#so i was thinking why not 6am. but then i was like. ellen are you actually out of your fucking mind

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Should I get up at 6 in the morning to go for a run or is that an insane decision that I will hate myself for

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#SelfiesForCastaneda

Story Summary:  You’ve just finished watching The Umbrella Academy on Netflix. You follow the main cast on Twitter and get a Retweet from David Castaneda on your selfie! This prompts a conversation with you two. You hit it off and set a date.

Chapter: 1/1

Word Count: 2,420

Pairing: David Castaneda x Reader

Warnings: Anxious thoughts

It’s a rainy Friday night. Normally you’d go out with friends or go out to downtown Toronto. Because it was raining and you were exhausted from work though, you decided to veg out and finish watching the Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy. You were comfortable in your warm home, laid down on your plushy couch, with a fuzzy blanket covering you, and you were in your sweatpants and loose white t-shirt.

You forgot about this comfort once you were so stunned by the series finale of The Umbrella Academy. You could not wait for season 2. You also got attached to the characters and you loved Ellen Page and Robert Sheehan more than you already did before; back when you saw the movie Juno, and back when you watched the show Misfits. You thought Emmy Raver-Lampman was so pretty and seemingly sweet in real life. Your bisexual ass could not get over this. You hit the Follow button in Twitter for Ellen, Robert, and Emmy. The character Luther was your least favourite one, though you thought to get to know the actor for him, Tom Hopper, from interviews, and to Follow him on Twitter too. Justin H. Min was so handsome and so vulnerable as Ben. Aidan Gallagher was just a kid and did an amazing job playing an old man trapped in the body of a 12 year old. And last but not least, there was David Castaneda. He is the most handsome one to you. As Diego, he was so resentful. It didn’t make sense to you because all the siblings went through childhood trauma, from the same man who adopted them all. He was also spiteful towards a former lover, Detective Patch (who your gay ass also found attractive. That’s a story for another time). Still, there was something about Diego, or David, that made you feel good things.

You smile as you hit the Follow button on David. You have followed all the main cast of The Umbrella Academy, along with Mary J. Blige, who is just an icon. You also followed Gerard Way, who created the show and was the singer of the brilliant band My Chemical Romance.

You spend the rest of your evening lurking everyone you just followed. It feels good to be in love with something again.

As you lurk David and his Likes, you see a bunch of fan’s selfies he liked. Every selfie has the hashtag #SelfiesForCasataneda You’re intrigued by this. You wonder if he started this hashtag, or if some fans did. You are also pleased that he interacts with fans. He’s still at the level of fame where he can see fans in his notifications over being blinded by the plenty of Likes, Retweets, and Replies he gets.

This motivates you to get off the couch and to take a shower. As you take a shower, you think of an outfit idea for this selfie you’re thinking of posting. You’ll wear all black; the tight black turtleneck you bought a while ago and have worn plenty of times already, the baggy black jacket you’ve copped from your older sister, and black jeans. It was a Diego-esque outfit. You didn’t have to cosplay. You just always dress like this anyway, and you were the most confident in it.

After your shower, you slip into the outfit, put on some concealer, black winged eyeliner, and red lipstick. You snap some shots from the camera on your phone. You try out a bunch of angles. You scoff at some selfies and think there’s no way he’ll Like any of these. Well, he could, since he seemed like a support Liker to fans. You still wanted to dress to impress if he was going to actually see this selfie!

You beam up once you get another idea. You run to your kitchen to pick up 2 kitchen knives. You are aware of how funny this could look. You like to think that you’re a creative person, or so you decide to go the positive route of thinking.

You get the knives and put a self timer on from the camera of your phone. You criss-cross your arms, with a knife in each hand, and take the shot. Your phone took 3 shots, so there’s a chance of a good one. There is a good one indeed. Your face was lighted perfectly in this certain one. There was a glow. Your hair looked great too. You love the shape of your body as well.

You post the photo, and put in the hash tag, #SelfiesForCastaneda You press ‘Tweet’. At this point, you don’t care if no one would Like the selfie. You are just feelin’ your look!

Fortunately, you do get some Likes; a few were David Castaneda fan accounts, one from a supportive mutual, and a few others were from other fans of The Umbrella Academy. You Like everyone else’s most recent tweets and selfies back.

Then there is a Retweet. You beam up and think maybe it’s from one of the Likers. You view the Retweet and it’s from… @DavidCastanedaJ You think it’s another fan account, until you remember following this account earlier, and you notice the blue checkmark next to the username, which indicates that this is an official and verified celebrity account. Your heart is racing. What the fuck! you think. You check his account and think that maybe his support Liking evolved to support Retweeting. There is no other Retweet with the hashtag #SelfiesForCastaneda on his account though.

You leave your phone alone for 2 hours after your tweet gets more Likes and Retweets from other David fans. You even notice some haters in the thread. Luckily there are only a few haters. Everyone else says that your photo is bad-ass.

You’re not usually one for bragging. This is a very cool moment though, so you retweet David’s Retweet of your selfie, and you caption it with, 'Uhmmm… did David Castaneda just retweet my selfie!? Diego frickn Hargreeves!?“

You look at the time on your phone. It’s 1:30am! You’re usually a night owl. Somehow though, you were tired. You did sleep very little before you went to work, and you commuted in the rain. Being cozy and watching Netflix had to contribute to that tiredness as well. So, you snuggle up in your warm bed, which also has a fuzzy blanket, and sleep.

—

10:43am. You wake up naturally and pick up your phone which was laid on top of some pile of clothes you left on your floor beside your bed. You check your Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr. Finally, you check your Twitter to check on the selfie. You also see an Inbox notification. You wonder who that could be from. People don’t normally message you on Twitter. You open the inbox and in the preview, it’s @DavidCastanedaJ ! You can’t believe it. What could he possibly have to say to you? Your heart is racing.

What if he says that the retweet was an accident? Would he have had to message you that though? He could have deleted the Retweet if it was an accident. You would have understood that he didn’t mean to Retweet one fan’s selfie randomly.

You take a deep breath before opening the message to quit your overthinking and your doubts.

@DavidCastanedaJ: It’s a good selfie. I had to retweet it.

After lurking his Twitter last night, you notice that he’s got a dry and sarcastic tone. You’re unsure of what to respond to him with, or if you should even respond. Well, of course you should respond. He felt compelled to say something to you personally instead of being funny and fishing for Likes. Well, that’s speaking for if he’s not being sarcastic.

You tap your chin and wonder if you should screenshot this to your close friends, especially your sister who got you to watch the show and dealt with you ogling over him. You shake your head out of this and think that it’s best to reply to him ASAP. He sent his text around 6am. You’re not sure why he sent it that early. He’s in Toronto, a city not too far from yours. He’s not shooting a show, as far as you knew. There isn’t even an announcement of a season 2 for The Umbrella Academy yet.

