"Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly and tell me simply that she doesn't love you."

Le Bret, Cyrano de Bergerac

"Silence was ugly, it was black, it leered, it was cancerous, it was death."

Reuven, The Chosen

"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things." Phillipians 4:8

"Will sorted through all the deals he'd made in the amount of time he'd been on the Pheonix, but now they all seemed worthless, a bunch of tacky New Year's resolutions. And the only one that actually mattered, he realized, was the one he was afraid he couldn't keep.
If Lyssa's okay, he thought, I'll never be mean to her again."
Island: Shipwreck (Gordon Korman)

"If you'll be my boat, I'll be your sea / the depths of pure blue just to probe curiosity / ebbing, and flowing, and pushed by a breeze / I live to make you free."

Boats and Birds by Gregory and the Hawk

"Questions of science, science and progress, don't speak as loud as my heart."

The Scientist by Coldplay

Marshall Lee: What you're saying is, you've rewritten a centuries old law… so we can have bro time at your place.

Gumball: Essentially, yes.

(im)Perfect by chrisxcrossx

"I'm going in for some food, so I can pretend my steak is Ghetsis' face and stab it."

Lena Shock (What Makes a Hero by Miss Optimism)

-Name: sushi4427 or Sushi

-Favorites

Anime: Full Metal Panic!, Fairy Tail, Soul Eater; Manga: Pokemon Adventures, Fruits Basket; Video Game: Ace Attorney, Pokemon, Professor Layton; Book: Swindle, The Fault In Our Stars, All American Girl, Notes from the Midnight Driver; Movie: Rise of the Guardians, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom; Song: Boats and Birds by Gregory and the Hawk (the demo version), The Scientist by Coldplay, Code Name: Raven by House of Heroes; Play: Les Miserables, Guys and Dolls; Show: Colbert Report, Psych, The Mentalist, Sherlock

-Best friends: Fabula.et.Dolum (Fabula), SkullChicka (Prussia), and Areolfos (Areo)

-OTP: Specialshipping (RedxYellow). She totally had a crush on him for all of the Yellow chapters and she's so cute and he's so cute and AHHHHH. I LOVE THEM. Also, John and Vriska from Homestuck. That's all there is to say on the matter.

-Other pairings: Touko/N (Pokemon), Rose/Kanaya, Feferi/Eridan, Jade/Karkat, Dave/Terezi (Homestuck), Naoto/Kanji (Persona 4), Arisa/Kureno (Fruits Basket), Erza/Jellal (Fairy Tail), Gumball/Marshall Lee (Adventure Time)

-Favorite characters: Vriska from Homestuck (and everyone else from Homestuck, for that matter), Dylan Hughes from Framed (you underestimate how awesome 9-year-olds are), Augustus Waters from The Fault In Our Stars (Ohhhhhhhhh...), Nightlight from Guardians of Childhood (he's just so cute and AHHHHH), Jenny Greenley from Teen Idol (she's so realistic and strong)

Now that the more severe stuff's done, here's some stuff about my stories:

- I am an absolute romantic and will almost always have romance in my stories.

- It is highly likely that one of the lovers in that romance will die.

- I HATE LOVE TRIANGLES. LOVE TRAINGLES CAN GO SCREW THEMSELVES.

- I do NOT cuss in my stories unless it is some sort of requirement. I prefer to think of creative ways to substitute bad words.

- I love reviews, even the one's that are really bad criticisms. Just, please no flames, as those seem quite unnecessary.

- I'm now available as a beta :D

- Me and Fabula are a TEAM. She even let me put my first fanfic (Pokemon) on her account: The Sardonic Adventure of Briar Casey.

My stories are usually serious but with that one character that makes everything funny, but someone almost always dies because, as SkullChicka says, the best way to make a story better is to kill someone off. And I think they're pretty good.

But I guess you guys are the judges of that.

Updates:

The Sardonic Adventure of Briar Casey: Complete

The Callous Adventure of Travis Thorn: The journey's pretty straight-forward now. I got all my sad stuff out of the way pretty quick.

The Assembly of a Turnabout: Hiatus, but I don't wanna be :/ LOOK A COVER SUSHI MADE!

Luck's Always to Blame: I'm now past my sort-of writer's black! Yay!

The Legend of Mysterious Mattie: I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF I'M SORRY I HAD TO WRITE IT! Anyway, all chapters will be fairly short, so it's a quick read. Which means go read it.

Favorite quotes from Sardonic:

Mrs. Baldridge: My children are trying to go on a journey even though they are far too young!

Mrs. Pope: My daughter was far too young to die. She still did, though.

Briar: Oh snap. What now.

