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ALERT! ALERT!: If you are a Maximum Ride fan who has yet to hear of Dylan, read this! Dylan is what has Fax fans everywhere screaming, "NOO! How could you JP?!" Well, I don't know that for a fact, but if you'd like to know what I'm talking about, go here. If you didn't like Brigid, my guess is, you won't like Dylan much...

About Me: I'm female. I'm in 9th grade. I enjoy sarcasm and witty humor and don't really like competitive sports. I played basketball for a while, but I was terrible at it. I do like ice skating, skiing, and swimming. I currently play the piano, banjo, and recorder, and have tried my hand at the clarinet, violin, and hammered dulcimer, all of which I decided I ended up quitting. I'm interested in computer programming (I'm pretty proficient with HTML), creative writing, and language learning. My biggest dream is to be an author (preferably a successful one).

Home Town: Not telling, but I will say I live in the Northeast corner of the US.

Education: Home schooled, which is completely awesome.

Hobbies: Reading (I am absolutely obsessed with books), writing, playing the piano, role playing, listening to my MP3 player, learning Italian and studying Venice/Italy

Pets: Two dogs: Tessa, female Chow/Border Collie/Mutt, and our brand new puppy, Ollie, male Old English Sheepdog (he's so cute!); two cats: Annie, female, white and gray, Topfur, female, sort of tiger (her name means 'brave' in German...ha!)

Music: Three Days Grace, Evanescence, Rihanna, Matchbox Twenty, Green Day, Paramore, Queen, Nickelback, Bon Jovi

Songs (That aren't done by people on my Music list): Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield; Love Is A Battlefield by Pat Benatar; Get Over It by The Eagles; Dancing In The Dark by Bruce Springsteen; Whenever, Wherever by Shakira; Animal Song by Savage Garden; What I've Done by Linkin Park; I'm Yours by Jason Mraz; You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift; Footloose by Kenny Loggins; Let's Hear It For The Boy by Deniece Williams; Rooftops by Lostprohets; Rest In Peace, Walk Through The Fire, and Under Your Spell from the Once More, With Feeling soundtrack (BtVS), Goodbye To You by Michelle Branch

Movies: The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Serenity, The Mummy (1 and 2 anyway; 3 ruined the name of The Mummy), Flushed Away, Bolt, Over the Hedge, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride, Matrix, Star Trek, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Say Anything, Underworld, 2012

TV Series': Charmed, Dark Angel, Roswell, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've seen two episodes of The Big Bang Theory and liked them, but since I've only seen two, I can't officially put it on this list

Manga: InuYasha, Ranma 1/2, Naruto (but I've only read the first two), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time manga

Favorite Ice Cream (because that's a very important part of a person's personality): Cookies and cream. Yum...

Favorite Cookie (also an important fact): My mom's chocolate chip with orange extract. They're delicious.

Favorite Soda: Sprite

Favorite Animal: Panther; cats, to generalize

Favorite Colors: Black and deep electric blue

Favorite Series: Maximum Ride by James Patterson

Other good books/series I've read:

Dark Visions
The Mortal Instruments
The Vampire Academy
The Hunger Games
The Vampire Diaries
Blue Bloods
Daniel X
The Twilight Saga
Vampire Kisses
The Thief Lord
DragonLance
Artemis Fowl
The Ranger's Apprentice
The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme
The Mysterious Benedict Society
The Looking Glass Wars
The Faerie Wars
His Dark Materials
The Wicked Years
The Lord of the Rings

Favorite Quotes

"Shut up," said Maddy.
Loki shut up.
"Now listen, both of you."
Both of them listened.
~Runemarks by Joanne Harris

"I'm not dead!"
~Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"Since my customary farewell would seem oddly self-serving, I will simply say, good luck."
~Spock the older in Star Trek, talking to Spock the younger