You quit your overthinking again, and decide to reply with this:

[@YourUsername]: A good selfie how? Like, in what sense?

You take another deep breath and chuck your phone on the spot next to you on your bed. You get up from the bed and decide to leave your phone alone and try to think of something productive to do on your day off. Before you can do that, your phone buzzes. You beam up, and rush back over to your bed, which you sit on your knees for.

Twitter Notification: Preview of @DavidCastanedaJ Inbox message

@DavidCastanedaJ: Idk

@DavidCastanedaJ: I like your Diego get-up, and you’re aesthically pleasing

Your heart is skipping beats. What does he mean by aesthetically pleasing!? Is he implying that you’re attractive? Are you even his type in looks? Do you resemble Detective Patch? Are actors attracted to the type of people who play their love interests? Well it was the only reference you have for this emerging and handsome actor.

You’re in your 20s, and he’s 29. You still have a baby face and wonder if he thinks you look younger than you actually are. Why would he retweet your selfie though?

[@YourUsername]: Aesthetically pleasing? This face?

You hold your phone and stare at the thread. Maybe he’s online if he replied to your last text just seconds after it. Much to your surprise, there’s a blue checkmark which indicates that he read it. Maybe he’s just thinking of what to say. Or maybe you’re a suggestive creep! Wait, how could you be if he was the one who retweeted your selfie!? God, you really had to quit that. Stop letting it get to your head!

The thread shows a new bubble, from him.

@DavidCastanedaJ: Haha

@DavidCastanedaJ: Yes, this face

@DavidCastanedaJ: It’s a great face. What’s your secret?

You are now blushing and still manage to type.

[@YourUsername]: I did sleep 9 hours last night. You know what they say about 9 hours of sleep.

@DavidCastanedaJ: Yeah, that’s lucky

You are easing into this now, though you are also wondering if you should be careful, or if you’re just dreaming and didn’t actually wake up earlier than you usually do.

[@YourUsername]: I’m guessing you don’t have that luxury?

@DavidCastanedaJ: Well, maybe now I can sleep that much

@DavidCastanedaJ: Back when we were shooting the Umbrella Academy though, I was a mess!

[@YourUsername]: You seem so healthy

[@YourUsername]: At least with that body, you do…

David seems to like that response. You spend Saturday afternoon texting each other, and it’s still surreal to you that this is happening, much less how you two seem so connected.

—

A few hours later.

@DavidCastanedaJ: So, you said you’re in Toronto, right?

[@YourUsername]: Well, I’m in a city *near* Toronto, about a half hour away

@DavidCastanedaJ: Oh I see

[@YourUsername]: I’m there often anyway. I mostly go see local bands, and take their photos

@DavidCastanedaJ: Right. I remember you saying that earlier

You’re unsure of how this conversation could last at this point. You take a chance with a one-word response anyway.

[@YourUsername]: Yep!

@DavidCastanedaJ: How would you feel about coming to Toronto tonight? I thought maybe we could have dinner, and I could show you real Diego Hargreeves gear…

Your heart is racing again! In fact, you think that you’re going to shit your pants. You decide to have some banter with him to cover up your fangirling.

[@YourUsername]: "Real Diego Hargreeves gear.”

[@YourUsername]: Is that a sexual innuendo?

@DavidCastanedaJ: It is if you want it to be ;)

[@YourUsername]: Omg

@DavidCastanedaJ: I realize that did sound pretty sketchy, so sorry about that

[@YourUsername]: No, it’s totally fine! I was just teasing :)

[@YourUsername]: I would love to come to downtown tonight! When are you free?

@DavidCastanedaJ: Well, seeing as I’ve been texting a very beautiful girl all afternoon, I’d say my schedule is pretty flexible

[@YourUsername]: Really? Are you sure that Gerard Way isn’t barking at you to get back on set for season 2 as we speak?

@DavidCastanedaJ: Ahahah yeah totally

@DavidCastanedaJ: I’d tell him to wait though. I should get to spend my free time with someone cool first

From there, you hash out the details for the plans; what time, and where to meet. You both also decide to get a drink at Brooklynn Bar. You’re not much of a drinker, though for a celebrity like him you made an exception.

You decide to wear “the Diego get-up”, this time you style your hair, wear darker red lipstick, the same black eyeliner, and you sling a small black cross-body bag over your shoulder.

David texts you with his name. Then he tells you to keep him posted on your whereabouts. You make your way to downtown and your meeting spot with him. You eye the area and look for him. You turn to some side, and you see him walking over. Your heart is skipping beats again, and you gasp.

He looks so handsome with his tan peacoat, black jeans, his gelled black hair, and beard and mustache.

He smiles knowingly and walks over to you. He gives you a hug.

You cannot believe that it is actually him. You realise in this moment that you could have been catfished. You weakly hug him back in your disbelief over this moment.

He pulls you in closer and you hug back tighter.

“Oh my God!” you exclaim.

He pulls out the hug and he looks over at you with a toothy smile on his face. “What?”

“It’s you. It’s really you! God, this is so embarrassing. I think that I’m actually starstruck.”

He chuckles. “This is gonna sound weird, but I thought I was being catfished.”

You give him a puzzled look, although you are so flattered. “I thought that I was an annoying type of fan you’re annoyed of attracting!”

“What!?” he laughs. “Okay, we haven’t even had a drink yet and we’re already confusing each other.”

You let out a laugh.

He gestures an arm to the entry door. “Shall we go in?”

“Yeah sure!”

He signals for you to walk in first, and so your date begins. Things can only get better from here.

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CHAPTER 5

Saturday dawned, and Claire was up at 6am. She hadn’t brought much in the way of hiking, but fortunately, Claire and Jenny were the same size shoe. So, Claire dressed in warm jeans, a long-sleeved shirt topped with a t-shirt, and her nursing society hoodie. She would collect her outerwear at the door as well as Jenny’s boots.

 Ellen was already up when Claire made her way downstairs, and she had bacon and eggs cooking away on the stove as well as coffee brewing away.

 “Mornin’ Claire,” Ellen smiled. “I didnae expect ye up this early. An’ yer dressed rather warmly fer the house.”

 “Mornin’ Ellen,” Claire greeted in return as she sat at the kitchen table. “Jamie said he would show me some of the area as thanks for helping Fergus with his English.”

“Well, they won’t be long,” Ellen explained as she started plating up the food. “Jamie and Willie are just helpin’ Brian feed the horses. An’ can I jus’ say how grateful Brian and I are for the wor yer doin’ wae Fergus.”

