By giving out your name, you are giving them the ability to take your soul. By giving out your birthday, you have given over the control of your whole life. Yuuko Ichihara, XxXHolic

Pen Name: Skyla123.

Age: That is a secret between me, the Lord and my minions...

Location: North of the Sun and East of the Moon...I'm joking! I live in Yorkshire, England.

Bio:

I have never been good at writing about myself, but none the less here goes...

Writing for me is an outlet, while most people take up sports or binge drinking I decided to be diffrent and took up the infamous pen.

I am by no means the best writer in the world, and I constantly find faults in my work.

Some would say that was the sign of a good writer, but personally I think it just shows I'm a perfectionist with high expectation levels that I'll never reach.

I suffer terribly from Writer's Block, and often find it hard to finish stories due to lack of inspiration or sheer laziness on my part.

I like reading other people's work, since it makes me realise where I'm going wrong in my own.

I spend half my life stuck on my computer reading or writing, and it infuriates my mother since she wants me to start living in the 'real world'.

My baby brother drives me nuts, but I love him all the same.

Dad is...well, Dad.

My friends are complete nut cases, which probobly explains why I've gone round the bend as well...

Don't get me started on politics, or we'll be here for a while...lets just say I hate the Tories and the Liberals will NEVER have my vote...the backstabbers!!!

And finally...thanks for reading this.

Favorite Quotes:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Shakespeare Sonnet 116

Teller, teller, tell me a tale,
Of love and fear and duty,
I want to die in the arms of love,
I want to die for beauty.
For beauty is the only truth,
And death the only lie,
I want to sing a final tale,
And love before I die.

“Teller, Teller,” Troll Bridge, Jane Yolen

If you force the trail to emerge and turn with your every command, then most likely it will only become what you imagined. If you just enjoy the anticipation of each new curve and seize it as it comes, the road around the bend might lead to the unimaginable.

Brian Hufalar

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum, The Storyteller's Creed

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
Germaine Greer

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character,
though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Lydia M. Child

Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light.
-X. J. Kennedy, “Street Moths,” The Lords of Misrule

"Moons and years pass by but a beautiful
moment glows throughout one's entire life."

Franz Grillparzer

“In time, we hate that which we often fear”

William Shakespeare

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

In your hand, take this Key. So long as you have the makings, then through this simple act of taking, its wielder you shall one day be. And you will find me, friend—no ocean will contain you then. No more borders around, or below, or above, so long as you champion the ones you love.

Terra, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep

Weird is good, strange is bad, and odd is when you don't know which to call someone. Weird is the same as different, which is the same as unique, so weird is good. Admitting you are weird means you are normal. Saying that you are normal is odd.

Friends are like four leaf clovers. Hard to find but good to have.

I agree with the dictionary. Girls before guys, partying before studying, and friends before love. Death is but a door...it swings both ways. Those that say nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door. The dark side has cookies. Join us.

Don’t piss me off. I'm running out of places to hide the bodies. He who laughs last didn't get it. I ran into my ex the other day, then I put the car in reverse and ran over him again. So, you're a cannibal. Rock beats paper. Always.

If Tylenol, Duct Tape, & a Band Aid can't fix it, you have a serious problem.

My life has gone from bad, to worse, to a little bit better, then it just fell off the damn cliff.

HEY GET BACK HERE WITH THAT STAPLER! SANTA WON'T GET ME A NEW ONE UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

You know what? Go play in traffic! You don't have to be very ninja like to trip her.

You kids and your crazy axes and fancy guillotines. They laugh because we're losers...We laugh because they just figured it out. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90 probability you'll get it wrong. God made man, knew he could do better, and made woman.

The person who smiles when things go wrong has found someone to blame it on. I'd tell you to go to hell, but I live there and really don't want to see you everyday. Even if the voices aren't real, they have some good ideas. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. Stupidity killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.

Officer, I swear to Drunk I'm not God! A wise man once said, "Ask a girl." Fighting is mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter. Why be difficult, when with just a little bit of effort, you can be impossible? If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk. Hate is just a special kind of love we give to people who suck. Keep smiling; it makes people wonder what you're up to. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say will be misquoted and used against you.

Chaos, panic, pandemonium, my work here is done. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. If you don't like me, there is nothing I can do. Here's a newsflash Honey, I don't live to please you. Don't knock on death's door. Ring the bell and run. He hates that. Well the voices and I took a vote. It's unanimous; you suck. I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, if well aimed, that is. A loser is a window washer on the 44th floor who steps back to admire his work.

When someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles to frown about it but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and bitch-slap them across the mother-- room. They say guns don't kill people, people kill people. Well, I'm pretty sure the guns help because if you stood there and shouted 'BANG' I don't think you'd kill a lot of people.

Don't you dare tell me the sky is the limit when there are footsteps on the moon? Of course I'm talking to myself who else can I trust? So what if we act immature idiots? We're having fun.