"I said no lies!
"I think he was telling the truth."
"If he was telling the truth, he wouldn't have told us."
"Unless he knew that even if he told you the truth, you wouldn't believe him."
~Two guards and Captain Jack Sparrow in The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

This little piggy went to Chaos, this little piggy stayed at home...
~Loki in Runemarks

"There's always a bigger fish."
~Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars; Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

"Aiee!"
"Argh! Will you stop caterwauling in my ear!"
"I'll caterwaul all I want! Aiee! Aiee! Aiee! Aiee!"
~Kagome and Koga in InuYasha: Volume 14

"You're mad!"
"Thank goodness for that, because if I wasn't, this would probably never work."
~Beckett and Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

"Advise your brethren. You can fight, and all of you will die, or you can not fight, in which case only most of you will die."
~Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

“It’s a key.”
“No, it is very much better than that. It is a drawing of a key.”
~A crew member of the Black Pearl and Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

"Whose boons? Your boons? Utterly deceptive twaddle-speak, says I."
~Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

"First, there's an old friend who wants to see you."
"I'm not sure I can survive any more visits with old friends."
~Captain Sao Feng and Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

"This is madness!"
"This is politics."
~Elizabeth Swann and Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

"One question about your business, boy, or there's no use going. This girl...How far are you willing to go to save her?"
"I'd die for her."
"Oh, good. No worries then."
~Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

“Thank you, Jack.”
“You’re welcome.”
“No, not you. We named the monkey Jack.”
~Captain Barbossa and Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

"Me, I'm dishonest, and with a dishonest man you can always trust him to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly stupid."
~Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

"We'll never survive."
"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one has."
~Buttercup and Westley in The Princess Bride

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
~Frenchman in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"You swear?"
"Every damn day."
~Evelyn and Rick O'Connell in The Mummy

"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?"
~Sam in Transformers

"It's classified. I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you."
~Maverick in Top Gun

"It's worse than you know."
"It usually is."
~Black Dude (did he even have a name?) and Malcolm Reynolds in Serenity

"You have acted in ways both willful and malicious-"
"Excuse me, did you just accuse me of being skillful and delicious?"
~Some Lady and Jack Frost in Santa Clause 3 (never seen the movie, but I love that quote!)

"Such a strategist was the king that he had a contingency plan for his contingency plan, and even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency's plan contingency plan."
~Seeing Redd

"This kite looked lucky to me. It wasn't anything fancy, just an old-fashioned diamond with blue and yellow stripes. But it stuttered along in a friendly way, and when it dive-bombed, it seemed to do so from exhaustion as opposed to spite. Ornery kites dive-bomb out of spite. They never get exhausted because they won't stay up long enough to poop out. Thirty feet up they just sort of smirk at you and crash for the fun of it."
~Flipped

"Half an hour later I was the keeper of the knowledge that one bush equals many branches, and that the volume of a bush increases exponentially as it's cut and tossed into the middle of a yard."
~Flipped

"Oh. I...I need to sit down."
"You are sitting down."
"Oh...good for me."
~Willow and Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I laugh in the face of danger...Then I hide until it goes away."
~Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Do they actually stick out?"
"What?"
"Sore thumbs. I mean, have you ever seen a thumb and gone, 'Whoa, that baby's sore'?"
~Willow and Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I know who you are."
"Yeah, I know who I am, too. So what?"
~Ford and Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
~Gandalf in The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

"How many times have you been knocked out, anyway? I swear, one of these times, you're going to wake up in a coma."
~Cordelia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"You won. All right? You came in, and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not going around saying, 'I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it'."
~Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Hi. How've you been?"
"Rat. You?"
"Dead."
"Oh."
~Buffy and Amy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"You don't know what feelings are."
"I damn well do! I lie awake every night."
"You sleep during the day."
"Yeah, but- You're missing the point."
~Buffy and Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Death awaits you all with sharp, pointy...teeth."
~Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"What's going on out there?!"
"Shall I describe it to you, or would you like me to get you a box?"
~Gimli and Legolas in The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

