#⟨ ‹ henry king ⋅ how human，drunk on the idea of love ⋅ wanted.

[sinfulnature]

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[steps-to-parnassus]

dead men tell no tales reimagined as horror-action

thinking again about how dead men tell no tales had so much wasted potential to be a fantastic horror-action film. instead of focusing on j*hnny d*pp and his stale, washed-out-drunk “comedy” or trying to shoehorn in yet another love story to replace will and elizabeth, the writers/producers/directors should have taken a look at the absolutely phenomenal make-up, costuming, digital effects, and actors’ performances that they had on their hands for the crew of the Silent Mary, and at how the original script written by Ted and Terry heavily played up the horror element.

a horror-focused film would have been a breath of fresh air for the series and could have even made several other elements of the film (lieutenant scarfield, shansa, etc) work better. it would have made the idea of a “final adventure” ring much more true, and most of all, it would have harkened back to the horror elements prevalent in curse of the black pearl and ESPECIALLY dead man’s chest, which worked very strongly in those films’ favour.

just think about the possibilities (quite long, so i’ll put it under a cut):

ghostly hands coming out of the walls of the Monarch like in the trailer, but the viewer never sees what happens next. all we get are flashes of the massacre and Henry’s perspective, trapped in the brig with no light as he struggles to see and hears screams of terror and demonic shrieks of glee.

we don’t see the ghosts coming into the brig due to the darkness; all we see are golden pinpricks in the dark, noises of shuffling and agonized breaths and the sense that something is terribly wrong. they only appear to the audience as one of them brings a torch down into the brig for Henry’s benefit, and suddenly the Mary’s crew is revealed in all their terrifying glory to both Henry and us.

they stare and leer at him, and crewmembers in the background have red blood around their mouths. the audience gets the sense that they very much don’t want to let Henry go.

when we next see Henry in Saint Martin, he’s raving. he still meets Carina, still speaks with her, still agrees to help her, but he is terrified by what he has seen. he tells her about the corpses and the pools of blood he had to walk through to get to the Monarch’s longboat. he tells her how the demons watched him go with hungry eyes. he tells her that he can still hear the screams.

Scarfield does not seek to kill Henry just because he is a traitor - Scarfield sees him with Carina, whom he lusts after. Henry might help her off the island, might protect her. Scarfield wants him out of the way so that he might possess. he has heard plenty of the ghostly crew and cares not that they are attacking british ships - every officer not himself that dies is a greater chance Scarfield will be promoted in the seniority-obsessed ranking system.

Jack is doing well when we first see him, the cunning fast-talker we’ve always known him to be. it is only after the rumours of a ghostly crew with a captain calling himself Salazar spread like wildfire around Saint Martin that he starts trying to drown himself in liquor to assuage the bone-deep terror. 

when Salazar and his crew are freed, they don’t have a mild little cheer. no, they tear their hair and howl like madmen. they have been storing all their pain and hate against pirates and empires for decades - they are going to bathe the oceans in blood.

when we first see Shansa, she is hooded and cloaked, somehow able to track the movements of the dead. she takes her robe off and we see why: she is covered in scars from blades and fingernails and teeth, wounds left her when she was the “one man left alive” from a voyage into the Triangle many years ago, back when the Mary’s crew could not control their bloodlust as well as they can now. and that is terrifying to us - what they did on the Monarch was their version of being restrained.

we see the news of the dead crew spreading as they attack pirates and british ships alike. churches are overflowing with terrified citizens; people bar their doors and hold fast their rosaries and guns at night.

Jack’s crew were loyal to him up until they heard of the dead - now they must be paid off by Henry to rescue Jack, because every pirate in the Caribbean knows who Salazar is; and now that he is the undead, they daren’t let him find them. the rumours are coming back from men left alive that the crew of the Mary sing and laugh as they butcher without remorse, that the evil curse they lay under forces them to feast on human flesh just to keep going, just to feel anything. Jack’s crew do not mutiny later because he suggests it - they mutiny out of sheer terror.

the scene with Salazar and Barbossa’s first encounter is one of the few in the film where the horror element is quite prominent (the other being Salazar’s intro, and it isn’t a coincidence that these are two of the film’s strongest and most compelling scenes). very little about this would need to be changed to work, save for one thing: Salazar does not tap his sword five times at the end. instead he simply says, “you can take what’s left of them,” and nods to his lieutenant and his men, who all begin to smile as they turn to the crew. when we see them next, Barbossa’s crew are down to less than half. we never find out what happens to them.

when Salazar tells his story and we see the past, we are stunned. here is the crew of the Mary, working together, smiling, laughing at their victory. we see and hear them talking about how finally civilians will be safe; about how they can retire, go back to their wives and children and parents and siblings. we see them as normal men with a noble goal. 

we see them awake and scream in pain and terror, and it is on their agonized screaming at the start of their decades-long imprisonment that we cut back to the present. now we can understand, at least a little, how once-good men became monsters.

Carina, Henry, and Jack would have far more dramatic reactions to the Mary’s crew on the beach. for Henry, these are the demons that slaughtered an entire crew as he sat in the brig, trapped and helpless and terrified that his horrific end was imminent. for Jack, these are men whom he’s seen before as humans, and whose hatred and bloodlust is directed at him. for Carina, who has never seen ghosts before, she is struck dumb. these men have horrific injuries, and they are looking at her with detached curiosity and bloodlust that seems a thousand times more horrifying than the looks Scarfield gave her. she can almost see what they would have done to her had they caught her.

there is no ridiculous wedding scene on at hangman’s bay. instead, the locals saw the giant ghost ship sailing into their waters. they know who it is the demons want, but are not aware that the Mary’s crew cannot set foot on land. they intend to give Jack up to the ghosts in exchange for their own lives.

Salazar still executes Barbossa’s men in the name of the king. he is completely mad, but some part of him still thinks himself a righteous naval officer.

Scarfield wants the trident, but more than that, he wants to use it and Shansa’s knowledge to control these dead men. he remembers the reign of terror Beckett wrought with the Dutchman. he would see it repeated for his own personal gain.

in the ship-to-ship battle, Henry initially tries to defend Carina until he realizes that the ghosts aren’t attacking her. they want her to lead them to the trident so that they can seize it for themselves. our heroes do not yet know that they want to end their curse. in fact, the crew of the Mary don’t really know that themselves - they’d much rather have the pirates surrounding them dead to rights, and then free themselves.

every time one of the Mary’s crew is dissipated due to contact with land, the others react. they scream and howl and gnash their teeth and their eyes flare gold. the viewer can feel how much they would like to crush the heroes’ bones into pulp.

when Henry is captured, the officers of the Mary cannot take their eyes off of him. he is terrified for his life, shaking the whole time. when Lesaro mentions that they have tried possession before, the other officers mourn their comrades who became trapped in human bodies and slowly died of thirst, still unable to leave the Triangle, all because they wanted to see the sun again. the viewer is conflicted - are we supposed to pity these monsters? there are flashes beneath the madness that suggests that deep down, they just want to be human again.

when the crew’s curse is broken, we see more of it. we see limbs regrow, bodies knit together again. we see the bloodthirsty monsters we have come to fear laughing and weeping with joy, embracing each other. we hear their terrified screams for help as Salazar finally demonstrates that his own bloodlust was decidedly not the byproduct of a curse as was the case for his crew and pursues Jack.

Barbossa climbs down the chain to kill Salazar, but the former spanish officer deals a mortal blow. just as he is about to kill Barbossa, Jack himself decides to muster up his courage and sacrifice to save those dear to him, which throughout the films, he has always done. he falls from the anchor, and together with his rival-turned-best-friend, he plummets to his death with one last jaunty sweep of his tricorne hat.

there are many dead from the battle. Barbossa’s pirate empire is in ruins, and british power in the caribbean has taken a massive hit. people everywhere are terrified. Henry, however, finds that his terror has stopped and resolves to be a braver man after witnessing what Barbossa and Jack have done. Carina pledges to honour her father and never again to disbelieve in ghost stories. she decides to become a pirate.

in this bittersweet ending, a glimmer of hope: the Dutchman surfaces, with two new crewmembers. Will hangs up his hat to Jack, with Barbossa as his first mate, and Jack is finally reunited with Bill, who has made amends with Barbossa. the old captain-versus-captain dynamic is back - and destined to play out forever. with uncharacteristic solemnity, Jack vows to ferry Salazar’s crew to the other side so that they can finally rest.

Will climbs aboard the Black Pearl, where the crew has elected Carina Barbossa captain. he asks if she might sail him to Singapore - his wife is the pirate king and lord of the south china sea, and that is where she holds court. Henry and Carina, true pirates, share a kiss as the sun rises and our heroes head off to find new adventure. the nightmare is finally over.

[littlefreya]

How do Henry's characters respond when you tell them you are pregnant?

Clark will know before you will. It wakes him up in the middle of the night, a small murmur, at first he thinks it’s the neighbour’s kid stomping on the floor at the building upfront but then he realizes it’s coming from the woman sleeping next to him. A second heartbeat, inside the woman he loves. He puts his head against your flat belly and hums gently to his unborn child.

Captain Syverson wanted to have a child with you ever since your wedding night. In fact, he just spent a whole month of his leave trying to knock you up.  The idea of breeding you gets him off. The moment you tell him you’re pregnant he becomes the happiest man alive. He thought that getting you fertilized is a turn on but now that you’re pregnant he wants to fuck 24/7. 

After you have recovered he invites all his friends to get drunk at the local bar, chanting “I’m gonna be a dad!!!”

August is a member of the Child-Free club, he never wanted kids in his life, he hates them. “Noisey, dirty little brats!” Not to mention, life on the run is not suitable for kids. 

But you two had an “accident”, he doesn’t do condoms and well, no birth control is 100% safe. At first, he is shocked, perhaps a little bit angry, but in 10 minutes he turns into the most dangerous man alive. He will kill someone for just as much looking at you. He puts his hands on your belly and looks into your eyes, telling you he will do anything to protect you and his baby.

Walter will be excited at first, he wanted to have a child with you forever, you’ve been trying but not fanatically, knowing he is busy and it might take a while. You surprise him by appearing in his office and handing him a gift, your positive pregnancy test.

He is blissful, kissing you all over the place and wrapping his large arms around you. But once reality kicks in he is actually terrified. He is a pessimist, he’s seen what humans do to one another, he is not sure bringing a child into this world is a good idea.  💔 Now he is terrified that something will happen to both you and the baby and every night is a new nightmare. 