 “It’s no problem,” Claire reassured. “He’s such a sweet boy. I see you’ve given in and started calling him ‘Fergus’ too.”

 “Aye, ye cannae be confusin’ the lad,” Ellen smiled as he poured two mugs of coffee and put them on the table. “Jus’ need tae work on Brian.”

 “Work on Brian wae what?” the man in question asked as he entered the kitchen through the back door followed by his two giant sons. “If yer talkin about the lad’s name, I’m still callin’ ‘im Claudel. Tha’s the name on ‘is birth certificate, so tha’s the name I’m callin’ ‘im.”

 Jamie mumbled something under his breath that Claire didn’t fully catch, it may actually have been in Gàidhlig. So, Claire made a mental note to ask him about it later when they were alone. Whatever it had been made Brian uneasy and he headed out of the kitchen, followed by Ellen.

 “Good mornin’ Claire,” Willie Fraser greeted as he sat down at the table next to her. “Didnae expect tae see ye up at this ungodly hour. Only madmen an’ farmers are up at this hour.”

 “Aye an’ yer a bloody madman,” Jamie jumped in with as he sat down in Ellen’s vacant seat. “If ye must know, bràthair, I’m takin’ Claire tae see some o’ the countryside. She’s been cooped up here for more than a week helpin’ young Fergus wi’ ‘is English. He’s come on leaps an’ bounds tae.”

 “Fancy some company then?” Willie asked with a cheeky grin.

 “I don’t think Louise would be too happy with that,” Claire said, having sensed Jamie was about to say something snarkier than that. “Besides, you already promised Fergus you would let him bake something with you today. May I suggest cupcakes that he can decorate for everyone?”

 “Aye, yer right there, Claire,” Willie agreed, and Claire could see Jamie visibly relax out the corner of her eye. “An’ cupcakes it is. Louise will love to help with that. She could actually help with his English since she’s French.”

 “Tha’ will be great, Willie,” Jamie said thankfully. “Jus’ make sure the lad speaks more in English than French, though. Dinnae want Claire’s hard work goin’ tae waste.”

 “Aye, aye, Captain,” Willie joked as he saluted Jamie. “Noo, let’s eat. Don’ want mam’s good work goin’ tae waste, do we?”

 The trio then got down to eating breakfast in peaceful silence before Willie headed back to his room for a shower to wash the stink of the horses off him for the day.

 “So, what’s the plan for today, oh Captain?” Claire asked.

 “Thought we’d go fer a walk along the river,” Jamie began. “An’ see what the weather is like from there. Might take ye tae visit the ruins.”

 “Sounds like a plan,” Claire agreed and made to go collect the boots and her hat and coat.

Claire enjoyed the solace she felt walking along the river with Jamie, every now and then one of them would release a titbit about their life. Claire began with how she grew up all over the world and never really had a feeling of home and Jamie reciprocated with some tales of his childhood with Jenny. Claire then went on to talk about her Uncle Lamb and how she had nursed him at the end of his life, which inspired her to go into nursing.

 “In fact, it was one time I was in Malawi and worked with some of the children with learning disabilities that made me think of that field of nursing,” Claire explained. “It was quite an eye-opening experience. What made you go into the whiskey trade and not the horse trade with your dad?”

 “The horses are fer Rabbie,” Jamie said matter of factly. “Willie was good wi’ the cookin’ growin’ up, I had a heid fer trade, an’ Rabbie has a knack wi’ the horses. I do tae, bu’ I’ll let the lad have the business an’ I’ll help ‘im if ‘e needs it. Besides, I lef’ school at sixteen, an’ da sent me tae France tae work fer our cousin Jared.”

 “France, eh?” Claire asked intrigued and it looked like Jamie was dreading her next sentence. “It seems we have something in common. How long were you there?”

 “Three year,” Jamie explained. “Made sure I wis nice an’ legal afore I cam’ back hame to work in the trade. Dinnae want the competition complain tha’ Glen Ord had some underage kid workin fer them.”

 “You could have worked in the visitor centre.”

 “Nah, I’m no one fer people much. I prefer workin’ wi’ the rich smellin’ casks an’ the whiskey.”

 “So you can steal a dram or two?”

 “Nah, I don’ drink on the job. Murtagh would kill me.”

 “Murtagh? He’s your Godfather, right?”

 “Aye, an’ my boss. Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser. No’ wha’ about yer time in France?”

 Claire took the opportunity to talk about her work in France with the Sisters who worked at L'Hôpital des Anges and teaching some of the children who came through their services English. She went on to explain that she was there for two years between the ages of sixteen and eighteen when her Uncle Lamb appeared to have settled down with a close friend, Raymond.

 “Unfortunately,” Claire explained. “Raymond was bitten by a poisonous snake when they were on holiday and died. That’s when Uncle Lamb decided to move back to Oxford.”

 “So, why are ye spendin’ yer Christmas here?” Jamie questioned. “An’ no spendin it wi’ yer Uncle?”

 “He died two years ago,” Claire explained as she felt a tear fall down her face. “Cancer.”

 “I’m sae sorry about tha’,” Jamie said as he wiped the tear from Claire’s face. “I didna mean to upset ye, but please, accept my offer tha’ yer always welcome here in Beauly an’ at Lallybroch.”

 “Thank you, Jamie,” Claire smiled gratefully. “I’m not sure how your mum would take to you offering me lodgings at Lallybroch without consulting with her. Especially since you have your own place now.”

 “Ach, mam loves ye too, Sassenach,” Jamie smiled, not even noticing his slip of the tongue as he checked the time on his watch. “No, let’s get ye somewhere we can get ye fed. Don’ want ye wastin’ away on me now.”

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More to put you to sleep at 6am

51 59 78 81 91 95

51, A card/dice/board game you love?

Oh this is fun! I used to love a board game called Wallstreet, but they sadly don’t make that anymore😕 But I love card games, not like poker, but those fun kid ones you learn when you’re little😝

59, Can you write in cursive?

Yes I can!🙂

78, A show/movie thats been on your watchlist forever but you for some reason keep putting off?

The Good Doctor🙃 Don’t know why, but it’s been there for years

81, If you were to have a kid what names would you have in mind?

Gosh.

Alright, some girls names: Julia, Hannah, Sarah, Ellen, Iris, Louisa

Some boys names: Oscar, Peter, Arthur, Thomas, Thor, James

I also really love some of y’all’s unisex names like Taylor, Spencer and Jordan, but I’d have to move to name my kid that🙃

91, Would you be fine having your partner completely provide for you?

No I don’t think so, I’ve been working ever since I was 13 and I’m used to having to pay for myself, and whenever someone pays for me I feel incredibly guilty haha🥴

95, Do you split the check or expect only one of you to be paying it?