"An elf would go underground where a dwarf dare not? Oh...I'd never hear the end of it."
~Gimli in The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

"You have to help me find him. He must undo this, and then he needs a good being-killed."
"And I'm supposed to just help you out of the evilness of my heart?"
"You help me, and I- I don't kill you."
"Oh, tremendously convincing. Try it again without the stutter."
~Giles and Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Where's the landing gear?"
"It's gone."
"Where'd it go?"
"We lost it all...in Vegas."
~Jackson and Gordon in 2012

"We leave…immediately!"
"What about dinner?"
"We leave…in five hours."
~Le Frog and another French frog in Flushed Away

"Does anysing on you vork properly?"
"Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony."
~Ter Borcht and Iggy in Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

"Win some, lose some."
~Fang in The Angel Experiment (I know, it's not particularly funny, but I like it)

"Do we have a plan B? Or C? Or even Z?"
~Iggy in Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

"This is my brain: O
This is my brain after making out with Fang: •
It's very sad."
~Max in MAX

"It was about the worst thing that could ever happen to a girl.
I highly recommend it."
~Max in MAX

"If by 'superior' you mean completely inadequate in every way, then, yes, Omega is far superior."
~Max in Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports

"I feel like pudding. Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain."
~Iggy in The Angel Experiment

"Yeah, I never want to be a salesperson. One, because I find salespeople incredibly annoying, two, because it's just not something I can see myself being good at...Me: Hi, would you like to buy this new, high tech vacuum? Only 399 dollars! Customer: Hm...that's kind of expensive... Me: Yeah, I know. Ridiculous, isn't it? And it's not even that good of a vacuum! They've been known to have problems with the bristles. Customer: Oh, really? Maybe I'll look elsewhere. Me: That's probably a good idea, ma'am."
~Me, in an e-mail to a friend

"That's nice."
~This is sort of my catch-phrase. Completely foolproof. You can say it to anything, sarcastically usually.

"I blow my nose at you, you son of a silly person."
"I happen to be the parent of a silly person too, coincidentally. Silly people run in my family...Actually, only the silly people run in my family. The rest of us take the car."
~Me (quoting Monty Python) and my dad

"You brain damaged creature, you!"
~What my dad said while yelling at our dog for eating the cat food...again

"'Yard Sale Today'...I want one that says 'Yard Sale Yesterday'."
~My dad, after seeing someone's yard sale sign

"That dudn't make no stinkin' sense."
~My sister, acting crazy

"You can call me crazy if ya want ta."
~My sister, sort of quoting Flower from Bambi

"I hereby declare that the prosecuted is proven guilty of meddling in the coffee's affairs, and will suffer...uh..."
"LASAGNA!"
"...will suffer lasagna for ten years."
~Me and my sister, in court in our kitchen (which consisted of a prosecuted teapot and a jury of peanuts...don't ask)

"I do have a brain. It's coming back now...WATER BUNNIES!...nope there it goes again."
~My friend Alex (What can I say? I know a lot of crazy people...)

"Why me, O great gods of 24/7 coverage?"
~Me, complaining about a cold

"I'm not a know-it-all; you just did it wrong."
~My friend Ellie, at camp

"Look Ma, no cob!"
~Me, talking about baby corn

"Why do I always get the sinky, squeaky beds?"
~Me, at camp

"Peace, love, and pie."
~A shout-out, at camp

"Hey, are you done with your bowl?"
"That's your bowl."
"...(facepalm)"
~My friend Ellie and me, at camp (she's the '...', not me)

"I like saying 'be off' really fast; 'byof'."
"Yeah...'b-y-o-f': 'bring your own fruit'...No, wait, 'bring your own fruitcake'."
"Hey, that means I can bring you!"
"Oh, or 'bring your own friend'...Hey!...That took me longer than I'm proud of..."
~Me and my friend Ellie, at camp (again, she's the '...'s, not me)

"And in recent news, the attack of the typos has relaunched..."
~Me, chatting with Ellie

