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If you're looking for an accomplice, a confederate

Speak to me and don't speak softly

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Created on 2005-10-27 15:36:34 (#8649924), last updated 2009-11-21

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Name:	dragontatt
Location:	Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States

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Caveat: Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

I'm a stay-at-home mother of 2 girls, ages 8 and 5. I enjoy crocheting, surfing the net, and reading and writing fan fiction (specifically Without a Trace's Danny and Martin slash fic and Shelter fic, so don't think I'm too boring).

I hate housework, and use my computer time as an excuse to not do any!

I've become addicted to photoshop and make lots of lovely (I hope!) icons.

Icon Resource Post can be found here... Resources for specific icons can be found at my photobucket as the tag on each icon.

I've even won some icon contests....here they are, including the banners I've won!

Now I'm learning the ukulele!! I'm so excited...

Here are the men that make me drool...

Released on: Saturday, Dec 31st 1994.
Images copyright Bill Watterson and Universal Press Syndicate.

The 1st Calvin and Hobbes comic strip
Image copyright Bill Watterson and Universal Press Syndicate

From the amazing

_elvie for my birthday!!

From the lovely

rilestar

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
-Oscar Wilde

This current flows between us
That will not be denied
You draw me in towards you
Like the moon pulls at the tide
May no shadow ever fall
That will make me have to call
You someone I used to love
-Someone I Used to Love by Jimmy Buffett

There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.
-Patrick Bateman in American Psycho

I don't mind the sun sometimes
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugary
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through other people's eyes
-Pepper by the Butthole Surfers

Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And poof. Just like that, he's gone.
-Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects

We help to make each other all that we can be
Though we can find our strength and inspiration independently
The way we work together is what sets our love apart
So closely that you can't tell where I end and where you start
-Something That We Do by Clint Black

Are you watching closely?
-Alfred Borden in The Prestige

My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name. That's the "who." The "where" could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The "what" is easy. Recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the "when." As for the "why," beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple. Because I can. Which leaves us only with the "how." And therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub.
-Dalton Russell in Inside Man

Life is an aimless drive that ya take alone
Might as well enjoy the ride, take the long way home
-Take the Long Way Home by The Bloodhound Gang

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.
-I Want You to Want Me by Cheap Trick

We die- it's as easy as that. So let's make the best of what we got while we got it. Have a blast, and help others have a blast. Behave with honesty and directness. You, me, us, Maggie the dog- none of us get a second chance to not pee on the sofa. So yeah- that's our message: don't pee on the sofa.
-Penn Jillette from Bullshit, (ouija boards/near death experiences)

If you listen to the poets, they'll tell you that a big, bad event in someone's life changes them. If you lose the woman you love or your legs, you suddenly find a kind of beauty inside yourself. That's what they say, the poets. Truth is, you don't. After a big, bad event, you only become more of the person you already were. It's after a big, bad event that you find out the real person you always were inside.
-Augustus Hill from Oz, episode Plan B

Hell isn’t being alone. It’s being in a room filled with people, and not one of them want to rip your clothes off.
-Laura from How To Go Out On A Date In Queens

The Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right and you go left.
-Mr Goodkat in Lucky Number Slevin

Just because it's a mild night doesn't mean that dark forces aren't abroad. They're abroad all the time. They're everywhere. They always are. That's the whole point.
-Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Before the beginning, after the great war between Heaven and Hell, God created the Earth and gave dominion over it to the crafty ape he called man. And to each generation was born a creature of light and a creature of darkness. And great armies clashed by night in the ancient war between good and evil. There was magic then, nobility, and unimaginable cruelty. And so it was until the day that a false sun exploded over Trinity, and man forever traded away wonder for reason.
-Samson from Carnivàle

My deception rules my life, informs every decision I make, regulates my every movement. Even now, as I embark on the writing of this memoir, it controls what I may write and what I may not. I have compared my method with the display of seemingly bared hands, but in reality everything in this account represents the shuffling walk of a fit man.
-The Prestige by Christopher Priest

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a police officer, apart from the summer of 1979 when I wanted to be Kermit the frog.
-Nicholas Angel in Hot Fuzz

As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be okay. Sometimes when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies, and fortunately when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin. Or a kind and loving gesture. Or a subtle encouragement. Or a loving embrace. Or an offer of comfort. Not to mention hospital gurneys, and noseplugs and uneaten danish and soft spoken secrets. And Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things- the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange. But I also know that it just so happens to be true. And so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick.
-Karen Eiffel aka The Narrator from Stranger Than Fiction

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
-Douglas Adams

Gary dreams about kissing someone so hard his mouth hurts. He dreams about kissing someone so soft his heart hurts, so long his neck hurts, so deep his throat hurts. Gary dreams about kissing someone so... completely that nothing hurts.
-Gary from The Velocity of Gary

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom.
Only the person who risks is truly free.
-Janet Rand

You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and behind you will be a wall you never saw before. It will be clear to you suddenly that you were about to escape, and that you are guilty: you misread the complex instructions, you are not a member, you lost your card or never had one. And you will know that they have been there all along, their eyes on your letters and books, their hands in your pockets, their ears wired to your bed. Though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed. They will want you to kneel and weep and say you should have been like them. And once you say you are ashamed, reading the page they hold out to you, then such light as you have made in your history will leave you. They will no longer need to pursue you. You will pursue them, begging forgiveness. They will not forgive you. There is no power against them. It is only candor that is aloof from them, only an inward clarity, unashamed, that they cannot reach. Be ready. When their light has picked you out and their questions are asked, say to them: "I am not ashamed." A sure horizon will come around you. The heron will begin his evening flight from the hilltop.
-Do Not Be Ashamed by Wendell Berry

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
-Tyler Durden from Fight Club

Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea.
-Luisa from Y tu mamá también

The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills - it kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave, impartially. If you are none of these, you can be sure it will kill you, too, but there will be no special hurry.
-Jack from Croupier

What a tangled web we weave
Go 'round with circumstance
Someone show me how to tell the dancer
From the dance
-Saturday Night by The Eagles

You're so pretty and colorful on the outside, but inside you're nothing but fluff. You're like a walking, talking marshmallow peep.
-Elder Aaron Davis in Latter Days