Usually we switch paying it, but if I’m out with someone new I usually pay it!😊 I won’t question or argue if they pay me back later, I just don’t expect them to☺️

[hope-for-olicity]

The Black Pearl Ring 2/5

Inspired by the Donovan family books by Elizabeth Lowell. An Olicity AU where Felicity comes in possession of the much sought after Donovan Black Pearl.

I’d like to say a very special thank you to @captainolicitysbedroom for creating such beautiful artwork and to @almondblossomme for all her support being willing to proof read. I’m very, very grateful!

Also available on AO3

                              Chapter 2: Let My Love Open the Door

Star City

Felicity had spent her night tossing and turning so she was actually glad when her alarm went off at 6am. She hopped out of bed ready to start her day -- just as soon as she ingested enough coffee to feed an elephant. It was going to be a many coffee kind of day but she had survived those before.

She took a hot shower as the Keurig starting making her first cup. She grabbed the coffee cup from the machine and brought it into the bathroom with her as she got ready for the day, drying her blonde hair, pulling it back into the sensible pony tail she loved. She quickly chugged the end of her first cup of coffee and brushed her teeth. Now for lipstick, she picked a bright pink to put on. To make your lips pop, she could hear her mother’s voice in her head.

She quickly sent her Mom a text:

Felicity: Good Morning Mom, I know you are still asleep but I wanted this be the first thing you saw when you woke up.

Felicity: Miss you and I hope you have a good day.

She really did plan to keep in closer touch with her mother and texting seemed like a good idea. Her Mom said she was okay but she knew her mother would be lonely without Mary Ellen.

Felicity was standing in her underwear looking at the dresses in her closet, first she reached for the grey one. She glanced out the window to see it was going to be bright sunny day. She was in kind of a grey mood thanks to the lack of sleep but she changed her mind and picked a vivid emerald green shift instead. One last look in the mirror, grabbed her bag and she was out the door to face the day.

I will have an excellent day at work she told herself. The power of positive thinking was something that Felicity had come to believe in.

&&&&&

Felicity was humming Shutup and Dance by Walk the Moon, she was happy, she had another coffee in hand and she beat Roger to the office which always pleased her.

She was so lost in her own little world that she failed to realize she wasn’t alone until she placed the coffee on her desk, heard a throat clear and looked up, to see none other than Oliver Queen sitting in the chair directly opposite her desk.

The first thought she had was thank god I didn’t drop my coffee. Her second thought she said out loud “What the hell are you doing here?”

Oliver knew it was wrong to wait to announce his presence but he couldn’t help it - she was just too adorable. He also knew he had no right to her adorableness anymore.

“I need to talk to you,” Oliver gave Felicity his most charming smile. He always was super attractive with his combination of boyish good looks and sexy man scruff. Looks were not something this man lacked.

“I have a phone.” Felicity waved her cell phone.

“Some things should not be discussed on the phone. Felicity, there is something serious I need to talk to you about.” he said in the low voice he only used when he talked to her.

“I thought we both agreed, you would leave me alone.” Felicity’s hurt was beginning to show.

“We  both did agree. And I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t important. Please, can I have a moment before you throw me out” Oliver looked at her pleadingly.

Felicity sad down in her office chair. “Fine. What is so important you had to come all the way from Central City?” Oliver looked surprised that she had known where he was.

“Yes, I know where you live.” Felicity decided it was best not to tell him that she  still checked from time to time to make sure he was okay. He didn’t need to know, plus she knew it was rather stalker like.

“You have done well for yourself Felicity, these offices are twice the size of your old space.” he looked at her, just like he used to, like he found her amazing.

“Yes, bigger office. But I don’t think that’s why you are here.”

Oliver’s expression changed to serious. “No, I will just cut to the chase. You have the Donovan Black Pearl and I would like to buy it from you before any harm comes to you.”

“The Donovan Black Pearl? I’m not sure I know what you are talking about and how would you know what I have? We haven’t spoken in almost a year.”

Oliver took a deep breath, not sure how she was going to react, “I used the hacking skills you taught me to check out the person who had it appraised yesterday and it only took me a moment to recognize you. I’d recognize you anywhere.”

Given Felicity’s own stalking of him she knew she couldn’t say much. Plus if she was honest she was impressed he was able to hack the jewelry store’s internal feed. “Okay, it was me. I recently inherited some jewelry when my Aunt Mary Ellen died and it looked expensive so I had it appraised.”

“Mary Ellen died. I’m so sorry Felicity. I know I only met her once but she seemed like a lovely woman and I know she meant a great deal to you and Donna. How is Donna doing?”

Oliver seemed to genuinely care. No, Felicity thought not falling back down that hole. “Mom is fine. We will both be fine with some time. One of the items was a beautiful black pearl ring, which I guess is the Donovan Black Pearl? It’s very pretty.”

“The Donovan Black Pearl is more than pretty. It’s one of a kind and has been missing since the early 1900s. Some would consider it a legend. It is said to be the first black pearl ever discovered but I have my doubts on that. There are people who will pay untold amounts of money to get their hands on it, dangerous people Felicity.  I’m here to see if you will sell it to Queen Consolidated. For a fair price, of course.”

“What if I don’t want to sell? Mary Ellen left that ring to me and I wanted to wear it in her memory.” Felicity gave Oliver that stubborn look that always turned him on.

“Felicity,” Oliver’s voice was getting tense. “You can’t keep it. Every minute you have it the more danger you put yourself in. If I could find you this quickly, how long do you think it will take those of less savory element. You have to sell for your own safety.”

Felicity got up from her desk and walked over to look out the wall of windows in her office. She looked out at the cloudless sky. She turned and looked back at Oliver, “You really think I’m putting myself in danger by keeping it?”

“Without a doubt. Look Felicity, I know I did wrong by you and I will never forgive myself for that and I’ve tried to respect your wishes and stay away but this is  your safety, I had to come.”

“You could have sent Thea or John,” she said sounding a little like a small child.

“No. It had to be me.” he said with a tone of finality.

Felicity decided it was probably best to avoid that argument. “Okay,” she twirled her necklace in her hands distractedly. “What if you are overreacting? What if it’s not the Donovan Black Pearl. I mean I got it from Mary Ellen, yes she was world traveled, but still. Maybe it just looks like the Donovan Black Pearl.”

“Fel-ici-ty” Oliver gave her a wearied look.

“Well, you could be wrong.” she pouted.

“Okay, why don’t you show it to me. I promise if it’s not the real deal, I’ll leave you alone with your ring.”

“I don’t have it.”

“What do you mean you don’t have it?” Oliver was a little alarmed. “Is it at home?”

