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The Song of Rhaegar Targaryen: Part I: The Beginning of the Ballad

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Author's Notes: Hi, hello, there was a surprising amount of demand for this when I mentioned it, so here's the rework I created of Game of Thrones season 1-8 in an Alternate Universe where Rhaegar Targaryen was not killed off. I wrote this shortly after the end of Season 8 which quite frankly made me want to rip my hair out. This goes season by season; each chapter is a season, with the first chapter being Pre-Show/Book canon.

This is in no way affiliated with GRRM; I just used to roleplay Rhaegar and wanted a verse where he lived. Thank you, and I hope you all enjoy.

Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX Tag list: @heartsvamps , @nixnbob , @papery-maniac ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Prince Rhaegar was the firstborn son of King Aerys II Targaryen (more popularly known as The Mad King) and Queen Rhaella- Aerys’ sister- at Summerhall in 259 AC, on the very same day that The Tragedy took place. Before we begin to talk of Rhaegar, we must first talk of the Tragedy, for it is intricately tied within his story.

The Tragedy of Summerhall occurred during a celebration, thrown by King Aegon to celebrate the impending birth of his first great-grandchild to Aerys and Rhaella, the children of his heir, Prince Jaehaerys. The fire of the fire remains unknown, but has been whispered to have been connected to King Aegon’s desire to restore dragons to the Seven Kingdoms, for in the final years of his reign, he’d become consumed by searching for ancient lore of the dragons and the dragon breeding of Valyria. It has been said that Aegon commissioned journeys to Asshai, with the sole hope of finding texts and knowledge that had not been preserved in Westeros of the old ways of Valyria.

The Tragedy struck in the evening; many deaths occurred, and by some miracle, Rhaella and Rhaegar survived the fire, despite it ruining the castle. According to Ser Barristan Selmy, some form of sorcery was involved. A single letter from Summerhall’s former maester, Corso, had been sent, describing the tragedy, though a mishap led to ink spilling, causing much of the information to be destroyed forever.

“The blood of the dragon gathered in one … … seven eggs, to honor the seven gods, though the king's own septon had warned … … pyromancers … … wyldfire … … flames grew out of control … towering … burned so hot that … … died, but for the valor of the Lord Comman …”

Now, we may speak of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, first of his name.

As a child he read obsessively, consuming any and all books that he could find- to the point that jests were made about his reading habits. He became a noted warrior later in life, although he did not initially seem inclined to martial habits. However, apparently by something he had read, Rhaegar became motivated to become a warrior. It has been noted that he had managed to find something that pertained to the story of Azor Ahai- the Prince that was Promised.

At the age of seventeen, Prince Rhaegar was knighted, and from all reports grew into a highly skilled and capable fighter, distinguishing himself well at tournaments, although he seldom entered the lists - he never loved the song of swords the way that men like Robert Baratheon or Jaime Lannister did.

Rhaegar's squires were Myles Mooton and Richard Lonmouth, and even after he knighted them they remained close companions.

Jon Connington, whom he himself had squired with growing up, was a good friend to Rhaegar as well. Returning from a trip to Dorne, Rhaegar once visited the Connington seat of Griffin's Roost. His songs brought the castle's women to tears, while Lord Armond Connington sought House Targaryen's support against rival House Morrigen. Jon Connington did hold romantic feelings towards Rhaegar, though it is unclear if these feelings were returned. However, Rhaegar's closest and oldest friend was Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, of whom he trusted more than Ser Barristan Selmy.

Rhaegar often liked to visit the ruins of Summerhall with only his harp, and upon his return, he would sing songs of such beauty they would often reduce women to tears. Although Rhaegar was often dour, private, and bookish, Cersei Lannister noted at the tournament in honor of Viserys's birth in Lannisport in 276 AC that “the smallfolk cheered for Lord Tywin Lannister twice as much as for King Aerys II, but only half as loudly for Tywin as for Rhaegar.” Rhaegar, age 17 at the time, fought well in the tourney, besting a dozen skilled knights, among them Barristan Selmy, Gerion, and Tygett Lannister, but was defeated in the champion's tilt by his dear friend Arthur Dayne. Aerys refused Tywin's offer at the tourney to betroth Cersei to Rhaegar. It is to be noted that Rhaegar defeated Arthur in the tourney at Storm's End.

Rhaegar was born at a time when the Targaryen family had declined, and once he came of age, there was no sister, nor anyone else of their bloodline, available for him to marry. King Aerys sent his first cousin, Lord Steffon Baratheon, to seek a bride for Rhaegar. Despite Valyrian blood still being present in Essos, Steffon could not find appropriate females of noble-enough birth for Rhaegar to wed.

After this in early 279 AC, Rhaegar was formally betrothed to the Dornish princess, Elia Martell, the younger sister of Doran Martell, the crown Prince of Dorne. They married the following year of 280 AC in a lavish ceremony that was held at the Great Sept of Baelor. His father did not attend the wedding as he was paranoid about an assassination attempt, nor did he permit the young Prince Viserys to attend.

Rhaegar and his father's relationship was straining at this point, and he and his new bride took up residence on Dragonstone instead of King's Landing. Rhaegar and Elia had their first child, a girl named Rhaenys, in 280 AC. When the babe was presented at court, Rhaegar's mother, Queen Rhaella, embraced her grandchild warmly while King Aerys remarked: "she smells Dornish". The relationship between Aerys and Rhaegar became more and more estranged.

A little over a year and a half later, Elia and Rhaegar had a son who they named Aegon. Elia, due to her delicate health, was bed-ridden for half a year after giving birth to Rhaenys and nearly died giving birth to Aegon, after which the maesters told Rhaegar she would be unable to have any more children. Maester Aemon, whom Rhaegar corresponded with via raven messages, remembers that Rhaegar believed his child Aegon to be the prince that was promised.

When Lord Tywin resigned his position as Hand of the King and left court, the new focus of King Aerys's mistrust and paranoia was his own son and heir, Prince Rhaegar. At court, there was growing tension between factions loyal to the king and those who were loyal to the prince. Grand Maester Pycelle dispatched a letter to the Citadel, writing that tensions and division at court strongly resembled those shortly before the Dance of the Dragons. Pycelle was fearful a civil war would break out unless some accord could be reached that would satisfy both factions.

In 282 AC, Lord Walter Whent announced a tourney would be held at Harrenhal to rival any previous tournament. It is believed by some that the tourney was secretly arranged and financed by Prince Rhaegar, as a pretext, so Rhaegar could meet with the great lords of the realm to discuss arranging a Great Council and the removal of his father. The tournament was announced by Walter shortly after his brother, Ser Oswell of the Kingsguard, visited his older brother. When Lord Varys alerted Aerys II to this possibility, the king decided to attend the tourney.

During the great tourney at Harrenhal, Rhaegar seemed unstoppable and defeated even Ser Arthur Dayne. Taking the winter rose crown for the queen of love and beauty, he revealed his interest in Lyanna Stark by passing over his wife, Princess Elia of Dorne, and setting it in Lyanna's lap. Eddard Stark later recalled that moment as "when all the smiles died". The next year, Rhaegar seemingly kidnapped Lyanna, for reasons previously unknown. This act ultimately triggered Robert's Rebellion and the final downfall of the Targaryen dynasty.

Some believe that Rhaegar spent the beginning of Robert's Rebellion, also known as the War of the Usurper, with Lyanna Stark at the tower of joy in the Red Mountains of Dorne. Despite her fear, Elia remained in King’s Landing with their children due to her belief in the prophecy passed down to Rhaegar. King Aerys sent Ser Gerold Hightower, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, to retrieve Rhaegar. Leaving Ser Gerold, Ser Arthur Dayne, and Ser Oswell Whent at the tower, Rhaegar returned to the crownlands and took command of the Targaryen army after the defeat of his friend Jon Connington in the battle of the Bells. Ser Jaime Lannister was left at the Red Keep to protect Rhaegar's father and family.

Rhaegar met Lord Robert Baratheon in combat at a ford during the Battle of the Trident, where the pair had a legendary duel in the raging rivers of the Trident. Rhaegar, despite wounding Robert, was struck down with a massive blow from Robert's warhammer, which scattered the rubies encrusted in Rhaegar's armor into the water. Despite receiving a mortal wound, he survived, but was knocked unconscious. Thinking he was dead, Robert left him in the waters.

Upon waking, Rhaegar found himself alone. The wound had cut through his chest cleanly, baring bone. He could not remove his armor on his own; thus, he forced himself to his feet and half stumbled, half crawled to the nearest Inn- Crossroads Inn. The Innkeep, alarmed and confused, took Rhaegar in and did their best to patch him up. During this time of healing, his mother and Viserys were spirited away to Dragonstone Island while his father was slain upon his throne by Jaime Lannister on orders given by Tywinn Lannister. His wife and children were murdered by The Mountain, Gregor Clegane.

Hearing this news, he laid low, keeping his head down and going as far as to color his hair with bricks of dye, darkening the ivory locks to a muddy blonde. He sold the few rubies that remained from his armor for safe (and secret) passage to Dragonstone. It had taken him nearly eight months to completely heal, in which he went by a false name and claimed he was a bastard- a Logaine Rivers. He’d learned of his former wife, Elia’s, death- of his children’s murder, of his father’s murder. Usurped by none other than Jaime Lannister, his former friend, a man of whom he had knighted himself.

He arrived at Dragonstone the day of the great storm, where he bore witness to the birth of his sister, Daenerys. Try as he and her ladymaids might, his mother bled far too much, and passed away due to the complicated birth. He, along with Viserys, Daenerys, and Ser Willem Dary fled to the Free Cities where they would find shelter- and slowly amass a following. For fifteen years, they remained in the Free Cities, being welcomed with open arms. Rhaegar, the true heir of the Iron Throne, was well sought-after by family after family; a twice-widowed Targaryen prince. He, along with his siblings, found solace with Magister Illyrio Mopatis, who allows them to live within his estate in the Free City of Pentos.

He took the time to write in secret to Aemon Targaryen, a distant relative who had been stationed on the Wall, having taken the Black long ago, requesting information- if any- on Ned Stark and the “bastard” that he has. Aemon responds that there is a new Bastard, but knows nothing more. This spurred Rhaegar into writing and sending a raven to Ned Stark, explaining that yes, he is alive- his siblings live, as well. His mother perished, but they are alive, and in Essos, laying low. He requests that Ned look after Aegon and Lyanna, believing her to still be living.

Ned writes back, simply stating that Lyanna died shortly after giving birth to Aegon, who Ned has taken in as his bastard and will be going by the name Jon Snow, and that he would not tell Jon of his true parentage until the time is right. Reading that Lyanna is dead breaks something in Rhaegar, and for a short time, he becomes melancholic and reclusive, refusing to speak or work on gaining favor with the families in Essos, grieving for Lyanna and Elia simultaneously- both women he loved, now dead.

#game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #house of the dragon #rhaegar targaryen #house targaryen #daenerys targaryen #jamie lannister #jon connington

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lettingtimepass · 1 month

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Just finished rewatching The White Lotus, Season 1...

God, what a show. Here are some of my outstanding thoughts and questions!!

Do you think Oliva had a romantic crush on Paula, or was she just an overcontrolling friend?

Why why WHY does Rachel go back with Shane at the end??? I think the idea is she's not strong enough to leave. Yet still I feel so bad for her!!! I totally foresee her and Shane having kids, hoping to make her happy and have some meaning in her life but instead, she's still unhappy and the cycle continues!!!

Did Greg intentionally seek out Tonya? It's not totally clear, but considering his scheming in season 2, is it possible he actually had some intel on Tonya, purposefully staged the "meet-cute" outside her room, and pursued her knowing who she was? Either way, fuck you Greg.

Paula encourages Kai to steal from the rich white people and this blows up in their faces. Is this a cautionary tale saying that trying to do a just action in the wrong way is wrong, or is it a commentary that justice will always work out for only the privileged class?

The cycle repeating it's self at the end GAWD. And endless cycle of exploitation, death and destruction. It can only end when someone removes themselves like Quinn at the end!!

Speaking of, I SO want to see Mark and Nicole's reaction when they realize Quinn didn't get on the plane hahaha.

Armond shitting in the suitcase hahahaah I forgot about that. God damnit Armond, you'll always be famous.

#the white lotus #the white lotus season 1 #the white lotus s1

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worldjurassic · 2 years

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Semi-Plotted Starter for @hvbris (The twins)

Armond knew he should’ve passed on the opportunity to work on this island. Too many dangers present. Even with Jurassic World’s decent track record, animals like this couldn’t be contained.

He read that in some scientist’s book. Couldn’t remember the name. Did it matter? Not now. Not today.

He’d been separated from his group so all that mattered now was survival.

