- "You are actually happy about this!!!"

- "Honestly, it is awes….", he took a look at her troubled face.... "ful! Awesful!"

- "So try not to smile for a second!"

Barney tried futilely, but it was like a wire hanger stuck in his mouth. Robin couldn't help smiling. She expected the founder of Not-a-Father's-Day to jump out of the window, get on the ( Read more... )

( A Short Barney-Robin Fanfic )

( A short Barney Robin Fic )

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

There are things you remember. About people. About the first time you saw them. The time when they were just the same as anyone else and you didn't know how important they were going to be to you. Because we never know at first and by the time you realize you don't want to forget anything you're already forgetting.

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It is easy to call something you don't understand evil, Neef Flip.
                                                                      Devil's Valley

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.
                                                                          Great Expectations

"What is life but a series of inspired follies?"
                                                           Pygmalion

 
How is this for the first draft? It starts in media res!

Robin gives her bouquet to Lily and reaches for Barney’s hand: “Barney, you know this is the step that I was frightened to death to take. The men I trusted battered my heart and left. But…. Um… you, to my surprise” she looks into his eyes “despite all your misogynistic theories and gross ( Read more... )

What is this shameful reasoning? Because you are a maid you must be a whore. Because you are a woman you must be a whore. Because I can defile you you must be a whore. Because I despise myself you must be a whore. Because I am a man you must be a whore.

Everything in this world is so diverse, so contrary, so obscure, that assuredly we cannot be ( Read more... )