Alexandra Tomko:  

ey cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. -Robert Frost (Desert Places) We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack continuity. I don't apologize. I merely pointed it out, adding with some truth, I feel, that most liaisons lack continuity. We find ourselves in odd places at various times, and for a brief span we link our lives to others and then, our time elapsed, we move apart. Through a haze of pain occasionally, usually through a veil of memory that clings, then passes, sometimes as though we have never touched. — Harlan Ellison The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -Soren Kierkegaard If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. -The Matrix Use your outside voice! - John I'm the kind of human wreckage that you love. - MCR Happiness is having gratitude for what is happening in the moment. - unknown I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ― Edgar Allan Poe Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. -Margaret Mitchell I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. -Friedrich Nietzsche".