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"...from that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the dying at the end. And the heartbreak in between."
Lucius Shepard
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Vermillion #1: Starlight Drive
by Lucius Shepard; Al Davison; Angus McKie and Ellie DeVille
DC/Helix
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Slice of Life by Lucius Shepard
Title: Slice of LifeAuthor: Lucius ShepardIn: Teeth: Vampire Tales (Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling)Rating Out of 5: 3.5 (Liked this)My Bookshelves: Paranormal fantasy, VampiresPace: SlowFormat: Short storyPublisher: HarperYear: 2011
This short story jumps around a little bit in timeliness and apace, but it gives this constant sense of a life without hope. Its kind of depressing and sad to read at…
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Mesoamerican fantasy: magic realism/cyberpunk edition.
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'Beautiful Blood' Slays Cliches, Not Dragons
August 3, 2014 7:03 AM ET
Jason Heller
Lucius Shepard — winner of a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a World Fantasy Award, a Shirley Jackson Award and many others during his decades-long career — died this year at the age of 70. And despite the decorations and respect he won within the world of science fiction and fantasy, he never broke through to a wider audience.
His new, posthumous novel, Beautiful Blood, won't change that. The book is set in Teocinte, a teeming city built against the body of a vast, slumbering dragon. But the setting is not pseudo-medieval, as so many dragon-centric fantasies are. Instead, Beautiful Blood takes place in a world that bears a vague resemblance to 19th century Earth. And the dragon at the heart of Shepard's superb, subtle story — a hibernating leviathan named Griaule — is not the kind of fire-breathing lizard that casual fans of fantasy might find comfortingly familiar.
Griaule first appeared in a 1984 short story — from there, Shepard wrote a handful of tales set in Teocinte, which were collected in 2012 in the book The Dragon Griaule. Beautiful Blood runs parallel with these stories, weaving throughout them while offering the most complete portrait of Shepard's sprawling vision to date.
That said, Beautiful Blood asks more questions than it answers. Richard Rosacher, the book's protagonist, is a scientist obsessed with the properties of dragon's blood, which must be perilously drawn from Griaule's tongue as he sleeps. Rosacher suspects it might have properties that border on the supernatural — and winds up corrupted by his quest for enlightenment through blood.
Richard's arc intersects that of the artist Meric Cattany, who's appeared in previous Griaule stories. Besides giving Shepard a way to connect some dots, Meric serves as Richard's philosophical foil as they devise a plan that will decide the ultimate fate of the immobile dragon that looms in the background of Teocinte like a living hillside. At one point, Meric — on a scaffolding, painting a mural on the side of the dragon as if he were Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel — tries to match wits with Richard regarding Griaule's role in the religion of Teocinte.
The mystery of who or what Griaule truly is — monster, god, or something more abstractly symbolic — becomes the central point of Beautiful Blood. At least for a while. The story makes abrupt jumps ahead in time, and every time it does, Richard has morphed into some new iteration of himself. Most of those iterations aren't pretty, and few are sympathetic enough to root for — not that Shepard seems concerned with making things that easy.
It makes for a read that's scattered and surreal, but never hallucinatory. Shepard's prose is richly textured, but it's also sharp and vivid, and his sentences wind around like the serpentine tail of a dragon itself. But Richard's struggle to choose between empiricism and mysticism (is he a scientist testing a hypothesis or a some kind of wizard seeking arcane knowledge?) get wrapped up in a fevered fog of magic-realist imagery that takes some effort to penetrate. At the fever's peak, Teocinte seems suddenly to exist in our world — or at least some alternate-reality version of our world where dragons, Prussians, and French horns coexist.
Shepard's plot, lucid yet disorienting, is the toughest part of Beautiful Blood. There aren't enough fixed points in his shifting landscape — or in Richard's mercurial character — to latch onto. But Shepard's flow is hypnotic, especially when he sweeps the reader into a reverie about the nature of godhood or a meditation on time. And yes, darkness abounds. Even so, bursts of bawdy humor and white-knuckle adventure are allowed to break through.
Beautiful Blood isn't a cookie-cutter fantasy book about slaying dragons; if anything, it slays that very cliché. But it's more than just an exercise in subverting tropes. Shepard ponders mortality and decay with a soul-baring poignancy as Richard ages and his relationship to Griaule — his Moby-Dick — becomes less about a monster and more about the man obsessed with it. Beautiful Blood is a fitting swan song for Shepard's wonderful, underappreciated body of work, in more ways than one.
