The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.

What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?

If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.