... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.