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Lilias

''In the beginning' could well be a misperception; maybe time goes backwards and forwards from now.'
--Steven Saunders, Mind Tricks Ancient and Modern
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

Double Os <> Double As (updated Feb 20) <> The Hoard <> 50 Tales 2024 <> The Lab <> ELLUIKI

Stella

'Harry got into the back of the car, and was shortly joined by Hermione, Ron and, to Ron's disgust, Percy.'

- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JKR

Lilias

'Deities of all kinds are also called upon regularly, depending on cultural and religious resonances.'
--Danu Forest, Nature Spirits
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

Double Os <> Double As (updated Feb 20) <> The Hoard <> 50 Tales 2024 <> The Lab <> ELLUIKI

Ariel

"Grew pregnant, you might say."

Stephen King's IT.
Not accepting new RPs

Apologies | Ons/Offs | Finds | Requests + Rumbelle Craving

Deborah Jetson

"I hope your bacon burns,"Calcifer  said, muffled under the plan.

Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle

Sixela

"Vince elbowed me, hard, but it was apparently too late."
-Jeff Lindsay's Dexter in the Dark

Stella

"I refuse to go and share that man's bed again - it would be quite wrong."

-The Iliad, Homer.

HannibalBarca

Scientific American Magazine, May 2013 edition
“Those who lack drama in their
lives strive to invent it.”   ― Terry Masters
"It is only when we place hurdles too high to jump
before our characters, that they learn how to fly."  --  Me
Owed/current posts
Sigs by Ritsu

Valerian

"By 1740, the University of Edinburgh was beginning its ascent to greatness."

~The Man Who Found Time, by Jack Repcheck
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

Goldmoon

It's a modest difference, but it's there, and it's enough to get you killed if you don't give yourself plenty of room so you don't materialize inside a planet, or for that matter in the same space as anything too big for the prods to push out of the way.

-Seeker by Jack McDevitt

Valerian

"They've been handed notice to quit after thirty-odd years!"

~Lady Catherine's Necklace, by Joan Aiken
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

AmberStarfire

"I revealed mysteries unto men."

'Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom, Bride of God (New Revised Edition)'
by Caitlin Matthews


Valerian

Louis II, still suffering from illness, accompanied them.

The Maid and the Queen, Nancy Goldstone
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

Kythia

"Erhard Etzlaub of Nuremberg's Romweg Karte (Map of roads to Rome) of 1500, is a traditional set of pilgrim's itineries innovatively set out in graphic form, with the distances between towns indicated by the number of dots on the road on the map"

Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe
Peter Spufford

Man, I'm boring.
242037

Blythe

I have a trilogy collection of George Carlin's closest to me on my table, which includes the titles "Napalm and Silly Putty," "Brain Droppings," and "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?" The title of the collection is called "An Orgy of George." Written by George Carlin, obviously.

AutumRose

White gold weilder, Author Stephen Donaldson part of the  thomas covenant trilogies
Get to know me ( the black rose ) has been updated to reflect my current circumstances.  please read this first. 

Oniya

Just a reminder:

Rules:
* Grab the book closest to you. Now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write that sentence in the body of the message.
* Don't go looking for your favorite book, or the coolest one you have -- just grab the closest one.
"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
O/O's Updated 5/11/21 - A/A's - Current Status! - Writing a novel - all draws for Fool of Fire up!
Requests updated March 17

AutumRose


White gold wielder, Author Stephen Donaldson part of the  thomas covenant trilogies

" somehow, he held himself together."


Get to know me ( the black rose ) has been updated to reflect my current circumstances.  please read this first. 

AmberStarfire

A Dance with Dragons (I: Dreams and Dust) by George R. R. Martin

"He does not like to be balked."

OOC: Referring to Jon. Who does??


Mara Brewer

The world's first bioluminescent pigs were born in 2005, created by a scientific team from Taiwan University.
Guinness World Records 2008
I do not want to go on being a root in the dark,
hesitating, stretched out, shivering with dreams,
downwards, in the wet tripe of the earth,
soaking it up and thinking, eating every day.

Translated from Pablo Neruda's "Walking Around"

The Advanced User's Guide to Mara Brewer

Randall Flagg

Ok so the book closest to me doesn't have that many pages.

"Sleep Tight XX
Flopsy Bunny"

(Night, Night, Peter Rabbit)

Mystriss

"Accordingly, he went forth with me from the city, and, having taken me out from the chest, bound hand and foot, was about to bandage my eye, and kill me; whereupon I wept, and exclaimed, -
How many brothers have I taken as armour! and such they were; but to guard my enemies.
I thought they would be as piercing arrows: and such they were; but to enter my heart!
"
~ The Thousand and One Nights

Ella

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust -- and also make you feel so whole?
--- Lauren Oliver, Requiem

Valerian

"Large petroleum and Buna rubber factories had been set up in Auschwitz, and the Jews were to work there."

~The Twentieth Train: The True Story of the Ambush of the Death Train to Auschwitz, by Marion Schreiber
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

Snickerz

Quote from: stormkitten on March 08, 2009, 05:42:29 PM
Rules:
* Grab the book closest to you. Now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write that sentence in the body of the message.
* Don't go looking for your favorite book, or the coolest one you have -- just grab the closest one.
Lucien's brow furrowed in confusion
Darkest Kiss
~ Gena Showalter

"Load 'em up, but get a move on."
The Man Called Moon
~ Louis L'amour