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i'm keeping this account up as an archive of sorts, but i'll no longer be posting new content here. find me on tumblr or ao3 for new works ! thank you everyone for following Taisi for so many years ! 3

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carrol

"The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully,

"is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."

-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K.Rowling

Light sparkled at the corner of her eye: a speaking spell.

Phantom lips touched her cheek, and his voice whispered in her ear, "Goddess bless, my darling."

-The Realms of the Gods, Tamora Pierce

Where there is great love

there are always miracles.

-Willa Cather

Let's remember the things we've seen and the things we hope to see.

-D.Gray-Man

"Fifty years from now when you're looking back at your life,

don't you wanna be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?"

-Transformers (2007)

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies,

but the silence of our friends.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

If everyone fought fire with fire,

the world would go up in smoke.

-The Slippery Slope, Lemony Snicket

Cause when push comes to shove,

you taste what you're made of.

-Stand, Rascal Flatts

It takes courage to grow up

and become who you really are.

-E.E. Cummings

That is the best of all things we can do for one another:

make the dark small.

-Brother Odd, Dean Koontz

Our lives are made in these small hours

These little wonders, these twists and turns of fate

-Little Wonders, Rob Thomas

My chest is your garden;

and the seeds you planted in my heart

are going to be

painfully beautiful flowers.

-E.E. Cummings

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

-Ludwig van Beethoven

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

-Rumi

Faith is the bullet, hope is the gun,

and love is all we need.

-Army of Two, Olly Murs

And after that?

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a pirate, but do not look for me.

I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

-Pirates!, Celia Rees

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