“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
Very good friends of mine, they call me the Philosopher, in the tradition of a certain alien Doctor I hope you’re nerd enough to have …
by M. E. B.
I went to get a drink of water, and I realized that dirt had gotten into the glass. I had to dump out the whole glass of water into the sink before I got the all the dirt out. Then I realized, the glass is just like my mind. My mind is essential to my life, it sends signals to my heart to …
“The divisions in the common public are defined in many ways. It’s the differences the definers hold most important that may not only tell us something about those they speak of, but the speakers, themselves.” – Sydney West, p.1
Have an opinion on books, movies, and music? How well can you write it down?
Why is it important to …
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, The Last Tycoon
Sometimes it gets hard to me to realize just how …
Usually, I’d just throw up a list with the cover and be done with it, but I’ve put up three of these soundtracks so far so I thought it would be well worth explaining just why I go through the trouble. I only use rules when they have practical application. I used to be the kind of person who’d go …
“He was a strong-looking man with a rectangular face and short brown hair. He looked like some sort of large tree — immovable and strong. His gray eyes looked over a pair of small spectacles to the man in the hammock, then to Peter.”
The Storytellers: Atlantis, p. 43
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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
“The pale woman hovered around the crew in her usual elegant dress, but with the addition of a large, pointed hood, which easily hid her large, pointed ears.”
- The Storytellers: Anterria, p. 121
Eltanin had always been a strange combination of princess, knight, and odd, batlike creature. She was inspired directly …
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Life flows in a strict progression. Time, however, is a fickle creature. It shrinks and grows dependent on perception, and is a measurement wholly relative to itself. Memory can seemingly bring you backward in time; nothing can bring you forward except life. The nature of life is all that stabilizes the violence of …