great book.) The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Hilarious book.) Panic by Lauren Oliver (Awesome, awesome, awesome book.) The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann (Only read the first one, but really cool books.) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (I don't even have words for this book. I read it, then sat on my couch reevaluating my life.) Unwind by Neal Shusterman (This is the coolest, creepiest, most amazing dystopian, ever. I am in absolute love with this book. READ IT.) The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi (I can’t even describe how AWESOME this was.) PJO Videos you should try: How far we’ve come http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyjXgQJk5HQ C’mon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l8XNxUn4UQ This is war http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDQ6fZGMGlM When you’re gone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Ut6b9I_OE We are one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6rK_IAyElA Favorite Quotes: “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.” ― Doulas Adams “There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything. “ — Luna Adriana “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” —Maya Angelou “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” —Maya Angelou “The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” —Maya Angelou “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” —Maya Angelou “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.” I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.” —Maya Angelou “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ―Maya Angelou “Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time.” —Maya Angelou “When life is not fair, you know that it is life.” ― Anonymous “When life gives you lemons, turn them into apple juice and let the world wonder how the hell you did it.” ― Anonymous “Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.” ― Anonymous “Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.” ― Anonymous “Don’t knock on death’s door. Ring the bell and run. He hates that.” ― Anonymous “When you see doors of opportunity, run up to them and pick the lock.” ― Anonymous “Heaven kicked me out. Hell is afraid I’ll take over.” ― Anonymous “People yell, people scream, and some people never realize that life isn’t sacred unless you make it so.” ― Anonymous “What screws us up the most in life is the picture in your heads of how it’s supposed to be.” ―Anonymous “Rule 1: Don’t let someone be too important in your life.” — Anonymous “Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy. So when they grow up, they will know the value of things, not the price.” —Anonymous “There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.” ― Aristotle “Hope is a waking dream.” ― Aristotle “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ―Aristotle “He who is unable to live in society or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself must be either a beast or a god.” ―Aristotle “I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I can.” —Kristin Armstrong “It is surprising that history should be so dull considering that so much of it is invented.” ― Jane Austen “I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.” ―Banksy “Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.” —Henry Ward Beecher “If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.” — Jellos Biafra “Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.” ―Ray Bradbury “Beware those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.” —Charles Bukowski “Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.” — Tim Burton “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” ― Paul Brandt “I’ve spent a lifetime being found but I’d really like to get lost.” —Savannah Brown “I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain.” —Jonathan Carroll “I know who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.” ―Lewis Carroll “Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.” ―Kiera Cass “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!” ― C.J. Cherryh “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ―Winston Churchill “Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.” —Alexa Chung “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” ― Confucius “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” — Bill Cosby “For almost 18 years you’re taught to sit down, shut up, and raise your hand. Then you have to decide what you’re going to do for the rest of your life.” — Lavon Curtis “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ― Salvador Dali “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” ― Democritus “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.” ―Democritus “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” ― Walt Disney “When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” — Walt Disney “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” ― Albert Einstein “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” — Albert Einstein “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein “The end of our exploring will be to arrive at where we started, and to know the place for the first time.” ― T.S. Eliot “Start ignoring people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.” —Alex Elle “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “They burned the bridge, then ask why I don’t visit.” —Ugo Eze “What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.” ―F. Scott Fitzgerald “Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.” —Wendy Flynn “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank “The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” — Anne Frank “It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” — Anne Frank “Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?” — Anne Frank “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late” ― Benjamin Franklin “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin “Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.” —Benjamin Franklin “Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.” —Benjamin Franklin “If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner.” —James Frey “Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.” ―William Faulkner “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman “You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.” ― Neil Gaiman “People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.” ― Neil Gaiman “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” ― Neil Gaiman “Even nothing cannot last forever.” ― Neil Gaiman “If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.” ― Neil Gaiman “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” ― Neil Gaiman “We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.” —John Gardner “There are stars in your dark side brighter than the sun.” ―Andrea Gibson “…I was not myself for weeks yet nobody noticed.” ―Elena Gilbert “Here’s the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.” —Seth Godin “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” —Vincent Van Gogh “Know or listen to those who know.” — Baltasar Gracian “So here’s my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn’t going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.” — John