“No, I left it at the jewelry store to be sized. I told you I wanted to wear it and it was a little too big.” Felicity said defensively, it’s not like she had any idea she shouldn’t at the time.

Oliver took a deep breath. “Okay, let’s go to the jewelry store.”  I really hope it’s still there, he thought.

“Oliver, it’s 8am, I don’t think they are open yet. Here,” she pointed to the laptop on her desk, “let me check their hours.” She quickly searched the store information. She turned the laptop around so Oliver could see “They open at 10am. Why don’t I get some work done. We can head over there closer to ten?”

“Okay. I’ll go get us more coffee and I’ll meet you downstairs at quarter to ten.” Oliver got up and left.

Felicity noticed he hadn’t asked but  told her what they were doing, something he knew would get her back up. But at least he was bringing coffee. The man really did know her.

&&&&&

Oliver took the elevator down, he was surrounded by people in business suits so his jeans and leather jacket made him stand out a little. Little did they know that he was an expert businessman himself.

As he was was walking through the revolving door that led outside he hauled out his cell phone and called Queen Consolidated to check in.

John answered “Queen Consolidated, John Diggle speaking.”

“John, it’s Oliver. Hope everything went okay at Lyla’s appointment yesterday.”

“Better than okay,” Oliver could practically hear Diggle beaming, “I saw my baby!  The size of a peanut but I know he’ll grow to be big and strong.”

“He? They could tell that already?”

“No, not yet. But I just know it. The same way Lyla just knows it’s a girl.”

Oliver chuckled. “I see. I’m actually calling to report in and see if there is anything going on there that I need to know about.”

“Things are pretty quiet here. We are actually pretty interested on how things are going there. I’m going to put you on speaker phone so I don’t have to repeat everything to Thea,” Oliver heard a click.

“Hi big brother! Did you win her back yet?” Oliver could hear Diggle chuckle.

“No, I’m actually pretty lucky she didn’t throw her shoe at me….she’s done that before.” Oliver sighed.

“Thea filled me in on Felicity having the Donovan Black Pearl. Oliver, does Felicity understand the danger she is in? Do you need me to come to Star City? Maybe she will listen to me, I’m still her friend.” John sounded concerned.

“She is listening to me.” He said a little defensively. “I’m not sure I’ve convinced her fully of the danger. I’m not leaving until I do. Right now she is finding it hard to believe that her black pearl is the Donovan Black Pearl. She wants to keep it for sentimental reasons, she inherited it from her aunt.”

“Mary Ellen? Oliver please don’t tell me Mary Ellen passed away? She was so kind.” he could hear the sadness in Thea’s voice.

“Yes Thea, Mary Ellen. So Felicity wants to wear the black pearl in her memory.”

“So nice, such a thoughtful Felicity thing to do,” Thea said wistfully.

“Oliver, am I getting this right, she did not believe you when you saw the pearl and told her it was the Donovan Black Pearl? Are you sure I don’t need to come? I mean this is Felicity and I care too.”

“I haven’t actually seen the pearl yet.”

“What?!” Both Thea and John replied together.

“How could you not have seen it, you said she was going to wear it to remember Mary Ellen.” Thea sounded exasperated.

“She’s not wearing it yet. The Donovan Black Pearl is in a ring and she left the ring at the jewelers to be sized.  We are going to get it from the jeweler as soon as they open this morning.” If it’s still there, he thought.

“Let’s hope it’s still there. Listen Oliver, I can drive and meet you by lunch if you need the backup just say the word.”

“Thanks John. She actually asked why neither of you came. I think she might miss you.”

“Aww. Tell Felicity I miss her lots,” Thea and Felicity had also been quite close before Oliver had thrown it all away.

“I will. Listen I’ll call again to update you after Felicity and I get back from the jewelry store. I’ll have my cell.”

“Good luck and remember we are here if you need anything.” John said before disconnecting.

Oliver began walking towards the coffee shop he could see across the street to wait until it was time to meet Felicity.

&&&&&

Felicity heard Roger arrive a few minutes after Oliver left.  She got up from her desk and walked out to greet him.

“Good Morning Roger. I need you to clear my meetings for the rest of the morning, I have something personal business I need to attend to.”

“Sure thing Ms. Smoak. Let me look,” Roger quickly looked down at his computer screen. “You only had one, I’ll reschedule and update your calendar.”

“Thanks Roger,” Felicity began walking back to her office. She looked back “I’m leaving around quarter to ten until then I’ll be working on the finishing touches of the Power Cell presentation.” And not thinking about Oliver Queen.  She hoped she didn’t say that last part out loud. She took a quick look back at Roger’s expression, good, no embarrassment.

Felicity sat down at her desk intending to focus and get a good hour’s worth of work in. The best intentions sometimes fall through. She couldn’t help but think back to why she was no longer with the man she clearly still loved.

&&&&&

8 months ago

Felicity was so happy. Every time she looked at her engagement ring she was filled with joy. Yes, she had been engaged to Oliver Queen for six months but it just never got old for her. She was marrying the love of her life. She couldn’t help but squee inside!

She was still on that high that let herself into the loft she was currently sharing with Oliver and stopped dead in her tracks. John and Thea were there waiting for her and she could tell by Thea’s red rimmed eyes that the news was not good.

“Where is Oliver?” She could not keep the panic out of her voice.

“Felicity,” John came forward and  tried to lead her to the couch, “there is something we have to tell you about Oliver.”

“No, No, No” Felicity was suddenly terrified of what that something might be. He couldn’t be dead. She was sure that if he died she would feel it. He was part of her soul, people said you felt things like that.

“He’s not dead.” She said with more force than necessary.

“No, he’s not dead,” Thea put her arm around Felicity and had her sit on the couch with her.

“There is no easy way to say this,” John began pacing the floor in front of

Felicity and Thea. “Oliver has been taken hostage or prisoner or whatever they call it, the Russian Bratva is holding him.”

“Bratva...Russia. No, that’s not possible,” Felicity shook her head. “We talked about this. He promised me he was going to let the ruby go. He swore he would not go to Moscow. He promised John!”

“Felicity, he went. I am so sorry. If it makes you feel any better, he was worried so he put a plan in place to alert me if something went wrong.” John had military training from the time he served in Afghanistan, so there was no one Oliver would have trusted more to get him out of a sticky situation in Russia.

“No John, that does not make me feel any better. Oliver lied and now he might be killed. Nothing is going to make me feel better,” she shook Thea’s arms off her and walked toward the kitchen where she poured herself a glass of wine.

“So this plan Oliver has in place, it means you go to Russia to collect him right?” She looked directly at John.

“Yes, I’m leaving in a few hours. Oliver didn’t want you to know. Did not want you to worry but just in case I don’t make it back - I felt you had a right to know what happened.”

