![]() Author has written 34 stories for Inuyasha, Dragon Ball Z, Kingdom Hearts, Saiyuki, Final Fantasy VII, Cats, Harry Potter, American McGee's Alice, Yu Yu Hakusho, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, Silent Hill, Joker/Clover/Heart no Kuni no Alice, Final Fantasy X-2, Bleach, and Friday the 13th. A QUICK NOTE: If you're new to my writing, please, IGNORE MY OLDER STUFF (basically anything without a cover image). Many of them are just here to chronicle my evolution as a writer. Specifically, ignore "Fullmetal Keyblade"/"Keyblade Alchemist," "Kagome's True Family," "Student of the Teacher," "The Break-Up Plan," "Tifa, It's Cold Outside," "Honna and Family: Trouble in the Feudal Era," and "Inuyasha Meets the Fullmetal Alchemist." It seems like a long list, but really they're all common sense. I thought I'd list them anyway so you can't say I didn't warn you... ;) ANOTHER QUICK NOTE: Most/all my stories are on a haitus, of sorts. There may be updates, there may not, but for now expect nothing to be set in stone. Everything will be continued--and finished--but not right now...too much stuff going on in my life. UPDATE 3-7-2019: I've been gone for years, but I've finally started to write somewhat regularly again. My first order of business will be editting and updating "Wrath of Jashin" as it is a story I've been meaning to finish, as promised to my many readers. Here's hoping everyone is still as invested as I was! -3- Favorite and Thought-Provoking Quotes "To fall seven times, to rise eight times. Life begins now." proverb "Play the fool, be the fool." Shesshomaru from InuYasha "Sorry, God doesn't like me very much. Even if I went to Heaven, he'd probably chase me away!" Ed from Fullmetal Alchemist "Stand up and walk. Keep going forward. At least you have strong legs to take you there." Ed from Fullmetal Alchemist "Okay, I'm gonna do something slightly illegal now, so you just look the other way for a sec." Ed from Fullmetal Alchemist "Nothing is impossible." Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist "If only security was as tight as Mustang's ass, we wouldn't have to get involved in anything in the first place!" Ed from Fullmetal Alchemist: The Curse of the Crimson Elixer "I wonder if there's a way to incinerate someone over the phone...care to help me find out?" Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist: Crimson Elixer "So...um...does it strike you that we've been working our asses off based on a TOTALLY wrong assumption!?" Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist: Crimson Elixer "Hmm, let's see...I'll take an educated guess and start pulling levers until something happens! Ennie, meenie, minie..." Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist: Crimson Elixer "Uh, come again? I didn't quite catch that incriminating mumble." Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist: Crimson Elixir "Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes present." F. Nietzsche "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." Albert Einstein "Some people are like slinkies; Not really good for anything, but you can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs." unknown "Making a Mary-Sue is like a box of addictive chocolates. You know you shouldn't have one, but the next thing you know you're at a New Years party in a tutu." unknown "Each day, hundreds of Dittos have other breeds of Pokemon forced upon them in Daycare Centers everywhere. Countless Ditto are abused and turned from perfectly good Pokemon into common prostitutes. Call now, and you can help put a stop to Ditto Rape Today." unknown "Alright, now today is gonna totally kick ass! ...or...is it? Oh no...I can feel my inner-emo stirring...must...fight...emo...urges...!" Neku Sakuraba from The World Ends With You (for the NDS, in case you were interested; my favorite game on the system!) "If he pleases you sir, he's yours to play with anytime!" Shiki Misaki from The World Ends With You (to her pop-star idol) "If you give up on yourself, you give up on the world." Yoshiya 'Joshua' Kiryu from The World Ends With You "It's not hard to get people...it's impossible." Yoshiya 'Joshua' Kiryu from The World Ends With You "I'm not tredding on thin ice! Shibuya ain't cold enough for ice!" Daisukenojo 'Beat' Bito from The World Ends With You "He who stays an' fights away lives today another fight!" Daisukenojo 'Beat' Bito from The World Ends With You "The proof is in the pudding. The pudding...of your DOOM." Yodai Higashizawa from The World Ends With You "Prepare to be spicy tuna rolled!" Yodai Higashizawa from The World Ends With You "This is my Game. And I only allow two things. Flawless calculations...and beauty!" Sho Minamimoto from The World Ends With You "You fractals have no future! QED. Class dismissed!" Sho Minamimoto from The World Ends With You "The world's made up of numbers! I've been reverse-engineering my desired solution all along!" Sho Minamimoto from The World Ends With You "Any tree can drop an apple. I'll drop the freakin' moon." Sho Minamimoto from The World Ends With You "Any sound can shake the air. My voice shakes the heart." Sho Minamimoto from The World