"It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on." - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003

"... by cutting the umbilical cord with God, our source of ethical vitality would be gone. Morally we would become nothing better than a species of fantastically clever monkeys. Our ultimate fate would be too horrible to contemplate. For the truth is that we humans are all Jekyll and Hyde creatures, and the monster within each of us is always striving to take over." - Paul Johnson- Jun. 1985 - from an essay in Readers Digest

"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive." - Havelock Ellis

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them." - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims

"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!" - [i]Warren G, Harding

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
- Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings

"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

"Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real ''you'' never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces." - Shashi Deshpande 1938-, Indian Author

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy." - Steven Weinberg (1933 - )

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey

"No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage." - Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)

Shortly under an hour later, from another rooftop, he watched Adamantia walk back out into the open air.

No one spoke for several long minutes. They stood in the street, watching the last rays of the setting sun filter as dusk settled over the city. Suddenly the doors of the building swung back onto their hinges and slammed shut.

"Did I mention this was completely loco?" Emerald Ghost had never looked so tense.