Theseus oh wow, he is gonna be a dad? These are different times, he thinks about all the things he will have to teach him, how he will need to provide. But of course, he is thrilled, hoping it’s a boy to be a warrior like him. Someone to continue his Legacy

Stephen, oh shit, oh fuck. He is too young to be a dad. How did this even happen? You only had sex once. But he will mature in 5 minutes. He is gonna make the right choice, he will ask you to marry him and look for a better job in the city so he can provide for you both. 

Secretly he is happy, the timing is a bit bad but this means you will be with him forever.

Mike is being a dick about it, he is gonna swear it’s not his, he was wearing a condom, and no way in hell he is fathering a child. 

Yeah well, 18 years from now a handsome young man who looks just like him will knock on his door for sure.

Napoleon finds the concept of being a father very interesting and of course, he is sort of arrogant so he is happy he is about to create something of his own. He approaches it like a mission. He will kiss you gently on the lips and now start making a list of all the things you need to get before the baby comes and of course what you can eat and what not. Oh and prepare, that baby is gonna travel the world, he is not giving up on his secret agent life. 

Charles is ecstatic, the moment you tell him he is telling the king right away and having the most amazing feast to celebrate the moment of finally succeeding an heir. 

Melot is super possessive, he is not letting anyone close to you from the moment you tell him you are pregnant. He is kinda becoming suspicious that people are trying to hurt you and tries to keep it a secret as much as possible.

“Fuck” 

I know he is sterile!

[harveywritings92]

You fall asleep on them/ They fall asleep on you 2: Arno, Jacob, Shaun

Older!Jacob Frye: The two decided to get away from the city for awhile, away from all the noise, kids and interruptions, Jacob was sitting by the dock early evening watching the water, enjoying smiling to himself recalling how the two of you did more then just swim in this lake not even an hour ago, a few younger women noticed him sitting alone and were making their way towards him.

When you quietly sat down next to him wearing his jacket, you spied the girls watching on enviously before scampering back to where ever they came from. "You did this on purpose didn't you?" he hummed pulling you close enjoying the smell of bonfires in the night air and the sight of you in his clothes. "Maybe..." you cooed slowly drifting to sleep as Jacob hummed giving you a kissing your hair... "Sleep well love."     

How he fell asleep on you Younger! Jacob:  Evie had been working Jacob to exhaustion, you know this because he would go to visit you to vent about it, unfortunately during one of his visits it started to rain and the two of you were far from your house! the only shelter in the park was a small guard booth luckily it had no door! downside? it was only big enough for one person.

You were about to suggest finding a tree or Gazebo so one of you wouldn't have to stay outside. But Jacob already had an idea... He went inside sat down and opened his arms up to you. He wanted you to sit in his lap!? You were reluctant at first until a rumble of thunder cause you jump and stumble into his arms!

"There we go, was that so hard?" He hummed in you ear your face felt hot as the sound of the rain mixed in with Jacob's heartbeat as he let you get used to being so close to him, before gesturing to move over into a more comfortable position.

 you sat back to his chest while his arms rested comfortably around your waist, as the two of you small talked it wasn't before long you noticed Jacob's voice was getting huskier with fatigue, poor guy, his sister's been really stressing him out with the Templars and POE hunt.

 You felt his head snuggle into you shoulder as Jacob soft breath blew against you neck wasn't before long that you followed after him. Evie and Henry found the two of them hours later.

the female Frye was not happy and was ready to tear Jacob a new one! but Henry got her to lay off, reminding her that she and her twin are human and everyone needs a break or else they'll break... Needless to say Evie was a little more lenient with her brother from now on. 

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Arno: He was sober for once when you came to bring him food, You sat down next sliding a basket to him. "It's Onion soup and some croissants and apple sauce." Arno muttered a thank-you knowing you would get trouble visiting him, he about to open the basket then noticed you were soaked!

He hadn't bothered to look outside, but he did now; and saw it was raining heavily out there! "You walked all the way over here in that?!" he demanded bewildered you nodded while trying not to shiver not really understanding why he was upset for.

"Merde.." Arno hissed as he brought his hand to your neck and was alarmed at how cold you were! He grabbed some of the damaged furniture and started breaking and tossing pieces in the fireplace and lit it up. 

"Stay there" he disappeared into his old room finding a blanket and rope from his clothesline and returned to the room he left you in, and without hesitation he said "Take off your clothes." You gawked at Arno unsure if you heard him right? "I-I sorry w-what?" you stammered watch him set up the rope near the fireplace. "I said take off your clothes." he repeated again not looking at her. "Unless you want me to do it for you?" he said briefly glancing over his shoulder.

Your face felt hot but did as you were told, he saw your shirt tossed at his feet, he hung that up after few moments the rest of your clothes followed. then a blanket was tossed your way, Your wrapped that around yourself as Arno finally turned around and sat down before gesturing for you to sit down next to him, you were hesitant to do so unsure if Arno had ulterior motive.

"I'm not going to do anything Y/n, you should now that by now." You frowned that was true... even when he was drunk he never really noticed or tried anything on you, that made your situation a hell of a lot more awkward considering you've had feelings for Arno for quite a while, but all he ever thought about was Elise.

You sighed sitting down next him pulling your knees to you chest a after a while the two of you started talking nothing of interest just how life been going since monsieur De La Serre's death You were working as Nanny for a some noble family, apparently the oldest son is around Arno's age. "He interested in me you know?" You don't know why you were telling him this it won't change anything...

"I see... Is he good to you?" was all Arno said making your stomach knot up. "I wouldn't know, I haven't given him an answer." You hummed leaning against him feeling tired drifting of the sleep, unbeknownst to you. Arno's heart felt like it took an acid bath hearing that someone was interested in you, and what pissed him off ever more was... he couldn't understand why?        

How he fell asleep on you; After dead kings: It was years since you'd last seen Arno you knew Elise has passed you put flowers on her grave when you can... So, it turns out that noble you told him about? was in it for the thrill and not love like you had forced yourself to believe, once he got what he wanted he tossed you aside when his family dismissed you, You managed to get a job at a tailors as a delivery girl. the pay was decent but not really enough to keep a roof over your head.

So you spent your nights dressed as a man to keep safe. So imagine your surprise one night falling asleep in a freezing alley and waking up in a warm bed in a nice apartment with someone's arms around you! You tensed up and rolled over to see Arno? let's just say he had a lot explaining to do when he woke up!   

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Shaun: he was working on his computer late at night when you brought him coffee, he mumbled at curt thank-you and went back to checking archives and document for any locations or connections to a piece of Eden, when he felt a weight on his back, Shaun looked behind and rolled his eyes, of course you'd fall asleep like a movie cliche... 

He sighed loudly and went back to work, that was until Rebecca tried to wake you up. "Don't." he barked causing the hacker to cock a brow at him. "Is that protective aggression I hear Shaun?" the blond assassin's snorted. "What? pfft, No!" he chortled "It's just... the more Y/n sleeps, the less I have to hear her annoying voice." Shaun hissed awkwardly glancing behind him making sure they hadn't woken you. "uh-huh, Right...She likes [fave candy] by the way" Rebecca smirked returning to her station.         

How he fell asleep on you:  Caffeine and whiskey plan and simple, he been up almost four days after ...Desmond. Shaun isn’t really outward with his feelings, tends to put them aside so they don't get in the way of the mission, but mission be damned! Loosing Lucy and finding out she was a traitor was one thing, But Desmond? as much as Shaun hated to admit it your brother was a good friend... possibly the closest thing Shaun's had to best friend in while, even if it was a short run!

He'd actually admitted that to you while drunk he'd stumbled into your room at the safe house, with what you though was thermos full of coffee, until you got a whiff of his breath and smelled the whiskey mixed with the coffee. After he unloaded all that emotional baggage he threw up in your trash can and passed out on your lap! leaving you process everything he said... hopefully he remembers this in the morning, might just help the both of you get closure.        

[invisibleanonymousmonsters]

Heart of Steel - XVIII

Description: Sir James is known throughout the lands as the most fearsome and honorable warrior. Ballads have been written about him. Men fear him. He is the most trusted knight of King Henry. So why has he given up the glories of war and pledged his loyalty to Princess Y/N?

Pairing: Medieval AU -Knight!Bucky x Princess!Reader

Word Count: 2,900

Series Masterlist

Y/N couldn’t believe her brother was finally getting married. Not only that, Tony was marrying someone he was madly in love with.

The princess now stood in her room as servants bustled around her, fixing her hair and doing her makeup. Y/N was numb to it, sitting still like the human doll they saw her for. She’d been walking around like a zombie lately.

Wanda was beginning to worry.

Y/N didn’t know if Bucky had left or still lingered in the castle. She hadn’t seen him or heard any news of his departure. Furthermore, she hadn’t received a letter from Steve in almost two weeks.

The princess went from juggling two men to being rejected by both of them.

“Your Highness?” Wanda said with worry in her voice.

Y/N blinked and was brought back to the present. “Excuse me?”

Wanda’s eyes were filled with concern. “I asked if you were ready to go to the ceremony.”

“Oh,” Y/N said without eloquence. “Yes, I guess I am.”

Wanda gave the rest of the servants a warning look, telling them silently to give her and their princess a moment.

“Y/N… are you alright?” Wanda asked quietly once they were alone.

She patted Wanda’s hand and nodded. “I am fine. Just a little tired.”

“Yes, but you have been saying that quite a lot these days. Yet you sleep until the late afternoon almost every single day.”

Without warning, Y/N’s eyes watered. “I think my heart is broken.” It was all she was about to say before she started crying.

Taken aback from the reaction that was so unlike her, Wanda immediately wrapped her arms around Y/N and tried to comfort her.

After a few minutes, Y/N pulled herself together. She stepped away from Wanda and wiped her tears clean. She straightened her back.

And just like that, Y/N was back in her princess veneer.

It almost disturbed Wanda how easily Y/N could push her emotions aside to play the part everyone expected of her. She saw firsthand the darkness of royalty and acclaim that no one else realized existed.

“I must not be late. My brother is getting married.” Y/N said with a small smirk that looked so forced to Wanda.

Without waiting for her friend, Y/N walked to the door that led to the hallway outside her castle wing.

Y/N stopped abruptly when she saw the guards waiting for her.

Bucky was patiently waiting for her.

“You are still here…” Y/N gasped without meaning to.

By some miracle, they were alone in the hallway.

“I reckoned Her Highness required an escort to the prince’s wedding,” Bucky said a little too indifferently.

