Name: Call me Lyrannae. You don't get to know my real name, because I'm just paranoid that way.

Gender: Female!

Appearance: Brown hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. Like, extremely pale. I don't tan. I don't burn either, for that matter. I just sit in the sun and wilt.

Hobbies: Reading, writing, painting and drawing, music, fencing, waterskiing, daydreaming, and playing my Bass Clarinet! I am in the midst of writing an actual novel :D I'll post chapters on here when I have time. Which will probably be about every other week.. unless I have school, in which case it'll be anywhere from a week to a month. Meh, school. The bane of my existence.

Fave books: Harry Potter, Twilight, Maximum Ride, Artemis Fowl, the Inheritence Series, the Percy Jackson series, Chronicles of Narnia, Tales of the Otori, Pendragon, Bloody Jack, Lord of the Rings, the Mortal Instruments, Percy Jackson series, To Kill a Mockingbird, and pretty much anything written by Tamora Pierce. Plus a bunch of others that I'm not going to bother listing off. I've also read some manga, like Fullmetal Alchemist. They're kind of funny.

Fave movies: Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Chronicles of Narnia, Xmen, Inkheart, The Princess Bride, Star Wars, Eragon, Twilight, Lord of the Rings, Knowing. I am eagerly anticipating New Moon, HP#7, The Lightning Thief and Maximum Ride.. if they ever get around to making it, that is.

Random likes: summer, palm trees, vampires, music, castles, acting, sleeping, magic, singing, dogs, chocolate.

Random dislikes: tomatoes, winter, spiders, those really lame horror movies, cold weather, erm, that's about it..

Ok, now we're on to the quotes. My actual story info is way down there at the very very bottom, so feel free to skip ahead to it. Like Hermione sarcasticallly said in HP7, "There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!" How that relates to this is simple: there are no secret messages regarding life, the universe and everything stated or even vaguely implied in the sentences below. You won't be missing much. Maybe a couple funny comments, but nothing majorly important.

And one other thing, my policy is that you can take any quotes you want; you can claim 'em, they're yours. Just give their respected speakers credit for them, not me, cause I am not smart enough to have come up with witty comments and sayings on the spot, or even off it. And if you do feel the need to give me credit for something, do try to spell my name right, k? I think that's fair to ask.

Fave Quotes (from books/movies/etc):

"So, you have your price. Your soul for a cookie." ~Maximum Ride; Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

"Wait, don't tell me - we're gonna break in, steal some stuff, break some stuff, get caught, and then escape in some dangerous, dramatic way." ~Total; Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

"Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks?" ~Gasman & Iggy; Maximum Ride Manga, Volume 1

"On the plus side, flying is just really cool. On the minus side, we're mutant freaks who will never like a normal life." "Win some, lose some." ~Max and Fang; Maximum Ride Manga, Volume 1

"Sausage is just not the food of the gods." ~Kyprioth; Trickster's Choice

"Why, I'm just as true and honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming than dirt." ~Aly Cooper; Trickster's Choice

"I had an adrenaline rush.. it's very common, you can Google it." ~Edward; Twilight (the movie)

"It was fantastic. I may have to acquire one of those legally." ~Alice; New Moon

"You don't seem to grasp how dangerous a young werewolf can be, especially when I can't see them. Edward has no way to know if you're safe. You shouldn't be so reckless." "Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behaviour." ~Alice & Bella; Eclipse

"I already knew you were strong. You didn't have to break the furniture." ~Bella; Eclipse

"Life sucks, and then you die. Yeah, I should be so lucky." ~Jacob; Breaking Dawn

"Why are you wearing glasses, Goyle?" "Erm... reading." "Reading? ...I didn't know you could read." Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter (in disguise as Goyle); HP & the Chamber of Secrets (the movie)

"From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves say Die, Ron, die, I'm just chucking them in the bin where they belong." ~Ron Weasley; HP & the Prisoner of Azkaban

"Want us to clean out your ears for you?" "Or any part of your body, really, we're not picky about where we stick this." ~the Weasley twins; HP & the Order of the Phoenix

"Will someone get this walking carpet out of my way?!" ~Princess Leia; Star Wars IV