As he roamed through thick brush, cursing out loud - despite the fact that he should probably keep quiet with a carnivore running rampant somewhere - he kept his eyes peeled for any sudden movements.

Then he heard the crack of twigs, twisting and snapping. Ah fuck, ahhhh fuck. He wanted nothing more than to be back at the resort, safe and dealing with Karent’s if he had to.

Please just don’t be a dinosaur. Please.

Armond closed his eyes and went still, heart hammering beneath his chest as he waited for another sound.

#Death is the end of life [Armond]#queue didn't say the magic word

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fakexface · 5 years

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Part 1

I don’t know if anyone remembers, but a few months back, I wrote out an entire AU where Rhaegar Targaryen survived, and how that ended up changing the series. So, here’s this. I’ll post it in 6 parts, because this is VERY long. But since it’s Targaryen Appreciation Month, I figured this would be a good time. After the Battle is where my own canon starts up, and it is where I begin to take a LOT of liberties. I don’t own Rhaegar or any of these characters, I did this purely for roleplay purposes and figured hey, I put in three weeks time on making this mesh well, why not share it? And if you do end up using any of the headcanons that I used in here, please reference back to these posts.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝓣𝓮𝓵𝓵 𝓶𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝔂 𝔀𝓮 𝓰𝓸 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓪𝓻; 𝓽𝓸𝓸 𝓶𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓰𝓸𝓭𝓼. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ •Prince Rhaegar was the firstborn son of King Aerys II Targaryen and Queen Rhaella. He was born at Summerhall in 259 AC, on the same day as the Great Tragedy there. As a child he read obsessively, to the point that jests were made about his habits. He became a noted warrior later in life, although he did not initially seem inclined to martial habits. However, apparently by something he had read, Rhaegar became motivated to become a warrior.

•At the age of seventeen, Rhaegar was knighted, and from all reports grew into a highly skilled and capable fighter, always distinguishing himself well at tournaments, although he seldom entered the lists - he never loved the song of swords the way that men like Robert Baratheon or Jaime Lannister did.

•Rhaegar's squires were Myles Mooton and Richard Lonmouth, and after he knighted them they remained close companions. Jon Connington, whom he had squired with, was a good friend to Rhaegar as well. Returning from a trip to Dorne, Rhaegar once visited the Connington seat of Griffin's Roost. His songs brought the castle's women to tears, while Lord Armond Connington sought House Targaryen's support against rival House Morrigen. Rhaegar's closest and oldest friend, however, was Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, trusting him more than Ser Barristan Selmy.

•Rhaegar often liked to visit the ruins of Summerhall with only his harp and when he returned he sang songs of such beauty they could reduce women to tears. Although Rhaegar was often dour, private and bookish, Cersei Lannister noted at the tournament in honor of Viserys's birth in Lannisport in 276 AC that the smallfolk cheered for Lord Tywin Lannister twice as much as for King Aerys II, but only half as loudly for Tywin as for Rhaegar. Rhaegar fought well in the tourney besting a dozen skilled knights, among them Barristan Selmy, Gerion, and Tygett Lannister but was defeated in the champion's tilt by his friend Arthur Dayne. Aerys refused Tywin's offer at the tourney to betroth Cersei to Rhaegar. Rhaegar defeated Arthur in the tourney at Storm's End.

•Rhaegar was born at a time when the Targaryen's had declined, and once he came of age, there was no sister, or anyone else of their bloodline, available for him to marry. King Aerys sent his first cousin, Lord Steffon Baratheon, to seek a bride for Rhaegar. Despite Valyrian blood still being present in Essos, Steffon could not find appropriate females of noble-enough birth for Rhaegar to wed.

•After this in early 279 AC, Rhaegar was formally betrothed to the Dornish princess, Elia Martell, the younger sister of Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne. They married the following year in 280 AC, a lavish ceremony was held at the Great Sept of Baelor. His father did not attend the wedding as he was paranoid about an assassination attempt and nor did he permit the young Prince Viserys to attend. Rhaegar and his father's relationship was straining at this point, and he and his new bride took up residence on Dragonstone instead of King's Landing. Rhaegar and Elia had their first child, a girl named Rhaenys, in 280 AC. When the babe was presented at court, Rhaegar's mother, Queen Rhaella, embraced her grandchild warmly while King Aerys remarked: "she smells Dornish". The relationship between Aerys and Rhaegar became more and more estranged.

•Elia and Rhaegar had a son they named Aegon. Elia, due to her delicate health, was bed-ridden for half a year after giving birth to Rhaenys and nearly died giving birth to Aegon, after which the maesters told Rhaegar she would be unable to have any more children.

•Maester Aemon, whom Rhaegar corresponded with via raven messages, remembers that Rhaegar believed his child Aegon to be the prince that was promised.

•When Lord Tywin resigned his position as Hand of the King and left court, the new focus of King Aerys's mistrust and paranoia was his own son and heir, Prince Rhaegar. At court, there was growing tension between factions loyal to the king and to the prince. Grand Maester Pycelle dispatched a letter to the Citadel, writing that tensions and division at court strongly resembled those before the Dance of the Dragons. Pycelle was fearful a civil war would break out unless some accord could be reached that would satisfy both factions.

•In 280 AC, Lord Walter Whent announced a tourney would be held at Harrenhal to rival any previous tournament. It is believed by some that the tourney was secretly arranged and financed by Prince Rhaegar, as a pretext, so Rhaegar could meet up with the great lords of the realm to discuss arranging a Great Council and the removal of his father. The tournament was announced by Walter shortly after his brother, Ser Oswell of the Kingsguard, visited his older brother. When Lord Varys alerted Aerys II to this possibility, the king decided to attend the tourney.

•During the great tourney at Harrenhal, Rhaegar seemed unstoppable and defeated even Ser Arthur Dayne. Taking the winter rose crown for the queen of love and beauty, he revealed his interest in Lyanna Stark by passing over his wife, Princess Elia of Dorne, and setting it in Lyanna's lap. Eddard Stark later recalled that moment as "when all the smiles died". The next year, Rhaegar seemingly kidnapped Lyanna, for reasons unknown. This act ultimately triggered Robert's Rebellion and the downfall of the Targaryen dynasty.

•Some believe that Rhaegar spent the beginning of Robert's Rebellion, also known as the War of the Usurper, with Lyanna Stark at the tower of joy in the Red Mountains of Dorne. King Aerys sent Ser Gerold Hightower, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, to retrieve Rhaegar. Leaving Ser Gerold, Ser Arthur Dayne, and Ser Oswell Whent at the tower, Rhaegar returned to the crownlands and took command of the Targaryen army after the defeat of his friend Jon Connington in the battle of the Bells. Ser Jaime Lannister was left at the Red Keep to protect Rhaegar's father and family.

•Rhaegar met Lord Robert Baratheon in combat at a ford during the battle of the Trident, where the pair had a legendary duel in the raging rivers of the Trident. Rhaegar, despite wounding Robert, was struck down with a massive blow from Robert's warhammer, which scattered the rubies encrusted in Rhaegar's armor into the water. Despite receiving a mortal wound, he survived. However, he was knocked unconscious, and thinking him dead, Robert left him.

•Upon waking, Rhaegar found himself alone. The wound had cut through his chest cleanly, baring bone. He could not remove his armor on his own; thus, he forced himself to his feet and half stumbled, half crawled to the nearest Inn- Crossroads Inn. The Innkeep, alarmed and confused, took Rhaegar in and did their best to patch him up. During all of this, his mother and Viserys were spirited away to Dragonstone Island while his father was slain upon his throne by Jaime Lannister. His wife and children were murdered by The Mountain, Gregor Clegane.

•Hearing this news, he laid low, keeping his head down and going as far as to color his hair with bricks of dye, darkening the ivory locks to a muddy blonde. He sold the few rubies that remained from his armor for safe (and secret) passage to Dragonstone. It had taken him nearly eight months to completely heal, in which he went by a false name and claimed he was a bastard- a Rivers. He’d learned of his former wife, Elia’s, death- of his children’s murder, of his father’s murder. Usurped by none other than Jaime Lannister.

•He arrived at Dragonstone the day of the great storm, where he bore witness to the birth of his sister, Daenerys. Try as he might, his mother bled far too much, and passed on due to the complicated birth. He, along with Viserys, Daenerys, and Ser WIllem Dary fled to the Free Cities. There, for fifteen years, they remained, being welcomed with open arms. Rhaegar, the true heir of the Iron Throne, was well sought-after by family after family; a twice-widowed Targaryen prince. He, along with his siblings, find solace with Magister Illyrio Mopatis, who allows them to live within his estate in the Free City of Pentos.

•He takes time to write in secret to Aemon Targaryen, a distant relative who is stationed on the Wall, having taken the Black long ago, requesting information- if any- on Ned Stark and the “bastard” that he has. Aemon responds that there is a new Bastard, but knows nothing more.

•This thus has Rhaegar writing and sending a raven to Ned Stark, explaining that yes, he is alive- his siblings live, as well. His mother perished, but they are alive, and in Essos, laying low. He requests that Ned look after Aegon and Lyanna, believing her to still be living.

•Ned writes back, simply stating that Lyanna died shortly after giving birth to Aegon, who Ned has taken in as his bastard and will be going by the name Jon Snow, and that he would not tell Jon of his true parentage until the time is right. Reading that Lyanna is dead breaks something in Rhaegar, and for a short time, he becomes melancholic and reclusive, refusing to speak or work on gaining favor with the families in Essos, grieving for Lyanna and Elia simultaneously- both women he loved, now dead.

•While the Dothraki screamers were a tempting alliance- he did not make one with them. No, instead, he let them be. Rather, he held a minor celebration for his youngest sibling, Daenerys- a coming of age celebration. Illyrio Mopatis brings forth a surprising gift- dragon’s eggs. Rhaegar questioned him on how he came to hold such treasures, but only received riddles in response. Ser Jorah Mormont, a knight of Westeros, brings books about the Seven Kingdoms and offers Rhaegar his service. Daenerys is given a beautiful white mare.

•That night, before beginning their journey across Essos, Daenerys requests a bath. Rather than waiting for it to cool, she enters it. Alarmed, the handmaiden fetches Rhaegar, claiming that his sister is going to hurt herself. Rather than be alarmed, Rhaegar is pleased- claiming simply that fire cannot kill a dragon. He later reveals that he himself prefers to take his baths beyond scalding temperature, for it soothes the phantom pains he holds in his chest. Viserys is the only one who disagrees.

•They begin the slow trek across Essos, coming into contact with the Dothraki unintentionally. Rhaegar makes is clear that they are merely traveling, explains who they are, and finds himself and his companions brought before the Great Khal himself, Khal Drogo. The situation, while tense, plays out in their favor: Rhaegar manages to convince the Khal to allow them to travel with the Dothraki, just through the Grass Sea.

•During their travels, Rhaegar keeps Daenerys under strict guard, ordering Jorah to keep her with him at all times. While he did not want to assume, he also did not want anything to happen to his baby sister. He himself rode near the Khal often; a quick learner, he was able to pick up the language surprisingly fast, well enough to hold a simple conversation or ask simple questions. Doreah, a handmaid gifted to them for Daenerys, grows close to Viserys during this time.

•During one of the final nights they would be riding with the Dothraki, Rhaegar approaches Daenerys with an idea. The eggs, while they may be stone, might be opened- with fire. At first, Daenerys assumes he means for her to simply place the eggs in the fire, until he speaks a common phrase amongst the Targaryens: fire cannot kill a dragon. Viserys claims that his older brother has gone insane. Rhaegar does not reply. Instead, he watches as his baby sister strides into the flames, holding two eggs- the final being held by Rhaegar himself. He remembered having read in a book long ago, before the Sack of King’s Landing, how a dragon’s egg would be bathed in flame before hatching.

•Lo and behold, he was right. And behind his sister he strode confidently through the flames. While she hatched two dragons, a vivid black and red and a vermillion and gold, he came through with the final one: a gold and red dragon.

𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐰𝐨 •They depart from one another after traversing the Grass Sea; the Dothraki to Vaes Dothrak, and Rhaegar and company to Qarth with their new dragons. Viserys, acting as scribe for Rhaegar, documents this occasion in detail. Their arrival to Qarth is not as welcoming as Rhaegar had expected. The Thirteen, the ruling council, refuse them entry unless they show their dragons- which Rhaegar and Daenerys both vehemently refuse to do.

•When it seems she will be turned away, the Qartheen dignitary Xaro Xhoan Daxos vouches for them and their people, against the order of the Spice King.