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@smokedanced asked: giant spiders? what's next, giant snakes? / lucius for izzy post noveria in a verse of your choice (he would not have been in the ground team)
"I'll take giant snakes over thresher maws," Isabela sighs wearily as she sets the pieces of her armour into the automated cleaner to deal with the worst of the rachni goo. "Enormous acid spitting worms the size of some skyscrapers back on Earth that are more than happy to eat you if you come within range? I love Tuchanka, but seriously, what the actual fuck was evolution doing there?"
#smokedanced#smokedanced ( lucius spriggs )#dreams of elsewhere ( ic )#engineering death ( isabela shepard )#mainverse || into the darkness ( shepard )#lucius || smokedanced ( shepard )#there was a point to this story ( answered )
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Okay to ask for: age regression, adhd, autism, ocd, anxiety, depression, self harm, smut, fluff, angst, poly relationships, canonxcanon, canonxreader
Do not ask: dubcon, rape, animal abuse and other forms of abuse
TV SHOWS
BONES - Temperance Brennan, Seeley Booth, Zack Addy, Jack Hodgins, Camille Saroyan, James Aurbey, Lance Sweets, Wendell Bray, Finn Abernathy
CRIMINAL MINDS - Aaron Hotchner, Spencer Reid, Derek Morgan, Jennifer Jareau, David Rossi, Jason Gideon, Emily Prentiss, Penelope Garcia, Elle Greenaway
NCIS - Anthony DiNozzo, Ziva David, Abigail Sciuto, Donald Mallard, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, James Palmer, Timothy McGee, Jennifer Shepard, Tobias Fornell, Mike Franks
SUPERNATURAL - Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, John Winchester, Crowley, Castiel, Bobby Singer
TEEN WOLF - Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Peter Hale, Malia Tate, Allison Argent, Lydia Martin, Theo Raeken, Liam Dunbar, Jackson Whittmore, Kira Yukimura, Isaac Lahey, Melissa McCall, Noah Stilinski, Chris Argent, Jordan Parrish. Bobby Finstock, Alan Deaton, Erica Reyes
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY - Five, Diego Hargreeves, Allison Hargreeves, Klaus Hargreeves, Luther Hargreeves, Ben Hargreeves, Viktor Hargreeves
Z NATION - Addison Carver, Steven Beck ���Doc’, Thomas ‘10k, Roberta Warren, Alvin Murphy, Cassandra, Kaya, Simon Cruller
MOVIES
FAST AND FURIOUS - Han Lue, Dominic Toretto, Leticia Ortiz, Deckard Shaw, Roman Pearce, Tej Parker, Giselle Yashar, Suki, Hattie Shaw, Dante Reyes, Mia Toretto, Jakob Toretto, Lucas Hobbs, Megan Ramsey
HARRY POTTER - Harry Potter, Ronald Weasely, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Sirius Black, James Potter, Severus Snape, Remus Lupin, Rubeus Hagrid, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, Ginerva Weasley, Bellatrix Lestrange, Molly Weasley, Cedric Diggory, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Seamus Finnigan, Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy, Lily Evans, Tom Riddle
MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE - Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Yelena Belova, Steve Rogers, James Barnes, Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Loki Laufeyson, Thor Odinson, Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Clint Barton, Steven Strange, Carol Danvers, Vision, Gamora, Sam Wilson, Jessica Jones
ANIMATION
TOKYO GHOUL - Kaneki Ken, Rize Kamishiro, Koutarou Amon, Juuzou Suzuya, Nishio Nishiki, Hideyoshi Nagachika, Seidou Takizawa, Touka Kirishima, Ayato Kirishima, Yoshimura, Haise Sasaki
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A few days ago @adrian-shepard commented "Do you think if any loyal chapters of the emperor's children also had lewd name for ships just a tad more subtle like "fulgrims long sword" im trying to think of more examples but im blanking."
And immediately I imagined Fulgrim getting a new batch of ships from the Martian shipyards and his captains eagerly joining in the naming process.
Lucius now has to wait in the hallway. He has lost his naming privileges, no matter how overflowing his creativity may be.
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💙Kaidan Alenko&Lucius Shepard❤
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Elf on griffon wip
I still have an old Warhammer battle starter set lying around, Island of blood. That one:
And inside there's this guy:
That's the "official" take. But I didn't feel like sticking to that color scheme (tbh I rarely do). I partly blame what comes next on Lucius Shepard's jungle stories, since I was reading one of his books when I started painting.