It made Y/N feel like he was doing her a favor more than anything.

So she simply nodded.

Bucky didn’t miss how weak it looked. 

Suddenly Wanda was entering the hallways as well.

She instantly took in the tone and tension between the two.

“Does the princess not look beautiful, Sir James?” Wanda asked politely. She was desperate to fill the awkward silence. 

Y/N whipped her head around and looked at her almost in fright from the question. Her dress was more modest than usual. After all, this was not her special day. It was not about her. This was Pepper and Tony’s moment.

Bucky looked heartsick at the question. 

But Y/N missed the expression because she was staring at the ground.

“Aye, but Her Highness always does.” He finally answered quietly.

Y/N blinked up at him in surprise.

Without allowing anyone else to say more, Y/N started walking to the chapel.

But her confident walk came to a halt when she spotted Steve speaking with Harold, Tony’s trusted advisor.

Steve did a double take when he felt someone watching him. He excused himself and slowly made his way over to her.

Y/N was stunned at the sight of him.

The king’s hair had grown out longer than she’d ever seen it and his beard was thicker from skipping usual grooming habits due to the war.

Steve glanced over Y/N’s shoulder, eyeing Bucky, who stood just a few feet behind his princess.

“I did - I did not know you would be attending,” Y/N stuttered in bewilderment.

“I promised Pepper and Tony that I would not miss it.” Steve answered evenly.

Y/N nodded, but was still in shock from his presence. “Why did you not write and tell me?”

Steve ignored her question. “Perhaps we should go inside. They are waiting for you.” Then his eyes flickered back to Bucky. “You are looking well, Sir James. I am relieved to see that you have fully healed.”

Y/N turned to look at her bodyguard.

Bucky just bowed his head slightly at the king.

The ceremony was beautiful, of course.

But Y/N could hardly find it in her to pay close attention. People in the room cried and seemed rather moved. But she was numb to it all. Her eyes would flicker to Steve’s every once in awhile. Her brow furrowed on what could have changed between the two of them.

What had she done to warrant such change in the king?

The reception was a livelier affair. Music played, people danced and laughed, wine and ale was flowing. Y/N played her part, forced smiles and laughs when it was required of her. But anyone who knew her would see the forgery behind it all.

When people were drunk from the spirits and happiness of the day, Y/N found a moment to escape and get some air.

Before Bucky could follow, Y/N quickly turned around.

“I require a moment alone. Do not follow me.” It was cold and calculated.

But Bucky knew he deserved it. He simply nodded and watched her sneak out of the ballroom. It made him anxious to see her go and be forbidden to follow her. 

Y/N found solace in the dark garden where a large fountain spewed water.

“This brings back memories,” a deep voice spoke from behind her.

She closed her eyes as she recognized Steve’s voice. Then she realized this was where she had first met him. So much had changed since then.

Y/N slowly turned to face him.

“I am sorry for not telling you I was returning,” Steve said gently.

“I am sure you had your reasons,” Y/N answered.

“I did not think you would care either way,” he admitted.

She frowned. “How could you ever think that, Steve?”

Steve’s jaw clenched as his thoughts became jumbled. Y/N could tell from his face alone that he was having a conversation inside his mind.

He opened and closed his mouth repeatedly. It was clear that he was trying to find the courage to speak his mind.

“Do you think you could ever grow to love me?” Steve finally asked.

Y/N swore her heart stopped from the question.

But she had no idea how to answer.

“Steve…I-I…” But she stopped, truly not able to find the words.

He waited patiently.

“After everything we have been through, why are you asking me this now?” Y/N finally pleaded.

“Because you love him.” Steve answered guardedly.

Y/N’s blood went cold and she could almost feel the color leaving her face. She tried to control her expression.

“What are you talking about?” She played dumb only to buy herself time.

“Sir James,” he clarified.

Y/N knew Steve deserved the truth. If he had figured it out, she would not hurt him more by trying to lie to him.

“How did you know?” She whispered.

Steve let out a breath of laugh. But it was clear he found no humor in the situation. “I am a fool for not noticing it sooner.”

Y/N looked pained, “You are no fool, Steve.”

“On the battlefield, when he was struck down. I swore time slowed and everything became absolutely silent. But through it all, the only thing I heard was your bloodcurdling scream, calling out to Bucky.” Steve shook his head. “You were not crying for me, but the sound of your terror still haunts me.”

Steve took in a deep breath. “Then I woke up alone in bed that night in Wakanda’s camp. I went searching for you.” He inhaled sharply as he relived the memory. “I found you in Bucky’s tent. You were asleep on his shoulder, holding his hand to your heart. He must have woken at some point or he found your body in his sleep, for his arm was wrapped around your back and his fingers were tangled in your hair.”

He cleared his throat, trying to keep his emotions at bay. “The sight made me realize everything that I had missed.”

“I never meant to act on my feelings. I tried to ignore them, to banish them from my heart. I promise you that.” Y/N told him desperately. “But he was almost taken from me and I could not hide from my heart any longer.”

“Then what does that make me?” Steve challenged. “Your master? Your warden? The man who has stolen you from what you really want? I am not better than Prince Brock of Hydra...”

“No!” Y/N protested. “You have never ever been such a thing!”

Steve said nothing. Silence settled once again. 

“What will you do to him?” She mumbled.

“Do you to him?” Steve gawked. “You think so low of me to believe I would expose him? That I would sentence him to be tortured and hanged?”

“He does not love me. Do not punish him for my own affections,” Y/N begged.

“You truly take me as a monster,” Steve whispered in disbelief. “He saved your life! He singlehandedly rescued you from Hydra’s fortress. I do not even know how many times he has saved you heretofore. And before all else, he was my friend! My only friend! But you think I would punish him?”

Y/N was shaking now. But she had nothing to say.

“It appears your are the fool, not me… For you to truly believe he does not return your feelings,” Steve breathed.

She squinted at him in confusion.

“He does not protect you with his life out of duty. He protects you because he is in love with you, Y/N.” Steve stated slowly.

But he saw that Y/N remained unconvinced.

“When I saw him ride into the clearing after rescuing you. Letting you out of his arms seemed like the most difficult thing he ever had to do. I was so worried for your safety, I did not see it until I looked back in time. He has risked his life to protect yours without hesitation. You do not see the way he looks at you.”

Y/N’s eyes filled with tears. “You do not wish to marry me.”

“I have said no such thing.” Steve snapped. “But I do not understand how you have forced yourself into a life of imprisonment. I do not aspire for you to grow to resent me. I fail to imagine a life where you will love me more than you love him… or at all, for that matter.”

“But I do love you!” Y/N finally cried out.

Steve froze at her confession.

“It may not be the same love I feel for him or with the same magnitude. But love you I do, Steve.”

The king paced and rubbed his face roughly.

“In reminiscence, it makes sense. You are too much for one. No single man could ever be worthy of you or your love.”

“Even with my betrayal, you still find some absurd way to compliment me.” Y/N mocked him.

Then Steve stopped his pacing and looked at her differently. “Have you lain with him?” It wasn’t even accusatory, just sad.

Y/N looked down in shame and shook her head, “No.”

Steve just nodded slowly.

“Forgive me. You did not deserve any of this. If you wish to withdraw our engagement, I would not think ill of you.” Y/N muttered in disgrace. “Please, excuse me. I think I will retire for the evening.” She sounded detached and numb. Then she started shifting her weight back and forth, trying to stop herself from full on running away.

Steve stepped forward. “Y/N, wait…”

But she was already rushing past him, but he followed her.

When Y/N turned the corner, she hesitated for a moment when she saw Bucky. He looked between her and Steve, recognizing that something was happening. He saw that Y/N’s eyes were filled with tears that she was barely managing to hold back. 

Bucky glared at Steve, believing that the king had something to do with it.

Y/N continued her escape and quickly walked by Bucky without acknowledging him further.

But Steve didn’t continue his following.

The king and knight stared one another down.

“What did you do?” Bucky accused.

Steve ground his teeth together, flexing his jaw, and glared at him.

“I should have seen it sooner. After all, you were the one all the girls were infatuated with when we were children. I should not have underestimated your charm…apparently it is able to bewitch even a royal princess.”

Bucky shifted his weight at Steve’s unmasking. But he managed to keep a stoic expression.

“What has she told you?” Bucky asked as he looked around, making sure they did not have a hidden audience lurking anywhere.

“She told me nothing. I am simply surprised I did not see it sooner.”

That was all Steve said before he returned to the reception, leaving Bucky alone in the shadows of the hallway.

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Y/N did not want to send off Steve. She doubted he wanted to see her. But her mother and father would be suspicious if she did not follow royal customs.

So she stood quietly next to the king and queen of Zamora, as Steve and his company readied their horses in the royal courtyard.

“Go on, dear. Give your fiancé a proper goodbye. We do not know when he will return next,” the Queen told her daughter. There was a dread hidden in her tone that basically said Steve could never come back if the war took his life.

Y/N felt sick at the suggestion. “Mother, we have an audience. It is improper. We are not yet married.”

For all Y/N knew, they never would be. It was obvious Steve had not said anything to her parents about breaking the engagement. But that didn’t mean he still couldn’t.

Maybe that was Steve’s twisted punishment for Y/N: keep her on the edge, make her wonder if and when he would expose her deepest darkest secret.

The Queen gave her daughter a disappointed look. “Your betrothed is returning to war, Y/N. The least you can do is remind him of what he is fighting for and who he will be returning home to.”

Y/N looked at her father for support against her mother. But the King just nodded toward Steve, who was at the bottom of the steps, tightening the reins of his horse.

Without meaning to, Y/N’s eyes flickered to Bucky, who was standing guard a couple yards away.

There was a part of her that was shocked Bucky was not returning to the war along with the King of Midgard and his company.

Perhaps now that their secrets have been exposed, it ruined the knight’s plan to continue fighting.

When Steve caught Y/N approaching from the corner of his vision, he turned to her with a sad expression.

“It is not right letting you leave like this,” Y/N muttered as she fidgeted with her fingers.

Steve nodded in understanding. “When I return, then we shall talk.”

Y/N winced at the suggestion. “And what if you do not return?”

It was not cold for her to voice such an idea. They both knew it was a possibility. She had almost seen him taken down in battle that dreadful day.

Steve stepped closer and his blue eyes peered into her soul. He lifted his hand to her face and hesitated for a moment. But he decided to be bold and brushed her hair away from her face before caressing her cheek.