•Rhaegar and his surviving people are made guests in Xaro's lavish home. Slowly, he and Daenerys begin to teach their dragons to cook and eat their own meat, and slowly begin breathing fire on command. Rhaegar seeks out any sort of information he could find in the form of books or old scriptures. Daenerys suggests to Doreah that she use her skill as a lover to find out more about Xaro, who happily agrees. Their host holds a reception for the Targaryen siblings, introducing them to Pyat Pree of the Warlocks of Qarth. He demonstrates his magic by replicating himself and invites Daenerys alone to visit his order at the House of the Undying. Rhaegar does not approve of this, though Daenerys does not listen.

•Xaro suggests that Ser Jorah has feelings for Daenerys but she denies this. Xaro shows the siblings the Valyrian stone vault that guards his fortune and offers to fund their return to Westeros in exchange for Daenerys’ hand in marriage. He relays news of the death of King Robert Baratheon. Rhaegar secretly revels in the joy of this information. Daenerys seeks the council of Ser Jorah and Rhaegar. She is eager to seize the opportunity, but both men counsel against entering Xaro's debt. Jorah reveals the depth of his feeling for her and his hope for the ruler that she will become. She agrees to take the harder path that he suggests, but does not acknowledge his affection. Rhaegar becomes troubled with this knowledge, but does not speak to Jorah about his feelings.

•Later, Rhaegar, Daenerys, and Viserys try to negotiate with the Spice King for ships to return to Westeros. However, he considers it to be too risky an investment – considering that they have no army and no open supporters in Westeros – and they receive nothing. Rhaegar states that he will take what is rightfully theirs with Fire and Blood, but the Spice King remarks they will have to do it without his ships.

•Daenerys, Rhaegar, and Viserys unsuccessfully appeal to more of the merchant nobles of Qarth to lend them ships. After meeting with them, they return to Xaro's home to find that it has been attacked; half of their men have been brutally murdered, and Doreah and the dragons are missing. Unbeknown to them, Doreah has taken their dragons to the House of the Undying, due to an alliance with Xaro and Pyat Pree.

•Xaro hosts a council of the Thirteen so Rhaegar, Viserys, and Daenerys can appeal to them for aid. During the meeting, Pyat Pree reveals that he was responsible and Xaro announces his intention to seize control of the city, as the new King of Qarth. The warlock uses his magic, creating thirteen duplicates to murder the rest of the Thirteen. Rhaegar draws his blade, intent on fighting, though Viserys convinces him to flee with himself and Dany. However, Pyat Pree appears to them, only to be stabbed through the back by Jorah. The stabbed Pyat is revealed to be another one of the duplicates. He repeats his invitation to Daenerys, telling her that her children are at the House of the Undying.

•They take refuge in a disused courtyard, where Jorah advises Daenerys and Rhaegar to leave their dragons and flee Qarth, as he has recently booked passage to Astapor. Daenerys insists on attempting to reclaim them and asks Ser Jorah to lead her to the House of the Undying, without knowing what lies in wait. Rhaegar agrees, stating that he and Viserys will create a diversion for them.

•Daenerys arrives at House of the Undying and is magically separated from Jorah and Kovarro. She finds herself in an empty circular room with many doors.

•She chooses one and opens it. She is presented with tempting visions. First the snowy, ruined throne room of King's Landing where she turns away from the Iron Throne. She then walks through the gates of the Wall surrounded by more snow, and into a tent. She finds Khal Drogo and what could have been her infant son Rhaego. They talk about whose dream they are in, and Daenerys silently leaves after touching Rhaego's hair.

•Meanwhile, Rhaegar and Viserys are causing chaos, fighting against a few of Xaro’s men before Rhaegar tells Viserys to go after Daenerys, that he has a bad feeling. Viserys agrees and leaves, which leaves Rhaegar to fight against three men.

•In the meantime, Daenerys returns to the room with many doors and finds the dragons chained to a pedestal in front of her. Pyat Pree appears and explains that she and her brood are the source of his restored magic. Daenerys is also chained by Pyat's magic. The young Targaryen is unconcerned however, and simply regards Pree with a cool, almost lazy gaze. She calmly utters a single word: "Dracarys"; after a couple of tries, all three dragons unleash their fiery breath, and Pyat Pree is incinerated.

•Daenerys knows that Xaro has betrayed them. She finds Viserys outside of the House of the Undying, and together, they return to Xaro’s palace to confront him. Rhaegar joins them shortly after, wounded but not mortally. They return and find Doreah in bed with him. Daenerys takes his key and uses it to open his Valyrian stone vault. They are surprised when it is empty, but observes that this proves something can easily come from nothing. Rhaegar suggested that Doreah be executed for her treason against the Targaryen crown. Daenerys disagreed. On Daenerys’s orders, Doreah and Xaro are locked into the empty vault to die, their pleas cut off by the closing door. Daenerys salvages enough from Xaro's household to buy a ship. The siblings seize Xaro's gold and jewels; no one attempts to stop them, not with the dragons that rest upon Daenerys and Rhaegar’s shoudlers.

•Rhaegar states that he wishes to travel farhter across Essos soon; there is a company of soldiers who were formed beneath a bastard of Aegon Targaryen that they could use in retaking their homeland. Rhaegar also brings a select few soldiers from Qarth that served beneath Xaro, the beginnings of an army.

#Rhaegar Targaryen #rhaegar lives au #house targaryen #game of thrones #game of thrones au #my writing #fakexface writing #this is 10 pages in word #but it was FUN

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A Terrible Idea, Part 9

(Zevran x Mahariel)

(Masterpost)

Zevran raised his arms just in time to block the downward swing of the sword that was headed towards him with the metal of his vambraces. Grunting under the force of it, he managed to push the man away, and take a swipe with his dagger. He watched as the leather of the man’s jerkin split slightly, but knew that he had not been close enough to do any real damage, or even to get the poison from his dagger into a cut. There wasn’t time to try for another swipe though, a lean figure was coming up on his side, and he had to skip sideways to stop from being caught between the two.

This had been a mistake. He and Cara had made plans to stop the assassination of a merchant prince’s son, an easy job in theory, there were only supposed to be two Crows going after him, but apparently their information had been wrong.

They had watched as two Crows stopped the man’s carriage, though man might not be the best word to use for the fuzzy lipped youth that poked his head out of the window to see what was going on, and even stayed back as the horses were cut free and the youth was told to come out and meet his death like a man. It had all seemed wrong. There should have been a half dozen guards between the carriage and the attackers, not just the one who held his sword as if he had never used it, his horse dancing under him restlessly, and the Crows should have been much more circumspect. Zevran couldn’t think of a time that they had ever simply gone after a Merchant Prince, or someone of their household so openly. It was true that the son was set to inherit from his dying father, and time was most definitely of the essence, but it still rang… wrong. But then there had been no more time to worry about it, the guard was put down with a well-placed arrow, and he and Cara were running in before they could open the door to the carriage and kill off their mark just as easily.

That’s when things had gone into chaos. More Crows had poured out of the shadows, armed and more than ready to overwhelm them. He hadn’t been able to get a count, but he had put down at least 3 since it had started, and he could still hear Cara as she fought somewhere behind him, knowing that she had probably put down just as many. He didn’t know how long they had been fighting, using their enemies’ bodies as shields and dancing their way just out of reach of seeking weapons, but he knew they couldn’t keep it up.

There were to many.

It had been a trap, one to draw him out unprepared no doubt, and it had worked because he had gotten cocky and hadn’t thought to triple check his information.

Stupid.

Hadn’t he told Cara just the other day that she needed to make sure to cover all her angles, to not get complacent just because things had been going well? In fact, that was when he had told her to be the most vigilant, advice he clearly hadn’t thought applied to himself.

Stupid. He could already picture Nico leaning over his lifeless form and calling him an idiot.

“I rather thought to wake up dead, or not wake up at all as the case may be. But I see you haven’t killed me yet.”

“That can be easily rectified.” The reply was casual and accompanied by a carefully blank blue gaze in a line marked face.

He gritted his teeth and forced the memory aside before darting between his two attackers, causing them to stumble together as they tried to follow his movement. Using the moment of confusion to his advantage, he stabbed at the closest leg and smiled in grim satisfaction as he heard a yelp of pain and the man fell back, leaving him facing only the other, who he saw now was a woman with a hard face and shadowed eyes.

“Zevran! Down!” The words rang out over the street, clear and familiar, and Zevran found himself dropping to his knees more out of reflex than actual processing of the command. He had heard those words before, often enough that he didn’t need to be told twice. He could feel the pass of the arrow over his head, and heard it thump dully into the woman who was still standing before him. He looked up in time to see her grasp at the shaft sticking out of her chest before stumbling back.

He didn’t bother looking for the source of the arrow, instead he stepped over the prone and still half alive form of his attacker so he could get to Cara’s side and help her fend off the two she was fighting. He could see Nico out of the corner of his eye, his long sword flashing as he engaged someone, arrows flying around them in waves.

It was quick work after that. Zevran counted 15 bodies after all their attackers had been put down or fled, but he didn’t stop to check any of them, instead he made his way to the carriage and wrenched open the door. The prince’s son sat huddled in the floor, his arms looped over his head. It took several seconds before he moved enough to look up, his eyes wide and fear blurred in his too pale face. Zevran spared him no pity, reaching in and hauling the trembling boy out of the carriage and into the carnage around them.

“Does your father think so little of you that he threw you willingly into a trap, or are you really so stupid as to go traipsing through the city with one guard and no weapons of your own?” His usually charismatic tone was nowhere to be found, lost somewhere along with his belief that this would be an easy mission.

The young man stared at him wide eyed, his mouth opening and closing like a fish as he tried to process what was being asked of him. Zevran tightened his grip on the son’s arm and gave it a shake, causing him to stumble. “Answer me. Did you know what was coming?”

“N-No! My- My father didn’t even know I was g-going out tonight.” The words fell stuttering from his mouth, and his eyes left Zevran’s face to dart around him, probably in hopes that he could find help. Instead his gaze found death, and Zevran watched as the youth turned an interesting shade of green.

Making a disgusted noise, Zevran dropped his hand. “So, a pawn then. You’re lucky to still have your head.”

“Zevran,” a voice said from behind him. He looked this time, steeling himself for the sight of her. She was much the same as she normally was, brow damp with sweat and hair falling from its tie, but her vallaslin was darker than it had been when she left, and her expression was neutral. “Silvano and I can take him home if you like. Perhaps once he calms down some he will remember more of what happened.”

He knew what she wasn’t saying, that he might remember more when he was away from all the bodies, and away from the man currently yelling at him. He glanced to where Silvano stood a few feet behind her his gaze resolutely on an arrow in his hand, then back before shaking his head. She would be good at getting information out of a scared almost child, she had a way of putting people at ease, but… no. He needed her to come with him so they could talk about plans.

“No… No, let Silvano take him, but you and I have things to discuss.”

“Do we,” she asked, but then shrugged off the question before he could answer. “If you say so.”

Silvano and the prince’s son left soon after, and the rest of them made quick work of stripping the bodies of anything important. Zevran made a comment about heading back to base so they could all be checked by Tomasso, and the others readily agreed, Nico falling into step beside him while Cara and Lyna took up the rear.

“How did you all know to look for us,” he asked Nico.

The taller man smiled slightly. “It was Carman actually. He and Lyna got back late this afternoon and I had mentioned that you and Cara were out on business. I had made a point of saying that it was an easy enough job, so when you still hadn’t come back hours later the boy began to worry. Silvano, Lyna, and I finally agreed to go look for you just to appease him. A good thing we did too, it seems.”

“Very good. I’ll have to thank him.”

“You could thank us too, we did the saving after all,” Nico replied casually, and Zevran turned his head to smile at him.

“That goes without saying, my friend. No doubt Cara and I both would have been nothing but fond memories by now if you had not.”

“More like disappointing ones,” Cara put in from behind him. “We should have known better.”

“Anyone can get caught unawares, Cara,” Lyna put in, and Zevran could practically feel Cara’s scowl against his back.

“We were overconfident, and we should have seen the signs that were obviously there that something wasn’t right.”

“If you hadn’t gone in then that man would have died.”

“Better him than us.”

Lyna gave no reply to that, and he knew it was because she didn’t agree. She never thought someone else’s life was worth less than her own.

Nico shrugged a shoulder, since he had no hands free, in dismissal of the statement. “Regardless of what you should have done, or what you missed, it all worked out in the end. We saved you, like the heroes we clearly are, and all’s well that ends well.”

They made it the rest of the way to their base in silence, the four of them descended upon by Esta, Armond, and Tomasso as soon as the door had shut behind them. Tomasso took one look at their sweat and blood-stained faces, and ordered Zevran and Cara both into seats so that he could fuss over them while Nico explained what had happened, and Esta and Roland helped Lyna sort through what they had brought back with them.