Ends With You "Heh. Every inch of my work is flawlessly calculated. Look at the perfectly understood silhouette. How can you not see the beauty!?" Sho Minamimoto from The World Ends With You "Since I can't reverse evolution and speak your language, I'll keep this brief." Mitsuki Konishi from The World Ends With You "You vexatious monkey! You're right. No analysis could ever plumb the depths of your fatuity." Mitsuki Konishi from The World Ends With You "Music requires many things. Melody, performers, instruments...but the key element in the most divine music is a Conductor, to hold it all together. The world is very much the same. Under one Conductor, one ideal the world of men marches towards bliss. ...Don't you feel it in Shibuya? Rage. Hate. Misery. Envy. Fear. Self-deprecation. A cacophony of countless selfish wants. As that noise swells, it turns to crime, warfare...all the world's ills can be traced to individuality!" Megumi Kitanji from The World Ends With You "The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go." Sanae Hanekoma from The World Ends With You "Next time you feel the need to say something you'll regret, bite your tongue and save yourself some humiliation. Idiot." Genjyo Sanzo from Saiyuki "Since the day I was born until the day I die...the only side I'm on is my own!" Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai from Saiyuki "The more you hold dear...the more you have to lose." Chin Yisou from Saiyuki (my fav. villain/character! i love almost all of his quotes...he's a creep and i love it. X3) "Was your victims' blood warmer than a woman's skin? Or was it fragrant, like an orchid's petals? If you've forgotten, I can help you remember. There is nowhere for you to find peace. You are a sinner." Chin Yisou from Saiyuki "There's a phrase in Zen Buddhism. Muichimotsu. 'Hold nothing. If you meet the Buddha, kill him. If you meet the patriarchs, kill them.' Free of all, bound by nothing...you live your life simply as it is. That's the one teaching my master left me. That's why I won't stop. Anyone in my way dies by my hand. I couldn't care less whose enemy he is. Got it?" Genjyo Sanzo from Saiyuki "I've never truly been attached to anything. You're the first person in my life I've taken an interest in. I want to see your features twisted in insanity. To hear your desperate cries...I WANT TO CLUTCH AND DESTROY IT ALL." Chin Yisou from Saiyuki "Well, you said so yourself. It's simple to enter a gap in the heart. Unfortunately, my heart isn't big enough to have any gaps. Well. It would appear that your estimation of me was royally screwed up." Cho Hakkai from Saiyuki "However red my hands may be stained, blood can always be washed away. That's how we live. All of us." Cho Hakkai from Saiyuki "What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we? Mission. Destiny. The cycle of rebirth. Forget them--they've got nothing to do with it." Sanzo-Ikkou character study from Saiyuki "Reality's a bitch." Sho Gojyo from Saiyuki "Welcome to life. Everything's a useless struggle until you die." Genjyo Sanzo from Saiyuki "They can try to convince themselves that it's for someone else all they want. Self-interest is still the only force that drives people forward. It's why they live...and why they die." Dr. Ni Jiyana from Saiyuki "It seems that the gates of Heaven have been smashed." Cho Hakkai from Saiyuki "That's pretty tacky decoration, your head." Genjyo Sanzo from Saiyuki "We thought he was God. We thought Kami-sama had found us. ...He gave us anything we wanted. ...I don't know why...but after a while, I got scared. I got scared of 'God'. He smiled so beautifully-like he had no soul." Ginkaku from Saiyuki "Smoke and morons rise to high places." Genjyo Sanzo from Saiyuki "I would never allow myself the degradation of having someone who looked even vaguely like me lose a fight to YOU. It just wouldn't feel right." Genjyo Sanzo from Saiyuki "I wonder if everyone alive isn't covered in blood. You think you reek of blood? Maybe that's just the scent of your own flowing inside you." Jikaku from Saiyuki ("I thought you were the Weather Man.") "Oh no, I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be." Whether Man from The Phantom Tollbooth (this is my favorite book of all time) "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty." Whether Man from The Phantom Tollbooth "I'm glad you made your own decision. I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine. Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens." Whether Man from The Phantom Tollbooth ("Well, if you can't laugh or think, what can you do?") "Anything as long as it's nothing, and everything as long as it isn't anything...we don't want to get anything done, we want to get nothing done, and we can do that without your help." Lethargarians from The Phantom Tollbooth "Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking." Tock the Watchdog from The Phantom Tollbooth "Once there was no time at all, and people found it very inconvenient. They never knew whether they were eating lunch or dinner, and they were always missing trains. So time was invented to help them keep track of the day and get places where they should. When they began to count all the time available...it seemed as if there was much more than could ever be used. 