“I will return,” the general king vowed.

“Even if it is not for me, please come home.” Y/N whispered, leaning into his touch. “I meant what I said last night.”

Steve’s brow furrowed. “And what was that?”

“I do love you, Steve.” Y/N confessed.

The King ignored their audience, ignored the turmoil between them, and ignored Y/N’s betrayal.

However, there was a jealous and envious man still within Steve. Though he was a modest and righteous king, deep down there was a still the poisonous precariousness of men. And the king now knew that another man held the heart of the woman he loved.

So his eyes flickered over Y/N’s shoulder and met the gaze of Bucky before he kissed the lips of the princess. He taunted the knight, showing his claim over the princess they both loved. 

The King of Midgard wasn’t going to lose her without a fight.

Then he pulled away, ignoring the surprise on Y/N’s face.

“I love you,” Steve whispered quickly before mounting his horse and galloping away.

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Part XIX

Thank you for being so patient and sending me so many supportive and caring messages after my tiny bitty break down lmao. You guys are the best. ❤️

[faithandfearcollide]

OUAT rewatch: 1x07 -The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Oh boy this turned into a long one. I apologize in advance but there was a lot to unpack with this one...and Regina was just especially gorgeous and distracting this episode so unnecessary amounts of screencaps were absolutely necessary.

What kind of bullseye takes up half the dart board and is a picture of a sweet gentle animal? And why did Sydney think it would be hard to hit again when he's already hit it twice?

Emma: What the hell? 

What she said. You're being a dick Graham.

This relationship went from 0 to 100 real quick. Emma handled this situation very well.

Regina: Graham? Graham: Is Henry asleep? Regina: Yes. Why?

I sort of love that he's drunk off his rocker and he still knows to make sure Henry's not around.

Gorgeous. I'm gonna admit that 90% of this picspam is going to be me just flailing over the gorgeousness of this episode and Lana in general so you've been warned.

Regina's acting here is... good? Which has me inclined to believe she's not totally acting. Because we all know how terrible she is at it.

Sooo is she actually a little sad seeing Snow in pain?

Regina: I’m here for you, dear. Truly and forever.

Oh Regina you have no idea.

I love how light and vibrant the castle is in this episode. And that it never looks like this again after.

Also, she talks so freely in front of the guards. Are they loyal to her at this point? Did they hate the king too?

Regina: She sought comfort with me. Sickening.

Oh stop it Regina. We all know you loved it.

Regina: I could’ve ended her miserable existence right there.

Hmm why didn't you then Regina? That seems to be a pattern with you.

Emma! There are more than two people in this house! ONE of which happens to be a nature fanatic. GAWD Emma!

I miss how nice they use to light Mary Margaret’s apartment.

Mary Margaret: Well, yeah. That’s because you’re- Emma: Because I’m what? Mary Margaret: ... Nevermind.

Ginny face tour. She's got such great comedic delivery.

Snow going back for the flowers will never not make me laugh.

I know Graham's like, going through some shit... but as sheriff I think he should be at least a little suspicious of the shady pawn broker in the woods "gardening" in a suit.

Why would you pick a fight with a guy with a wolf?

Graham killing two guys without batting an eyelash. How people love to forget that he was actually a cold blood killer that had little to no care or consideration for human life.

I wouldn't say Graham was a bad person but he wasn't a good one. And him constantly being whitewashed by fandom in favor of demonizing Regina for what she did to him really makes me want to point that out. Did Graham deserve to be raped, imprisoned and killed? NO! But was he an innocent saint who deserved special payment for his pain over everyone else's? ALSO NO. "Oh but Regina's a murderer who had no regrets and should pay for the lives she took!1!!)1!" SO WAS GRAHAM YOU DINGLEBATS. THAT WAS HIS ENTIRE PURPOSE TO THE STORY. And yes that was also precisely why he mattered. When you ignore the fandom dumbassery, Graham was a great character for how he serviced the story.

Lana it is unfair to be this beautiful.

Regina: I always felt there were two kinds of people – wolves and sheep. Those who kill, and those who get killed.

Regina: My prey is beloved by all the kingdom. I need someone who won’t be blinded by that. Someone without compassion, someone who’ll have no qualms carving a heart out and bringing it back for my collection. Graham: That’s me.

I liked the bit with the armor here. Clever detail.

Ginny face tour #2

Snow: You’re going to kill me. Graham: You have good instincts.

It's so interesting to me that Snow knows by this point that Regina hates her enough to send an assassin after her. And raises questions about her seeking comfort with her earlier.

Henry: You kissed my mom?

Oh kid...He did a lot more than that...

This must be so confirming to both of them. All these random little details both know about without ever having actually talked about any of it.

Huh...Who knew Emma having romantic moments over the graves of Regina's dead loved ones would be a pattern on this show?

Graham: I’d rather have nothing than settle for less. Nothing? Is better than what we have.

Ouch!

Why would you bring up the kiss? Emma? Just...why?

I know shits happening but I'm still incredibly amused that Regina one punches both Emma and Graham down...

and then gently stumbles over when Emma hits her.

BAMF! This woman was not a helpless damsel without magic. She could hold her own.

Ouch #2

I loved this quiet human moment with her right before her villainous act of EVIL. The writers did such a good job balancing that in Regina’s story and character.

I distinctly remember my heart pounding while watching this for the first time. The build up and slow reveal of her vault and heart boxes. Watching Regina take his heart in flashbacks while he’s in present day connecting with Emma.

All of these subtle little pieces so brilliantly intertwined together mixed with the very real feeling of doom and gloom was just... So fucking well done! This kind of cinematic build up is something I really missed in the later years.

Nothing about this was consensual or left up to interpretation. This was rape. The writers joking about it and sugar coating doesn't change that or make it any less awful. It was wrong, it was bad, and that's why Regina was a villain.

Him remembering just as he dies. Tragic and brilliant.

Bye Graham. Can't wait for fandom to never shut up about you for the next 7 years.

A few after episode thoughts because I feel like this episode needed them.

Regina is a villain. Everything that she did to Graham was construed as villainous and evil. There’s no way or reason to justify her actions. But these actions are also not reason enough for her to be considered irredeemable however many odd years later.

Graham was no saint. He was a hired assassin for a reason. Does that mean he deserved what happened to him? NO. But he also wasn’t any more or less special than any of Regina’s other victims. Many suffered at her hands and she shouldn't have had to pay special penance for his death specifically.

Graham also should not have been reason for Emma and Regina to never have a friendship.

Despite everything, I still loves this storyline. Not how awful it is but also yes, exactly how awful it is. And that it still existed despite that. It set the stakes in a way few other things could. It established Regina as a force to be reckoned with and was the much needed ice bucket to the face moment of the show. Graham serviced the story in exactly the way he should of. Just because it was horrible and tragic, doesn’t mean the story shouldn’t have existed.

The later treatement of the story however was indeed improperly and immaturely handled.

[bittersweetshq-blog]

߷ - I thought I saw SEBASTIAN STAN in New Orleans, but it was just GEORGE 'FORD' WEATHERFORD. HE/HIM is a 35 year old WEREWOLF. I heard that they were APPROACHABLE but also DRAMATIC. I believe they are marrying JENNA COLEMAN.

BIOGRAPHY !

George ‘Ford’ Weatherford was born on the 25th of December 1982 to a middle class family in Brentwood, Essex and with two parents who doted on him, Ford had absolutely everything going for him. 

Whilst at school, he did as well as a child who paid very little attention, got into countless fights and acted the class clown could. 

Ford never really admitted to the fact that he struggled with lessons, and teachers lacked sympathy for him because of the way he behaved. To his family however, the sun shone out of his behind and he could do no wrong, despite teachers warnings. 

He failed the majority of his GCSE’S, and it was only when he was sixteen that he was diagnosed with dyslexia, when he finally admitted how he felt to his mother. Too afraid of disappointing his father, who’s a well established lawyer.

After this, he worked as a bricklayer for a while. Although it wasn’t a job he loved, he met a few firm friends here which he appreciated a lot. His only friend had school had vanished off to University, at least that’s the last he knew. 

His big break came to him when he was thirty years of age. This was when he debuted on a reality television show, which not only quenched his need for stardom, but also gave him the money he needed to start his own fashion empire. 

At this point he believes the world is on his side and he does make the most of it; he visits countless countries on countless holidays, he sleeps around and he eats like King Henry the VIII would have done. 

The supernatural world was a mere construct to him then and one he knew very little, if anything about. It may have been a passing conversation in a bar he was eavesdropping on, or a late night debate he shared with friends; nothing truly came of it.

It wasn’t until a year later, late one night on one of his countless trips abroad whilst he was incredibly drunk and still for the life of him can’t remember where he ended up, he got bitten by a wolf. 

When he woke up, he didn’t really know where he was, or what had happened to him. It was only once it was explained to him by the individual who had done it to him, that he even got an inkling. When he was told, he laughed it off and believed it to be utterly ridiculous, even if the scars that had been left behind should’ve been enough to tell him it was the truth.

He refused to believe it, but also stayed put despite that. There was this nagging feeling in the back of his head that told him it was true, even if he wasn’t about to say so and he didn’t want to put those he loved at risk by returning home. 

It was only on the next full moon, that he really realised that what he had been told, was the truth. 

He didn’t want to stay with the wolf that had turned him, and his back so after a few months he went off on his own, once he had a better understanding on what he was and where he should go. 

The whole deal is just another part of the entire process that irritates him, that makes him angry. Although he’d never thought particularly hard about marriage, he’d always believed that at the very least he’d have a decision over who it would be. Now that had been stripped away from him too, as well as his humanity he was a very angry werewolf. 

He drinks a lot now, he drunk a lot before but now it’s even more excessive. He doesn’t despise any witches or vampires, because they’re yet to do much to him. Nothing he didn’t deserve, at least. He can say he despises wolves but he can’t help that feeling inside of himself that pulls him to them.

LITTLE TITBITS !

Only call him George if you hate him or if are mad at him. He tries to keep his actual name under the radar, but it’s all over the internet so it takes very little digging to learn the truth. Ford has been his name for as long as he can remember and there has been occasions where he’s simply forgotten to respond to the G word. However, a lot of the times it will be intentional. He’s just not the biggest fan. 

He’s bisexual but he’s never really admitted to it; not to friends, family, or...himself. He doesn’t think he has to. Labels aren’t something he’s incredibly fond of, but not only that -- he’s fearful of a backlash from it. He’s only ever dated women, but he’s been with a few men. It’s rare that does happen, though. 

