(The image in my avatar is a picture from my favourite TV-Show...Yes, Minister. In the centre is the Minister, Jim Hacker, at the right is my favourite, Sir Humphrey Appleby and at the left is Bernard Woolley)

Name - Daniela

Country - Portugal, Lisbon. (PORTUGAL NOT SPAIN! DIFERENT COUNTRIES!!)

Things I am interested in: Books, History, Music, Politics, Friends and Family, my blog, fanfiction etc

Favourites books- All of Garcia Marquez, especially, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in the Time of Cholera, The General in His Labyrinth, Of Love and Other Demons, Memories of My Melancholy Whores. I love too Malfada of Quino. The Little Prince of Saint-éxupery. The picture of Dorian Gray of Oscar Wilde. Harry Potter of course. Hercule Poirot (HE IS BRILHANT!) of Agatha Christine. The Process of Franz Kafka, First Among equals of Jeffrey Archers. And of course the Phantom of the Opera of Gaston Leroux, and Notre Dame de Paris of Master Victor Hugo

Favourite actors - Al Pacino, Sir Nigel Hawthorne, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Sean Connery, Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren (I do not like actors because they are cute or handsome I like them because they are good actors)

Favourite movies - Scent of woman, the Tiger and the Snow, Kramer Vs Kramer, the Phantom of the Opera, The life is Beautiful.

Favourite TV-show- Yes Minister, and Yes,. Prime Minister (Whatever you say Sir Humphrey Appleby is the best character ever), Fawlty Towers, My family, Blackadder, Allo, Allo, (English humour is my favourite), Tudors, Friends, NCIS.

Unfortunately I am cursed. I usually love the complex characters. The antagonists. The anti-heroes. Those who are not good, but they are not evil either. They are humans. With weakness and strenghts. With flaws and virtues. I love characters who aren´t black or white. They´re grey. And you know why I like them? Because they are the most real characters. As I usually say: Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins wouldn´t exist. Severus Snape would. Javert, Claude Frollo, House, Bruce Wayne, would. They are the human characters because, let´s face it, there are no perfect people. No one is completely good or evil. No one is completely black or white. People are, actually, grey

Abt the stories I love Hunchback of Notre Dame, Harry Potter, Sweeney Todd, CSI Miami, House MD, Star Wars, Van Helsing and Sherlock Holmes, The Tudors and some of those.

Pairings I love:

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Frollo/Esmeralda

The Tudors - Sir Thomas More/Katherine. Sir Thomas More/Dame Alice. Sir Thomas More/OC. I also would like Sir Thomas More/Anne Boleyn but there aren´t many of those..but let´s face it, it´s hot!

Les Miserables - Javert/Valjean (they are so made for each other, deny it if you want but you´re lying to yourself). Javert/Cosette. Javert/Eponine. (Javert is G. Rush, there´s no one better!)

Memoirs of a geisha - Nobu/Sayuri. Chairman/Sayuri. Nobu/OC

The Phantom of the Opera - Erik/Christine (And listen to the music of the night...WHO DOESNT LOVE ERIK?!)

Sweeney Todd - Turpin/Johanna (I dont care if he is a pervet, I love him, so get over it!)

Van Helsing - Dracula/Anna

House - House/ Cameron. Wilson/ Cuddy

CSI Miami - Horatio/Calleigh or Horatio/another woman who wants him

Star Wars - Obi-Wan/Padme (Obidala) and Palpatine/Padme - just for record, I hate Anakin!

Harry Potter - Sev Snape/ Lily Evans, Hermione/ Lucius Malfoy ( God this men is sexy), Tom Riddle/Ginny, Tom Riddle/Hermione (Tom Riddle NOT Voldemort) and ocasionally Snape/Hermione

Favourites quotes:

If you can dream, you can do – Walt Disney

As long as you believe, it is real – LE to SS

"A career in politics is no preparation for government." - Sir Humphrey Appleby

"'The matter is under consideration' means we have lost the file. 'The matter is under active consideration' means we are trying to find the file." Bernard

The Prime Minister doesn't want the truth, he wants something he can tell Parliament." - Sir Humphrey

Why should we close a hospital because it has no patients? We don't disband the Army just because there isn't a war." - Sir Humphrey Appleby

Foreign Office Honours: CMG - 'Call Me God'. KCMG - 'Kindly Call Me God'. GCMG - 'God Calls Me God'." - Bernard

"A good political speech is not one in which you can prove that the man is telling the truth; it is one where no one else can prove he is lying." - Sir Humphrey

The ship of state, Bernard, is the only ship that leaks from the top. - Sir Humphrey

"Ministers do not believe they exist unless they are reading about themselves in the newspapers." - Sir Humphrey

"We do not have to accept a political advisor just because the PM likes her. Samson liked Delilah." - Sir Humphrey (in the best episode ever)

"Open this bloody door!! "- Sir Humphrey

" In Arab countries women get stoned when they commit adultery. In Britain, they commit adultery when they get stoned." - Sir Humphrey

"The Queen is inseparable from the Church of England. God is an optional extra." - Sir Humphrey

"The Foreign Office aren't there to do things. They're there to explain why things can't be done." - Sir Humphrey

"People have said a lot of unpleasant things about the Foreign Office, but no one has ever accused them of patriotism." - Sir Humphrey

Democracy is like marriage, it´s not perfect but it´s still the best someone invented until today. - Me

I should have thought the mountains would
be shaken in their foundations on the day
when a woman would repulse such a love.
—Claude Frollo Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

"O amor é uma coisa. A vida é outra. A realidade pode matar. O amor é mais bonito que a vida. A vida que se lixe. (Love is one thing. Life is another. Reality can kill. Love Is more beautiful than life. Screw life.)– Miguel Esteves Cardoso

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation. - Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. - Plato

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. – Plato

Knowledge is true opinion. - Plato

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. – Victor Hugo

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. – Victor Hugo

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing... Nothing succeeds like excess. – Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed. – Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. – Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. – Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde

Wickedness was invented by good people to explain the curious attractiveness of others." - Oscar Wilde

You see, but you do not observe. – Arthur Conan Doyle