"A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks, of course, a sight to behold, but a man with honor -- ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which the young ladies should flock. "


1. "If you're reading this"

2. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

3. "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." Robert McCloseky

4. "Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding," - Diane Arbus.

5.
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6. "The time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love." - Falling In Love, Lisa Loeb

7. "Take Cover"

8.
At night in the dark when the sun goes down

9. "I tried to paint you a picture, but the colors were all wrong, black and white didn't fit you, you were shaded with patience, your strokes of everything that I need just to make it." - All We Are, One Republic

10. Put that away, we don't have time for that right now.

11. "I stuffed myself sick on your memory and the beautiful mess we'd made...but I'm so tired of being inspired only when things slips away." - Matt Nathanson from "First Time"

12. With a little help from our friends.

13. He said he'd give me everything I'd need.

14. How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.

15.
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16. Always have a backup plan.

17. No sense postponing the inevitable.

18.
"You are the strength that keeps me walking. You are the hope that keeps me trusting." - Everything, Lifehouse

19. "Strength lies not in the mightiest, but in the most deserving of people."

20. Pick your poison.

21. Angsty: There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ~ Unknown Author

OR

Funny/Light Hearted: Love is staying up all night with a sick child--or a healthy adult. ~Sir David Paradine Frost

23. Amare non è guardarsi l'un l'altro, ma guardare insieme nella stessa direzione
Translation: Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction

24. Take the leap; build wings on the way down.

25.

Song: "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx

26. When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ~ by Elizabeth Bowen

27. There is love, of course and then there's life, its enemy. ~ Jean Anouilh

28. Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~ Ice T

29.
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The "La luna del cacciatore" -- The "Hunter's Moon"

30. For things that are seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal. ~ L.M. Montgomery

31. Maple Syrup

32. Life is not measured by the numbered of breaths we take but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

33. Heart Attack

34. Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow. ~ James Dean

35.
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.

36. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? ~ Robert Browning

37. All of our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere and somehow there is someone searching for us.

38. I went out with a guy who once told me I didn't need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I'm drinking so that you're more fun to be around. ~ Chelsea Handler

39. "There is nothing like a spot of competition to bring out the worst in a man -- or the best in a woman. "


OR

"A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks, of course, a sight to behold, but a man with honor -- ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which the young ladies should flock. "

~The Viscount Who Loved Me

40. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

41. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ~ Maya Angelou

42. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

43. "Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright." ~Benjamin Franklin

44.
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" ~ Abraham Lincoln

45. "I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest." ~ Frank Sinatra

46.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence;
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

~ The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost


47. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~ C.P. Snow


48.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you'

Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'�

~Erich Fromm


49. I don't care enough to hate you.... The opposite of love isn't hate - it's indifference.

50. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ~ Oscar Wilde

51. Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. - Captain Corelli's Mandolin.


52. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. --Victoria Holt

53. I too pass from the night, I stay a while away o night, but I return to you again and love you. Walt Whitman

54. It's better this way,
I said,
Haven't seen this place before.
Where everything we say and do,
hurts us all the more.
It's just that we stayed too long
in the same old sickly scheme,
and I'm pulled down by the undertow,
I never thought I could feel so low,
and, oh, darkness, I feel like letting go.

If all of the strength and all of the courage
come and lift me from this place
I know I can love you much better than this:
Full of grace, full of grace.~ Sarah McLaughlin

55. She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright. Meet in her aspect and her eyes. ~Byron

56. We all begin out with good intent
When love is raw and young
We believe that we can change ourselves
The past can be undone
But we carry on our back the burdens time always reveals
In the lonely light of morning
In the wound that would not heal
It's the bitter taste of losing everything
I've held so dear ~ Sarah McLaughlin

57. Greatest Story Ever Told by Oliver James

58.� "It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker, and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life." ~ Liz Parker, Roswell (1.01)

59. "I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." ---Martha Washington

60. "The failure of any lie is directly related to the number of people who know the truth". ~ Tracy Quartermaine Spencer:

61. "Don't talk, don't say a thing, 'cause your eyes, they tell me more than your words. Don't go, don't leave me now, 'cause they say the best way out is through." Ungodly Hour,
The Fray


62. Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?~ Richard Bach

63. Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. ~Otomo No Yakamochi

64. "I'll tell you right now there's a whole lot that I just can't do, but baby, don't think I can't love you." Don't Think I Can't Love You, Jake Owen.