“Well, at least you did,” Felicity said with bitterness in her voice.

Thea got up from the couch and walked toward John, “Why don’t you go get ready for your trip, say goodbye to Lyla and all and I’ll stay here with Felicity. Let us know the moment you have Oliver.”

“Yes, please do John, because if Bratva does not kill him, I might.” Felicity had not been so angry or hurt in her life.

Thea walked John to the door and said lowly “Good luck. At least she’s not crying.” and shrugged her shoulders.

John nodded, “give her time,” and walked out the door.

&&&&&

It took three long days before John alerted Thea that he had safely gotten Oliver out of Russia. It was the middle of the night but Thea has been staying at the loft with Felicity so she went into their room to wake her with the good news.

Felicity sat up, reached for her glasses and grumbled “Thank God,” before bursting into tears. This was the first time that she had cried to Thea’s awareness. Thea knew her big brother was going to have a lot to answer for.

&&&&&

Felicity did not meet him and John at the airport. Oliver knew she was livid he had broken a promise he had made right to her face and from the moment the Bratva had taken him, throughout all the beatings, they wanted their ruby back, all he could think was why? Why did I lie to Felicity? Why didn’t I listen to Felicity? He knew she was the smart one.

His face was still black and blue and swollen as he let himself back into their loft. He was walking gingerly, everything still hurt. When he entered he saw Felicity sitting on the couch and her bags near the door.

“Felicity” he said softly.

“I’m glad you aren’t dead.” she responded without looking at him.

“Nope, not dead just very sorry.”

“You are sorry. Well, I guess that’s something. You PROMISED ME Oliver that you wouldn’t go to Russia. We talked about it. You knew going after a ruby that the Bratva wanted and we both agreed it was not worth the risk. Or did I just dream that entire conversation?” She turned to look at him then and saw the bruising. “Oh my God,” she said and turned her face away again.

“No, I did promise. But Felicity I had to go. It would be the only chance to get that ruby and you know how rare that particular ruby was! It means a nest egg for our future. I had to take the chance!”

“Well that’s it right there isn’t it. YOU had to take the chance. YOU put what you wanted above our future. Above our trust and instead of telling me, you had to go - you just left. You lied to me Oliver.”

“Felicity,” he started pleadingly.

“No, you lied. I trusted you with EVERYTHING and you lied. We weren’t that couple. That couple that keeps things from each other. I knew coming into this that your job could be dangerous and I accepted that but we were suppose to talk about those more dangerous trips.” She laughed under her breath, a cold sound “I thought we were a strong enough couple to handle the danger. Turns out I was the fool.”

“Felicity, no, you weren’t a fool. I was so wrong baby. I am so so sorry. I promise I will never lie to you again.”

Felicity stood up and began walking towards her bags and the door.

“No you won’t lie to me again,” she stopped for a moment and took her engagement ring off. The ring that had brought her such joy. She placed the ring on the coffee table. “I want you to leave me alone Oliver.”

“No Felicity! We need to talk about this. We need to fix this! I can fix this!” Oliver’s voice was rising in fear. He knew he was about to  lose the most important thing in his life.

“No,” Felicity looked back from the door. “We can’t fix this. You don’t trust me. Oliver listen to me.” She looked directly at him for the first time since he came through the door, “we are over. There is no relationship without trust and I don’t trust you. Can you promise me something?”

“Anything,” he said eagerly.

“Promise me you will leave me alone.”

Oliver did not see any other choice. This was entirely his fault. So he nodded and she gathered her things. As the door closed behind Felicity he could feel the tears rolling down his cheeks.

&&&&&

That was the last time Felicity had seen Oliver Queen until today.  Queen Consolidated moved their business to Central City when John’s wife Lyla, whom Felicity missed, was promoted at the government security agency ARGUS.

But now he was back in her life. Maybe only for the day but it shook her to her core. She still loved him with all her heart. As time had passed she tried to figure out why he felt he had to lie to her, why he had destroyed them? A part of her still wanted to know.

She heard a knock on her glass door and looked up, “Ms. Smoak, it’s almost quarter to ten. I thought you said you had to leave around that time.”

“I do. Thanks so much for reminding me Roger, I was off in my own little world.” She stood up from her desk and picked up her purse. “I’m sure you can handle things while I’m away. I’ll have my cell phone if you need me. I’ll be back by lunch.”

Felicity began walking toward the elevators. This really wasn’t how she thought her day would go. She took a deep breath. It was okay, she would go to the jewelry store with Oliver, prove that she did not have this Donovan Black Pearl and send him on his way. The sooner the better. Then she could get back to living her life. This was just a minor blip.