Carman came to sit at Zevran’s feet, his dark eyes worried as he watched Tomasso clean a cut on his arm. “Was I right? Did you need help?”

The earnest question made Zevran smile, and he reached out his free hand to smooth over the boy’s hair. “You were and we did, my friend. Cara and I owe you our lives, yes?” He glanced to Cara as he spoke, and she nodded gravely, her usually frowning mouth tilting into a smile for the boy.

“It’s true. We wouldn’t be here if not for you.”

“So, I helped.” He seemed satisfied with that as he continued to watch Tomasso work. “I’m glad we came back when we did. The clan was trying to get Lyna to stay longer, but she told them we were needed.”

“It ended up being true enough,” Lyna said from where she stood by the table before turning her attention to Zevran. “You needed to speak with me?”

He did, and while it wasn’t ideal to do so with so many people around them, he couldn’t think of a better time, and the others would need to learn about it at some point anyway.

“I do, I had time to make a plan while you were gone, but it requires quite a bit of assistance from you.” He laughed and would have shaken his head if Tomasso wasn’t currently holding it. “Actually, it requires quite a bit of assistance from you.”

“I’m here to serve,” she replied lightly, testing the weight of a dagger in her hand.

“I need us to have a falling out.”

She stopped looking at the dagger, her gaze shooting to his in surprise. Whatever she had been expecting, it was not that. “What?”

“A falling out, between you and me specifically, and then I need you to go to the Crows and tell them you want to join.”

The others were staring at him, but he kept his attention on Lyna, watching as she carefully set the dagger on the table and folded her arms across her chest. She stared at him a long time, gaze searching. Finally, a small smile played over her lips. “Are you finally planning on getting rid of me?”

“What would be the point, you would just find me again, yes?”

“Not if you didn’t want me to.”

He was acutely aware of the glazes burning into him from those around them, and the almost physical air of confusion that came with them. This was not the time for that conversation, most especially because he honestly didn’t know anymore. But this plan had nothing to do with them, at least not directly, and he couldn’t let emotions come into it, just like he couldn’t stop to answer the questions that he knew the others had.

“My wanting you around or not has nothing to do with it. The Crows want you, they have since Ignacio offered you a job, though you thought it a joke at the time. Alistair’s letter confirmed that they still want you. You must have thought so yourself or you wouldn’t have shown it to me.”

She had begun chewing on her lip as he spoke, her head already beginning to shake. “They have fighters a plenty, and I am no assassin. They want me for what they think it would do to you, not for… help.”

“So, let them think it works. Tell them that you have given up, that I have broken your heart for the last time. We are Antivan, yes? A broken heart is more than enough reason to seek revenge.”

“They will never believe me.”

“Don’t pretend you don’t know your own strengths. You could convince them that Andraste herself is returning if you put your mind to it.”

Lynda scoffed at the notion, and dropped her arms before moving to slump into a chair. “And you, what? How does me having a broken heart help them, besides getting my bow on their side?”

“I would realize that I had made a mistake. I would be lost without you. The others would start to question my leadership and my ideas.”

“And then?”

“And then,” he smiled, “then, they would meet with me.”

She scoffed again, and leaned forward, her elbows resting on her knees. “You really believe that?”

“I believe I have been going about this the wrong way. We have been too good, to efficient in disrupting their plans and contracts. I think, if they think I am broken they will agree to the meeting I have been trying to get because they will think they can finally kill me, or turn me back to them.”

There was a commotion to the side as Cara jumped up from her seat, causing Tomasso to stumble back from her, and almost run into Armond. “Would anyone care to fill the rest of us in on what you two are talking about?”

When Zevran looked over, Cara pinned her scowl onto him. “Why are you trying to get Lyna to infiltrate the Crows, and why would they want her, and if you want them to believe you broken, why not send Nico?”

Zevran smiled wryly and glanced back to Lyna, noting her raised brow and questioning look. She wasn’t going to help him with the answer. If he wanted them to know the whole truth, he would have to be the one to tell it.

“Because,” he began and pushed himself from his chair, pacing a moment to steel himself. “As fond as I am of Nico, and as open as I am about that, he isn’t the reason I left the Crows, or broke my ties to them.”

“What does that mean?” It was asked by Esta, and was a said in a much kinder tone than Cara probably would have had.

“Lyna was a mark, a very large one. I didn’t succeed in killing her, obviously, and instead I joined her.” He glanced over to the warden, remembering the moment he had offered a pledge to help her, and her surprising agreement.

“A long story, for another time, yes?”

She merely shrugged and leaned back in her chair again.

“So, I broke from the Crows, and killed those that came after me…” He paused for a moment with that. They all knew the bare bones of that story, and he had no desire to repeat it. “And when all was said and done, I traveled with Lyna for a time, then left her when she had duties I wanted no part of… And then she came after me. So, no, I think they would believe no less than losing her again, and her joining those that I fought to escape, could break me.”

“So, she’s the Warden then,” Nico said quietly. Zevran had told him the whole story one night after drinking too much, and becoming too sentimental. Now, he just nodded in response.

“Well, that explains a great deal.”

“Does it,” Cara burst in angrily, but a look from Nico had her pinching her lips together, and glaring at the whole group.

When the room lapsed into silence, Lyna stood and took a step towards him, her eyes searching his face. “Are you sure about this, Zev? Really sure? I’m going to have to actually work with them… tell them things, if I want them to believe me. And we are both going to have to lie a great deal if we are going to play spurned lovers.”

“You haven’t been happy with me since I left Fereldan. Use that.”

“We both have reasons to be unhappy with each other, but I wasn’t planning on using it against you. I don’t know if I have it in me to act like I would.”

“You do. Just remember that I didn’t actually follow you to the Black City, that should help, yes?”

She frowned at the memory he knew his words would bring.

She brought her arms up, encompassing the room they were in. “This is a far cry from the Black City, Zevran.”

He sent her a false smile, closing off the bag he had been packing. “Well, maybe you shouldn’t have made it so difficult to follow you, or made me want it more.”

“You want me to act like everything is your fault?”

“If needed. I know this is asking a lot of you. I know this is going to be hard, and most likely dangerous, but I can’t think of another way. I would choose something else if I could.”

“Fine.” She looked down with the word, studying her feet a moment before looking up at him again, and he couldn’t help feeling a bit sick at the resolve he saw there. “We all need to sit down and make sure we have a plan. A good plan. I won’t go into this with no end game, and no way to reach one of you if I need to.”

He forced himself to smile, and purposefully relaxed his posture. “Of course,” he said gesturing to the chairs that sat around the table. “Best to begin right away.”

#lyna mahariel #zevran arainai #zevran x mahariel #dragon age #fanfiction #fanfic #a terrible idea #3 years later... let's continue this stuff #i have to finish it eventually

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goodqueenaly · 6 years

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House Words Wednesdays: House Morrigen

Welcome to House Words Wednesdays! Each week, I take a House without known canon or semi-canon words and present what I think could make sense as that House’s motto. You’re free to suggest more as well, if your favored House has not yet been suggested; take a look at this link to see what has already been suggested, and shoot me an ask through Tumblr if you have another House you’d like to see done.

House Morrigen of Crow's Nest is a noble House of the Stormlands, one of the principal Houses sworn to Storm's End. While the Morrigens are as a family at least as old as the Targaryen Conquest (Dickon Morrigen was one of King Argilac Durrandon's warriors in the Last Storm, a commander of the vanguard who fell to the grounded Meraxes' flames), given that it was supposedly Durran Godsgrief himself who conquered the rainwood, it's probable the Morrigens are a very old family indeed. Unlike their Durrandon overlords, the Morrigens survived past the death of Argilac, as it was Ser Damon Morrigen, Captain of the Warrior's Sons, who faced off against Maegor and his champions in a trial of seven at the beginning of Maegor's reign - although, unfortunately for Damon, only Maegor of the 14 combatants survived that ordeal. A Lord Morrigen was later briefly mentioned in the context of Jon Connington's stop at Griffin's Roost with Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, with Lord Armond Connington spending the entire evening trying to win the prince to his side in his dispute with the Lord of Crow's Nest (it's a pet headcanon of mine that JonCon's mother was a Morrigen, and that this dispute was over some dower property of Lady Morrigen's which Papa Armond wanted to keep for House Connington).

The most notable Morrigen in the main series, however, is undoubtedly Ser Guyard Morrigen. A younger brother of Lord Lester Morrigen, Ser Guyard joined his House when it declared for Renly at the start of the War of the Five Kings, and was chosen by Renly as one of his seven Rainbow Guard members. As Guyard the Green, Ser Guyard is seen by Catelyn at the feast at Bitterbridge, “diddl[ing] a harp” and making up a song about tying lions’ tails in knots. Guyard is not present when Renly is killed, but immediately thereafter joins Stannis (alongside his fellow Rainbow Guard veteran Bryce Caron). Given command of the vanguard (which he had wanted in Renly's army, but been passed over in favor of Ser Loras) during the Blackwater, Guyard is slain in single combat by “Renly's ghost” - Ser Garlan Tyrell, wearing Renly's armor. (The remaining Morrigen men, however, seem to be still loyal to Stannis, with at least Lord Lester apparently joining Stannis at the Wall.)

Both the sigil (a black crow in flight on storm-green) and the name of House Morrigen are an obvious reference to the Morrigan, a figure (well, a three-in-one figure) out of Irish mythology. A shapeshifter with strong magical powers, the Morrigan would often transform into a crow or raven, hovering over battlefields waiting to feast on the corpses below. Her presence in this form was said to foretell both the outcome in that battle and the fates of the warriors fighting in it, giving the Morrigen a role as a goddess of fate as well as battle and death Given this background, I decided to make the Morrigen words No Dread of Death. A crow does not dread death, but rather welcomes it where it finds it; to a crow, a corpse is a welcome sight, sustenance for its own life. In the same way, the Morrigens of Crow's Nest might wish to boast that they welcomed the work of the battlefield, and would make a (hopefully metaphorical) feast of their enemies in victory. Like the Morrigan which inspired their name and the crow on their banners, the Morrigens are at home amongst the carnage and death of war, relishing in the bloodshed. Certainly, neither Ser Damon nor Ser Guyard dreaded death, with Damon challenging the terrifyingly monstrous Maegor and Guyard leading Stannis' van in the devastating Battle of the Blackwater. Of course, for both situations, the Morrigen crow on their banners might as well have been the Morrigan herself, foretelling their doom in their combat.

Let me know what you think of these words for the Morrigens of Crow’s Nest. Next week stays in the Stormlands but moves out of the rainwood to a family of more divided loyalty.

#asoiaf meta #house words #house words wednesdays #house morrigen #guyard morrigen

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valentinewritesmuses · 2 years

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@hvbris Thread [x] continued here

“Oh, thank fuck.”

Armond breathed out a sigh of relief, his eyes opening. Sure enough, there stood Noah. Alone. How odd. He never could recall having seen either of the twins without the other.

Nerves began to tickle his stomach once more.

“Are...are you okay? Where’s Eve?”

Given the situation, both questions seemed pointless. Certainly, if Noah knew where his sister was, he’d be with her. Armond shook his head. “Sorry, I’m a little rattled. I have a terrible fear of the jungle, I’m afraid.”

