"Harry," cried Dorian Gray, coming over and sitting down beside him, "why is it that I cannot feel this tragedy as much as I want to? I don't think I am heartless. Do you ( Read more... )

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
-- Voltaire

Quite the contrary, I should think; but that he should say such a thing is amusing!

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
--Sicilian Proverb

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
--Walker Percy

My sis remarked that my heels from Tinkerbell looked really high. They're only 3 inches! Hmmm, I must be getting better at this than I'd though. *grins*

Oh and a quote from 6-teen!

"So, I just bought these strappy shoes - they're 3 inches high!"
-Can you walk in them?
"Shoes that are made for walking are never the cute shoes."

"I knew I had been somewhere, and had done particular things with certain people, but where? I could not put the conversations I had had into a context. There was no background, no features against which to identify the place. Normally, the memories of people you have spoken to during the day are stored in frames which include the background ( Read more... )

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange
Califia, Pat, and Janine Fuller (eds.). Forbidden Passages.
Dickey, James. Deliverance.
Findley, Timothy. The Wars.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Kinsella, W.P. Dance Me Outside and other titles.
Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lewis, C.S ( Read more... )

"I don't dispute that, and this because words are powerful things and deserve to be handled with some respect. They can heal or kill."
--earthenvessels, when told that he was undoubtedly a perfectionist.

Prime Numbers Get Hitched

-- link offered at welovegeeks

I keep getting lost between the pages though. *bumps*

eternity just doesn't seem long enough"I want to sit here and write about the simplest things. Describe the leaf that just now fell, or the stack of chairs on the balcony...or the moth attracted to our lamps...to tell the history of one complete ( Read more... )

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
--Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

Reminded me of that C. S. Lewis book. d=

I should really get my ass back to the forums more often. *sigh*

Cleaned up an old sticky, read posts...

Life is too short to be governed by the changing whims and likes of the society and employers in deciding how you want to lead it. At one time, society wants you to study computing. A few years later, computing graduates have one of the lowest ( Read more... )