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Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people. – George Harrison • Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. – Amit Ray • Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements. – Amit Ray • Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That’s me. – Jen Kirkman • Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way. – Vishnudevananda Saraswati • I always tell people, I can’t teach you yoga. Nobody can teach you yoga. I can’t teach you to teach yoga. All I can do is teach you a set of instructions and if you follow these instructions, hopefully it will lead you to the experience of yoga. – Beryl Bender Birch • I do an early morning meditation from 4am to 6am, a yoga class from 6am to 7am and then set an intention to feel joyful and energetic in my body and loving and compassionate in my heart. For the rest of the day, I just go with the flow. – Deepak Chopra • I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the actual doing of it, so it doesn’t feel like the agony of the gym felt like to me. – Julianne Moore • I don’t want to have strong arms, like you get from Pilates or yoga. But dancing arms become your best accessory. And it’s great for your core muscles. – Natalia Vodianova • I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I’m going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don’t really want to do that first thing in the morning. – Mehmet Oz • I hate yoga pants anywhere but the gym. – Robin Givhan • I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath. I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily. – Grace Gealey • I have been practising yoga for over a decade now, and it is a very important part of my life. It doesn’t matter where I am or what I am doing, yoga gives me the opportunity to switch off and focus entirely on my body and my breath. Yoga allows me to meditate and reflect on what’s important in my life. It is also great for core strength and maintaining agility. – Miranda Kerr • I know everyone says they go to yoga, but I actually really go. I notice that helps me so much. – Jen Kirkman • I really think there’s an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it’s wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga. – Beryl Bender Birch • I run about four days per week and do some sort of hike or yoga/stretching on the other three. Kind of self-propelling my body and muscles forward in my own controlled chaos helps me find the ground a little bit easier on the daily. – Madi Diaz • I started doing yoga in my 20s. I did teacher training, that was what I was going to do if acting didn’t work out. I started teaching other actors right at the beginning of the yoga craze – people still thought it was a little weird, but a lot of actors I knew were getting into it and didn’t want to look foolish in class. So I started teaching them! – Kristin Davis • I started doing yoga. – Carnie Wilson • I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I’d taught pretty much everyone in town – the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners. – Beryl Bender Birch • I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot. – Rosamund Pike • I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it’s creating things in times of waiting. – Emma Stone • I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I’m looking out of my third eye and everything that I’m supposed to be doing. It’s amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. “Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama’s got the magic of Clorox 2.”- Ellen DeGeneres • I went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I’ve been trying to get back. I probably could’ve seen the President five times, it’d be easier than it has been to get back to yoga! – Mike Ness • If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter – if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self. – K. Pattabhi Jois • In middle age I’ve begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically. – James Redford • In the end, yoga for me is all about three things: more joy; being able to collect your capacity so you can have more of what you want in real terms; and ultimately – this may be the most important of it all – less fear. – Rod Stryker • In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless. – Tirumalai Krishnamacharya • In the same way that the physical practice of yoga so effectively benefits your body and mind, the larger science of yoga is similarly powerful in unlocking the vast potentials of your body, mind and spirit to help you achieve your best life imaginable. – Rod Stryker • In yoga you reach your arms to the heavens and the universe smiles back at you. – Diamond Dallas Page • India’s had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga. – Padma Lakshmi • It’s like crazy how many different kinds of yoga there are. And now that they have it for surfers and for this one and for that one. – Diamond Dallas Page • I’ve done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It’s a little bit like music. – Laura Huxley • Lots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it’s so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it. – Beryl Bender Birch • My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the breath. Make sure I drink enough water and get enough sleep. – Leilani Bishop • Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life. – Emily Saliers • Our feelings can be hurt, but you can take a yoga class, you can pray, you can play some basketball – you can figure out things for your hurt feelings. – Killer Mike • Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That’s what drives transformation. – Beryl Bender Birch • Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite. – Erich Schiffmann • She [Mandy Ingber] brought yoga into my life. It completely changed my life . . . It’s one of the most fun workouts I’ve ever had . . . So have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off. – Jennifer Aniston • Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it’s kickboxing, sometimes it’s weight training, sometimes it’s Pilates. – Paula Patton • Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things – they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading – reading good books. Sometimes movies – although a lot of the movies are difficult. – Alice Walker • That’s exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation. – Rodney Yee • The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations. – Bryan Kest • The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind. – Rodney Yee • The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. – Sri Aurobindo • The practice of yoga certainly is a fantastic practice. I only wish I would do it more. I find I can do it alone but it is much better if I have some guidance. Although I can do it alone it is a little bit sloppy. Ultimately, all of those techniques try to bring more oxygen to the brain. We can think and love better if we have more oxygen. – Laura Huxley • The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being. – Sri Aurobindo • The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you…. If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you. – Annie Besant • The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost. – Deepak Chopra • The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. – Raphael • The yoga tradition provides one of humankind’s most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life. – Rod Stryker • This is what our yoga practice is trying to accomplish. Not white light descending from heaven and engulfing you, not energy released from the base of your spine going up through your crown chakra so you become a human lightening bolt, not a halo floating on top of your head. Simply heightened states of awareness, enlightenment, becoming more and more aware which gives more and more insight, which brings wisdom and gives choice. With that wisdom and choice, we become the masters of our destiny and at peace in our life. – Bryan Kest • This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Through Yoga, anybody can attain; it’s a God realisation; you just practise Yoga and if you really mean it, then you’ll do it. There’s Yogis that have done it to such a degree that they’re God, they’re like Christ and they can walk on the water and materialise bodies and they can do all those tricks. – George Harrison • What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They’re like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don’t think of as malleable. – Stephen Colbert • What we’re trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head. – Rodney Yee • What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant. – Donna Farhi • When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga. – Geeta Iyengar • Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga. – Tirumalai Krishnamacharya • While I’ve always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn’t until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff! – Alexander Weinstein • Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don’t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. – Donna Farhi • Yoga doesn’t ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are. – Bryan Kest • Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like – the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation. – Christy Turlington • Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. – Erich Schiffmann • Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. – Carl Jung • Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. – K. Pattabhi Jois • Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga is a natural thing. – Laura Huxley • Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. – Annie Besant • Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science. – Annie Besant • Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. – Indra Devi • Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world. – John Friend • Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it. – Sting • Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. – K. Pattabhi Jois • Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life. – Mark Whitwell • Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul. – Amit Ray • Yoga is not about touching your toes. It’s about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there. – Cyndi Lee • Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. – K. Pattabhi Jois • Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible. – Bob Harper • Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind. – Patanjali • Yoga never calms me. Ever. But it certainly helps me prevent something. – Jen Kirkman • Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment. – Bryan Kest • Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body’s major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It’s the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion. – Deepak Chopra • Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body. – Mariel Hemingway • Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union – the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self-realization. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga’s hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I’d rather be playing basketball. – Chris Noth • You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you. – Rajneesh • You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. – Sharon Gannon • You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. – Sharon Gannon • You don’t have to go the gym – just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga. – Deepak Chopra • You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and self-empowerment seminars. There’s a hope for a quick fix – if only we have the money and right drugs for it. – Alexander Weinstein • You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn’t as accepted to talk about then. – Donna Karan [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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• A lot of people have come to Krishna consciousness through prasadam. I mean, this process is the only kind of yoga that you can actually practice by eating. – Mukunda Goswami • According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay – physical harm, when we’re not thriving. And then finally, it’s even the cause of death. – Rod Stryker • Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that’s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it’s unequaled. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar • By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. – Phillip Moffitt