#Death is the end of life [Armond]#hvbris #Queue just can't keep a good guy down

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mrsunderhill678 · 3 years

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Me? Writin? Pff- never

"For men like us, that justice failed, that's where family starts. In graves. We just sit there, lookin' at a name, plantin' the ghost of a rose in hopes we can become friends with the ones like us. We revive each other, man. That's what death and life is all about." - Napoleon Whitley

"When justice lies in the hands'a the wicked, it wilts away like a rose on a cold Sundeh mornin'. Loved, for the beauty it once held." - Napoleon Whitley

"My father used to tell me the truth lived inside us all. But as I stared that woman eye to eye and she said, "Napoleon Whitley killed that girl," I had some strange feelin' that there was nuthin' but lies rotting in her blackened chest." - Ivella Paidel

"If that's what you think of yourself you're doomed to become the wolf's cape draped over the shoulders of the mourning, vengeful lamb." - Michael Tabrowski

"I've never believed man was meant to spill blood. It leaves such a sinister, deadly scar on one's heart. But so many choose to believe that scar is their howl." - Michael Tabrowski

"I've found you've no care for this death you call your life." - Michael Tabrowski

"Truthfully, it feels as if I've died. Lost in one way or another to the way man spills blood." - Amorian Slathervark

"I was always so terrified, of being human. My father always taught me that emotions are liars, and we must run off of our beastly instinct. But when she pressed her lips against mine, I learned she loved me in all the emotions I shoved like daggers down my throat." - Pratten Whiskeyfoul

"Love is like blood for the mind. You'll never forget it, but some days, you'll wish you could." - Pratten Whiskeyfoul

"That's just what happens when you love the broken. Pieces of them they never wanted to share cut the tips of your fingers as you dance them against their skin." - Pratten Whiskeyfoul

"I think the saddest word in the human language is almost. It's that sliver of possibility that kills you, and she was an almost dream, huh?" - Pratten Whiskeyfoul

"Love isn't something you ask for. It never was. It crawls into your heart like a hungry beast, sinking it's teeth into your soft flesh and dragging little pieces of your heart into someone you never knew. And as you see little pieces of you in another, you come to realize love was never a choice. Other wise, we wouldn't fall in love with the wrong people." - Melai Diamonskull

"They called him real. And that was the cruelest thing you could call a man like him." - Mydria Sirencuff

"Because the boy who falls into darkness isn't you, Jarrod. He never will be. You have to die just as I did. Feel every knife in your heart, ever bullet on the tip of your tongue, like gunpowder sin and spark sizzling power. In the grand scheme of things, all roads lead to death. It's better, wise, even, to realize that early on. To lick death off the edges of silver knives just to know what it tastes like on a bleeding tongue. That's the taste that dances on your lip whenever you whisper my name." - Florian Heartpierce

"I've found beauty in the darker things. Like shadows dancing between the trees and blood spilling under the shadow of another man's grace." - Florian Heartpierce

"Death spews from out my tongue as if it were a snake hiding behind my red teeth." - Absinthe Hollercrow

"I always wonder why God's always hiding his answers to all my questions in parts of myself I dare not reach into." - Graham Davidson

"My father always called her heaven's ghost, for he could not control her. As if she was dead far before he ever threatened to lay her in a grave." - Melias Skinwalker

"We are sisters, you and I. We are bound by shield and by blade, and so long as I can still swing this ax and heave this shield like a merciful burden, I shall protect you with all I may give." - Dezstarla Vaganbrok

"I will come for the monsters and the beasts who ripped the roses from his decadent garden. And they will wither in the bones they plucked." - Lucius Caulfell

"To love at all is to live." - Imaldene Emorvow

"He used to shout his freedom in blooms of color, but now he declares his decadent imprisonment in blooms of red and grey." - Imaldene Emorvow

"He bleeds not unlike a man, yet still, I cannot wrap my head around the idea that something human can be so dastardly and deadly to his own kind." - Quenzin Pivato

"My heart wades strange and unfamiliar in the cage of my chest, and I begin to feel that whosoever holds it will know more grief than love." - Armond Zonestrame

"She was like a face in the sand, calm and beautiful, but once grasped in the hands of the mortal man, she flitted between his fingers like blood from his throat." - Raymund Alkarson

"In the wisps of shadow I found things that weren't me. And as I stepped forth into the night, following rose petals on the ground, I learned the dark doth not call with good intentions in his voice." - Raymund Alkarson

"My heart yearns for the things that make it go still." - Ben Stilts

"Past all this darkness in my heart, I can hardly tell what love is. All that I know is somewhere, nestled in the cracks of my heart, you reside, chiseling away at the shadows with hammer and nail." - Cyprian Orgazi

"You and I's fate is a flat circle and we're just dancing our way around the edge." - Carvaso Nightfall

"When ya... When ya get blood on your hands, it uh, it changes you. It starts with the regret, you know? And then you start justifying it, saying things like, "He deserved it, I had to." That's when ya start to die. And then you realize, you deserve it, the man lying in your memory didn't." - Lucas Camillo

"He used to be something more than an absolution starved beast, but now as I look into my eyes and see flickers of his damnation in my reflection, I realize he is nothing but it." - Melias Skinwalker

"He'd always been Alice, following the rabbit in hopes to find salvation at the bottom of the Mad Hatter's tea cup, but alas, Wonderland withered and died before his tear glossed eyes." - Melias Skinwalker

"She was brave and determined, and as she took the cross from off her back, a burn on her skin in the shape of dead and wicked faith, she broke free of the Skinwalker shadow, and became more than we'd ever been." - Melias Skinwalker

"The world fell through the lenses of violence, and there I stood in wonder, gazing at the world through a painter's eyes, wondering why the pale white of bloodless skin and electric blue of tazers firing off looked like something I would've brought to life with the edge of my brush, and called so gracefully, "The end." - Nester Harvlock

"In the shape of a birthmark, she slathered her face in paint. Whether it was a cry of revolution or an act of hiding from oneself, I could never tell." - Reggie Savinwit

“My rage is quiet until faced with me.” - Bellatrix Hungarson

“I found myself in the tangles of her red hair as she kissed me deeply in the witching hours of the night.” - Bellatrix Hungarson

“My life was lost in the empty eyes of cruelty, but every now and again, as Amaryliss' fingers trace against every scar and dance gently against every curve and bruise, I feel like, for once, I'm alive again. She loves me in colors I've never seen, and as her lips press against every inch of me, I bloom with shades of love and peace. I'm a crooked, hell bent monster, but when she holds me in her arms, I feel a little less monstrous and a little more human.” - Bellatrix Hungarson

“I got old weathered boots and a cigarette on the edge'a my lip, knowin' trouble comes for the peaceful souls 'for it ever pounces on the cruel and sickly.” - Bellamy Houston

“I met 'er as I rode my horse inta the night, just at the edge's death's door with blood on my sleeve and some gentle ache ta my smile. And as I woke ta her gentle and soothin' words, I wondered if I'd been found by a siren. But alas, she was the guardian angel that brought this ol' cowboy back ta life. Carly's a bit of a wild soul, and I love that 'bout 'er. She's got this smile that flickers with little bits'a wild beauty. Her hair's tangled and curled, her eyes alight with starlight and a slight tinge'a madness. But the best people are a lil' mad, after all.” - Bellamy Houston

“I've seen trouble on the edge of a Sundeh mornin', revolver steady in 'is hand, his rage sittin' on the brim'a his hat like a matchstick 'gainst a fuse. He told me that if I so much as whisper 'bout 'is sin, he'd lay me in the dirt under a shallow grave where all souls would forget my name. But I wonder what he'd do if he knew that his anger's fire is flickerin' while my justice's flame begins ta rise.” - Bellamy Houston

“I walked a thousand miles'a my life on my own, but I've walked many more with life and Carly by my side, and loneliness don't seem like much a friend, now.” - Bellamy Houston

“I wear a broken crown'a lies atop me 'ead, paradin' my own decapitated sense'a self down the hallways'a me 'eart, my demons chantin' and cheerin', "Da bastards dead! Lay ruin ta 'is poor sinner's 'eart!" - Daisy Fields

“When ya watch dat first bullet fly, ya watch a little piece'a ya go with it. It's nuffin' but a small sliver, but then ya fire another round and eventually, as the war finally ends, ya've fired your whole heart from out your chamber, gunpowder smoke driftin' after the remnants'a your identity.” - Daisy Fields

“They say scars make a man, but as I look at my reflection, rippled and distorted by the water's edge, I come ta realize these scars didn't make me. They killed me.” - Daisy Fields

“I ain't really been Daisy Fields for a long time, now. My name flew from out me chamber as I pulled me first trigger and landed in a poor bloke's chest, cursin' their grave with a name that ain't theirs', but a name that ain't quite mine, either.” - Daisy Fields

“I hide all these things inside my head. These feelings, these emotions, these little blooms of color and love. I've lived my whole life in black and white, the color of everything I touched fading like a puddle when faced with the harsh morning sun.” - Norma Locke

“I'm a ghost of memories and little pieces of a heart that forgot to feel, repeating the same mistakes again and again as she's lost to time. But as that woman, that beautiful, strange, odd, amazing woman places her hands on my cheeks, I feel less transparent. Less ghostly. Less fractured, broken and beaten down. All my life I've been a disease slowly rotting who I am away. But I feel like in some way, Illene's the cure I've always craved.” - Norma Locke

“I've been a wandering, homeless soul for years. And at the end of trouble's road I met a woman, beautiful and strange who scooped me up gently in her arms as I clung to the folds of her shirt with feeble and decaying fingers. And as I closed my eyes, and swore I was about to breathe my last, she carried me home. How beautiful and strange it is that a life can change with a single name etched into it's future.” - Norma Locke

“There's some odd serenity about the way the waves whisper in secrets and old, forgotten treasure.” - Marianna Bones

“On the distant and rocking waves I met a monster with cruelty in his eyes and flickers of flame in his smile. And as he clenched a fist and told his men to open fire, I knew what rage felt like in a good woman's heart.” - Marianna Bones

“Here on this ship we follow a code. Help those that need helping, feed those that need feeding, and kill those that need killing. There's honor in our war torn, ocean misted hearts, and black blood on the tips of our honor coated blades.” - Marianna Bones

“I fight so that one day, my daughter can see a future ripe and full with peace. She's a warrior, fighting day by day, but I crave for the day when she can lay down her blade for good. She's my daughter born and raised, and in many ways, she's the reason I'm still alive. I was burdened and blind until she came into the world and gave me a reason to fight.” - Marianna Bones

“My heart lies with the sea, loving gently like the waves on a sunny morning, but beating with rage like a thrashing storm when faced with the cruelty creeping up the edges of this world's soul.” - Autumn Bones

“I'm not going to die peaceful, that much I know. No warrior goes out without blood on her blade and scars on her skin. She stands tall and sturdy in the face of death and refuses to back down until she can no longer stand. And even then, she bares her teeth.” - Autumn Bones

“On the distant, stormy horizon sits a ship, ripe and full with sinners, cheats and bastards, clambering over the holy to grasp at something dark. And on the mast, like a looming crow sits their leader, shouting in ancient tongues as he demands the light withers and dies as he rolls on by with the violent waves. I'll stare him eye to eye and watch him fall. Cause I ain't the kinda girl who dies so easy. He's been asleep in his cruelty for years, and my knuckles against his violence is his damn wake up call.” - Autumn Bones

“This kingdom of me came crumbling down the moment the red heart faded to black. I'm soil hiding ashen bones and ribcages overgrown by weeds and mercy, and in the distant call of my mind, I find something that was never home, but slowly, it's starting to be.” - Rin Otishiro

“My heart beat's sick with gambling lights and the edges of cards, and as I look back into the recesses of my mind I see a man, standing tall and empty, like a hollow husk of humanity. His eyes are alight with delusion and the spark of inhumanity. And wherever he goes, fantasy and death are sure to follow. I'd never known mankind could be so dark until he placed a thumb under my chin and told me I was a pawn in his game, and he'd always meant for me to lose.” - Rin Otishiro

“I sit here, counting scars like stars on my wrists.” - Rin Otishiro

“My name's still the same, but I change like the weather, going from rain to a hurricane in the span of a blink or two.” - Rin Otishiro

“My heart's rotten and black, crumbling into my stomach as I swallow my fucking words.” - Rin Otishiro

“Silent and sorrowful, I stood under a shadow. Rocking myself back and forth as I ripped pieces from out my mind and dipped my pen in their ink. If only to run my fingers across the pieces of me I hated, disguised as poetry and prose so one day, I could fall in love with all the pieces of me I'd grown to despise.” - Ashivana Cuttle

“She dances her fingers against my bare bones and all of a sudden, the aching begins to leave, replaced by this buzzing warmth that tastes of her love. Her lips on mine taste like freedom, like cool midnight air or the sun dancing gentle and warm on my cheek. I could drown in her love, as she could drown in mine. She's my end, she's my beginning, and as she makes love to the worst parts of me I come to realize she loves me for the good parts in me and the bad. As she pressed her lips against my neck and dug her fingers into my hair she whispered, "I will dance with your demons and taste the death on your lips, if only to learn to love every piece of you and all of you all at once." She cured me in ways I never thought possible, and I have this odd feeling that I cured her, too.” - Ashivana Cuttle

“Memory slips through my fingers like sand, and I can only watch them twist and turn with the wind until inevitably, I forget they were ever there.” - Angelo Lariplank

“I fear I've been dead ever since I woke in a forest ripe and full with memories I couldn't taste on my tongue, clothes covered in mud and blood, the knife that ruined me held feebly in my hand.” - Angelo Lariplank

“Do I trust this lie I tell myself? It's easy to swallow and sits gently in my stomach, building a garden of roses and little reasons to hold on. But the truth forces itself down my throat like greedy human fingers, ripping pieces from my heart and stripping the petals from my roses, leaving me no more than a scrambled mess of thorn and bramble. The truth rips me from myself and I drown in it.” - Angelo Lariplank