I'm struggling a bit with highlighting the black. It doesn't help that the sculpt is very smooth.
#miniature painting#miniatures#minipainting#my minis#miniaturepainting#painting warhammer#Warhammer battle
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This day in history
I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me FRIDAY NIGHT (Mar 22) in TORONTO, then SUNDAY (Mar 24) with LAURA POITRAS in NYC, then Anaheim, and more!
#15yrsago London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s https://web.archive.org/web/20120117080328/http://antimega.textdriven.com/antimega/2009/03/01/the-kids-are-alright
#15yrsago Terrorism pundit accused of astroturfing extremist Jihadi message-board posts, then reporting on them https://barthsnotes.com/2009/03/18/obsession-pundit-in-meltdown/
#10yrsago RIP, Lucius Shepard, gone too soon https://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2014/03/lucius.html
#10yrsago Homeland audiobook behind the scenes: Wil Wheaton explains his cameo to the director https://ia801300.us.archive.org/2/items/WilCameoExplanationFMx1/Will_s_Cameo_Explanation_FMx1.mp3
#10yrsago Gamestop as a fee-free, convenient banking institution https://kottke.org/14/03/the-first-national-bank-of-gamestop
#5yrsago IBM supplied surveillance gear to Davao while Duterte was mayor and cheering on the city’s police-linked death-squads https://theintercept.com/2019/03/20/rodrigo-duterte-ibm-surveillance/
#5yrsago Health industry lobbyists are posing as “ordinary citizens who don’t want Medicare for All” https://splinternews.com/look-at-these-absolutely-ordinary-americans-who-hate-me-1833380461
#5yrsago California’s Right to Repair Bill, killed by Big Ag and Apple, has been reintroduced https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/03/18/california-reintroduces-right-to-repair-bill-after-previous-effort-failed
#5yrsago Sponsor of the “Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act” sues Twitter cow-account for $250 million https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/devin-nunes-sues-twitter-and-devin-nunes-mom-for-a-whopping-250-million/
#5yrsago More Than 130 European Businesses Tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/more-130-european-businesses-tell-european-parliament-reject-copyrightdirective
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Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers (Captain America/Marvel) 7,172 fics
Olivia Benson/Elliot Stabler (Law and Order SVU TV) 7,127 fics
Female Inquisitor/Solas (Dragon Age) 6,964 fics
Leia Organa/Han Solo (Original Trilogy/Star Wars) 6,773 fics
Spike/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV) 6,749 fics
Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill (Stargate SG-1 TV) 6,609 fics
Jessica Moore/Sam Winchester (Supernatural TV) 6,477 fics
Lucius Malfoy/Narcissa Black Malfoy (Harry Potter) 6,453 fics
Betty Cooper/Jughead Jones (Riverdale TV/Archie Comics) 6,435 fics
Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov (Avengers/Marvel) 6,420 fics
Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov (Avengers/Marvel) 6,277 fics
James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov (Avengers/Marvel) 6,265 fics
Midoriya Inko & Midoriya Izuku (My Hero Academia) 6,259 fics
Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek Voyager TV) 6,247 fics
Mary Morstan/John Watson (Sherlock TV) 6,234 fics
Gendry/Arya Stark (Game of Thrones TV/Song of Ice and Fire) 6,163 fics
Tim Bradford/Lucy Chen (The Rookie TV) 6,109 fics
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Jane Foster/Thor (Thor Movies/Marvel) 6,027 fics
Female Lavellan/Solas (Dragon Age) 6,017 fics
Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) 5,999 fics
The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov (Shadow and Bone TV) 5,916 fics
James "Bucky" Barnes/Original Female Character (Marvel) 5,816 fics
Wanda Maximoff/Vision (WandaVision TVMarvel) 5,804 fics
Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones TV/Song of Ice and Fire) 5,706 fics
Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader & Ahsoka Tano (The Clone Wars/Star Wars) 5,447 fics
Loki/Original Female Character (Marvel) 5,425 fics
Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa (Shadow and Bone TV/Six of Crows) 5,257 fics