Green “Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.” ―John Green “The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered.” ―John Green “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.” ―John Green “Secret to writing a bestseller: You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writing. Stop wishing you were writing. And you write.” —Jonathan Gunson “I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” —Shannon Hale “Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.” — Joanne Harris “Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.” ―Josephine Hart “I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.” ―Seamus Heaney “If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way.” ―Seamus Heaney “Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self—delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.” ―Seamus Heaney “I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.” ―Seamus Heaney “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” ― Audrey Hepburn “The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. ‘Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” ―Homer “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” ― Elbert Hubbard “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ― Elbert Hubbard “A writer is a world trapped in a person.” ― Victor Hugo “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ― Thomas Jefferson “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole.” —C.G.Jung “The meaning of life is that it stops.” —Franz Kafka “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” ― Helen Keller “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller “The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” ― John F. Kennedy “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” —Jack Kerouac “Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” — Stephen King “The primary duty of literature is to tell us the truth about ourselves by telling us lies about people who never existed.” —Stephen King “The story is the only thing that’s important. Everything else will take care of itself. It’s like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there’s nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that’s important.” —Stephen King “Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well—stocked library.” —L.R. Knost “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.” — Tyrion Lannister “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C. S. Lewis “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” —C. S. Lewis “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” —Abraham Lincoln “I read books to escape from my surroundings and to make me forget about my own troubles” —Evanna Lynch “A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.” ― Edward G. Bulwer—Lytton “You’re a writer, the ‘normal’ ship sailed without you long ago.” —Terri Main “Self-doubt kills creativity, and I cannot let that happen” —Cathy Maxwell “If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.” —John Mayer “We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” ―Carson McCullers “Money can’t buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” —Spike Milligan “This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.” —Walter Mosley “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” —Haruki Murakami “I live in my own little world. But it’s ok, they know me here.” — Lauren Myracle “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ―Plato “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” ―Plato “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” ―Plato “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” —Plato “I need a life that isn’t just about needing to escape my life.” — Robert Polito “I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.” ―Natalie Portman “The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ― Proust “There is no such thing as an aspiring writer. You are a writer. Period.” —Matthew Reilly “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ― Theodore Roosevelt “and I’m over it, I’m over it, I promise I’m over it. But it still hurts sometimes.” — Laura Elizabeth Ross “If you want to get published, writing is no longer your hobby. It has become your job, whether you get paid for it or not.” — Veronica Roth “I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve fucking thought of it.” —Winona Ryder “Words were different when they lived inside of you.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” —Carl Sagan “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” —Robin Sharma “It’s exciting when you find parts of yourself in someone else.” — Annaka Silvia “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” ― Socrates “Wisdom begins in wonder.” ― Socrates “Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again.” —Alex Tan “All the hardest, coldest people you meet, were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.” —Iain S. Thomas “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Henry David Thoreau “Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.” — Paul Theroux “What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.” —Leo Tolstoy “Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.” ― Mark Twain “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain “Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” ―Lao Tzu “Common sense is not so common.” ― Voltaire “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ― William Arthur Ward “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” ―William Arthur Ward “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” ―William Arthur Ward “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” ―William Arthur Ward “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'” ―William Arthur Ward “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ―William Arthur Ward “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ―William Arthur Ward “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” ―William Arthur Ward “When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” ―William Arthur Ward “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” ―William Arthur Ward “To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.” ―William Arthur Ward “A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” ―William Arthur Ward “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.” ―William Arthur Ward “Happiness is an inside job.” ―William Arthur Ward “The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.” ―William Arthur Ward “Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!” ―William Arthur Ward “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” ―William Arthur Ward “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” ―William Arthur Ward “Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.” ―William Arthur Ward “Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.” ―William Arthur Ward “Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.” ―William Arthur Ward “A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” ―William Arthur Ward “Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.” ―William Arthur Ward “We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.” ―William Arthur Ward “You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” ― Joss Whedon “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” —Walt Whitman “I exist as I am, that is enough.” — Walt Whitman “To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.” — Walt Whitman “The future is no more uncertain than the present.” — Walt Whitman “Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” —Charlotte Whitton “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.” —Robin Williams “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” —Robin Williams “Let me introduce you to the most evil word in the English language: ‘Just.’ Stick it near the beginning of some advice, and you can turn someone else’s vicious lifelong struggle into a trivial task they should feel ashamed for not having mastered by now.” ―David Wong “But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.” ―David Wong “We look in the mirror, and instead of seeing who we are, we see what we are not.” ―Shailene Woodley “Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.” ― Lois Wyse Favorite book quotes: "Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle." -John Green, Paper Towns “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” -John Green, Paper Towns That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” -John Green, Paper Towns “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.” -John Green, Paper Towns “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” -John Green, Paper Towns "The town was paper, but the memories were not.” -John Green, Paper Towns “If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” -John Green, Paper Towns “How can you separate those things though? The people are the place is the people.” -John Green, Paper Towns “Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.” -John Green, Paper Towns “As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.” -John Green, Paper Towns “Maybe all the strings inside him broke.” -John Green, Paper Towns “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different..” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” -John Green, The Fault in Our Stars “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.” -John Green, The Fault in Our Stars “The marks humans leave are too often scars.” -John Green, The Fault in Our Stars ''Goddamnit, Augustus, editing your own eulogy." -John Green, The Fault in Our Stars “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?” -John Green, An Abundance of Katherines "You can love someone so much. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them." ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines “Some people have lives; some people have music.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love?” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “I am never going to get better at being a good person. I am always going to be the blood and shit of things.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “Long week. Long month. Long life.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “Random questions are the least random of all questions.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “I get it now. I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.” ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.” ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.” ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “i can’t help thinking that ‘getting a life’ is something only a complete idiot could believe. like you can just drive to a store and get a life. see it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, ‘wow, i look much happier - i think this is the life i need to get!’ take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. if getting a life was that easy, we’d be one blissed-out race. but we’re not. so it’s like, mom, your life isn’t out there waiting, so don’t think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and, yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don’t need to get a life. you need to get off your ass.” ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.” ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson “need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.” ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson "If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself." -Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief "Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face." -Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief "Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing." -Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief "I said hello to the poodle." -Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief "Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?" -Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief "I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.” -Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!" -Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse "She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts." -Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse "People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed." -Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth "Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die." -Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth "With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later." -Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian "I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!" -Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero "Life is only precious because it ends, kid." -Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune "On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up." -Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena "I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" -Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena “Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.” -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!” -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.” -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies" -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.” -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Bob says hello." -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.” -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of Hades, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this century. But that's not enough to set me apart.” -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling." -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. “Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” “True,” Annabeth agreed.” -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.” Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez in Croatia?” -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades "When we take over command," Frank suggested, "our first order of business should be to load Octavian into the nearest catapult and fire him as far away as possible." "Agreed," Reyna said. -Rick Riordan, The House of Hades “Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.” -Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me “*HERE IS A SMALL FACT* You are going to die.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “It kills me sometimes, how people die.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “I am haunted by humans.