65.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. -- Victoria Holt

66
: Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children. - Eric Draven from The Crow

67.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self-in the mirror of some woman's eyes.--author unknown

68 "The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts tonight" ~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

69."When I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the most." ~ Author Unknown

70."You know, you're very sensitive for a cold blooded killer" - Samantha Barzel, The Mexican

71. "Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in." - Jennifer Neal

72. "To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~ Chinese Proverb

73. image or image

74. "Fever"

75. "The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface." ~Bella New Moon

76. "I promise that this will be the last time you'll see me. I won't come back. I won't put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I'd never existed." ~ Edward Cullen, New Moon

77."A crowded room and friends with tired eyes
I'm hiding from you and your soul of eyes
My God, I thought you were someone to rely on
Me, I guess I was a shoulder to cry on
A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A girl on a cover but you tore her apart
Maybe this year
Maybe this year I'll give it to someone special" ~ Taylor Swift.

78. "Don't try to explain your mind
I know what's happening here
One minute it's love
And suddenly it's like a battlefield

One word turns into a war
Why is it the smallest things that tear us down?
My world's nothing when you don't
I'm not here without a shield
Can't go back now

Both hands, tied behind my back with nothing
Oh no, these times when we climb so fast to fall again
Why we gotta fall for it now

I never meant to start a war
You know I never wanna hurt you
Don't even know what we're fighting for "~ Jordan Sparks. (Battlefield)

79. It's better this way, I say,
Having seen this place before,
Where everything we say and do,
Hurts us all the more.
It's just that we stayed, too long,
In the same old sickly skin,
I'm pulled down by the undertow,
I never thought I could feel so low,
And oh darkness I feel like letting go.
If all of the strength and all of the courage,
Come and lift me from this place,
I know I could love you much better than this,
Full of grace.

I know I can love you much better than this,
It's better this way.

80. "A smile is nearly always inspired by another smile." Anonymous

81. Just another day at the beach...

82. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

83. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

84. To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible. ~ Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

85. "A man provides for his family. He does so because he is a man."

86. "In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing." - Van Morrison

87.
The Kiss by Klimt

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle



Special Edition Prompts:

AMBDAY08 -
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Halloween Fan Fiction Challenge 2008

HFFC#1: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!

HFFC#2: "Halloween is the night that not you is you, but you, you know? " ~ Buffy in Halloween, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

HFFC#3:
Linus:
You heard about fury and a woman scorned, haven't you?"
Charlie Brown: Yes, I guess I have.
Linus: Well, that's nothing compared to the fury of a woman who's been cheated out of tricks or treats.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

HFFC#4: The sequestered situation of this church seems always to have made it a favorite haunt of troubled spirits. ~ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

HFFC#5: Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate, The first one said, "Oh my, it's getting late." The second one said, "But we don't care." The third one said, "I see witches in the air." The fourth one said, "Let's run, and run, and run." The fifth one said, "Get ready for some fun." Then whoosh went the wind, and out went the lights, and five little pumpkins rolled out of sight!" ~ Five Little Pumpkins Sitting On A Gate

HFFC#6: If a candle flame turns blue, it means a ghost is in the house.

HFFC#7: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. ~ Dr. Richard in Haunt You Every Day, Grey's Anatomy

HFFC#8: Trick or Treat. Smell my feet. Give me something good to eat. If you don't, I don't care I'll pull down Annie's underwear! ~Halloween, the movie.