When he was tiny he used to suck his thumb, actually he sucked his thumb till he was not-so-tiny too. He doesn’t do it so often now, but it he allows himself to become vulnerable with you and for some rhyme or reason you end up sleeping in the same room as him, there’s a chance he’ll sneak a thumb into his mouth eventually. 

He talks in his sleep too, an awful lot. He has a lot of nightmares, but they have started to settle down recently. He has to go to bed listening to music or watching something to actually get himself to sleep. 

He’s only well known in England, so being in New Orleans means that it’s unlikely anybody will actually know who he is, or what television show he’s been on. Nobody really knows, not even his family about where he ended up. He just told his parents that he needed to get away and that he was safe, and that seems to be what they told the executives of the show he was on, too. 

WANTED CONNECTIONS !

Possibly the individual that changed him ?  He’s spent months trying to avoid them and then here they are, I love some sad coincidences. 

I’m thinking that his best friend from school didn’t come out unscathed from University if you know what I mean, if they got to University at all. I think that could be interesting, too. 

I have no idea, just people he can depend on would be swell. 

Maybe someone he’s pissed off? I get the feeling he’s real talented at pissing people off. 

[swanqueeneverafter]

11. What Happened to Frederick, Pt.3

Storybrooke. Street. (David Nolan is washing the word ‘tramp’, written in large red spray paint, off of Mary Margaret Blanchard's car. Mary Margaret approaches.) Mary Margaret: “Who did this?” David: “I don't know. I'm sorry, I don't know how any of this happened.” Mary Margaret: “You don't know? Really?” David: “Mary Margaret, I can't control what other people do.” Mary Margaret: “No, but you can control what you do, and you lied. And now everyone is calling me a tramp.” David: “Who told her?” Mary Margaret: “That is exactly the wrong question. The real question is why didn't you do what we discussed? Why didn't you tell her?” David: “I thought we could spare her feelings.” Mary Margaret: “Right. You thought. Not we. You. And we discussed this.” David: “I didn't want anyone to get hurt.” Mary Margaret: “Now everyone is hurt. We had an understanding. We had an agreement. But you not only lied to her, you lied to me.” David: “Mary Margaret, please. Listen to me. If we want to if- if this- if what we have is love, we have to do what you said. We have to pick up the pieces, and we gotta move on.” Mary Margaret: “David, this isn't love. What we have is something else entirely. What we have is destructive, and it has to stop.” David: “Come on- (He tries to reach out to her but she turns away:) What are you saying?” Mary Margaret: “That we shouldn't be together.” Storybrooke. Mayor’s Office. (Regina is watering the plants in her office when Kathryn enters.) Kathryn: “It’s beautiful. I had no idea you were so good with plants.” Regina: “Well, better than with people, it would seem. What are you doing here? I thought after what happened yesterday, I’d be the last person you’d want to see.” Kathryn: “So did I. And then I thought about it, and I realized I owed you an apology.” Regina: “Kathryn, you don’t-” Kathryn: “I know you’d never do anything to hurt me. I was just so angry, and confused, and I snapped. I’m sorry. I’ve just been fighting so hard to hold on to David, I’ve never stopped to ask myself why.” Regina: “He’s your husband. You love each other. You always have.” Kathryn: “No, we haven’t.” Regina: “Kathryn, relationships take work. You can’t give up so easily.” Kathryn: “Have you ever been in love?” Regina: “Yes. Once.” Kathryn: “Then, you’re lucky. Because what I’m coming to understand is… Is that I haven’t. What they have is real. It’s true. My marriage to David, it… It just was like an illusion. I don’t know how it happened, but it was never real. I know that now. The way David looks at Mary Margaret – that’s what I want for me. And I’m going to go out there, and I’m going to find it.” Regina: “What are you talking about?” Kathryn: “I’m sticking to my plan. I’m moving to Boston. Alone. If I stay here, I’ll never be happy.” Regina: “And what about David?” Kathryn: “I wrote him a letter – him and Mary Margaret. I told them they should be together.” Regina: “Uh, I’m sorry. You did what?” Kathryn: “I can’t see him. Not now. It’s just too painful.” (Kathryn hugs Regina, causing Regina to awkwardly hug her back.) Kathryn: “I’m going to miss you, Regina. You’ve been a good friend to me.” Regina: “You’re really going?” Kathryn: “You know, it’s funny. I’ve always had this irrational fear of leaving Storybrooke, like something’s just holding me back. Is that crazy?” Regina: “No. Change is always frightening. But you know what, Kathryn? This just may be what you need. Maybe you’ll find what you’re looking for.”

Enchanted Forest. Past. (Prince Charming returns to Frederick’s shrine, where Abigail is waiting.) Prince Charming: “Water from Lake Nostos, as requested.” (He hands her the canteen of water.) Abigail: “Remarkable. But how did you manage to slay the beast?” Prince Charming: “Well, the fate of your true love was at stake, I knew it was a battle I couldn’t afford to lose.” (Abigail pours the water over Frederick’s statue. The golden statue transforms into a human, Frederick. The two of them hug, then kiss.) Frederick: “Abigail, what happened to me?” Abigail: “You were trapped, but now you’re free. This is James. He’s the one who freed you.” (Frederick shakes Prince Charming’s hand.) Frederick: “I am forever indebted to you.” Prince Charming: “Well, pay me back by walking down the aisle with someone you truly belong with. And, perhaps, giving me a horse and supplies for a journey as well?” Frederick: “Done.” Abigail: “Thank you. So much. Where will you go?” Prince Charming: “To find Snow White.” Abigail: “You are going after her.” Prince Charming: “True love isn’t easy, but it must be fought for. Because once you find it, it can never be replaced.” Abigail: “How will you know where to find her?” Prince Charming: “Well, a bird helped me track her down once. Hopefully, it can again.” Abigail: “Well, then, good luck. Oh, and, James – please, make haste. When King George discovers that the union of the kingdoms has been ruined, he will come after you. Some people will stop at nothing to destroy the happiness of others.” Storybrooke. Present. (Regina opens the front door to the Nolan’s house using her skull keys. Inside, she sees Kathryn’s letter to David on the counter. She takes it and leaves.)

Storybrooke. Castle Playground. (Henry rides up on his bike and Emma exits her squad car.) Emma: “Hey, kid. (He rides right by her:) Good to see you, too!” Henry: “The storm!” (Hops off his bike and approaches the severely damaged castle.) Emma: “It's okay, we can fix it! I'll talk to Marco.” Henry: (Digging in the ground at the base of the structure:) “I think it's still here!” Emma: (Looks behind her and waves to someone unseen:) “What are you looking for?” Henry: “My book!” Emma: “Why'd you bury it here?” Henry: “So my mom doesn't find it.” Emma: “Henry...” Henry: “I couldn’t hide it at home or with you ‘cause that’s where she’d look.” Emma: “So your mom doesn't know about the castle?” Henry: “No, this is our secret. (He keeps digging a little longer then groans in frustration:) My book! I-It's gone!” Regina: (Approaching from the squad car:) “Henry? Henry what is it?” Henry: (To Emma:) “You told her about this place?” Emma: (Guiltily:) “I didn’t realise it was a secret.” Regina: “Henry get away from there, it’s not safe. Wait in the car, please. (Henry gives Emma a disappointed look then heads toward the squad car:) You let him play here?” Emma: “The storm hit it pretty hard, but we can fix it.” Regina: “Well, can you fix a cracked cranium? 'Cause that's what you'll have on your hands if one of these boards collapses under his weight.” Emma: "Regina, relax. Of course I'm not gonna let Henry play around here now." Regina: "Well good. (Glances back towards Henry:) He didn't look too pleased to see me out here." Emma: "He's just upset 'cause his book's missing." Regina: (Turns to face her:) "His book?" Emma: "Yeah, he hid it out here. (With a raised eyebrow:) Away from the Evil Queen's clutches." Regina: (Flatly:) "I see." Emma: "Hey, I'm sure he doesn't mean anything by it. It's all part of the kid's imagination." Regina: "The same imagination which leads him to believe I'm the villain?" Emma: "Look, I'm not saying it's right but... just be nice to him today OK? That book meant a lot to him and he's pretty worried about it. (Emma's phone rings and she answers:) Hello? Yeah, yeah, I'll be right over. (Hangs up:) That was Mary Margaret." Regina: (Rolling her eyes:) "Of course it was." Emma: "She's pretty cut up about the whole David thing and needs someone to talk to." Regina: "That woman should've left well enough alone. Now she's ruined a marriage." Emma: (Putting her hands up placating:) "Hey, you've made your feelings about my friend pretty obvious. I don't want to get into it, I just need to go and be there for her, all right? Besides, (Putting her hand on the Mayor's shoulder and gently turning her around as they walk back to the car:) this'll be the perfect opportunity for you to be there for Henry. Help take his mind off his book for awhile." Regina: (Nods:) "I never liked that book, but it's not like I wanted him to lose it." Emma: (Pats her shoulder:) "I know, I know."

