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Well, hey there! I'm Mary Lila West. But, call me Lila, or face my wrath. I love books. And music, video games, acting... But mostly books. Here are my favorite series in order

1. Artemis Fowl (My favorites, and the only series I'll do fanfics for)

2. Harry Potter (No duh)

3. The Bartimaeus Trilogy (MY GOD these are hilarious and wonderful.)

4.Percy Jackson and the Olympians (I love Greek Mythology with a passion)

5. InkWorld Trilogy (Beautifully written. Includes Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath)

6. Uglies Series (Amazing. And packs a moral.)

7. Inheritance Cycle (A little slow, but a good read)

Those are just my favorite series. My favorite all-time book is The Book Thief, closely followed by Jurassic Park, and The Princess Bride. So, take all those books, mix 'em together, and try to decipher the inner workings of my soul. Go on, I dare ya.

My favorite Ships:

Artemis Fowl:

Artemis/Holly

Vinyaya/Root

Angeline/Artemis Sr. (I know, I'm just so clever)

Butler/Holly

Harry Potter:

Harry/Ginny

Ron/Hermione

Neville/Luna

Luna/Harry

James/Lily

Snape/Lily

Sirius/Lupin (one if the few "slash" ships I actually like)

Grindlewald/Dumbledore (...yup, another slash)

My Favorite Quotes:

Artemis Fowl:

"Knock yourself out ... Or rather, don't."

-Artemis Fowl

"Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud."

-Domovoi Butler

"Stay back, human. You don't know what you're dealing with."

-Holly Short

"I'm trying to care, Artemis. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over."

-Holly Short

"That was probably dangerous, you being a pubescent volcano."

-Holly Short

"Be Well."

-Julius Root (R.I.P.)

"No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order ? la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?"

-Artemis Fowl

"I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared."

-Artemis Fowl

"Whatever they're paying me, it isn't enough."

-Foaly

"As much as any of us can, like, own anything. Ownership is, like, you know, an illusion. Maybe we don't even own our own bodies. We could be, like, the daydreams of some greater spirit."

-Juliet Butler

"I don't know about legal, Mister. I just serve the drinks."

-Juliet Butler

"Hey, Mulch, if you listen really hard you can just about make out the sound of nobody giving a hoot."

-Holly Short

"If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm mad. That's the way history is written."

-Artemis Fowl

"Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face."

-Julius Root

"Artemis and Holly stood there in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions, and tangled with demented desposts. Coughed blood, lost digits, inhaled dwarf fumes, and swapped eyeballs, yet the found holding hands awkward."

-Narrator

"Will you miss him, Holly?" he (Foaly) asked suddenly.

Holly was caught off guard by the question.

"Miss who?" she said, though she already knew.

"The Fowl boy, of course. If everything goes according to plan, we'll be wiped from his memory. No more wild plots, or seat-of-the-pants adventures. It will a quiet life."

Holly avoided Foaly's gaze, even though the centaur could not see her.

"No," she said. "I will not miss him."

But her eyes told the real story.

From The Eternity Code. I love this moment. One of the first real hints to their feelings for each other (A/H that is)

Holly dragged at her cheeks with delicate fingers. "I mean, Oh gods, I think I kissed you."

Artemis's head pounded, and Holly's mismatched eyes seemed to hypnotize him. She still had a blue eye, even though her body had rejuvenated itself in the tunnel. Another paradox. But even though Artemis felt hypnotized, even slightly dazed, he knew he was not mesmerized. There was no fairy magic here.

Artemis looked into those elfin eyes, and he knew that this younger, somehow more vulnerable Holly felt the same way, at this particular tangle of time and space, as he did.

After all we have been through. Or maybe because of it.

-From The Time Paradox. My all-time favorite moment of the series, closely followed by the next quote. I find this moment so intoxicatingly beautiful it makes me cry every time.

Holly: "What if we're stuck like this? That wouldn't be so bad, would it?" The question hung in the air between them. A question full of insecurity, and hope.

-From The Time Paradox. Recited from memory, so it may be off a little.

"Of course I saved you," she said. "I couldn't do without you." And because she was happy and flushed with magic, Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.

-From The Time Paradox. Ah, page 138, how vindicated I feel after reading you. A classic A/H moment.

Harry Potter

"Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?"

-Harry Potter

"Well, I had one that I was playing Quidditch the other night," said Ron, screwing up his face in an effort to remember. "What do you think that means?"
"Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry, turning the pages of The Dream Oracle without interest.

"Why were you lurking under our window?"
"Yes -- yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?"
"Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.
His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.
"Listening to the news! Again?"
"Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

"Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious..."

"Dumbledore will only be gone from the school when none are loyal to him."

-Harry

Dumbledore's man through and through," said Harry. "That's right."

"This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this."

-Harry

"I've got two Neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning down on his parchment, "that can't be right, can it?"
"Aaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mysical whisper, "when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry..."

"When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?"

-Ron

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed."

-Hermione Granger

"At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in. They got in on pure talent."

-Hermione

"You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain'-- 'The Boy Who Scored'-- whatever they call you these days."

-Draco Malfoy

"By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many."

-Albus Dumbledore

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

-Dumbledore

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

-Dumbledore

"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

-Dumbledore

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

-Dumbledore

"I could break out, of course, but what a waste of time, and frankly I can think of a whole host of things I'd rather be doing."

-Dumbledore

"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

-Dumbledore

"I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you."

"It’s the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

-Dumbledore

"You should have died! Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!"

-Sirius Black

"Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep."

"What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does."

-Rubeus Hagrid

"Always."

-Severus Snape

"Are you quite sure you wouldn't like a cough drop, Dolores?"

-Minerva McGonagall

"You'll stay with me?" asked Harry "Until the very end," said James.

I am the girl that doesn't go to school dances, or games, and when I do go, I sit in a corner and read a book. I am the girl that people look through when I say something. I am the girl that spends most of her free time reading, writing, or doing other activities that most teenagers wouldn't call normal. I am the girl that people call weird and a freak either behind my back or to my face. I am the girl that doesn't spend all her time on MySpace, or talking to a girlfriend on a cell phone or regular phone. I am the girl that hasn't been asked out in a year. I am the girl that has stopped to smell the flowers and jump and splash in the rain. BUT I am also the girl who knows and is proud to be who she is, doesn’t care if people call her weird (it's a compliment), who loves reading and writing and doing the things that no one seems to have the time to do any more, who loves and is obsessed with Twilight, who can express herself better with words than actions, who doesn't need a guy to complete her, and knows the importance of the little things. Copy and paste this onto your account, and add your name to the list, if you are anything like me, so the girls who are different and unique can know in their weakest time that they are unique but not alone: Iheartjake, TeamJacob101, Boysareadrag, The Dawn Is Breaking, secilmis yazar, Holly Marie Fowl, MaryLilaWest

Hey everyone! Thanks stopping by! I'd love to give each and every one of you a hug, and a lollipop (to annoy Artemis, of course) but alas, we shall probably never meet. Anyway, BOOKS RULE THE WORLD!! Bye! :D