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OrchidofDarkness

had to be grilled on the precepts that bound the chaotic society together.

(The Legend of Drizzt by R.A Salvatore)
Every thing I gave is wasted, and I'm the one whos suffocated.

Valerian

The state of Wisconsin then issued me a license to practice at the EMT-Basic level.

Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, by Michael Perry
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

AmberStarfire

Blood of Amber
Roger Zelazny

"White-crested waves expired in kamikaze attacks on the grey rocks of the shore; a strong wind scattered their spray and a piece of rainbow hung within the mist."


Oniya

Quote from: Valerian on June 14, 2013, 07:30:12 AM
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, by Michael Perry

[voice=Fred Rogers]Hi neighbor![/voice]
"Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women.~*~*~Don't think it's all been done before
And in that endeavor, laziness will not do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think we're never gonna win this war
Robin Williams-Dead Poets Society ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think your world's gonna fall apart
I do have a cause, though.  It's obscenity.  I'm for it.  - Tom Lehrer~*~All you need is your beautiful heart
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Ella

Der Begriff "Schulleistungsstörungen" wird im DSM-IV durch den der "Lernstörung" (learning disorder) ersetzt, weil diese Bezeichnung eher dem üblichen Sprachgebrauch entspricht.

~ The German version of the Diagnositc and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Where are all my nice books? ;__;

MrBubbles

"They tied her to a post in the yard and scourged her, then shoved her out the gate naked and bloody."

- Good ole "Storm of Swords" by George R. R. Martin (aka GRRM aka Grum.)

Observing Trifles

The speaker had asked for the custody of the cannibal monster committed from Arkham sixteen years before; and upon being refused, gave a signal which precipitated a shocking riot.

Herbert West - Re-Animator
|| the hunt ||

my, my, those eyes like fire;
i'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre.
come now, bite through these wires;
i'm a waking hell and the gods grow tired.

PhoenixPhyre

The girls worked in the service of the ladies of the castle, cleaning and sewing, as well as helping in the kitchen.
Magician: Apprentice
~ Raymond E. Feist

CallMeCheesecake

But did she? That was the question.
Warrior Angel
~ Margaret and Lizz Weis
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LordHarketh193

'The hell i ain't. Got a Luger. It won't hurt him none at all'

Of mice and men
John Steinbeck


A book i did with my class when i was at school, then we did a speech about it oh how i hate speeches XD

Valerian

Like those who would be rescuers, she was prepared for action.

~Conscience & Courage, Eva Fogelman
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

King Serperior

"It felt haunted somehow, though by who or what, she couldn't say."

- Resident Evil:  The Umbrella Conspiracy

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Skadii

"I am going to marry somebody that makes me feel like a poem that's for sartin"

~Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith~


gaggedLouise

He took a few steps forward and let his hands stroke the keys of a green machine

~ Operation Cobra, Dan Hansen and Jens Nordquist - crime journalism, a dig into an ingenious attempt at major blackmail. The machine is an old-style mechanical typewriter, of the classic Halda brand.

Good girl but bad  -- Proud sister of the amazing, blackberry-sweet Violet Girl

Sometimes bound and cuntrolled, sometimes free and easy 

"I'm a pretty good cook, I'm sitting on my groceries.
Come up to my kitchen, I'll show you my best recipes"

AmberStarfire

"Write down the letters of the pairs of congruent shapes in the diagram."

~ Teach Yourself Complete Mathematics


lunarbunny

What did Abraham Ravenwood have to do with us?

cptBacon

This eighteenth-century pole arm has a long ax blade with a pointed and shaped top.

~The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry
A super detailed introduction to me:
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Illuminate

"If you cannot talk" I said "If you cannot laugh, then sing!" they were convinced that they were in the presence of one demented.

-Outlaw of Gor
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Kythia

The yacht survived the wartime air raids guarded by three soldiers in a private anchorage in Berlin.

Robert Harris - Selling Hitler

Page 56 was actually a blank one between chapters, so I used page 57.  Sorry!
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gaggedLouise

He had landed in a top conference of the allies.

-from a biography of general de Gaulle. Nice 'hook-up' with the two lines just before me.  :D

Good girl but bad  -- Proud sister of the amazing, blackberry-sweet Violet Girl

Sometimes bound and cuntrolled, sometimes free and easy 

"I'm a pretty good cook, I'm sitting on my groceries.
Come up to my kitchen, I'll show you my best recipes"

Yukina

*nothing*

-One of my notebooks.


Peony

Too fucking tired to bother with anything else.

Lover At Last - J.R. Ward
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Lilias

'Richard didn't want to say yes.'
--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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Illuminate

"...I tell you what: On Wednesday you must take to your bed, and tell your husband you are ill, and if you only complain and act being ill properly, and then go on doing it until Sunday when I have to preach, I will then say in my sermon that whosoever has at home, a sick child, a sick husband, a sick wife, a sick father, a sick mother, a sick sister, brother, or whosoever else it may be, and makes a pilgrimage to the Gockerli hill in Italy, where you can get a peck of laurel-leaves for a kreuzer, the sick child, the sick husband, the sick wife, the sick father, or sick mother, the sick sister, or whosoever else it may be, will be restored to health immediately."

(Holy run on sentence....)

Old Hildebrand - Grim's Complete Fairytales
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Kythia

But Innogen, the Doctor Cornelius and the audience know that to be false.

Shakespeare - The Plays, The Poems, The Life
(from a discussion of Cymbeline)
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