"No cat food! Capische, pooch?"
~Another instance of my dad yelling at the dog

"You don't realize you do it, do you?"
"Do what?"
"Contradict everything I say."
"I do not!...(starts laughing)"
~My mom and me

"And I remember exactly which episode it's in. Do you remember which episode it was?"
"I remember which episode, but I don't know the name of it. It was the one with Ford in it."
"It's called Lie To Me."
"I knew that."
~Me and my sister

"A dog is never in the way. He lies precisely where he means to."
~My dad, about our new puppy's choice of sleeping spots

"Not only will pigs fly, but they will eat bacon and wield laser guns. They will be cannibalistic pigs wielding laser guns. Also flying."
~Crazy friend Alex again

"You're a soda murderer, aren't you?"
~Also said by my crazy friend Alex

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because people that mind don't matter and people that matter don't mind."
~Dr. Suess

"Do not look back and ask why, look forward and ask, why not?"
~Dove chocolate wrapper

Other Random Quotes

"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
~A bumper sticker

"I don't like cats; they think they're gods. I don't like dogs; they think we're gods. I like pigs; they'll look you straight in the eye and see an equal."
~Winston Churchill

"Right now, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."
~Steven Wright

"A nice cake is waiting for you. (in bed)"
~A fortune from a fortune cookie

"The newscaster is the person who says "Good evening" and then tells you why it's not."
~I have no idea who said this; I got it off SexxiiSportsGirl's profile

"Music is like candy; you throw away the (w)rappers."
~No idea who said this either; also from SexxiSportsGirl's profile

"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."
~Groucho Marx

"Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
~Groucho Marx

Poems

There Was A Man by Dennis Lee
There was a man who never was
This tragedy occurred because
His parents, being none too smart
Were born two hundred years apart

I Saw A Jolly Hunter by Charles Causly
I saw a jolly hunter
With a jolly gun
Walking in the country
In the jolly sun
In the jolly meadow
Sat a jolly hare
Saw the jolly hunter
Took jolly care
Hunter jolly eager–
Sight of jolly pray
Forgot gun pointing
Wrong jolly way
Jolly Hunter jolly head
Over heels gone
Jolly old safety catch
Not jolly on
Bang went the jolly gun
Hunter jolly dead
Jolly hare got clean away
Jolly good, I said

Help Wanted by Timothy Tocher
Santa needs new reindeer
The first bunch has grown old
Dasher has arthritis
Comet hates the cold
Prancer's sick of staring
At Dancer's big behind
Cupid married Blitzen
And Donner lost his mind
Dancer's mad at Vixen
For stepping on his toes
Vixen's being thrown out–
She laughed at Rudolph's nose
If you are a reindeer
We hope you will apply
There is just one tricky part
You must know how to fly

by Charles Wilkins
Once upon a time
Can't remember when
Way back there
Way back when
Someone told me something
Can't remember who
Can't remember what it was
But if I ever do
I'll write it on a thingum
And put it somewhere safe–
I think the little whatsit
Would be the perfect place
I wouldn't trust the whoozit
With the thingamy because
I can't remember where it is
Or where it ever was
My memory is excellent
It's never failed me yet
The only things it can't recall
Are things that I forget
(The author regrets that his memory has forgotten the title of this poem)

The Red-Haired Wonder: A Maximum Ride Poem by Me
The Red-haired Wonder
Irritates Max
And when she's around
She inhibits Fax
Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome
(I think you know who I mean)
Makes stupid decisions
When Lissa's on the scene
I hate the Red-haired Wonder
I think most of us do
And I'm very glad they left her
Behind at that old school

The Only Two Copy And Pastes I've Ever Done

I don't usually go for these, but these two were just plain awesome.

A large percent of authors do not know the difference between 'your' and 'you're'. If you do know the difference, copy and paste this to your profile.

If you have an increasingly sophisticated and extensive vocabulary, situate this in your characterization.