Challenge #475

"Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

John Ruskin

Challenge #476

"What matters is this: you can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand."

Sherri Reynolds (A Gracious Plenty)

Challenge #477"Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is ( Read more... )

Challenge #469

"...like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous."

Toni Morrison (Sula)

Challenge #470

"One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about."

Anne Tyler

Challenge #471"Later I dreamed that I hadn’t died. And I was terrified by the ( Read more... )

Challenge #463

"I'll swallow death and pretend not to notice."

Bertolt Brecht (Baal)

Challenge #464"What, then, is love? A wind whispering among the roses-no, a yellow phosphorescence in the blood. A danse macabre in which even the oldest and frailest hearts are obliged to join. It is like the marguerite which opens wide as night draws on, and ( Read more... )

Title: From One Point to That
Author: sinulatan
Pairing: David/Robin (Crows and Ravens - original)
Summary: And then she was leaving.
Notes: I know this is late but I liked that quote too much to pass up.
the_dark_garden Challenge 451: "After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning ( Read more... )

Challenge #457

"So sacrifice yourself
And let me have what's left
I know that I can find
The fire in your eyes
I'm going all the way
Get away please"

Breaking Benjamin (Breath)

Challenge #458

"It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family."

Stephen King (The Green Mile)

Challenge #459"I love you. If you hadn't existed I ( Read more... )

Challenge #451"After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning. And company doesn't always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises. And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead ( Read more... )

Challenge #445

"Looking back now, I can only remember a time when the world seemed to have a million eyes, silently opening wherever I went."

Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)

Challenge #446"His celestial debauches ( Read more... )

Title: Would You Offer Your Throat to the Wolf?
Fandom: 30 Seconds to Mars
Pairing: Tim/Jared
Rated: NC-17
Warnings: Um... sex(?)
Notes: Title inspired by the first line of the song "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth" by Meatloaf. Quote is #415 at the_dark_garden. Title banner made for me by judas_denied, and it is made of fucking awesome ♥

Jared doesn’t know that ( Read more... )

Challenge #439

“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it.”

Richard Siken (Scheherazade)

Challenge #440

“In the middle of a glade, I had just offered funereal worship to the moon that was rising in my sky.”

Jean Genet (Funeral Rites)

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Challenge #431

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Plato

Challenge #432

"For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"

The Bible (Matthew 16:26)

Challenge #435

"The devil made me do it."

Flip Wilson

Challenge #436"They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. ( Read more... )