Storybrooke. Granny’s Diner. (Leroy is eating breakfast at the counter in Granny’s Diner. Mr. Clark and Walter enter.) Mr. Clark: “Uh, excuse me, Leroy. Uh, do you mind scooting over a seat so Walter and I could sit together?” Leroy: “If I wanted to sit there, I would’ve sat there. You want this seat? Try dragging your sorry asses out of bed a little earlier.” Mr. Clark: “You’re a real ray of sunshine as-” (Mr. Clark sneezes.) Leroy: “Congrats – just lost my appetite. Seat’s all yours.” (Leroy gets up to leave as Mary Margaret walks in.) Mary Margaret: “Excuse me. Can I have everyone’s attention, please? (The diner goes silent:) I’m sorry to interrupt your morning, but I just wanted to remind everyone that a very special occasion is upon us – Miner’s Day. As always, the nuns of Storybrooke are hoping that everyone will get involved, and will help sell their exquisite candles. All we need are a few energetic volunteers. So, who wants to join me? (Everyone ignores her and goes back to what they were doing. Leroy heads to the door, which Mary Margaret is still standing in front of:)  Leroy, you want to volunteer?” Leroy: “I want to leave, sister. You’re blocking the door.” Mary Margaret: “Of course. Uh, you know, if you wanted to help, it could really be a-” Leroy: “Oh, yeah. Right. Quite a team we’d make – town harlot, town drunk. The only person in this town that people like less than me, is you. If you’re coming to me, you’re screwed.” (Leroy leaves. A moment later, Mary Margaret also leaves. Emma catches up to her outside and walks along with her.) Emma: “Hey I got your message, what the hell is Miner’s Day, and why are you beating yourself up over it?” Mary Margaret: “It’s an annual holiday celebrating an old tradition. The nuns used to make candles and trade them with the miners for coal.” Emma: “Coal? In Maine? If they were mining for lobster, I’d understand.” Mary Margaret: “Look, I don’t know. Now, they use it as a fundraiser. It’s an amazing party – everyone loves it.” Emma: “It doesn’t seem like everyone loves it.” Mary Margaret: “It’s not Miner’s Day – it’s me. Last week, I had ten volunteers. Today, they all dropped out.” Emma: “You think this is about what happened with David?” Mary Margaret: “Oh, I know it is. A few of them told me as much. I’ve never… been a home wrecker before.” Emma: “It’s going to blow over. You made a mistake with David – it happens. But, you don’t have to do charity to try to win people’s hearts back.” Mary Margaret: “I have to do something, and this is the best I can do. Love ruined my life.” (Emma’s phone rings.) Emma: “Sheriff Swan. Yeah. I’ll be right down. (Emma hangs up:) Well, apparently, duty calls. Hang in there. And, if there’s anything I can do to help, I will.” Mary Margaret: “I know. Thank you.” Elsewhere... (The citizens of Storybrooke are setting up for Miner’s day. Leroy walks past a ladder, where what looks to be ‘fairy dust’ falls on his head. He looks up and sees Astrid.) Astrid: “Oh, I’m so sorry. It just slipped out of my hand. I��” Leroy: “No problem at all.” (She climbs down the ladder.) Astrid: “I really am so sorry. I… I was so busy trying to get the lights to work, that I didn’t realize I was about to knock it off the ladder.” Leroy: “Let me take a look at those lights for you.” (Leroy climbs up the ladder.) Leroy: “Here’s your problem – you’re overloading the transformer. You kept messing around with these lights, the whole thing could’ve blown up on you.” Astrid: “Oh. Then I guess that makes you my hero.” Leroy: “I’m nobody’s hero, sister.” Astrid: “Oh. You can just call me Astrid.” Leroy: “I call everybody sister. I’m Leroy.” (Leroy tinkers with the lights, which then turn on.) Astrid: “How did you do that? Are you an electrician?” Leroy: “I’m in the custodial services game.” (Leroy climbs down the ladder.) Astrid: “That’s… Wonderful.” Leroy: “No, it’s not. What I really wanted to do, was sail. I even bought a boat. It’s a real clunker. I was going to fix it up, sail around the world, say good-bye to this hellhole. I’m… I’m sorry, sister.” Astrid: “It’s okay. You know, someone once told me, you can do anything as long as you can dream it.” Leroy: “You really think so? Astrid: “Sure. Look how easily you fixed those lights. I bet you could do anything. I should, uh, get back to the Volunteer Center. Nice to meet you, Leroy.”

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• A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility – Tom Brokaw • A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear. It is impossible to be unhappy when listening to a mockingbird. So stuffed with songs it is, it can’t seem to make up it’s mind which to sing first, so it sings them all, a dozen different songs at once, in a dozen different voices. On and on it sings without a pause, so peppy, even frantic, as if its voice alone is keeping the world awake. – Jerry Spinelli • A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. – David Sheff • After all, a woman didn’t leave much behind in the world to show she’d been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father’s name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on. – Sandra Dallas • All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. – Helen Keller • • All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. – William Shakespeare • All the world’s a stage. – William Shakespeare • And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl • And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door. – Janet Fitch • And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be. – C. S. Lewis • And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. – Aldous Huxley • As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know? – Nicholas Sparks • As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.- Louise Mushikiwabo • As long as there’s pasta and Chinese food in the world, I’m okay. – Michael Chang • At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever – Virginia Woolf • At the end of the day, God’s love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross. – Andy Stanley

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Camila was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself. – Thornton Wilder • Change your thoughts and you change your world.- Norman Vincent Peale • Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can. – Jonathan Safran Foer • Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy. – Yann Martel • Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. – Dante Alighieri • Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead. – David Wojnarowicz • Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?” Darcy: “Not if I can help it!” Sir William: “What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.” Mr. Darcy: “Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance. – Jane Austen • Dona Maria saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires. – Thornton Wilder • Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. – Robert Jones Burdette • Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain • Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anais Nin • Each friend represents a world in us. – Anais Nin • Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven’s dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. – Christian Nestell Bovee • Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela • Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else’s version of themselves–to anyone else’s version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country! – John Irving • Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy • Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. – Clarice Lispector • Example moves the world more than doctrine. – Henry Miller • Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho’ dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray. – Thomas Haynes Bayly • For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life. – Hermann Hesse • Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order. – Mikhail Gorbachev • God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, ‘Just believe in Jesus and you’ll be Saved. There’s nothing more to it.’ It ignores the Whole Counsel of God, which speaks of Repenting from former Sins, of Taking up your Cross, of being conformed to the Image of Christ by the refining work of the Holy Spirit. It is totally silent about the Reality of Hell and an After-Death Judgment. – David Wilkerson • God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’ – Billy Graham • Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that’d be. It’s the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it. – Steven Erikson • Good evening, Lord Corwin,’ said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?’ A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.’ You enjoy this duty?’ He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here. – Roger Zelazny • Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half – Neil Peart • Half the world does not know how the other half lives. – Francois Rabelais • Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off. – Haruki Murakami • He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing. – J. M. Coetzee • He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. – Cormac McCarthy • He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t. – Craig Ferguson • Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world. – N. T. Wright • Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven’t answered me.” I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world,” I said after giving it some thought. “I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.” Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. “There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I’m pretty sure.” People are strange when you’re a stranger. – Haruki Murakami • How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world? – John Green • I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. – Walt Whitman • I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines. – Jack Kerouac • I believe if there’s any kind of God it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt. – Richard Linklater • I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds. – Albert Einstein • I brought you in this world, and I can take you out! – Bill Cosby • I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped. – Frederick Salomon Perls • I had come to discover that “safe” was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let’s-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust. – Holly Lisle • I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one. – John Lennon • I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can’t a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?” “But it is not your own Shire,” said Gildor. “Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out. – J. R. R. Tolkien • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein • I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world. – Aldous Huxley • I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti • I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it’s tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space. – Alan Shepard • I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It’s small and it’s fragile and it’s the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. • I spent centuries I your arms. This time our joining will be controlled by me, and you will revel in the pleasure I can bring you. Throw off the shackles of your distant goddess and come to me. Be my love, truly, in body as well as soul and I will give you the world! – P. C. Cast • I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I’d walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn’t see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I’d think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go. – Nick Burd • I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can’t even imagine. I don’t want that. I don’t want to be like that. I don’ want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever. – Elizabeth Scott • I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty […] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, “Did there used to be stars there? – Michael Jackson • I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman’s life.” Don’t wait for it,” I said. “Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me. – Anais Nin • I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: … At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a ‘new world order’ based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court. – George McGovern • I’d kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn’t act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong. – Lilith Saintcrow • If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been. – Charles Godfrey Leland • If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began. – Soren Kierkegaard • If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. – George Orwell • If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust? – Timothy Keller • If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity. – Richard Dawkins • If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world. – Henry Arthur Jones • If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world. – Sathya Sai Baba • If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can’t see how beautiful it really is. – Betty Smith • If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world? – Pat Murphy • If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? – Richard M. Nixon • I’m still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind – following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World… It’s a day that never dies. – Kevin Brooks • In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn’t a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. – Neal Shusterman • In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. – Michael Jackson • In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence – John Stuart Mill • In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all the cards on his mental table, examined them, and settled conclusively on the desired hand. – Richard Matheson • In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. – Chuck Palahniuk • In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter. – Azar Nafisi • In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos. – Christopher Moore • In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don’t. – Warren Buffett • In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo’s future seemed to fall perfectly into place. – Brian Selznick • In the fight between you and the world, back the world. – Franz Kafka • In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave. I shall sit at home, and rock; Rise, to heed a neighbor’s knock; Brew my tea, and snip my thread; Bleach the linen for my bed. They will call him brave. – Dorothy Parker • Isn’t it true that whatever isn’t determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There’s Nature and there’s Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There’s Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn’t have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment. – Daniel Dennett • It is … through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. – Madeleine L’Engle • It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. – John Green • It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame. – Oscar Wilde • It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being…until ye change the world of man into the world of God. – Abdu’l-Bahá • It takes all sorts of people to make a world. – Douglas William Jerrold • It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court’s prison facilities. – Richelle Mead • It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. – David Rockefeller • It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it. – Steven Wright • It’s hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we’re left with a fistful of ashes. – Madeleine L’Engle • It’s just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe…But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer. – Neil Gaiman • Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. – Rick Riordan • Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don’t want to be. You’ll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there’s a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don’t let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you’re really gonna get pissed, don’t waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters. – Willie Nelson • Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle. – Percy Bysshe Shelley • Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel. – Jean Genet • May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. – Werner Herzog • Maybe you’ll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through – Demi Lovato • Men,” he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. “You’re American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it. – Joseph Heller • Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world. – L.A. Reid • Money commands everything because that’s our interpretation of capitalism … what kind of world is that? It’s a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots. – Muhammad Yunus • Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. – Louis D. Brandeis • Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life. – Daniel Handler • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead • No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being — because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries. Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That’s why all ideologies fail. Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful. – Rajneesh • No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone. – William Shakespeare • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. – Charles Dickens • Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. – Chris Cleave • Nobody knew my rose of the world but me… I had too much glory. They don’t want glory like that in nobody’s heart – Tennessee Williams • Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l’oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people’s psychology with my own. – Jeanette Winterson • O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t! – William Shakespeare • Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don’t see. – Isaac Asimov • On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. – Edgar Mitchell • Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair. – Nicole Krauss • once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you’re good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye…….. combat some the ugliness in the world. – Goldie Hawn • Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good? – James Ellroy • Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world. – Muriel Barbery • Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art. – Mark Helprin • Power said to the world, “You are mine.” The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, “I am thine.” The world gave it the freedom of her house. – Rabindranath Tagore • Self respect, Colie. If you don’t have it, the world will walk all over you. – Sarah Dessen • She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go. – Gregory Maguire • So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you’re wondering whether you’ll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian. – Shane Claiborne • Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, “Of the world��; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again. – Virginia Woolf • Some days,’ I say, ‘I feel like I don’t belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. ‘I point to Grant. ‘People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I’m a visiting alien.’ And aliens don’t belong anywhere,’ Adam finishes for me, ‘except in their own little corners of the universe.’ Right,’ I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation – Ann M. Martin • Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don’t. – James Agee • Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. – John Knowles • Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.- Helen Caldicott • Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending. – Jeanette Winterson • That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. – Samuel Johnson • That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good. – Sarah Dessen • The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed. – Charles Dickens • The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world. – Adeline Yen Mah • The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you’ re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children. – Bruce Sterling • the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse – Aravind Adiga • The love of a single heart can make a world of difference. – Immaculee Ilibagiza • The most beautiful highway in the world – Dave Pelzer • The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. – Albert Einstein • The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.- Charles Kingsley • The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. – Marshall McLuhan • The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all. – Nelson Mandela • The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather – Frederick Buechner • The point is… to live one’s life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world. – Thomas Nagel • The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love. – Jeanette Winterson • The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word ‘necessary’ is wholly foreign to God. – Aiden Wilson Tozer • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust • The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.- Thomas Browne • The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world. – Anne Rice • The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. – David Rockefeller • The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart’s friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, ‘A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.’ ‘What do you think I’m doing?’ asked Francisco. – Ayn Rand • The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is – Alan Watts • The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. – P. C. Cast • The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. – Albert Camus • • The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. – Albert Einstein • The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.- Thomas Carlyle • The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. – W. C. Fields • The world is God’s world, after all. – Charles Kingsley • The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. – Byron Katie • The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. – Robert Louis Stevenson • The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher. – Kedar Joshi • The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? – David Mitchell • The world remains ever the same. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • The world tilted slightly sideways. ‘I think I need to sit down.’ The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he’d already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded. – Tanya Huff • There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they will never know.They will never see it from the inside. They couldn’t imagine a world where something like that was real. – Jim Butcher • There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. – Jonathan Safran Foer • There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.- Jonathan Swift • There’s something so great about this,” she whispers. About what?” I whisper back. About this,” she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world. – Sonya Sones • There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is—- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever. – Gregory David Roberts • There’s got to be more to life than just living, Foyle said to the robot. “Then find it for yourself, sir. Don’t ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.” “Why can’t we all move forward together?” “Because you’re all different. You’re not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow.” “Who leads?” “The men who must… driven men, compelled men.” “Freak men.” “You’re all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.” – Alfred Bester • These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It’s probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation. – Libba Bray • These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. – John Cheever • This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. – T. S. Eliot • This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world. – Anthony de Mello • Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can’t even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things. – Haruki Murakami • To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail… failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion – Marcel Proust • To be simple is the best thing in the world. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars. – Dante Alighieri • To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world. – Michael Jackson • To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. – Herbert Read • Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children? – Gerrard Winstanley • We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries. – David Rockefeller • We didn’t Make this World we’re just the Poor Fools who are living in it. – Michael Grant • We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it? – Kate DiCamillo • We went to the New York World’s Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. – Kurt Vonnegut • What a strange world we live in…Said Alice to the Queen of hearts – Lewis Carroll • What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business. – William James • What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World. – Albert Einstein • When it’s raining like this,” said Naoko, “it feels as if we’re the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together. – Haruki Murakami • When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood. – Konrad Adenauer • When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world. – Francesca Lia Block • With our thoughts we make the world. – Gautama Buddha • Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed. – Muriel Barbery • You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive? – Rumi • You can’t make flivers without steel – and you can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they pratically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. – Aldous Huxley • You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There’s the telephone, and the fax – and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You’ve got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely. – Jodi Picoult • You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. – Hermann Hesse • You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. – George Bernard Shaw • Your heart, Mary Karr, he’d say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don’t. Or won’t. – Mary Karr • You’re a poem?’ I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. ‘If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.’ ‘Isn’t it hard to be three things at the same time?’ ‘What’s your name?’ ‘Enn.’ ‘So you are Enn,’ she said. ‘And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time? – Neil Gaiman • You’ve got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you’ve got to love the world no matter how bad it gets. – Joan Bauer