“The woman I loved always used to tell me I was her wolf. Not in the sense that I hunted for prey. But I was loyal like the moon at my back. But ever since she's been gone the moon's light's felt so lonely on the scars etching up my back. Her name's a tattoo seared into my tongue. I can never rid myself of the taste of her love, of her pleasure, of her lust. She tasted like my own tears on my lips and the gentle healing of my sorrow. As if she was the answer to the question I'd been for too long. But now that she's gone I sit as a gentle crow upon a grave that reads my own name. I'm a threadbare, starving question, and my insanity holds me up only to wait for an answer I'll never receive. In the words of Allan Poe, my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, shalt be lifted- Nevermore." - Angelo Lariplank

“I'm an animal built off the desire to feel, and here I am, seeking emotion in the life that flashes behind a dead man's eyes.” - Andromeda Lockmowe

“This person I am is so ugly and twisted. Don't forget that the devil used to be God's favorite, but as she fell from heaven, pieces of her wings burning on her back, do you think she felt loved? Do you think she felt wanted? Or did her eyes flash with the anger of her father as he gripped her in his rough hands and cast her from the edge of his malice? I fell from heaven on bloodied wings, coughing up rose petals and thorns, wondering why the world never loved a lost girl like me. I fell through the air, grasping at pieces of me with tears in my eyes, only to land on the edge of my own knife, sputtering up all of me as who I am bled out from the corners of my eyes. Like red tears of emotion.” - Andromeda Lockmowe

“I look into my love's eyes and see something filled with pain and broken pieces of who she is, but as I place my hands gentle on her cheeks, and tell her my arms are the home she seeks, I can tell she begins to feel a little more like her and a little less like her scars.” - Jemini Paskel

“When she first laid her head on my shoulder, it was as if I'd swayed my brush against a blank canvas and watched colors bloom from grey to rose red. As if in that very moment, a future had begun to spill on the tapestry of us in colors that didn't exist, but would come to be as I tasted her lips and brokenness on mine.” - Jemini Paskel

“We're all stories waiting to be told by somebody who listened, somebody who not just read our story, but danced their fingers against every page and gently kissed every word. As if they wanted more than our beauty, than our love. As if they wanted to hold the ugly pieces of us in their hands and whisper, "How beautiful you must be, to hold all this pain inside of you and remain upright and tall in the face of such ugliness in your soul." But these pieces of us were never ugly, just things we didn't want to love.” - Jemini Paskel

“Magic was never little flickers of fire dancing on the tips of your fingers, or pulling a card from somebody's jacket. It was always love, and it always will be.” - Vishal La’Voila

“My mother was one of the most important people in my life. She saw the thoughts I hide in my eyes, and whenever she pulled me close, I felt a little less transparent. As if I was living rather than breathing.” - Vishal La’Voila

“She once told me that there was no greater magic than the love you feel when somebody tells you, as you're falling apart, "You're not okay, and that's okay. Let your emotions flow through you, feel them as deeply as you can, as if they were your roots digging into the Earth. Because it is that pain that will allow you to later stand tall and sturdy." In life, we all have the choice to write our own stories, to write our own identities. We don't choose who we are, but we choose what we show other people of ourselves. And that's the choice we have to make. To be ourselves and not care what others think, or to shrivel and hide away in fear of the sticks and stones people cast against the broken and different. You're strong either way.” - Vishal La’Voila

“I'll die a hero before I ever live as a villain.” - Lilluth Sillia

“I woke from a dream of smoke and fire, wondering why I could still smell war on the horizon as I rose from my bed. And it was with sorrow I learned that war sat on the edge of peace like a hungry beast, waiting to shove the merciful into it's merciless jaw.” - Lilluth Sillia

“On the edge of another day I sit, butterfly dancing on the tip of my blade and bringing a small moment of magic to my tired and weathered eyes. The life of a warrior is rarely an easy one, nor is it an un-burdened one. But it's a weight I'm willing to bare. My eyes are tired and heavy, but I find it so hard to sleep. Be it the humming trouble in the cool night air or the blood that sits heavy in my memory, sleep is such a tragic thing for a hero. But as the stars begin to shine, and the moon casts a pale and gentle glow, I must remember the hero is not cruel in her justice.” - Lilluth Sillia

“The peace in me is gone, but it is not, forgotten.” - Haize Dents

“I dare not say their names, lest their ghosts crawl from out my throat and I lose all the things that make me me.” - Haize Dents

“There's a fire in me I cannot tame. It burns hot and blue in my chest, the words I swallow sitting like pale glowing kindling at the bottom of my stomach as my ashes rise from out my rage. I am smoke, and I am fire, anything I ever could've been flickering away as I stare into the dark. But when my eyes catch Stephanie's, this fire in me dwindles down and meets my heart, burning from anger to passion in the span of a single heartbeat.” - Haize Dents

“My heart is a desperate, broken thing, craving for warmth yet flinching as a finger slides across it's cheek. I wish to taste her love on my lips and her rage on my tongue, but I'm scared of the way my heart beats in my sleep like a murder soon to be.” - Haize Dents

“I used to sit on the edge of my bed, who I'm not creeping up the corners of my chest like greedy and rough hands clawing pieces off of me until I could hardly take another step without remembering the boy in the mirror. But I'm me, I'm me, and isn't that such a beautiful thing to be?” - Alexandra Harkol

“My father used to tell me that when pain comes a knocking, you grow with it, you let it walk beside you until the path diverges. And when it goes, you let it go with the shake of a hand and a thank you, for not swallowing me whole. And as my pain becomes just another speck in the sunset, I bid it farewell and thank it for allowing me to grow.” - Alexandra Harkol

“We were all searching for our Neverland on wings that didn't fly, so with our hands and human fingers we hoisted each other to the sky so maybe, just maybe, we could taste the warmth of the sun on the tips of our tongues.” - Alexandra Harkol

“We're not happily ever afters, in truth, there isn't one. But life without death isn't much more than jumping memory to memory, trying to make new ones in pursuit of what the old days felt like.” - Alexandra Harkol

“I used to be so lost in all the sorrow, the pain, the doubt. As if I was a book that got left as an abandoned manuscript, longing for the rest of my words to be read, the rest of my story to be tasted by the tips of fingers young and old as they flipped through the wondrous pages of me. But as I met Bardzimi, and his eyes flickered with some happy ending I'd always wanted to have, I found love where it was never supposed to be. And it was right in front of me all along.” - Ismerelda Sage

“I've learned that as we weep, our emotions drip from the tears and down our cheeks, falling against the soil and planting little seeds of who we were in that moment. And the Earth remembers the taste of our tears against her rough skin. She does.” - Ismerelda Sage

“He cured my scars with words, in places fingers couldn't go. He wanted to know every little secret and every little flaw so he could hold the dark pieces of me in his hands just to claim them beautiful. And what an awfully beautiful thing it must be, to be loved for both your light and your darkness.” - Ismerelda Sage

“The world's become a lost soul, clinging to the memory of what it was. And here we stand like ghosts, loving and living despite the constant remembrance of death.” - Ismerelda Sage

“On the edge of a dead man's blade I met a pale and dark angel, the shadow of her wings looming high and mighty over me. And as I knelt on broken knee, and she placed a clawed hand on my shoulder she whispered that all of me would die.” - Levi Lambright

“My heart opened up like a dying flower.” - Levi Lambright

“Oh I was just a boy of a doomed family, watching my brethren fall like rain from the sky. They shined with a pale and orange light, but just as the sun, they were bound to plummet back into the dark.” - Levi Lambright

“Darkness made a nest in my chest and dared ask, "Whatever happened to the light?” - Levi Lambright

“I have become such a stranger to myself, but I like the way this name tastes on my tongue. It is as if with the first man I killed, part of me fell with his corpse, and another part of me rose as I ripped my blade from out his chest.” - Levi Lambright

“I have replaced my heart with a cage, and that is where I reside.” - Levi Lambright

“I look at myself through transparent, nicotine hazed memories, wondering who I am past the pain of yesterday and tomorrow.” - Eithel

“I try to purge myself of everything I knew about my sister, but as I close my eyes and smoke another breath, I can see her. Like a midnight fire flicker in my mind. It would be cruel, to let her leave my mind, because it's the only place she's allowed to live.” - Eithel

“I try to pour who I am from a bottle of red wine, watching the crimson pour as it splashes against another empty tomb, knowing that no matter what I do, the bottle's gonna refill and I'll get drunk off this ghost I've become.” - Eithel

“She's an uninvited guest in my heart, looking from out my ribs with sorrowful eyes as she tells me she can never leave. And everywhere I look, I see her. She's in the pale and gentle glow of the moon, the flicker of the stars and the falling of light into shadow. She creeps up on every thought and every memory, the cold case she's become haunting my heart as she whispers she's long gone, and I'll never feel her in my arms again. I couldn't protect her, and as I broke my promise, the world must've vowed to kill me as I walk and breathe.” - Eithel

“My mind splits open to reveal all the memories I try to hide, pieces of my skull peeling back as all of me bleeds out into the open.” - Ontari Boneson

“I stare back into the past, looking deep into the empty eyes of a hollow man. He stands and looms over me, whispering that he'll be back, he'll always come back. His knife drips with shattered pieces of me, and here I stand, a person I no longer am.” - Ontari Boneson

“I've got scars etched up my back and spine, bruises growing in my mind as I try to figure out who the hell I am. But as soon as I walk through the door, my scars and memories whisper, "Welcome home." - Ontari Boneson

“My anger lives between the shattered pieces of my mind, chiseling away at my thoughts and memories with hammer and nail.” - Ontari Boneson

“Sometimes we just gotta fight for the light so she knows it's okay to come around.” - Aldia McVale

“I've met cruelty in the eyes of an angel I watched fall. Her smile slowly faded into cruelty, her curiosity turned to death, her fighting spirit to murder. It's perhaps the greatest tragedy of all, to watch good become evil. To watch a girl lose herself to the shadows of those who laid her down in the dirt.” - Aldia McVale

“I've never believed in kill or be killed, I've never believed revenge was the righteous option. And so with my blade in stone, I'll choose words over violence and an open heart over a fighting one. People like us, warriors of words and love can't lose ourselves to the idea that killing can be justified. In truth, it never can be. If I were to kill Olivia and watch her fall in a red pool of her sins and redemption, I'd be no better than those who twisted her starlight into shadows.” - Aldia McVale

“Cruelty lies to us, whispering that redemption can't be found. But if we push cruelty to the side and reach our hand out to love, to hope, to redemption, we'll find the light was always there, waiting to pull us into her motherly embrace and welcome us back into her arms like an old friend. She who walks back into the light after years of darkness is just as worthy as she who's always known the light.” - Aldia McVale

“Being different doesn't mean being bad. In truth, we're all different. No soul is the same. Normal is an illusion built off the idea that we hold all that we are on the outside. But on the inside, there's things that make us special, different, and we never show it. Because we fear taking off our masks as everyone else tells us who we are with plastic smiles and masked faces. I took off that mask a long time ago. My smile's real, my soul is real, and isn't it beautiful? To be real when so many choose to dance with an illusion?” - Akayla Vrizin

“It was as the rain fell, suit and tie clinging to me like skin soaked with sin, I found who I am, the pale light of the moon steadily trickling down the cracks in my heart until all that pumps through my veins was dark.” - Agusto Perwitz

“The love in me lies dead and forgotten somewhere in this crooked tapestry I've become. It slowly decays as weeds and thorns grow from out it's throat, greed and envy choking the good out of me as I take another merry step into the dark.” - Agusto Perwitz

“I've mastered the art of pulling the trigger in silence.” - Agusto Perwitz

“I've got a monster in me. She claws at the edges of my ribs and takes little pieces of my heart to stick between her teeth. And as the memories of the wicked wolves pass through my mind, she claws from out my throat and makes life hell for the cruel.” - Adsila Bloodvallo

“My heart beats slower and slower as I rot away in my cage. But as Tiana takes her hand in mine and tells me I'm no monster, just a fighter, I feel my heart go faster and the monster in me shrivel away for a moment or two.” - Adsila Bloodvallo

“I love Tiana, as if I was fire ever dancing in the midnight sky and she was the stars I try so desperately to reach with my flickers and sparks.” - Adsila Bloodvallo

“I've spent too long fightin' myself with bare knuckles, breakin' myself down piece by piece just ta build me together again like a rickety and rusted tower, knowin' if I dare remove one shard'a me, this person I am'll come crumblin' down.” - Mavallo Clavelli

“Sometimes, people'll hate you for things ya can't control. And I've learned that's their choice and their misery ta live with. I won't carry the burden of a hateful man on my shoulders, it's a weight he's gotta carry on his own.” - Mavallo Clavelli

“It's been rainin' in this heart of mine for a long time now, but that's the only way the garden's gonna bloom in my chest. Under the clouds of sorrow and the skies of joy, I'll find who I am.” - Mavallo Clavelli