(Chapter 1)

"'Rule Number 1: Don't let that little Lillipup of yours take a tinkle in public. I mean, be decent. Don't want to sully our image so soon, now, would we?'"

Briar (Chapter 5)

"'How did you sleep without wondering if one of her robots would come alive and kill you in your sleep? How did you eat without wondering if your food would spontaneously combust?'"

Cilan (Chapter 7)

"'Sure. Cilan is probably a secret agent by now and Earl's probably taken over one of the office buildings, so I need something to do.'"

Briar (Chapter 9)

"'Oh my sweet Arceus. You guys suck.'"

Briar (Chapter 9)

*Spoiler* "'Giovanni sends his condolences,' he told me, a tinge of sadness in his voice. And, as he left, I lay straight across the couch I'd been sleeping on and lay them on my chest. Now, at least for a while, I would be as dead as Graciela and Seary."

Chapter 16

Briar: What did it say?

Jazelle: To stop being such an anime guy and say he loves her.

Chapter 19

Almost all of Chapter 18 and a Half XD

"Anyway, the stars of this chapter are Cilan and I as we navigate the treacherous Twist Mountain, me knowing that two of my best friends were mad at me in the nearest town, Cilan afraid that the scary cowboy Clay would jump out any minute and scare the crap out of everyone. There were no trainers, probably because the Sun had hardly risen. What we didn't know was that we were about to embark on journey to a place of sight and sound, of emotion and fear. We'd just entered... the Twist Zone. (A/N: DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO!)"

Briar (Chapter 21 and a Half)

"I thought of it for a second, all the things that I could do to celebrate muddling through life one more year. For the past seven years, I'd spent this special day with Gracie and Earl and Dina at home, having some sort of sitcom adventure, ending the cliche episode by blowing out one more candle than the year before. But without Gracie, it didn't seem special. It was another day, a day that I would have to train and be a hero and wrestle with philosophies and remind myself that the master of dreams was dead, dead dead dead and not watching what I'd always dreamed of unfold."

Briar (Chapter 25)

Iris: So, logically, if that peace remains, we don't have to worry about disintegrating in a burst of lightning as the world falls into a fiery apocolypse.

Cilan: Yes. Fiery apocolypses are bad.

Chapter 26

Favorite Quotes from Callous:

"'READ IT. READ IT WITH YOUR FACE.'"

Tobee (Prologue)

"'If I mentally high-five you and shout some excited interjection, will you let me go?'"

Travis (Chapter 1)

Travis: We made the Society of Secret Poets yesterday, or SOSP.

John: 'Roses are red, violets are blue, like a flower, secrets are good.'

Chapter 1

Erica: Travis Travis Travis! If you're in love with Tobee, does that mean you two will get married and you'll be my brother?

Travis: That's a bit of a long shot, Er-

John: Totally! Dude, I call being the godfather to your babies.

Travis: When did babies come into the equation?

Chapter 5

"'So I hear you like Sardonic," Jazelle Sebring said with a smirk. "You wanna hear the epilogue?'"

Chapter 7

"'Hugh, we can't be your harem 'cause Monroe is here!... He's still a guy, so we can't be a harem!... Arceus, can you tell Bianca what a harem is, Amanita? Wait... wait on second thought that's a very bad idea! Huh... Well there that part of her innocence goes.'"

Tobee (Chapter 8)

"And suddenly, Nurse Joy understood. In fact, she probably understood better than any of us ever did. And do you know why? Because two years ago, in moments just like the one my love was in right then, trainers had come to her Pokemon Center, panting and frantic, to beg for shelter. She understood because of the multiple other names that joined Gracie's on the list of people whose lives were taken by Team Plasma. She understood because a few of those names had been dragged from the couches her eyes were wandering to at that moment and were never seen again. And you must understand that she would die before letting that happen again."

Travis (Chapter 11)

"But I chose to hear and not listen. So I didn't say anything."

Travis (Chapter 13)

"Life was a circle, and that circle led to nothing."

Travis (Chapter 13)

Favorite quotes from Assembly of a Turnabout:

"My mom came quickly, and I sucked down all the tears, and I swore that I'd never cry for him again. After all, he was the Yatagarasu. And I'd just become the Yatagarasu. And you can't cry for someone who has been reborn."

Kay (Chapter 1)

"'That hat is a classic paperboy style from England in the 1800s and the 1900s, and yet here you are 2019 and you're wearing one. Who do you think you are? Some kind of trendsetter? You can't be a trendsetter; you're a wimp. Do you know what wimpy wannabe trendsetters are called? Hipsters. You're a hipster. Congratulations.'"

