Well, I completely lost interest in fanfiction for a while, didn't I. I just logged in or the first time in almost a year, and what do you know? I have a whole bunch of reviews I totally missed, and I've got to say, they really warmed my heart. I hadn't even realised I hadn't finished posting Silver, which has been done forever.

Horribly, however, I don't think I've written anything at all for Shattered.

Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain?"

"Citius, Altius, Fortius" Faster, Higher, Stronger

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.

“Without music life would be a mistake." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsch

Okay, off to the Land of Insanity, if I wander in to Confusion, send search party.

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.

Losing someone is hard. Accepting the loss is even harder. When someone doesn’t want to be friends anymore, they should say so, not hint at it.

If someone really was perfect in every way, they’d be wearing mask covered in lies.

STRESS: A condition brought on by over-riding the body’s natural desire to beat the living daylights out of some jerk that desperately deserves it.

Walking the fine line between genius and insanity

"If anyone finds him, make a noise we'll all hear: either scream or blow something up." -Genkai

Music is what feeling sounds like.

"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates." -Dave Barry

This is a story about Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it , but Nobody did. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized Everbody could do it. It ended up that Everbody blamed Somebody, when Nobody did what Anybody could have done

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. -Jean Jacques Rousseau

The shell must break before the bird can fly. -Tennyson

The bashful are always aggressive at heart. -Charles Horton Cooley

Trials give you strength, sorrows give understanding and wisdom. -Chuck T. Falcon

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” -Victor Hugo

Fall seven times, stand up eight. -Japanese proverb

The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. -Alan Watts

"Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love,
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art."
-Joseph Addison

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. -Joan Lunden

Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. -Laurence J. Peter

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway. -Anonymous

“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.”

"The question that shall make me hazy: am I or the others crazy?" -Albert Einstein

"Look, I'm a crab!" Yusuke Urameshi, Yu Yu Hakusho

So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds of the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

If I had one wish, it would be to have no reason to make one.

“It matters not how strait the gate. How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” –W. E. Henley

To stop the flow of music would be like stopping time itself: incredible and inconceivable. -Aaron Copland

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. -Maryon Pearson

"Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket." Henri Rabaud