"The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth."
- Dean Koontz
“Words are the only bullets in Truth’s bandolier. And Poets are the Snipers.”
– Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"The greatest strength is gentleness."
- Iroquois Proverb
“And above it all the butterfly affect. The sure knowledge that the entire life of a human being is like a single day in that human's life: unplannable, unpredictable, governed by the hidden tides of chaotic factors and buffered by butterfly wings...”
- Dan Simmons, The Hollow Man
"Every expression of closeness has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth."
- Dean Koontz
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
- Dan Simmons, Prayers to Broken Stones
"After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC)
"Well hey, these things just snap right off!"
- Gary Larson
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"There's nothing to writing, really...all you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed."
- Ernest Hemingway
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children."
- Sam Levenson
"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
- Hosea Ballou
"Sweater: n;
A garment worn by a child when its mother is chilly."
- Ambrose Pierce
"Stupidity has a price, and it always get's paid."
- Dan Simmons, (The Fall of Hyperion)
Huh? 
Thinking of you, AJ. Hoping all is okay ❤
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Yes, love…I’m as okay as can be, given the circumstances. Thank you for checking.
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Sending some love your way, sweetheart. I wish I had superpowers.
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Oh honey, you so do. You just don’t always realize it. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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Delicious poetry. I like the horns curling inwards. Great stuff. Would make good open mic I bet. (says the guy who’s too scared to read his poems out to himself in an empty room – ha ha ha)
Off to google ornery. I think it’s a birdhouse. Bet you a billion dollars.
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Damn.
I seem to be temporarily light.
I’m afraid I’ll have to pay you in dance.
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You just lost a billion dollars, Mr. Microphone. But here’s the deal: I’ll let you keep it in exchange for the belly laugh you just gave me, okay?
Because I Soooooo know how you came to the birdhouse thing, and it makes me laugh heartily.
(As I picture some crosseyed owl in the forest somewhere)😂😂😂😂😂😋😋😋😋
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Phew – cos I don’t think I could withstand 100 dollars worth of dancing let alone a billion. And who needs to see that anyway.
You can’t beat a good owl. Sort of flying buddhist cats with spinny heads and beaks. I love the little fuckers.
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Gotta love the little creeps…
You’retoo funny, geez 🙄🙄🙄
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