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• A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility – Tom Brokaw • A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear. It is impossible to be unhappy when listening to a mockingbird. So stuffed with songs it is, it can’t seem to make up it’s mind which to sing first, so it sings them all, a dozen different songs at once, in a dozen different voices. On and on it sings without a pause, so peppy, even frantic, as if its voice alone is keeping the world awake. – Jerry Spinelli • A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. – David Sheff • After all, a woman didn’t leave much behind in the world to show she’d been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father’s name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on. – Sandra Dallas • All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. – Helen Keller • • All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. – William Shakespeare • All the world’s a stage. – William Shakespeare • And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl • And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door. – Janet Fitch • And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be. – C. S. Lewis • And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. – Aldous Huxley • As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know? – Nicholas Sparks • As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.- Louise Mushikiwabo • As long as there’s pasta and Chinese food in the world, I’m okay. – Michael Chang • At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever – Virginia Woolf • At the end of the day, God’s love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross. – Andy Stanley

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Camila was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself. – Thornton Wilder • Change your thoughts and you change your world.- Norman Vincent Peale • Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can. – Jonathan Safran Foer • Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy. – Yann Martel • Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. – Dante Alighieri • Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead. – David Wojnarowicz • Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?” Darcy: “Not if I can help it!” Sir William: “What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.” Mr. Darcy: “Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance. – Jane Austen • Dona Maria saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires. – Thornton Wilder • Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. – Robert Jones Burdette • Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain • Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anais Nin • Each friend represents a world in us. – Anais Nin • Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven’s dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. – Christian Nestell Bovee • Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela • Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else’s version of themselves–to anyone else’s version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country! – John Irving • Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy • Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. – Clarice Lispector • Example moves the world more than doctrine. – Henry Miller • Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho’ dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray. – Thomas Haynes Bayly • For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life. – Hermann Hesse • Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order. – Mikhail Gorbachev • God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, ‘Just believe in Jesus and you’ll be Saved. There’s nothing more to it.’ It ignores the Whole Counsel of God, which speaks of Repenting from former Sins, of Taking up your Cross, of being conformed to the Image of Christ by the refining work of the Holy Spirit. It is totally silent about the Reality of Hell and an After-Death Judgment. – David Wilkerson • God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’ – Billy Graham • Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that’d be. It’s the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it. – Steven Erikson • Good evening, Lord Corwin,’ said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?’ A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.’ You enjoy this duty?’ He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here. – Roger Zelazny • Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half – Neil Peart • Half the world does not know how the other half lives. – Francois Rabelais • Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off. – Haruki Murakami • He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing. – J. M. Coetzee • He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. – Cormac McCarthy • He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t. – Craig Ferguson • Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world. – N. T. Wright • Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven’t answered me.” I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world,” I said after giving it some thought. “I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.” Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. “There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I’m pretty sure.” People are strange when you’re a stranger. – Haruki Murakami • How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world? – John Green • I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. – Walt Whitman • I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines. – Jack Kerouac • I believe if there’s any kind of God it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt. – Richard Linklater • I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds. – Albert Einstein • I brought you in this world, and I can take you out! – Bill Cosby • I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped. – Frederick Salomon Perls • I had come to discover that “safe” was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let’s-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust. – Holly Lisle • I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one. – John Lennon • I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can’t a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?” “But it is not your own Shire,” said Gildor. “Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out. – J. R. R. Tolkien • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein • I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world. – Aldous Huxley • I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti • I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it’s tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space. – Alan Shepard • I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It’s small and it’s fragile and it’s the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. • I spent centuries I your arms. This time our joining will be controlled by me, and you will revel in the pleasure I can bring you. Throw off the shackles of your distant goddess and come to me. Be my love, truly, in body as well as soul and I will give you the world! – P. C. Cast • I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I’d walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn’t see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I’d think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go. – Nick Burd • I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can’t even imagine. I don’t want that. I don’t want to be like that. I don’ want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever. – Elizabeth Scott • I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty […] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, “Did there used to be stars there? – Michael Jackson • I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman’s life.” Don’t wait for it,” I said. “Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me. – Anais Nin • I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: … At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a ‘new world order’ based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court. – George McGovern • I’d kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn’t act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong. – Lilith Saintcrow • If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been. – Charles Godfrey Leland • If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began. – Soren Kierkegaard • If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. – George Orwell • If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust? – Timothy Keller • If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity. – Richard Dawkins • If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world. – Henry Arthur Jones • If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world. – Sathya Sai Baba • If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can’t see how beautiful it really is. – Betty Smith • If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world? – Pat Murphy • If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? – Richard M. Nixon • I’m still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind – following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World… It’s a day that never dies. – Kevin Brooks • In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn’t a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. – Neal Shusterman • In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. – Michael Jackson • In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence – John Stuart Mill • In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all the cards on his mental table, examined them, and settled conclusively on the desired hand. – Richard Matheson • In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. – Chuck Palahniuk • In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter. – Azar Nafisi • In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos. – Christopher Moore • In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don’t. – Warren Buffett • In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo’s future seemed to fall perfectly into place. – Brian Selznick • In the fight between you and the world, back the world. – Franz Kafka • In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave. I shall sit at home, and rock; Rise, to heed a neighbor’s knock; Brew my tea, and snip my thread; Bleach the linen for my bed. They will call him brave. – Dorothy Parker • Isn’t it true that whatever isn’t determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There’s Nature and there’s Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There’s Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn’t have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment. – Daniel Dennett • It is … through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. – Madeleine L’Engle • It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. – John Green • It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame. – Oscar Wilde • It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being…until ye change the world of man into the world of God. – Abdu’l-Bahá • It takes all sorts of people to make a world. – Douglas William Jerrold • It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court’s prison facilities. – Richelle Mead • It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. – David Rockefeller • It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it. – Steven Wright • It’s hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we’re left with a fistful of ashes. – Madeleine L’Engle • It’s just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe…But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer. – Neil Gaiman • Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. – Rick Riordan • Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don’t want to be. You’ll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there’s a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don’t let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you’re really gonna get pissed, don’t waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters. – Willie Nelson • Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle. – Percy Bysshe Shelley • Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel. – Jean Genet • May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. – Werner Herzog • Maybe you’ll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through – Demi Lovato • Men,” he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. “You’re American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it. – Joseph Heller • Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world. – L.A. Reid • Money commands everything because that’s our interpretation of capitalism … what kind of world is that? It’s a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots. – Muhammad Yunus • Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. – Louis D. Brandeis • Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life. – Daniel Handler • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead • No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being — because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries. Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That’s why all ideologies fail. Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful. – Rajneesh • No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone. – William Shakespeare • No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. – Charles Dickens • Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. – Chris Cleave • Nobody knew my rose of the world but me… I had too much glory. They don’t want glory like that in nobody’s heart – Tennessee Williams • Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l’oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people’s psychology with my own. – Jeanette Winterson • O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t! – William Shakespeare • Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don’t see. – Isaac Asimov • On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. – Edgar Mitchell • Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair. – Nicole Krauss • once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you’re good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye…….. combat some the ugliness in the world. – Goldie Hawn • Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good? – James Ellroy • Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world. – Muriel Barbery • Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art. – Mark Helprin • Power said to the world, “You are mine.” The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, “I am thine.” The world gave it the freedom of her house. – Rabindranath Tagore • Self respect, Colie. If you don’t have it, the world will walk all over you. – Sarah Dessen • She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go. – Gregory Maguire • So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you’re wondering whether you’ll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian. – Shane Claiborne • Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, “Of the world”; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again. – Virginia Woolf • Some days,’ I say, ‘I feel like I don’t belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. ‘I point to Grant. ‘People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I’m a visiting alien.’ And aliens don’t belong anywhere,’ Adam finishes for me, ‘except in their own little corners of the universe.’ Right,’ I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation – Ann M. Martin • Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don’t. – James Agee • Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. – John Knowles • Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.- Helen Caldicott • Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending. – Jeanette Winterson • That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. – Samuel Johnson • That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good. – Sarah Dessen • The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed. – Charles Dickens • The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world. – Adeline Yen Mah • The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you’ re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children. – Bruce Sterling • the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse – Aravind Adiga • The love of a single heart can make a world of difference. – Immaculee Ilibagiza • The most beautiful highway in the world – Dave Pelzer • The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. – Albert Einstein • The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.- Charles Kingsley • The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. – Marshall McLuhan • The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all. – Nelson Mandela • The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather – Frederick Buechner • The point is… to live one’s life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world. – Thomas Nagel • The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love. – Jeanette Winterson • The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word ‘necessary’ is wholly foreign to God. – Aiden Wilson Tozer • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust • The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.- Thomas Browne • The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world. – Anne Rice • The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. – David Rockefeller • The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart’s friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, ‘A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.’ ‘What do you think I’m doing?’ asked Francisco. – Ayn Rand • The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is – Alan Watts • The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. – P. C. Cast • The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. – Albert Camus • • The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. – Albert Einstein • The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.- Thomas Carlyle • The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. – W. C. Fields • The world is God’s world, after all. – Charles Kingsley • The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story. – Byron Katie • The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. – Robert Louis Stevenson • The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher. – Kedar Joshi • The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? – David Mitchell • The world remains ever the same. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • The world tilted slightly sideways. ‘I think I need to sit down.’ The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he’d already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded. – Tanya Huff • There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they will never know.They will never see it from the inside. They couldn’t imagine a world where something like that was real. – Jim Butcher • There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. – Jonathan Safran Foer • There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.- Jonathan Swift • There’s something so great about this,” she whispers. About what?” I whisper back. About this,” she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world. – Sonya Sones • There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is—- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever. – Gregory David Roberts • There’s got to be more to life than just living, Foyle said to the robot. “Then find it for yourself, sir. Don’t ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.” “Why can’t we all move forward together?” “Because you’re all different. You’re not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow.” “Who leads?” “The men who must… driven men, compelled men.” “Freak men.” “You’re all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.” – Alfred Bester • These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It’s probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation. – Libba Bray • These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat. – John Cheever • This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. – T. S. Eliot • This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world. – Anthony de Mello • Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can’t even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things. – Haruki Murakami • To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail… failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion – Marcel Proust • To be simple is the best thing in the world. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars. – Dante Alighieri • To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world. – Michael Jackson • To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. – Herbert Read • Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children? – Gerrard Winstanley • We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries. – David Rockefeller • We didn’t Make this World we’re just the Poor Fools who are living in it. – Michael Grant • We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it? – Kate DiCamillo • We went to the New York World’s Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. – Kurt Vonnegut • What a strange world we live in…Said Alice to the Queen of hearts – Lewis Carroll • What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business. – William James • What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World. – Albert Einstein • When it’s raining like this,” said Naoko, “it feels as if we’re the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together. – Haruki Murakami • When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood. – Konrad Adenauer • When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world. – Francesca Lia Block • With our thoughts we make the world. – Gautama Buddha • Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed. – Muriel Barbery • You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive? – Rumi • You can’t make flivers without steel – and you can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they pratically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. – Aldous Huxley • You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There’s the telephone, and the fax – and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You’ve got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely. – Jodi Picoult • You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. – Hermann Hesse • You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. – George Bernard Shaw • Your heart, Mary Karr, he’d say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don’t. Or won’t. – Mary Karr • You’re a poem?’ I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. ‘If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.’ ‘Isn’t it hard to be three things at the same time?’ ‘What’s your name?’ ‘Enn.’ ‘So you are Enn,’ she said. ‘And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time? – Neil Gaiman • You’ve got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you’ve got to love the world no matter how bad it gets. – Joan Bauer