Dean Winchester/Original Female Character (Supernatural TV) 5,220 fics
Aunt May Parker & Peter Parker (Spider-Man TV/Marvel) 5,218 fics
Riza Hawkeye/Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist) 5,129 fics
Barry Allen/Iris West (The Flash TV/DCU) 5,128 fics
Daemon Targaryen/Rhaenyra Targaryen (House of the Dragon TV/Song of Ice and Fire) 5,072 fics
Vernon Boyd/Erica Reyes (Teen Wolf TV) 5,071 fics
Guinevere/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin TV/Arthurian Mythology) 5,027 fics
Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne (Batman/DCU) 4,991 fics
Lydia Martin/Stiles Stilinski (Teen Wolf TV) 4,930 fics
Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso (Rogue One/Star Wars) 4,928 fics
Alistair/Female Warden (Dragon Age) 4,861 fics
Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair (Stranger Things TV) 4,856 fics
Edward Cullen/Bella Swan (Twilight Movies) 4,855 fics
Mikasa Ackerman/Eren Yeager (Attack on Titan) 4,839 fics
Midoriya Izuku & Uraraka Ochako (My Hero Academia) 4,825 fics
Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things TV) 4,817 fics
Hyuuga Hinata/Uzumaki Naruto (Naruto) 4,802 fics
Aang/Katara (Avatar Last Airbender TV) 4,786 fics
Caroline Forbes/Klaus Mikaelson (Vampire Diaries TV) 4,780 fics
Natsu Dragneel/Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail) 4,698 fics
Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper (Stranger Things TV) 4,601 fics
Higurashi Kagome/Inuyasha (Inuyasha) 4,497 fics
Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks (Marauders/Harry Potter) 4,459 fics
Cullen Rutherford/Female Trevelyan (Dragon Age) 4,428 fics
Lydia Martin/Jackson Whitteman (Teen Wolf TV) 4,403 fics
Clark Kent/Lois Lane (Superman/DCU) 4,382 fics
Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones TV/Song of Ice and Fire) 4,378 fics
Todoroki Shouto/Yaoyorozu Momo (My Hero Academia) 4,373 fics
Clary Fray/Jace Wayland (Shadowhunters TV) 4,308 fics
Josh Lyman/Donna Moss (West Wing TV) 4,294 fics
Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester (Supernatural TV) 4,294 fics
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Some of my dumbest and craziest HP fanfics:
Harry and Draco are stuck in the toilet
Mothman at Hogwarts
Lucius throws a plate at Harry
The Malfoys travelling in time to the age of cavemen (in progress)
Harry and Draco in the Mass Effect universe are Shepard's adopted children (in progress)
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Hauntings edited by Ellen Datlow
Title: HauntingsAuthor: Ellen Datlow, Pat Cadigan, Dale Bailey, E. Michael Lewis, Lucius Shepard, David Morrell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Hand, Neil Gaiman, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Carroll, Terry Dowling, Paul Walther, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Connie Willis, Stephen Gallagher, Michael Marshall Smith, Richard Bowes, James P. Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Gemma Files, Kelly Link,…
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GETTING TO KNOW YOU.
respond to the following prompts out of character. then, tag others that you'd like to get to know a little bit better!
ROLEPLAYER NAME: havu.
ROLEPLAYER PRONOUNS: they/them.
MUSE NAME: -inhales- charlie bradbury, chloe price (pending), clara oswald, dean winchester, edi, edward teach, ella finnegan, eloise bridgerton (pending), ever hayes, garrus vakarian, hannibal lecter, hurley reyes, iris hunt, izzy hands, jake takizawa (pending), jeremy bradshaw, jillian marks, juliet burke, kenna de poitiers, lucius spriggs, mary stuart, river song, tali'zorah, the tardis, tenth doctor, tyrion lannister, will graham. on other blogs, castiel, thirteenth doctor & wren shepard.
PREFERRED COMMUNICATION: tumblr im box is small, so discord is much easier for me to focus on, but either.
EXPERIENCE: over ten years on tumblr, nearly two decades overall (shit, i'm old).
PREFERRED ROLEPLAY TYPE: the best roleplay connections are those that are cross-genre. a lot of different tropes and moods for the same characters, to make up a vibrant story. a thread here, another there, no need to write them chronologically at all! i do have some favourite tropes (hurt/comfort, villain/victim, kink...) but even those work the best when included in a multigenre arc. so basically anything goes!