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Yoga', 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_yoga').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_yoga 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'); ); ); ); • Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer, Crying includes all the principles of Yoga. – Kripalvananda • Definitely, I think it’s much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people. – George Harrison • Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. – Amit Ray • Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements. – Amit Ray • Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That’s me. – Jen Kirkman • Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way. – Vishnudevananda Saraswati • I always tell people, I can’t teach you yoga. Nobody can teach you yoga. I can’t teach you to teach yoga. All I can do is teach you a set of instructions and if you follow these instructions, hopefully it will lead you to the experience of yoga. – Beryl Bender Birch • I do an early morning meditation from 4am to 6am, a yoga class from 6am to 7am and then set an intention to feel joyful and energetic in my body and loving and compassionate in my heart. For the rest of the day, I just go with the flow. – Deepak Chopra • I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the actual doing of it, so it doesn’t feel like the agony of the gym felt like to me. – Julianne Moore • I don’t want to have strong arms, like you get from Pilates or yoga. But dancing arms become your best accessory. And it’s great for your core muscles. – Natalia Vodianova • I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I’m going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don’t really want to do that first thing in the morning. – Mehmet Oz • I hate yoga pants anywhere but the gym. – Robin Givhan • I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath. I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily. – Grace Gealey • I have been practising yoga for over a decade now, and it is a very important part of my life. It doesn’t matter where I am or what I am doing, yoga gives me the opportunity to switch off and focus entirely on my body and my breath. Yoga allows me to meditate and reflect on what’s important in my life. It is also great for core strength and maintaining agility. – Miranda Kerr • I know everyone says they go to yoga, but I actually really go. I notice that helps me so much. – Jen Kirkman • I really think there’s an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it’s wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga. – Beryl Bender Birch • I run about four days per week and do some sort of hike or yoga/stretching on the other three. Kind of self-propelling my body and muscles forward in my own controlled chaos helps me find the ground a little bit easier on the daily. – Madi Diaz • I started doing yoga in my 20s. I did teacher training, that was what I was going to do if acting didn’t work out. I started teaching other actors right at the beginning of the yoga craze – people still thought it was a little weird, but a lot of actors I knew were getting into it and didn’t want to look foolish in class. So I started teaching them! – Kristin Davis • I started doing yoga. – Carnie Wilson • I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I’d taught pretty much everyone in town – the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners. – Beryl Bender Birch • I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot. – Rosamund Pike • I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it’s creating things in times of waiting. – Emma Stone • I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I’m looking out of my third eye and everything that I’m supposed to be doing. It’s amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. “Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama’s got the magic of Clorox 2.”- Ellen DeGeneres • I went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I’ve been trying to get back. I probably could’ve seen the President five times, it’d be easier than it has been to get back to yoga! – Mike Ness • If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter – if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self. – K. Pattabhi Jois • In middle age I’ve begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically. – James Redford • In the end, yoga for me is all about three things: more joy; being able to collect your capacity so you can have more of what you want in real terms; and ultimately – this may be the most important of it all – less fear. – Rod Stryker • In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless. – Tirumalai Krishnamacharya • In the same way that the physical practice of yoga so effectively benefits your body and mind, the larger science of yoga is similarly powerful in unlocking the vast potentials of your body, mind and spirit to help you achieve your best life imaginable. – Rod Stryker • In yoga you reach your arms to the heavens and the universe smiles back at you. – Diamond Dallas Page • India’s had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga. – Padma Lakshmi • It’s like crazy how many different kinds of yoga there are. And now that they have it for surfers and for this one and for that one. – Diamond Dallas Page • I’ve done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It’s a little bit like music. – Laura Huxley • Lots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it’s so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it. – Beryl Bender Birch • My Yoga practice is number one, straight physical exercises are number two, and when I can do neither, I focus on the breath. Make sure I drink enough water and get enough sleep. – Leilani Bishop • Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life. – Emily Saliers • Our feelings can be hurt, but you can take a yoga class, you can pray, you can play some basketball – you can figure out things for your hurt feelings. – Killer Mike • Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That’s what drives transformation. – Beryl Bender Birch • Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite. – Erich Schiffmann • She [Mandy Ingber] brought yoga into my life. It completely changed my life . . . It’s one of the most fun workouts I’ve ever had . . . So have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off. – Jennifer Aniston • Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it’s kickboxing, sometimes it’s weight training, sometimes it’s Pilates. – Paula Patton • Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things – they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading – reading good books. Sometimes movies – although a lot of the movies are difficult. – Alice Walker • That’s exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation. – Rodney Yee • The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations. – Bryan Kest • The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind. – Rodney Yee • The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. – Sri Aurobindo • The practice of yoga certainly is a fantastic practice. I only wish I would do it more. I find I can do it alone but it is much better if I have some guidance. Although I can do it alone it is a little bit sloppy. Ultimately, all of those techniques try to bring more oxygen to the brain. We can think and love better if we have more oxygen. – Laura Huxley • The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being. – Sri Aurobindo • The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you…. If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you. – Annie Besant • The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost. – Deepak Chopra • The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. – Raphael • The yoga tradition provides one of humankind’s most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life. – Rod Stryker • This is what our yoga practice is trying to accomplish. Not white light descending from heaven and engulfing you, not energy released from the base of your spine going up through your crown chakra so you become a human lightening bolt, not a halo floating on top of your head. Simply heightened states of awareness, enlightenment, becoming more and more aware which gives more and more insight, which brings wisdom and gives choice. With that wisdom and choice, we become the masters of our destiny and at peace in our life. – Bryan Kest • This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Through Yoga, anybody can attain; it’s a God realisation; you just practise Yoga and if you really mean it, then you’ll do it. There’s Yogis that have done it to such a degree that they’re God, they’re like Christ and they can walk on the water and materialise bodies and they can do all those tricks. – George Harrison • What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They’re like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don’t think of as malleable. – Stephen Colbert • What we’re trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head. – Rodney Yee • What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant. – Donna Farhi • When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga. – Geeta Iyengar • Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga. – Tirumalai Krishnamacharya • While I’ve always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn’t until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face with my own spiritual materialism. The thing is, Kathmandu is noisy, and dusty, and crowded, and everywhere you go you see these same Western yoga teachers, hashish-smoking backpackers, and fair-trade shop owners, all seeking the stalls filled with amazing Buddha statues, hand carved mirrors, beautiful yak scarves, and thangka paintings. And everyone is buying stuff! – Alexander Weinstein • Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don’t transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better. – Donna Farhi • Yoga doesn’t ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are. – Bryan Kest • Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like – the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation. – Christy Turlington • Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. – Erich Schiffmann • Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. – Carl Jung • Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. – K. Pattabhi Jois • Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga is a natural thing. – Laura Huxley • Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. – Annie Besant • Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science. – Annie Besant • Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. – Indra Devi • Yoga is about awakening. Yoga is about creating a life that brings more beauty and more love into the world. – John Friend • Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it. – Sting • Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. – K. Pattabhi Jois • Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life. – Mark Whitwell • Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul. – Amit Ray • Yoga is not about touching your toes. It’s about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve it when you get there. – Cyndi Lee • Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. – K. Pattabhi Jois • Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible. – Bob Harper • Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind. – Patanjali • Yoga never calms me. Ever. But it certainly helps me prevent something. – Jen Kirkman • Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment. – Bryan Kest • Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body’s major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It’s the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion. – Deepak Chopra • Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body. – Mariel Hemingway • Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union – the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self-realization. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Yoga’s hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I’d rather be playing basketball. – Chris Noth • You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you. – Rajneesh • You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. – Sharon Gannon • You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. – Sharon Gannon • You don’t have to go the gym – just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga. – Deepak Chopra • You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and self-empowerment seminars. There’s a hope for a quick fix – if only we have the money and right drugs for it. – Alexander Weinstein • You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn’t as accepted to talk about then. – Donna Karan [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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