Cody (Chapter 4)

"'Hi. I'm Kay Faraday. I want you to help me rob a business building by making up awesome chess player strategies so we can expose corrupt businesses. And stuff.'"

Kay (Chapter 4)

Kay: And finally, that's Eric Weisner. He's there to throw us over buildings and stuff. Or tackle people. I don't know.

Eric: I'm tackling people now? Sweet.

Kay: Sure, that'd be cool. Except, we aren't really supposed to leave evidence...

Eric: I can stealth-tackle.

Kay: Oh, okay!

Chapter 6

"'Love, if I have millions of pounds and don't buy a bookshelf with a hidden room, I need someone else to handle my money.'"

Riah (Chapter 12)

Reese: I... I didn't foresee that.

Eric: Well, Checkers, I'm an unpredictable guy.

Chapter 13

"'Feel like a thief, love. Magicians use tricks to make others think what they want; thieves steal and get their attention, then leave the rest completely up to their audience.'"

Riah (Chapter 14)

"'That egotistical son of a batch of cookies.'"

Kay (Chapter 14)

Favorite quotes from Luck:

Bunnymund: 'ow do we get 'er 'ere?

North: Well that's easy! The same way we got Jack here.

Tooth: What?! No! We're not doing that! Jack, how should we get Lucky here?

Jack: What? Oh... just stuff her in a sack. That's what you did with me.

Tooth: No! We are not doing that. She's a teenage girl, you have to be gent- Jack. We need you.

(Chapter 1)

Lucky: Isn't it ironic that the personification of cold is so very, very hot?

Bunnymund: She's goin' to be a fun one!

(Chapter 1)

"You would be my problem child."

North (Chapter 5)

Jester: You just used that as an excuse to brag about your zombie army.

Sam: That's because it's a freaking zombie army.

(Chapter 8)

Writers- all of them, from famous authors to subtle FF writers- ALL depend on the feedback from our readers. Vision Dominican brought up an interesting albeit tragically true idea:

"Lack of reviews is the greatest killer of fan fic writers out there. We at the institute wish to let the public know of how they can pitch in to save our dying writers.

1) Drop a review every other chapter. It may not seem like much, but reviews are actually what many of us want to see. That, and hits. Hits do make us happy but we don't really know if people like our story or not.

2) Visit our author page. Those kind of hits really make us happy. It's where we showcase our entourage of friends, beta readers, and stories. Some of us even tidy up with set areas for upcoming story ideas and character bios.

3) What you call being "too lazy to review" is what we call "a flame to the pages" as the writers. That one minute or two that you felt "too lazy" to review is another minute of creeping discouragement that all writers feel as they begin to think...

"Why am I even here…?"

"What's even the point of continuing?"

"My skills must be terrible…no one cares for my story…"

"I'll never be a good writer...I quit."

These are only a few thoughts that go through every writer's head- that go through MY head- when we put out a chapter / story with all our heart and soul within, and we sit there…and sit…and wait…and not a single person says even a word.

If you're not a writer, you have NO IDEA how much that hurts…

If you ARE a writer, then I'm sure you know just how great it feels when someone is kind enough to leave a heartwarming and encouraging review, and you read it, smiling while thinking…"Wow... I did it…"

So, why not give fellow writers the same luxury here?

Too many times I've seen epic and utterly beautiful works of literary art fall to pieces before finally being abandoned due to the terrible discouragement that the lack of reviews can cause.

Sometimes, it is so severe that the very writer himself decides to quit, denying the world his skills of writing that I'm sure it would have deeply enjoyed.

So…

Just one minute, that's all it takes. Just a few gentle taps of the fingers on your keyboard, a few seconds or so of your time, and your words can SAVE a writer from a dark demise.

Do me a favor: Go find a story, ANY story, anywhere here on Fanfic,net, and see if you can help it. If it has very little / no reviews at all, just check it out, and say whatever comes to mind.

And enjoy the thought in mind that you could have just SAVED that story, with just a few taps of the keyboard…

If you agree with what I have said then please copy and paste any part of this story you wish onto your profile. Modify it in any way you see fit; there is no need to use my exact words. You make it say what you want it to say.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that:

1) Funerals are sad

2) Fezes are cool

3) A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife

4) Italians are useless in warfare

5) Every time SkullChicka says something stupid Sushi will smack her in the back of the head

6) No one expects the Spanish Inquistion

7) The best way to make a story better is to kill someone off

8) British accents are cool

9) Butter makes everything better

10) Driving is always more fun on Rainbow Road

11) NO DOORS

(These universal truths have composed by Sushi, SkullChicka, Fabula, and TBD)