“There ain't no mercy in the war against oneself, cause you gotta walk out the other side yourself, or you're gonna come out the other side'a the war nobody at all.” - Mavallo Clavelli

“He's a victim of cruelty, not cruelty in of itself.” - Eliza McGriffin

“It's not such a cruel thing, to show a monster they were human all along.” - Eliza McGriffin

“I'm in control of the way this heart beats and the ways these emotions echo.” - Eliza McGriffin

“The Earth's letting out her final gasp, and here I am, holding my breath so she can have just a moment of my air.” - Eliza McGriffin

“We're hearts that love and feel with souls that hurt and bleed.” - Eliza McGriffin

“Cruelty takes little pieces of us day by day. Not enough to notice, but as days turn to years they've consumed who we are and there's nothing left of us past the full stomach of cruelty.” - Eliza McGriffin

“I'm my own worst enemy, but perhaps, when I'm not myself... That's a good thing.” - Pamela Vekeltin

“I'll whisper my secrets and sins to the wind in hopes they find a forgiving angel. And as Gabriel holds me in his arms and reminds me I'm more than this blood spilled, I swear the wind found his name.” - Pamela Vekeltin

“I've stood under my own shadow for so long that I hardly remember what light tastes like on my tongue. But as I breathe in the fresh air, the taste of love, hope and a slight tinge of freedom dance on the edge of my tongue, gripping at the edges of my lips with beauty coated fingers and love brushed smiles.” - Pamela Vekeltin

“I just look at my life, I see how much I've changed, how much I've grown, and I realize that who we are doesn't stick around. It wisps away as who we're meant to be comes on by.” - Olivia Wiltfang

“Some people just don't understand life. They take the pain and they turn it into a weapon, claiming strength is found in the swinging of a fist and the shattered edge of who we are. But true strength was always gonna be found in the beautiful vulnerability of love.” - Olivia Wiltfang

“I've got chips off my paint, faded stickers of who I am etching my surface, water stains and scars bared with pride on my hide. But at the end of the day, I'm the same person, hidden behind things that fade with time.” - Olivia Wiltfang

“This person I've become is like cigarette smoke. It brings me some since of peace, for a time, then I cough, I sputter, and this person I am fucking kills me.” - Walter Killgrine

“I hardly make a sound as I begin to fade away, because all my pain goes by unspoken, my sorrow quiet and my rage too loud to fucking bare.” - Walter Killgrine

“I used to have a heart in my chest, but as a dead memory of my past whispered from the shadows, "There's wolves in the dark," my heart jumped from out my chest, running as far as it could from that shadow of a man until it burrowed itself deep into the future of my grave.” - Walter Killgrine

“I'm no kind man. I've pulled triggers without a second thought, killed men for causes I don't believe in, stained my lips with loveless blood and watched good men die. I'm a secret to myself, always discovering new and twisted pieces of me.” - Walter Killgrine

“I've always stood under one shadow or another, be it the darkened sky of my family, the shadow between colored circus lights or the constant remembrance of a man I thought I knew. I've never seen the light, and now more than ever I fear, it would blind me.” - Walter Killgrine

“I cover my traces with pieces of barbed wire insanity, hoping who I used to be doesn't follow me.” - Draco Scoviney

“There are pieces of me that still lust for salvation, but the dark pieces of me drown them out and I lose myself to this woeful shout of insanity.” - Draco Scoviney

“My madness is calm, patient and silent, standing in the edges of my mind and bursting from out my skull like the mad woman's hands, drenched in black and red blood alike.” - Draco Scoviney

“In the castle of unwell minds and broken people, we've found who we truly are. This place stands like a revolver's shadow over peace and sanity, and my friend, we are the bullets piercing the skull of the well as the queen of damnation and madness pulls the hammer back, nails painted in the blood of the holy.” - Draco Scoviney

“I've not been me ever since I tasted my father's blood on my teeth. As he fell, grasping at a ruined throat, I found I liked the way murder tasted on the edge of my tongue.” - Draco Scoviney

“Some men grieve the loss of who they were, but God damn, I rejoice.” - Shakilo Vankelo

“I played a game of chance with my demons, and as I stand here, straightening my blood stained tie, a smile on the edge of my lip, who do ya think won?” - Shakilo Vankelo

“Before I go howlin' into the night, I'll raise a little hell and watch little pieces of heaven fall like fucked up masterpieces from the sky.” - Shakilo Vankelo

“I am the coinsurer of my own destruction.” - Shakilo Vankelo

“They never used ta speak my name, but now they howl it like a scar on the tip'a their damn tongue.” - Shakilo Vankelo

“I ripped myself apart piece by shattered piece until nothing but my heart remained. And as it looked for somewhere to run, I squashed it under my heel.” - Shakilo Vankelo

“The poor man dies under the rich man's boot, the rich man strives in the poor man's sorrow.” - Barsbley Martman

“Where all the cobwebs used to be, she's built a tapestry of her love, building reasons for me to live with flowers and daffodils in my chest.” - Barsbley Martman

“I've stood under the shadow of cruel men's riches for too long, always yearning for the heat of Summer as I stood cold in the winter. But as Lucienne brushes her lips against mine, I feel a sudden Spring in my chest, followed quickly by a calm and quiet Summer, lived under the light and shadow of sunflowers and rain dripping gardens.” - Barsbley Martman

“There is no greater trouble then the kind that lives in man.” - Barsbley Martman

“The most dangerous thing about the cruel man, is that he looks just like the good man. He's stitched kindness into his smile and learned how to pretend to be human. But at the end of the day, he was never human, just evil hiding in the vessel of a man.” - Barsbley Martman

“At the end of the day, I must wonder who I'll be. Because I spend my days in constant change, different people flowing through me as I grasp at the illusion of my identity.” - Barsbley Martman

“My whole life it seems I've been grasping at something that was never there, some cure to life that'd leave me content and full with imaginings and beauties. But I'm lost in a dream I had when I was young, and ever since, I haven't opened my eyes.” - Sasha Sunblume

“She's broken pieces in my memory, and as I whisper her name to an empty and colorful sky, I swear it's her tears I see in the rain.” - Sasha Sunblume

“I've been kicked out of my own heart and mind, clawing at things that aren't me and shoving them down my throat in order to be somebody else. But these pieces of other people grow like black rot and weeds in my stomach, breaking me down into a beautiful garden of black petal memories and decaying thoughts of yesterday.” - Sasha Sunblume

“With all the miles I've walked, I haven't gone anywhere at all.” - Sasha Sunblume

“I used to dance on a tightrope, wondering when my sorrow would send me plummeting toward my concrete doubts, clawing at air with tears and misery in my eyes. But now here I stand, having fallen and survived, knowing sometimes, that the fall's just your rebirth in disguise. How beautiful it is, to fall, breaking apart into somebody new as you hit the edge of your doubts and come out the other side of your misery the person you were always meant to be.” - Chala Flitfair

“I've got blood on the edge'a my snarl and darkness brewing in the edges of my eyes, but despite that, I gotta fight who I am and become somebody better.” - Sherwood Stinson

“I never had the chance ta live. I was born a boy'a the streets, hidin' under the shadow'a chance and misery. And as my brother and I fell from our own grace with the swingin' of a single crowbar, we lost who we were. As if we played a game of Russian Roulette with our demons, only for them ta laugh as we pulled the trigger 'gainst our skulls with a fully loaded chamber.” - Sherwood Stinson

“I look ta the sky, wonderin' as it rains, if it's my father's tears splashin' 'gainst my cheeks. I never had a chance to meet the man with a smile that could light up the corners of the world and a trench coat worn in the memory of my brother. But I can't help but imagine, when I bring this hammer down, he wouldn't be proud of this man I am.” - Sherwood Stinson

“Love and life are lived in the blink of an eye, so don't dare go blind to yourself, cause all the beautiful things in life'll pass you by.” - Elwood Sparrvitz

“My life was fraught with trouble and misery until I stumbled into the bar, smoke on my breath, the scent of trouble rising up from the bar's wooden floorboard. It was there, in a place of misery and part time sorrows I met the love'a my life, and God damn, life ain't never been so beautiful. I look inta Sandie's eyes and I see a life worth livin', a love worth fightin' for. And when I hear the laughter'a my children, I know I've found home in the hearts'a love an' family.” - Elwood Sparrvitz

“I was livin' five miles from myself, stumblin' and hitchhikin' on a road that weren't mine. And as I threw my thumb up, pointed at the stormy sky, a woman stopped by my side and asked if I needed a ride. And as we drove off inta the distant horizon, I met myself once more.” - Elwood Sparrvitz

“My home reeked of death painted on old scarred wallpaper, and under the silver shadow of my father, I learned what it is, to die. Death comes in many forms, and it isn't always a scythe she uses to reap. With human fingers and beastly eyes she comes for us in the form of those we know, greeting us with a smile so wicked and a song so gentle, lulling the lost ones to their eternal sleep in the emptiness of their lives.” - Calzell Flickerfeid

“I can hardly escape my mind, but I can say with certainty that I've escaped who I am.” - Calzell Flickerfeid

“It was in the white walls of an old mental ward I met who I'd become, sipping on the darkness I knew too well. And with a blank and hazed stare I can say, my mind never left that mental ward.” - Calzell Flickerfeid

“Away from myself I fell, drifting through emptiness and fate, death reaping little pieces of me as they broke from off my figure. And as I closed my eyes and accepted this new, violent identity of me, I awoke in a field of hay and wheat, night sky hungry, a blood washed knife held gentle in my hand. And by my side, covered in crimson smiles and wounds, I found me, staring blankly and hazed into the abyss of night and madness.” - Calzell Flickerfeid

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• A book worth reading is worth buying. – John Ruskin • A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back. – E. W. Howe • According to the Mayans, the world is supposed to end in the year 2012. Are you buying that? When’s the last time you even ran into a Mayan? – Jay Leno • Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today. – Victor Papanek • After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I’ll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits. – Robert Breault • All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder’s major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements. – Benjamin Graham • Americans aren’t buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they’ve been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they’re saving children. – Chad Griffin • An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn’t it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: “Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved,” etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values. – Warren Buffett • And if you’re not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you’re not getting a date with The Miz!- Alex Riley • Apple Stores Offer the Best Buying Experience and Customer Service On The Planet – Tim Cook • Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to “think outside the box.” Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box? – Lebbeus Woods • As an artist, you don’t stop making art because people are not buying it. – Damien Hirst • As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don’t put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a “no” into a “maybe” into a “yes.” If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the “yes” turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson. – Warren Farrell • Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying. – Fran Lebowitz • Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets. – Tom Udall

