I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.  ~Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting ( Read more... )

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." ~Robert Heinlein

"I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you." ~Roy Croft

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
~Lao Tzu

There is a note folded into quarters and tucked beside his terminal  She probably left it there before she went to bed last night.  Usually, she leaves him research notes, bits of technical information about the neural recorder, or interesting tidbits completely unrelated to anything; just something that she thought he might enjoy or that she found ( Read more... )

"Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right." ~Daiasku Ikeda

Research notes 2009-0406 23:17:21
Waxing Moon, Three days until Full Moon
Terran Lycanthropy, Species 1010
One life form with two cyclically alternating physical forms:
Humanoid & Bipedal human-wolf hybrid
Subjects refer to themselves as 'infected', though in talking to Dr. Wesker and Sgt. Wells, I know no evidence of infection has ever been ( Read more... )

"Never apologize for showing feeling. 
When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
~Benjamin Disraeli"Love is trembling happiness."
                 ~Kahlil Gibran

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt."
~ Wm. Shakespeare

Day 1: Full moon tomorrow night.

He looked at me over breakfast. There was a wildness and a longing in his eyes, but I cannot say whether it was for me or for some other place, some other life.

He pressed his cheek to mine for a long moment before kissing me once, so briefly, and then he was gone. I wanted to follow him, like Damocles tight at ( Read more... )

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope."
~ Alexandre Dumas Père"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
~ Mark Twain

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
~ Christian Nevell BoveeRest in reason; move in passion.
~ Khalil GibranClarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.
~Blaise Pascal