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Even death has a heart.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me. There are many things to think of. There is much story.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a vacation.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “(By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. It’s the story of one of those perpetual survivors –an expert at being left behind.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “Competence was attractive.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief “And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.” -Kristin Cashore, Graceling “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?” -Kristin Cashore, Graceling "And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.” -Kristin Cashore, Graceling "I'm going to name my firstborn child after you." -Kristin Cashore, Graceling “In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.” -Kristin Cashore, Graceling "When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.” -Kristin Cashore, Graceling “Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.” -Kristin Cashore, Graceling “Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.” -Kristin Cashore, Graceling “The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.” -Kristin Cashore, Graceling "Your hair is positively blue.” -Kirstin Cashore, Graceling “Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.” -Kirstin Cashore, Graceling “There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.” -Kirstin Cashore, Graceling “It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.” -Kirstin Cashore, Graceling “You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?” -Kirstin Cashore, Graceling “If I'd been trying to kill him, he'd be dead.” -Kirstin Cashore, Graceling “But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.” -Kirstin Cashore, Graceling “Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire "Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire "Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don’t you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire "Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “Then I'm sorry I don't remember more. If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories.” -Kirstin Cashore, Fire “Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “I wish people would stop hitting Po," whispered Bitterblue. -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?” Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “Well, none of it would ever end if she was too afraid for it to begin.” -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?" -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “This is a trial about watermelons!" -Kirstin Cashore, Bitterblue “Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.” -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass “We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.” -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass "Now you must pretend that you like me, or else everything will be ruined.” -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass “As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company." -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass "No fair maiden should die alone," he said, putting a hand on hers. "Shall I read to you in your final moments? What story would you like?" -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass "I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect." -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass “Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands.” -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass “You could rattle the stars.” -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass “Second place is a nice title for the first loser." -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass “What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgments?” "What's the point of having a heart if you don't use it to spare others from the harsh judgment of your mind?” -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass “His words were coated with glorious boredom” -Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass “I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “Why are you crying?" "Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “It was like coming home or being born or suddenly finding an entire half of herself that had been missing.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “I bury the king’s opponents where nobody will ever find them.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “The best lies were always mixed with truth.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “And because she was young, and so damn clever and amusing and wonderful, wherever she made her home, there would be some man who would fall in love with her and who would make her his wife, and that would be the worst truth of all. It had snuck up on him, this pain and terror and rage at the thought of anyone else with her. Every look, every word from her... he didn't even know when it had started.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight; “In every way that counted, I failed him” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “Everyone sounded the same when they died.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “He wouldn't let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, because he went to sleep dreaming that she was still lying beside him.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “Hide from fate all you like, but it shall soon find you!” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight "Dangerous words," Chaol said. "Do we need to go to the training hall to see if you can back them up?" "Well, as long as your men don't object to seeing you knocked on your ass." "We certainly do not object to that," Ress crowed. Chaol shot him a look, more amused than warning. Ress quickly added, "Captain.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “The Crown Prince of Adarlan stared him down. “And consider where your true loyalties lie." Once, Chaol might have argued. Once, he might have protested that his loyalty to the crown was his greatest asset. But that blind loyalty and obedience had started this descent. And it had destroyed everything.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “Perhaps the world would never be perfect, perhaps some things would never be right, but maybe she stood a chance of finding her own sort of peace and freedom.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “Let them tremble in fear at what they had awoken” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “To escape death, she'd become death” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “It made her the greatest threat he'd ever encountered.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight “He couldn't be dead. Not from the dagger, or those dozen pirates, or from the catapult. No, Sam couldn't be so stupid that he'd get himself killed. She'd... she'd... Well she'd kill him if he was dead.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Pirate Lord “Let me give you a bit of advice.' the girl said bitterly, 'from one working girl to another; life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right and then suffer for them.' Those remarkable eyes flickered. 