"The Fire Swamp? Oh no, we'll never survive!" "Nonsense! You're just saying that because no one ever has." ~Buttercup & Westley; The Princess Bride

"I don't mean to pry, but by any chance, do you have six fingers on your right hand?" "..is this how you always start conversations?" ~Inigo & Westley; The Princess Bride

"The filing cabinet's stuck again! It's supposed to glide open nice and smoothly, but you always yank it open like your'e King Kong or Godzilla!!" "I do not! If I was King Kong, I'd throw it out the window. And if I was Godzilla, I'd just burn it..or smash it with my tail...Come to think of it, why would either of them need a filing cabinet?" ~Karen & Davis; Corner Gas

"Right... 'cause you and your nine Metallica T-shirts know a lot about style?" ~Wanda; Corner Gas

"Help! I've been kidnapped by a monster who's trying to relate to me!" ~Artie; Shrek 3

"Up is down and down is up? Now that's just maddenly unhelpful." ~Jack Sparrow; Pirates of the Caribbean 3

"Girls... never carry a map in their heads." "That's 'cause our heads have something in them." ~Peter & Lucy Pensive; Prince Caspian

Fave Quotes (from real people! Yay!)

"Canada is a very peaceful country. We don't start wars, we don't fight with other countries or anything... Instead, when there's a war going on, we send out our little Peacekeeper dudes with their water guns." ~One of my friends

"I love you.." "I know you do...and I love trees!" "What? You're dumping me for trees??" ~A conversation between me and my other friend (Background history: In case you were wondering, during this conversation I was drawing trees for art class, hence the tree comment..I love drawing trees:D They're so, I don't know, peaceful..)

"Look, that company is called Aztec Mortages. That's weird; I didn't think that the Aztecs knew much about mortages, considering that their economic system was based on the value of chocolate and cocoa beans." ~Me

"Don't be a slave to the black dots.. don't be a rythym leech.. and, most importantly, don't let the bus run you over! Drive it! Be in charge of the tempo!" ~My band teacher

"Follow the magic shtick!" ~My other, slightly less crazy band teacher (:P I love my band teachers.. they're brilliant)

"Writing is a socially accceptable form of schizophrenia." ~E.L. Doctorow

"Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absense." ~Salman Rushdie

"Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else." ~Anonymous

"You must stay drunk on writing, so that reality cannot destroy you." ~Ray Bradbury

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Austrailia." ~Charles Schultz

"The best time for planning a book is when you're doing the dishes." ~Agatha Christie

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." ~William Dement

"I write for the same reason I breath--because if I didn't, I would die." ~Isaac Asimov

"Don't steal. The government hates competition." ~Anonymous

"If someone's trying to shut you up, sing louder and, if possible, better." ~Salman Rushdie

"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his coat pocket." ~Charles Peguy

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'. Your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." ~Mark Twain

Some other random quotes:

Emmett is the strongest; Edward is the fastest; but Jasper can sit alone in the corner and still make you jealous.

Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.

You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever!

Your weirdness is creeping my imaginary friend out.

Summer days without books are like picnics without potato salad--absolutely unthinkable.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Boys are like slinkies; useless, but fun to watch fall down the stairs.

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

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, a nerd, 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 cellphone or regular phone. I am the girl that hasn't been asked out in a year. I am the girl who 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 magic, who can express herself better with words than without words, and knows the importance of the little things.

Copy and Paste this onto your account if you are anything like me, so the girls who are different and unique can know in their weakest times that they are unique, but not alone.

Story Info

1) The Student Exchange Program -- Upcoming: It's still in the thinking/planning/idea gathering process.. but in a nutshell, the next coupla chapters are going to be centered around Tris, Daja and the Lovegood Christmas. Feel free to suggest ideas!! I love ideas :)

So! If you want to help me update faster.. review or PM and let me know! I'm very curious to hear what you think. So keep in touch. All you lurkers, get out and review, even if it's only once in a blue moon, cause then I know you're at least reading and thinking about it. Another way to get me to update faster would be to, ahem, "suggest" to the school board peoples that school be cancelled for a few months. Anyone here a Legilimens? Or a mind controlling mutant bird kid? Or a dream hacking evil Titan lord? Or.. you know what, never mind.

Thanks for reading!

Lyrannae~