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Interview With Jamie Brooks, Director Of 'Bomb City'

If you were around during the 90’s, you may remember the murder of 19 year old punk rocker, Brian Deneke. The murder happened in Armarillo, TX and was a deliberate hit-and-run by Dustin Camp, a high school jock who killed Deneke out of intolerance. Camp was sentenced to a meager 10 years probation for murder, but after violating probation, he ended up serving five years in prison. The injustices perpetrated and following this hate crime are chronicled in Bomb City, a film directed by Jamie Brooks of 3rd Identity Films. So far, the film received Audience Award in the New Director Competition for Best Narrative Feature and Special Grand Jury Prize for Best Actor at Nashville Film Festival. It has also received Audience Award Winner for Best Narrative Feature at Dallas International Film Festival. In the interview below, Brooks provides some further insight into the film.

SR: How did you get started as a director? Have you directed any other films?

Jamie: I got my start filming BMX and skateboard videos with friends in Amarillo, Albuquerque, and Denver. I’ve always loved working on experimental VFX stuff like fire, explosions, time freezes, etc. to make it look like we had an actual budget. Things eventually evolved from action sports to music videos to mini-documentaries. I eventually started writing and filming with Sheldon Chick.  He and his brother, Cody Chick, are also music composers. We all basically started working together, and began experimenting in the narrative world.  Now, we kind of have this weird process that we bounce ideas off one another (writing, music, visuals, etc.), but in the end it’s definitely the most organic and enjoyable way to let things unfold.  For Bomb City we teamed up with producer Major Dodge. Bomb City is our first feature-length film together, but we’ve done a few narrative shorts over the years to prepare. 

SR: Can you provide a brief description of Bomb City for those who may not be familiar with the film?

Jamie: Bomb City is a biopic about the 1997 story of punk rocker Brian Deneke. It chronicles the lives and tension between Brian’s friends ‘the punks’ and ‘the whitehats’, a rival group of affluent preppy jocks. The punks and preps were involved in a huge street fight that led to a controversial hate crime that raised questions of intolerance and morality among conservative Amarillo, TX. Back in 1999, the story was covered by 20/20, Dateline, and MTV.

SR: In terms of tolerance, do you feel that punk as a subculture has become more accepted today? Do you think incidents such as that in Bomb City still happen as much today as they did decades ago?

Jamie: I feel tolerance of the punk culture is actually slightly more accepted today. The internet has provided a gateway for people to consume so much information. Kids nowadays have pretty much seen it all by the time they’re in middle school, so seeing someone walking down the street with a radical bright pink mohawk, studded everything, dog collar, etc. isn’t as much of a surprise as it would have been in the 80’s or 90’s. But, the internet has also introduced cyber-bullying, and unfortunately things are becoming more PC than ever. Society now has an individual voice thanks to social media, but too many opinions can create separation instead of unity. Events like the one depicted in Bomb City, sadly, still happen today. Just a few years ago a teenager in Fort Worth was driving drunk, and killed an entire family of four (and paralyzed one). The jury let the kid walk because he was a spoiled rich kid that didn’t know right from wrong. Going to prison would be “too harsh” of a punishment for him. He even violated probation and fled to Mexico. His punishment? Nothing. The story goes on and on, but kids like this never learn because they know they can get away anything. The system is fucked.

Henry Knotts as King

SR: Do you anticipate Bomb City to be an eye opener for viewers who may be ignorant of other subcultures?

Jamie: I definitely hope so. When Sheldon Chick and myself sat down to navigate the screenplay we knew that we needed to tell the story as raw and honest as possible. We wanted to parallel both groups of teens in a unique way. Friday night lights is associated with Texas football, but across town there’s a punk venue holding a kick ass show. This is the punks’ version of Friday night lights. We also wanted the characters to feel authentic. Even if it meant heavy profanity, drinking, and violence. There is good, bad, and ugly with both the punks and the preps. They’re human. These kids were teenagers living in the “immortality phase” of their lives. We didn’t want to educate the audience about the definition of being punk, but allow them to hang out with a group of friends that create their own fun and genuinely care for one another no matter what kind of oppression society throws their way.

SR: I noticed that the film is scheduled to screen at Dallas International Film Festival and Nashville Film Festival. Are there any other screenings we should stay tuned for?

Jamie: Bomb City actually just played at both the Dallas and Nashville festivals. We won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at both festivals, and Dave Davis (who portrays Brian Deneke) also won the Special Jury Prize for Best Actor in Nashville. We have a few more festivals on the list, but can’t confirm anything before the festivals themselves make the announcements. We’re definitely planning on taking the film overseas for a bit, and finishing things off with a huge event in Amarillo, TX for the entire Texas Panhandle.

SR: Can you give a brief “behind the scenes” of the film?

Jamie: We shot the film mostly in Amarillo and around the Dallas area. The cool thing about the production was the fact that we had so many super talented people come on board because they believed in the story and what it stood for. Everybody looked at it as a passion project as opposed to just another job. When you’re working on passion projects you are more willing to take risks, and in the end those risks are what it takes to pull off something as special as Bomb City was for all of us.

See the film poster and visit the Bomb City website for more info.

  Interview With Jamie Brooks, Director Of ‘Bomb City’ was originally published on Sound Renaissance