PET PEEVES & DEALBREAKERS:
any kind of making fun of and/or harrassing, bullying, making callouts, or trying to dictate other people's fictional enjoyment. i don't care if the subject matter is something i'm personally disgusted by; if you call people gross, freaks, weird, for the fiction they enjoy, if you reblog callouts that focus on fiction, i will unfollow/block you. boundaries are fine, a polite "dni if you write (topic)" is fine. but if you even push your pinky toe over the line towards making it anything more than a personal boundary, i do not tolerate that, and i do not feel safe around you.
not letting me know which muses you are interested in. the amount of people who follow me, but never do my interest tracker or initiate interaction (i'm ok with the tracker not being done if you send in stuff or just plain tell me in a message which muses you want to write with), despite this being in my rules, is frustrating. i can't read your mind. i can't just assume all of my muses are free game, unless you tell me that. i give people several months to do this before unfollowing, but eventually i will unfollow, as there is... no interaction. i will happily interact first, send memes, etc. if i just know what muses you are open to.
assuming i'm not interested/am upset with you if i don't respond to ooc messages fast enough. it's fine if it's a dealbreaker for you if someone is responding slowly, but you don't get to say i "wasn't interested". you don't know that unless i say that plainly. i rarely talk in real time. i take hours, days, weeks, even months to reply to people ooc. fuck, one of my best friends and i sometimes don't say a word to each other for over a year, and we still are best friends. i do try to not take literally months to reply to people's ooc messages, because it's not very productive in the sense of keeping plotting going, but taking days or a couple of weeks is just normal, imho, especially if it's not every message several weeks apart all the time.
PLOTS OR MEMES: a little bit of both! i prefer to plot a little at least, but whether that's before writing, or after sending some memes and writing a few responses, is all the same for me! i'm very flexible about this, though, so totally winging it, or plotting in detail, are both fine for me as well.
LONG REPLIES OR SHORT REPLIES: i'm fine with all lengths of replies, but medium, generally? i also think we should normalise reply length varying. if the muses are having rapid-fire dialogue, it makes no sense to write several paragraphs just to make the reply longer, when you need to give the other muse a chance to respond, anyway. and when there's a time-skip and descriptions of what happens in between, it makes no sense to try to jam it all in one little paragraph, a lot of the time. so whatever suits the reply? but also, 2-4 paragraphs as a general guide is my preference. single-para can feel too restricting, and over four paragraphs, especially if they're all chunky ones, makes it harder for executive dysfunction. don't worry about either of these, though! i think the best really is to just write what feels good for the reply, be that shorter or longer.
BEST TIME TO WRITE: legit this just varies, there is no specific time, although i do try to keep a regular sleep schedule (with varying results lol).
ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSES: no. i may have some similarities to some, but i am not extremely like any of them. i am actually jimmy price from hannibal. only half joking-
TAGGED BY: @serabellyms, thanks!
TAGGING: please tag me if you steal it from me, i am curious! i don't want to tag anyone and make them feel obliged to read all this LOL.
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:: 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 !
' the more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels ' ( nikos kazantzakis )
' you've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early ' ( tibor fischer )
' life's an awfully lonesome affair ' ( emily carr )
' i don't believe that death has no revenge ' ( bei dao )
' if i cannot sway the heavens, i'll wake the powers of hell ' ( vergil )
' i loved to excuse my soul and to accuse something else inside me ' ( augustine )
' come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever? ' ( daniel daly )
' i know you don't love me, don't say you do ' ( william goldman )
' it only remains for me to sit down at the edge of my grave ' ( françois-rené de chateaubriand )
' for every sin, i'll have to pay ' ( madonna louise ciccone )
' do you have optimism about the world, about how terrible it is? ' ( joseph campbell )
' there's this something inside you that's rotting away and you feel it all along ' ( haruki murakami )
' you can live close against other people yet your lives never touch ' ( emily carr )
' one does not learn how to die by killing others ' ( françois-rené de chateaubriand )
' i am no hero in an age without heroes ' ( bei dao )
' we are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil ' ( eugene ionesco )
' i'm a fool, but i'll love you dear ' ( bill trader )
' i don't know why i care so much ' ( wangari maathai )
' no man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness' ( mary wollstonecraft )
' you better hope nothing happens to me, because if i die, you die ' ( william goldman )
' your true home is in the here and the now ' ( thích nhất hạnh )
' find your own answers, your own salvation ' ( lucius shepard )
' your fate is and will always be the fate of dreamers ' ( haruki murakami )
' the time comes in the life of each of us when we realize that death awaits us as it awaits others ' ( william march )
' don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. you are not ' ( joyce brothers )
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