'If there's so much, it couldn't be very valuable,' was the general opinion, and it soon fell into disrepute. People wasted it and even gave it away..." Tock the Watchdog from The Phantom Tollbooth "You must have come here for some reason." ("Well, I--") "Come now, if you don't have a reason, you must at least have an explanation or certainly an excuse...very serious, very serious, you can't get in without a reason. Wait a minute; maybe I have an old one you can use...ah, this is fine. 'WHY NOT?' That's a good reason for almost anything-a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable." Gatekeeper to Dictionopolis from The Phantom Tollbooth "Everyone loves a Humbug. As I was saying to the king just the other day--" ("You've never met the king...") "BOSH! We're an old and noble family, honorable to the core-Insecticus Humbugium, if I may use the Latin. Why, we fought in the crusades with Richard the Lion Heart, crossed the Atlantic with Columbus, blazed trails with the pioneers, and today many members of the family hold prominent government positions throughout the world. History is full of Humbugs." Humbug from The Phantom Tollbooth "Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars." Rhyme and Reason from The Phantom Tollbooth "Too much too quickly, too much too quickly. To be sure, too much too quickly. I most certainly should have eaten too little too slowly, or too much too slowly, or too little too quickly, or taken all day to eat nothing, or eaten everything in no time at all, or occasionally eaten something any time, or perhaps I should have- (passes out from exhaustion)" Humbug from The Phantom Tollbooth "Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look on the bright side of things." Humbug from The Phantom Tollbooth "If Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered with tinsel, while the trees opened our presents...it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?" Alec Bings from The Phantom Tollbooth "You certainly can't always look at things from someone else's Point of View. For instance, from here that looks like a bucket of water but from an ant's point of view it's a vast ocean, from an elephant's just a cool drink, and to a fish, of course, it's home. So, you see, the way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from." Alec Bings from The Phantom Tollbooth "Being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't-and I don't care at all about where I'm not." Alec Bings from The Phantom Tollbooth "You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man...as you can see, though, I'm neither tall nor short nor fat nor thin. In fact, I'm quite ordinary, but there are so many ordinary men that no one asks their opinion about anything." The Ordinary Man from The Phantom Tollbooth "It's much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you're going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide." The Ordinary Man from The Phantom Tollbooth "Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?" Kakofonous A. Dischord, Doctor of Dissonance from The Phantom Tollbooth "I only treat illnesses that don't exist: that way, if I can't cure them, there's no harm done-just one of the precautions of the trade." Kakofonus A. Dischord, Doctor of Dissonance from The Phantom Tollbooth "Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully." The Soundkeeper from The Phantom Tollbooth "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless." Dodecahedron from The Phantom Tollbooth "As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself." Dodecahedron from The Phantom Tollbooth "Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right." Dodecahedron from The Phantom Tollbooth "Could you have tea for two without the two-or three blind mice without the three? Would there be four corners of the earth if there weren't a four? And how would you sail the seven seas without a seven? If you had high hopes, how would you know how high they were? And did you know that narrow escapes come in different widths? Would you travel the whole wide world without ever knowing how wide it was? And how could you do anything at long last without knowing how long the last was?" Dodecahedron from The Phantom Tollbooth "If one rat were cornered by nine cats, then, on the average, each cat would be ten per cent rat and the rat would be 90 per cent cat. If you happened to be a rat, you can see how much nicer it would make things." .58 Child of Infinity from The Phantom Tollbooth "You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort." Mathmagician from The Phantom Tollbooth "Why is it that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem right?" Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth "My goodness, everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best." Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth "It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters." Rhyme from The Phantom Tollbooth -3- Food for Thought (A Conversation Between Two Unknowns) "History is written by the victors." |