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Buy', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_buy').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_buy img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies. – Tim Federle • Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records. – Lily Allen • Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. – Andy Warhol • Business is not financial science, it’s about trading.. buying and selling. It’s about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. – Anita Roddick • But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don’t think it would affect retailers. Besides, that’s part of the joy of Christmas – to give someone a gift to show your appreciation for them. – Mathew Staver • Buy real records in real shops, or I’ll come round your house and scream at your mother. – Ian Gillan • Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn’t have to come in contact with it. – Susan Orlean • buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman’s arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open. – John D. Voelker • Buying a home wouldn’t make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife. – Mark Zandi • Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels. – Ines de La Fressange • Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company’s announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter. – Bill Keller • Buying and selling is essentially antisocial. – Edward Bellamy • Buying art is not understanding art. – Anselm Kiefer • Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthur Schopenhauer • Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It’s that simple. – Kyle Bass • Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available. – Li Ka-shing • Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn’t help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we’ll use them at home. – Stephen Harper • Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. – Marshall Field • Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service. – Ted Allen • by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough for me to feel justified in buying a real instrument. I bought a Gretsch with a De-Armond pickup on it and a second-hand Gibson amplifier; it looked like the one Charlie Christian used. I guess it was the same, although there were several models coming out at that time – this would be in I939. – Tal Farlow • Can’t you see that everyone is buying station wagons? – Neal Stephenson • Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story. – Jim Ross • Christmas is the time for celebration, so I’m not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process. – Rick Warren • Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process. – Marc Ostrofsky • Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that’s part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we’re for sale, that’s part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don’t have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not. – Scott McNealy • Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity … we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance. – A. Edward Newton • Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.- Anderson Cooper • Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what’s going on in your life. – Pat Benatar • Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief. – Stevie Wonder • Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable. – Tony Visconti • First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition. – Alisher Usmanov • For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible? – Daniel Suarez • For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart. – Amanda Hocking • Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away. – Peter Schiff • Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made. – John Vianney • Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee. – Ken Fox • Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me – I don’t now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it’s an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations. – Jane Asher • He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts. – Henry Waxman • Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. – Charlaine Harris • Here’s another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he’s at work. Business says, ‘Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we’ll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.’ – Will Rogers • I am proud that my humble attempts to predict Tuesday’s prices on Monday are an indispensable component of our society. By buying low and selling high, I create harmony and freedom. – Victor Niederhoffer • I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work • I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time. – David Dreman • I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don’t want to fit in. And now people are buying into that. – Alexander McQueen • I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there’s one chance in a thousand that it’s really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they’re completely right. – Woody Allen • I didn’t want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It’s just not what I am. I’m a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I’m uncomfortable with buying an experience. – Alec Soth • I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I’ll buy whatever catches my attention. – Bruce Springsteen • I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don’t know if I can do that. I’d like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that’s about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can’t remember them. – Debbie Harry • I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don’t go to many ‘dos,’ so they just line up. I’m normally in my trainers. – Sheridan Smith • I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls. – Bob Hope • I don’t get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What’s the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football. – Maddox • I don’t really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I’m buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it. – Caroline Wozniacki • I don’t think humans are meant to be looked at when we’re buying pants. – Ricky Gervais • I don’t think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it’s their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence. – John Otway • I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. – Esther Williams • I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a ‘Time’-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other. – Marc Ostrofsky • I feel like if I’m going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you’re buying a book about him, I don’t want you to have to sit through stuff that’s not him. – Justin Halpern • I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children’s clothes online. – Samantha Bee • I got a job as soon as I could – 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I’d go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff. – Natasha Bedingfield • I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public. – Aldous Huxley • I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood … the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book. – Michel de Montaigne • I haven’t bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though. – Kesha • I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought: ‘That’s it. I’m not buying the next size’. – Valerie Bertinelli • I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said “I’ve stopped buying the New York Times.” Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages. – Bernard Goldberg • I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance. – Wendy Cope • I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers. – Geoff Johns • I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don’t make enough money. – Andrew Motion • I looked at my family and I said, “I’ve got a spouse. I’ve got three kids. There’s no way I’m ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It’s just not going to happen.” So we wanted to do something really great for families… It wasn’t easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too. – Eddy Cue • I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I’m in the airport I’m buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane. – Alessandra Ambrosio • I never buy a piece of art. I don’t see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually. – Karl Pilkington • I never look at it like I’m wasting money when I’m buying gold. – Big Sean • I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings. – Jared Kushner • I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote…. By buying into the rhetoric that there are only two parties worth voting for…you increase their power. And with it, you promote the watered-down freedoms and endless government growth that these two parties consisently vote for. – Carla Howell • I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. – Steven Sater • I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn’t a conscious thing. I didn’t consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day. – Martin Gore • I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Dont look at what your competition is doing – if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer. – Steve Stoute • I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn’t want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that. – Dhani Harrison • I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody’s not buying insurance, then they’re going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that. – Todd Akin • I think the music business is probably not happy with what we’ve done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy. – John Otway • I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him. – Robyn Hitchcock • I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve. – Tinie Tempah • I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life. – Anne Truitt • I would avoid any product that contains genetically modified (GMO) corn, because there are still questions regarding the long-term health effects of genetically altered foods on the human body have not been thoroughly tested. Sugars are also sneaked into tons of different foods, especially foods marketed to kids. Again, study the labels carefully before buying. – Deirdre Imus • I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over. – Hayao Miyazaki • If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. – John Ruskin • If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I’ll kind of sidle up and see what they’re saying, what they look like, how they sound. That’s an invasion of privacy. – Tom Lehrer • If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual. – Donald A. Norman • If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I’d go for the Pollock every time. – Damien Hirst • If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why… we would be O.K. – Will Rogers • If we’re talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I’m talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can’t in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy. – Muriel Siebert • If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa. – David Brooks • If you look at the economics of Nokia roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth. – Stephen Elop • If you’re buying an album because of the face on it, you’re stupid. – Enrique Iglesias • If you’re buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that’s when they develop their flavor. – Julia Child • I’m a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup. – Melanie Fiona • I’m a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter. – Michael Symon • I’m a Virgo and I’m more – I don’t want to say ‘negative’ – but I’m the girl who thinks no one’s coming to my birthday party, no one’s buying my clothes, no one’s reading my book, no one’s watching my show – that’s just how I think. – Rachel Zoe • I’m a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you’re getting out. I’m also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write. – Sam Shepard • I’m as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles ‘all you need is love’, one of the most evocative singles of all time. – Jon Snow • I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things. – Yann Martel • I’m not buying a boat because of writing skits. – Jason Sudeikis • I’m not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present. – Christopher Owens • Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day. -Nicola Formichetti • Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don’t like being limited in that way. Therefore, I’m considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around. – Robert Downey, Jr. • I’m very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.- Ronnie Dunn – Art, Native American, Years • Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music. – John Mellencamp • In China, you’ve got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you’ve got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world. – Angela Ahrendts • In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they’re really, really buying internationally. – Jim Balsillie • In the area we’re discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. – Norman Lear • In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991. – Peter Lynch • In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them. – John Wanamaker • Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets. – Maria Bartiromo • Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we’ve rolled almost everything back to the company. – Bill Gates • It doesn’t matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren’t supporting it and buying your music, it’s hard to make it. – Chris Daughtry • It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media. – Bill Mumy • It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc. – Ali Khamenei • It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I’ve known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine–that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. – Edwin Lefevre • It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars. – Phil Angelides • It wasn’t what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back. – Will Rogers • It’s about time we stopped buying things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like. – Adrian Rogers • It’s still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer’s buying habits could be huge. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I’ve come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I’ve also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime. – Daymond John • Journalists aren’t supposed to praise things. It’s a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something. – P. J. O’Rourke • Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China – David Letterman • Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops. – Laura Mennell • Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction. – Stacy London • Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn’t say she’s got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she’s got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that. – Kara DioGuardi • Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. – Benjamin Franklin • Many of life’s decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There’s also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don’t get much practice making them. You’ve probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely. – Steven Levitt • Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That’s not management, that’s deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it’s a magnificent profession. – Clayton Christensen • Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr Martin Freeman • Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you’d take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal. – Tyler Gregory Hicks • Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can’t find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn’t be tolerated. – Laura Mennell • Modern man’s happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments. – Erich Fromm • Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer. – E.C. Riegel • Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. – Richard DeVos • Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable. – Cory Trepanier • Music is so hard. It’s a struggle to get people to care. It’s hard to make an impact in today’s world because people aren’t buying records anymore. – Juliana Hatfield • My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip. – David Suzuki • My granddaddy on my momma’s side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine’s Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year. – Josh Turner • My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you’re never around assholes. That’s the two things to really fight for in life. – John Waters • My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I’m even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That’s why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down. – Carl Honore • My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role. – Gangaji • My world. My rules. I would command everyone to do so many things! Be kind. Oh, I would command everyone to stop buying tabloids! – Jennifer Aniston • No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily – or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play. – Edwin Lefevre • Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality – leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last. – Doris Janzen Longacre • On the one hand, we’re constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It’s absolutely insane. We’ve been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We’re being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think. • Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents. – George Mikes • Once you turn pro and you’re making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club. – Bobby Orr • One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices. – Richard Driehaus • One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa every two to four days. This pattern is a function of human behavior. It takes several days of a market rallying before it looks really good. That’s when everyone wants to buy it, and that’s the time when the professionals, like myself, are selling. Conversely, when the market has been down for a few days, and everyone is bearish, that’s the time I like to be buying. – Jack D. Schwager • One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it’s a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster. – John Michael Greer • Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. – Warren Buffett • Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you’ve got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that’s the way we filter out buying opportunities. – Charlie Munger • Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online. – Marc Ostrofsky • Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity. – Ray Dalio • People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown. – Walt Mossberg • People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out – that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers. – Lawrence Bossidy • People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they’re going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won’t be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries. – Michel Gondry • Recently I’ve been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn’t afford them. Now I can so I’ve been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they’ll be worth a lot of money. – Mackenzie Crook • Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards. – Bill Watterson • Since I was 13, I’ve been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap. – Ronald Burkle • Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians. – Milton Friedman • Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she’s still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition. – Frederick Lenz • Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I’m buying a new book to read, I’ll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I’ll think that one is meant to go home with me. I’ll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I’ll always go one behind. – Jennifer Carpenter • Stop paying or buying into the ideas that don’t resonate with the reality you prefer. Stop giving them credence. Appreciate, Appreciate your chosen vibration and allow the vibrations that are not aligned with you to de-preciate. – Darryl Anka • Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We’ve seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying. – James Moore • That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear. – Susan Faludi • That’s what I paint, I paint people. They’re portraits, but you won’t always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you’re buying it, and it’s of your kid! – Jemima Kirke • The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they’re all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury’s and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They’re the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs! – Michael O’Leary • The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you. – Benjamin Graham • The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of ‘Drill, Baby, Drill. – Robert Greenwald • The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings. – Pema Chodron • The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money – generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies – buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the ‘community,’ identifying with the place in a familiar way. – Peter York • The only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want. – John Stossel • The people who are buying stocks because they’re going up and they don’t know what they do, deserve to lose money. – Jim Cramer • The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but “the true saint” goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment. – Abu-Sa’id Abul-Khayr • The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who’s selling it to him does not know. There’s no zero sum game in Wall Street. – Bernard Madoff • The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they’re going to want their apartments and homes. And that’s when you’ll start to see a recovery in home prices. – Jamie Dimon • The reason that so many of us cannot save money is because of our friends. They’re always buying something we can’t afford. – Sam Ewing • The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful. – Steve Jobs • The thing about Paris, it’s a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you’re Baudelaire. But it’s not a city where you can work. – Malcolm Mclaren • There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes. – Thomas Paine • There are countries that prefer to think that they’re buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don’t think that’s the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups. – Jose Maria Aznar • There are no bad days in the market. When the market is down, you’ve got bargains, and it’s lovely to think of what you are buying at low prices. When the market is up, the bargains have gone, but you’re rich. – Bruce Greenwald • There is a difference these days between who’s making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It’s become much more diverse. – El-P • There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. – Jean de la Bruyere • There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink. – Plato • There’s a character that I play onstage, and I can’t let him loose in the supermarket when I’m buying my beans on toast. – Alex Kapranos • There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance. – Boyd K. Packer • Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. – Henry David Thoreau • To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can. – Natalie • To understand KKR, I always like to say, don’t congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we’ve done something with it and created real value. – Henry Kravis • Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend. – Phoebe Cates • Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like. – Will Rogers • Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall. – John H. Vandenberg • Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature’s gift and denies the poor of their human rights. – Vandana Shiva • We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets. – Conn Smythe • We can sell our time, but we can’t buy it back. – Paulo Coelho • We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don’t really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what’s gonna speak to you. – Charles Kelley • We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it. – Will Rogers • What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else’s definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you’ll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it’s a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again. – Sheryl Sandberg • When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P. J. O’Rourke • When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? – Rene Rivkin • When even the analysts are bored, it’s time to start buying. – Peter Lynch • When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity. – David Bonderman • When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • When I turn on my central air conditioner, I feel like, “Wow, I really have come a long way.” Or buying the super expensive organic raw food for my dogs, and I remember when I had to buy the cheapest big bag of kibble. So I think for me it’s often in terms of comfort. – Kristin Bauer van Straten • When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I’m not fitting into it lately, but I still have it. – Nina Garcia • When I’m bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don’t buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up. – Jesse Lauriston Livermore • When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it – that was one of the worst feelings. – Tablo • When no one’s buying your records, it’s easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can’t really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music. – Patrick Carney • When the buying stops, the killing can too. – Yao Ming • When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, … This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it. – Liz Miller • Whether I’m doing music or I’m walking down the street or I’m in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I’m buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it’s the same me. – Glenn Danzig • Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. – Warren Buffett • Whether you’ve done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it’s just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it’s just fictional stories for entertainment. – Holly Valance • Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed. – Craig Reucassel • Why don’t somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit – everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not – and now we are having to pay for ’em, and we are howling like a pet coon. – Will Rogers • With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I’ve come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the ‘greenest’ person I’ve ever known. – Joy Bryant • With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want… with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person. – Caprice Bourret • Women aren’t embarrassed when they buy men’s pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler. – Jimmy Cannon • You are still lucky – you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music – but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It’s risky to bounce around and change your type of music. – Randy Bachman • You can’t buy something which does not exist. In a way, let’s make things exist and then judge later. Don’t cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow. – Ross Lovegrove • You don’t change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of ‘Save the Earth’ bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster. – Alex Steffen • You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we’re in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging. – J. Robbins • You’re going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you’re gonna be payin’ the man with your dues. 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