'So if you're going to be miserable, you might as well go to Antica and be miserable in the shadow of the Torre Cesme.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Healer “The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Healer “The girl was alluring. Like wildfire, or a summer storm swept off the Gulf of Oro.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Healer “Words could be just as deadly as steel.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert “If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. But Ansel let her pain become hate, and let it consume her until she became something else entirely—a person I don’t think she ever wished to be” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert “Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things?” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert “Well, he was certainly desirable-as desirable as Sam, maybe. Sam-when had she ever thought of him as desirable? He'd laugh until he died if ever knew she thought of him like that.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert “Hisli's tail flicked to the side as the arrow buried itself in the sand just inches behind her rear hooves. But Ansel didn't dare look over he shoulder. She kept riding, and she did not stop. Celeana lowered her bow and watched until Ansel disappeared beyond the horizon. One arrow, that had been her promise. But she's also promised Ansel that she's had twenty minutes to get out of range. Celeana had fired after twenty-one.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert “I think you will leave a lasting imprint on Ansel's heart. You spared her life, and returned her father's sword. And maybe when she makes her next move to reclaim her title, she will remember the assassin from the North and the kindness you showed her, and try to leave fewer bodies in her wake.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert “Who folded their undergarments?” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert “But there are some times when words are necessary - when explanations are needed that mere gestures cannot convey.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert "You'll be fine without me. You always have been." ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld “You can't go." "Give me a reason why I shouldn't." "Because I'll miss you, damn it!" she hissed, splaying her arms. "Because what's the point in anything if you just disappear forever?" ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld "You said you didn't care what I thought. Or what I did. Or if I died, if I'm not mistaken." "I lied! And you know I lied you stupid bastard!” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld “And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld “My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I'd forgive him in exchange for that." She wished he'd punched her in the gut. It would have hurt less. Not trusting herself to keep from falling to her knees with shame right there, she just stalked down the hall.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld “Well, I care what you think of me. I care enough that I stayed at this disgusting party for you. And I care enough that I'd attend a thousand more like it so I can spend a few hours with you when you aren't looking at me like I'm not worth the dirt beneath your shoes.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld “She looked at the exquisite red carpet beneath her feet. Someone had done a splendid job of getting all the blood out.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld “It wasn't that she was mad at him for being uninjured. She was so relieved she could have vomited, actually.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld “When we die," she said, "I don't think the gods will even know what to do with us.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire "I hate to admit it, Sam Cortland, but I missed your sorry ass, too.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire “She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. And then she would remember how it had felt to be loved, when the world held nothing but possibility. No matter what they did to her, they could never take that away. She would not break. And someday ... someday, even it took her until her last breath, she'd find out who had done this to her. To Sam.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire “His eyes - those silver eyes that would probably haunt her for the rest of her life - were bright. "No matter what I have done, I really do love you, Celaena." The word hit her like a stone to the head. He'd never said that word to her before. Ever. A long silence fell between them.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire “The game had been played, and she had lost.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire “She didn't want to go out into a world where he didn't exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire “Now that Sam was dead, there wasn't anything left outside of the dungeons worth fighting for, anyway. Not when Adarlan's Assassin was crumbling apart, and her world with her.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire “The world balanced on the edge of a knife, slipping, slipping, slipping.” ― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire “See, that's the problem with getting hit by lightning. You get burned.” ― Jessica Verdi, The Summer I Wasn't Me “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “Trust me. I'm a genius.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “I don't like lollipops.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl "Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “I don't know why it is, Captain Short, but whenever you start agreeing with me, I get decidedly nervous.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “Good man, Foaly.” He grinned. “Hit that backstabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.” -Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl “No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.” -Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident "To remind you that deep beneath the layers of deviousness, you have a spark of decency. Perhaps you could blow on that spark occasionally." -Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident “We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.” -Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident “She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counselors are nothing more than misguided do-gooders with degrees.” -Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident “If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.” -Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code “I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.” -Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code “Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.” -Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code “A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.” -Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code “No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?” -Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code “When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?” -Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code “Together we will be unstoppable.” -Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code “Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.” -Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code “The sarcasm made a slight whistling noise as it flew over Loafers' head.” -Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code “That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.” -Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception “Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.” -Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception “Hilarious, dude. You should, like, have your own show.” -Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception “Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable.” -Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception “My truffles? You took them? That's just mean!” -Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception “Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn’t there some law that says we get twenty-four?” “I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws.” -Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception “If we make it through this, we will be friends. Bonded by trauma.” -Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception “No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.” -Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony “Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.” -Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony “Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?” -Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony “A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit?” -Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony “Holly frowned at her. "Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly." "Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative effect on mental health." "Child geniuses," growled Holly.” -Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony “Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard. “If you manage that, you'll be the first.” -Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony “I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.” -Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony “You know as well as I do that fortune never sends the best-case scenario our way. You have way too much bad karma.” -Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony “Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.” -Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox “Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder” -Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox “I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn.” -Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox “I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.” -Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox “Ah, yes, the trusty time paradox. If I go back in time and kill my grandfather, then shall I cease to exist? I believe, as Gorben and Berndt did, that any repercussions are already being felt. We can only change the future, not the past or present. If I go back, then I have already been back.” -Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox “Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.” -Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox “Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book?” “No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it.” -Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox “Holly, how did you find me? “Oh, I saw a huge explosion and wondered: now, who could that be?” -Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox “Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “I feel a little dizzy," said Orion. "But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a rhyme for the word orange." "Oxygen deprivation," said Foaly. "Or maybe it's just him.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “Quickly, Holly," said Artemis urgently. "Follow those bubbles." Holly opened the throttle. "Now there's an order I never thought I'd hear from you.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex "Navy rules, Butler. You're on my boat, you follow my orders." "As I remember, I brought the boat." "Yes, thanks for bringing my boat.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex "Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?" "Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?" "No. I was unconscious.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere?” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “I'm the nut!” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “I am not exuding anything," said Holly through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. "I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “Orion nodded, then asked, “Dwarf cheese?” “Cheese made by dwarfs.” “Oh,” said Orion, relieved. “They make it. It’s not actually . . .” “No. What a horrible thought.” “Exactly.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “One loose rivet or cracked weld line would have been enough to allow a few atmospheres to squirt out, and the ship would have been crushed like a soda can in the hand of a giant who was immensely strong and didn’t like soda cans.” -Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex “Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “You don't understand!' Foaly objected. Trouble cut him off with a chop of his hand through the air. 'I never understand. That's why we pay you and your dork posse." Foaly objected again. 'They are not dorks!' Trouble found space for yet another holster. 'Really? That guy brings a Beanie Baby to work every day. And your nephew, Mayne, speaks fluent Unicorn.' 'They're not all dorks,' said Foaly, correcting himself.” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step up. "I know you, Artemis. You like to play your genius card close to your chest until the big reveal. And that's worked out for us so far. But this time you need to let me in. I can help. So, tell me the truth, do you have a plan?" Artemis met his friend's gaze and lied to her face. "No," he said. "No plan.” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “Artemis Fowl will never be secondary." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly.” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was... She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to me now that I have decided to sacrifice myself.” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian “Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending” -Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian Some stupid, badly worded advice from yours truly. Be yourself, no one else will do it for you The world keeps rolling on, long after you want it to stop. The only reason people call themselves stupid, or mean, or anything else, is for an excuse to act that way. Quiet people are dangerous, even if it doesn't seem like they're listening, they are, and will use any overheard secrets as blackmail at first opportunity. The past hurts, the present hurts, but the future is full of possibility. Any hero is the losing side's greatest villain. The worst part of life is that you've got to keep on living. Unrealized potential can be the most dangerous weapon. The craziest people are the smartest. Normal people can't think outside the box, much less destroy it. The higher the climb, the more you have to fall. We dislike characters that are the most human because we see our flaws in them. Life isn't worth living, if you don't make it so. Don't wish for dreams, nightmares could come instead. There's a line between bravery and stupidity, erase it. No one can hurt you unless you let them. The only reason love hurts is because we only allow those we love to hurt us. Sometimes, you might wonder if anyone cares, remember that you care and that should be enough. There's a difference between confidence and arrogance. It doesn't matter if the glass is half-full or half-empty, just drink the freaking water already! Sometimes, occasionally, someday, you will be happy. There's a huge difference between being alive and living. Anyone can be alive. It takes a someone to start living. Never under estimate the power of a shopping spree and a bag of jellybeans. Hope is a form of wisdom. It is being wise enough to know that no horrible thing can last forever. Never forget to appreciate silence. Give advice you can never follow, start projects you'll never finish, and remember to live life to the fullest without getting washed up in the rush of life. Growing up will always feel like your world is falling apart, but really it's opening your eyes and realizing it's always been broken. Fix yourself before you try to fix anybody else. If you’re always looking over your shoulder, you’ll trip over the road in front of you. Now the pledge: Percy Jackson Pledge: I promise to remember Percy Whenever I'm at sea I promise to remember Annabeth Whenever a spider comes at me I promise to protect nature For Grover's sake of course I promise to remember Luke When my heart fills with remorse I promise to remember Chiron Whenever I see a sign that says ''free pony ride'' I promise to remember Tyson Whenever a friend says they'll stick by my side I promise to remember Thalia Whenever a friend is scared of heights I promise to remember Clarisse Whenever I see someone that gives me a fright I promise to remember Bianca Whenever I see a sister scold her younger brother I promise to remember Nico Whenever I see someone who doesn’t get along with others I promise to remember Zoe Whenever I watch the stars I promise to remember Rachel Whenever a limo passes my car. I promise to remember The Stolls when my home is beginning to unsettle. I promise to remember Beckendorf whenever I see someone working metal. I promise to remember Silena whenever a friend takes one for the team I promise to remember Michael Yew whenever I see a smile that gleams. I promise to remember Briares whenever I see someone playing hand games. I promise to remember those lost in the Battle of the Labyrinth whenever I see a cloth in flames. I promise to remember those campers who fought against Kronos whenever I see someone go against the odds. Yes I promise to remember PJO Wherever I may go. Kane Chronicles Pledge: I promise to remember Carter When I travel far away I promise to remember Sadie When I have something sarcastic to say I promise to remember Desjardins When someone doesn't fight fair I promise to remember Amos When someone has beads in their hair I promise to remember Iskandar When I see someone very old I promise to remember Bast When I see cat's eyes that are gold I promise to remember Horus When I see a beautiful bird I promise to remember Isis Whenever strange voices are heard I promise to remember Set When someone is clever and sly I promise to remember Walt When a cute boy catches my eye I promise to remember Zia When I see someone working magic I promise to remember Julius Kane When someone's life is tragic I promise to remember Ruby Kane When someone I love is gone And whenever I read The Red Pyramid I'll always remember this song. You Might Be An Author If... 1. Every time you hear a song, you think of a new story or one you've already written. 2. You have the last chapters of a story done before even thinking of the characters names. 3. You often imagine your books becoming movies. 4. Spell check is your best friend. 5. You give even the smallest of characters a huge background. 6. You hesitate before killing of one of your favorite characters. 7. You smile really big when your gonna finally write a character love scene. 8. Every time you read something, you make your own story of the same thing. 9. You'll spend an hour trying to find one word cause you won't dare use a synonym. 10. Not being able to write is like not being able to pee to you... you just can't hold it in for so long. 11. You write so fast, you leave out words in a sentence. 12. You have to tell at least one person your whole story before it's even written. 13. Things that are written bad annoy you and make you want to re-write it better. 14. You laugh at jokes you wrote yourself. 15. You can spell words like 'troublesome' but can't spell 'the' half the time. 16. If your note writing or typing, your fingers are moving constantly. 17. You talk to yourself... constantly. 18. You forget what day it is when your writing. 19. When you have to write some sort of story in class, you get carried away. 20. You would rather die than use words like 'good' or 'nice' and etc. 21. You put off the last chapter of a story simply because you don't want it to end. 22. You start to cry when writing about a death or other depressing event you knew was coming, and you are the one writing it. 23. When on a roll, you will ignore hunger, sleepiness, or the urge to pee until you run out of ideas. 24. If a story, movie, show, etc. finishes without closure, you have a powerful need to write a suitable ending. 25. You like to fidget, tap, or chew on the tip of something when you are trying to come up with a new sentence, paragraph, chapter, or story. 26. You are in love with the Thesaurus. 27. You dream about your stories. 28. You dream of new stories. 29. You often revisit some of your old stories. 30. Someone can call your name twenty times without you hearing if you're writing. YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN AUTHOR IF... 1. You talk to yourself a lot. 2. You talk to yourself about talking to yourself. 3. When you talk to yourself you often talk to yourself like you're talking to someone else. 4. After uttering a profound piece of wisdom like that above, you stare at the cookie in your hand with awe and say, "Wow,this stuff is great for sugar highs...' 5. You'll check your e-mail every day of the week and then disappear off the face of the earth. 6. No matter where you are in a room you never have to get up to find a pen/pencil and paper. 7. The letters on your keyboard are wearing off. 8. People think you have A.D.D. 9. You constantly start talking in third person, present or past tense. 10. Your friends stopped looking at you funny when you laugh for no apparent reason a loooooong time ago. 11. And FINALLY, the one way to tell if you're a good writer: You failed English 101. And if you actually read my entire profile PM me cuz you need a hobby. Drum Roll Please! Now the stories!!! V |
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