Hey. This is FireflyCity, and welcome to my fanfiction profile. I love writing and everything about it (except for the fact that I never get enough time to do it) and I take great pride in the works I write. I am very open to any comments or suggestions readers have to give me, and will actually listen to flames instead of simply writing you off as a hater. As far as genres go, I dabble a bit in every type, and my stories can range anywhere from adventure/mystery tales to angst/drama tragedies.Though nearly all of my ideas are original, I must (admittedly) give a lot of credit for my story inspiration to my good friend Chaos Of A Butterfly, for without her and Your Worst Nightmare Is Moi, I would have never found fanfiction in the first place.

Well, that pretty much sums everything up. If you're bored, curious, a loser, a stalker, an intrigued fan, a foreign spy, or just someone with extra time to kill, feel free to read the rest of my profile. :)

THANKS AGAIN TO ALL THE READERS!

-FireflyCity

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Story Info:

Backstab- (Currently under re-revsision) My first fanfiction ever, completed 3-16-12. Thank you so much to all of my wonderful readers who supported me throughout, and a HUGE thank you to Chaos Of A Butterfly, who provided me with the majority of the inspiration and many plot ideas for the story.

Ties That Bind Us- Temporary Hiatus for revision.

CES LIENS QUI NOUS UNISSENT- "Ties that Bind Us", the same story translated into French by Frederick Ssen.

The Secret Life of Birds- My first one-shot, examining the inner thoughts of Akito about her family and place in the Sohma curse. If it was not already obvious, the idea for my title came from Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees.

Always the Heart- A one-shot based on a very vivd and very moving dream I had a while back.

Gravity- My longest one-shot to date, and probably my most well-written. Title inspired by the song "Gravity of Love" by Enigma.

Forgotten- A cute little one-shot that I wrote for the heck of it. Originally the first chapter to a fanfiction "Happy Birthday Kyo", which was abandoned after I lost all love for the Fruits Basket Fandom.

10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein:

1. Follow your curiosity

2. Perseverance is priceless

3. Focus on the present

4. The imagination is powerful

5. Make mistakes

6. Live in the moment

7. Create value

8. Don't expect different results

9. Knowledge comes from experience

10. Learn the rules and then play better

Quotes:

"'You know, some things in life don't matter much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart- now, that matters. The whole problem with people is-' 'They don't know what matters and what doesn't,' I said, filling in her sentence and feeling proud of myself for doing so. 'I was gonna say, The problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it... The hardest thing on Earth is choosing what matters.'"
-Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret life of Bees

"You miss all the chances you don't take. So take them!" -Crystal Marshall

“We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on." -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"Quiet people have the loudest minds." -Stephen Hawking

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on it's ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid." -Albert Einstein

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." -Mahatma Gandhi

"To a great mind, nothing is little." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

"Life is never easy for those who dream." -Robert James Waller

Live as if you'll die tomorrow. Dream as if you'll live forever. -(Unknown)

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." -Wise man, "Sucker Punch"

"You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." -Eames, "Inception"

Life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself. -(Unknown)

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

"Every man dies, not every man lives." -William Wallace

My favorite* "Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible. We walk around happily with these invisible veils hanging down over our faces. The world is kind of blurry, and we like it that way. But sometimes our veils are pushed away for a few moments, like there's a wind blowing it from our faces. And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love. But mostly we are happy not to. Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore." -Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

"Giving creative people too much free time could be dangerous. We might just end up taking over the world when you're not looking."
-Personal

"The Road Not Taken" by: Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood,

And looked down one as far as I could,

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay,

In leaves no step had trodden black,

Oh, I marked the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh,

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.