Hey! :) You can call me, Griffin. Griffinesque is a bit long. :P

My favorite pairing are:

For Harry Potter:

Ginny/Harry

Luna/Draco

Hermione/Tom Riddle

Hermione/Fred

Hermione/George

Ginny/Tom Riddle

Hermione/Oliver Wood

Oliver Wood/Katie Bell

Remus Lupin/Tonks

For Merlin:

Merlin/Freya

Arthur/Gwen

Uther/ That troll under the name, Catriona? (This pairing makes me laugh.)

Favorite Quotes and Poems:

Aristotle - from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle -
- Wit is educated insolence.

Elizabeth I -
- Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Emily Dickinson -
- To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson -
- The mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson -
- We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson -
- I dwell in possibility...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
- Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
- When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - (Sherlock Holmes)
- This is quite a three-pipe problem.

Demosthenes -
- All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Cicero - The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

Confucius -
- Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius - The Confucian Analects
- The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius -
- It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

Confucius -
- Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius -
- Respect yourself and others will respect you.

"As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools."

Confucius - The Confucian Analects
- Have no friends not equal to yourself.

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." -Joan Didion

"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity." 1 Timothy 4:12; The Bible

"You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway." -Junot Diaz

"Words, such an innocent thing when sitting dormant in a dictionary, only become a powerful when someone who knows how to combine them comes along."

"If you're an aspiring writer, read everything. Write even if you don't feel like it -- especially if you don't feel like it. Write what interests and moves you without regard to how it will be received. Don't be afraid to go to the dark places or toward what scares you as a writer. Put a little blood on the page -- a book should cost you something to write."
-Libba Bray

Breaking Dawn: Edward: "You look so guilty—like you've committed a crime."

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." James Dean

"Only fools are positive."/ "Are you sure?"/ "I'm positive... I fell for it! I should've known!" Batty and Zak; Ferngully: The Last Rainforest

MUCH madness is divinest sense

To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
’T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.

Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.

By: Emily Dickinson

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

By: Winston Churchill

"If looking back hurts you, and looking forward scares you, then look beside you and I'll always be here for you." Anonymous

Aristotle -
- it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean
- Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

Johnny Depp -
- The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Demosthenes -
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
-Edward W. Howe

OBITUARY FOR THE LATE MR. COMMON SENSE

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and Maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6 year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get Parental consent to administer Calpol, sun lotion, or a band-aid to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 3 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

A moment of silence.

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by echoing noise...

For all the girls who...

...have fallen and have yet to get back up.
...are broken and can't find the glue.
...have aching fingers.
...are finding it harder and harder to hold on.
...are afraid of heights.
...are expert mountain climbers.
...have no one waiting to catch them.

For all the girls still waiting on their prince, you are beautiful.

on whispered touches profile

Girls
are like
apples on trees.
The best ones are
at the top of the tree. The

boys don't want to reach
for the good ones because they
are afraid of falling and getting hurt.
Instead, they just get the rotten apples
from the ground that aren't as good,
but easy. So the apples at the top think
something is wrong with them, when in
reality, they're amazing. They just
have to wait for the right boy to
come along, the one who's
brave enough to
climb all
the way
to the top
of the tree

Some funny sayings I found:

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the 'up' button. Repeatedly.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, if well aimed.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Candles are romantic, but lightbulbs don't burn your house down!