HFFC#9:

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake...
~MacBeth, Scene 1, Act 4 by William Shakespeare

HFFC#10: Halloween quiet? I figured it would be a big ol' vamp scareapalooza. ~ Xander in Haloween, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

HFFC#11: In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen, black and towering. ~ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

HFFC#12: "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." Linus in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

HFFC#13:

Tonight is the night
When pumpkins stare
Through sheaves and leaves
Everywhere,
When ghouls and ghost
And goblin host
Dance round their queen.
It's Halloween.
~ Halloween by Harry Behn

Thanksgiving Fan Fiction Challenge 2008: The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies;... ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Christmas Fan Fiction Challenge 2008

CFFC#1:
On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me:
A partridge in a pear tree.
~The Twelve Days of Christmas

CFFC#2:
Dean: Christmas is Jesus' birthday.
Sam: No, Jesus' birthday was probably in the fall. It was actually the Winter Solstice Festival that was co-opted by the church and renamed Christmas. But I mean the Yule log, the tree, even Santa's red suit, that's all remnants of Pagan worship.
Dean: How do you know that? You gonna tell me next...the Easter Bunny's Jewish?
~A Very Supernatural Christmas, Supernatural

CFFC#3:
What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic.
~Unknown

CFFC#4:
There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.
~Bob Phillips

CFFC#5:
If TV has taught me anything, it's that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas. It happened to Tiny Tim, it happened to Charlie Brown, it happened to the Smurfs, and it's going to happen to us.
~Bart Simpson, Simpson Episode Roasting On An Open Fire

CFFC#6:
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

~White Christmas


CFFC#7:
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
~Charles Schulz

CFFC#8:
Charlie Brown: Thanks for the Christmas card you sent me, Violet.
Violet
: I didn't send you a Christmas card, Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown
: Don't you know sarcasm when you hear it?

~A Charlie Brown Christmas

CFFC#9:
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
~Garrison Keillor


CFFC#10:
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
~Benjamin Franklin


CFFC#11:
"Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas."
~Henry Van Dyke


CFFC#12:
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.
~Twas the Night before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore

VFFC 2009: Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ~ James Baldwin

Ten Year Anniversary Prompts:

Day 1:

"Do you know what nothing feels like?" 8/99
August 27, 1999
Courtesy of rlatson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJwZUqYtfJU
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOZiUCsZ3s

Day 2:
" Sometimes things happen fast but you have to live through them slow." 12/99
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slOP-rYZopU

Day 3:
"You smell like snow." 12/99
December 7, 1999
Courtesy of rlatson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnk1PsroRp4

Day 4:
"It's not a ruby. It's just a hunk of glass." 2/01
February 13, 2001
Courtesy of rlatson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXqxOQpSB3o

Day 5:
End of February 13 - February 14, 2001
Courtesy of rlatson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BYF9gMegAI

Day 6:
"Love shouldn't be safe." 4/06
April 6, 2006
Courtesy of Petalouda8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7UUTN8NaU

Day 7:
"Actually, I shoot with both hands." 7/06
July 6, 2006
Courtesy of AlwaysLiasons06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxaAFhWLuwY

Day 8:
"That night with you is something I will never be sorry for." 1/07
January 31, 2007
Courtesy of AlwaysLiasons06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzY9u-Z-Ynw

Day 9:
"I love you. I should've told you before." 8/07
August 21, 2007
Courtesy of Keats75
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0nyCoVne0

Day 10:
"I had no idea that someday I'd be in love with you, or that you'd be the mother of my child." 11/07
November 13, 2007
Courtesy of AlwaysLiasons06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeDN8OmsRs

CFFC 09 #1: Winter Wonderland

CFFC 09 #2: December Makes Me Feel This Way

CFFC 09 #3: I'll Be Home For Christmas

CFFC 09 #4: What Are You Doing For New Year's Eve?

VFFC10: My Funny Valentine

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