The cake is a lie.

favorite manga: Dragon Knights, HunterxHunter, Fruits Basket, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bakuman, Death Note
favorite anime: Kino's Journey, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass
favorite cartoons: The Simpsons, Samurai Jack, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Invader Zim
favorite comics: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee, Zits, Baby Blues
favorite television shows: Wondefalls, The Big Bang Theory, Firefly, Still Standing, Dexter
favorite movies: Millions, Kill Bill 1, Kill Bill 2, Serenity, The Princess Bride, El Orfanato, Léon/The Professional, Stardust, Donnie Darko, The Fifth Element, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away
favorite books: Watership Down, Mira Mirror, Tales of the Brothers Grimm, The Princess Bride, Flora Segunda, Crusader, Tangerine, Story Time, Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies, Strange Stories for Strange Kids, The Only Alien on the Planet, Pride and Prejudice, stuff by Orson Scott Card, stuff by Annette Kurtis Klause, anything by Diana Wynne Jones, anything by Terry Pratchet, almost anything by Vivian Vande Velde, Protector of the Small series, Harry Potter series, Artemis Fowl series, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy

"Animals don't behave like men," he said. "If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill, they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality." ~Watership Down by Richard Adams

"So," Suki interjected, "let me get this right: you want them to stop acting like Aang's parents and become his pimps?" ~A Matter of Honor (Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfiction) by Adridere

"Ellie is soft and comfortable like a mother and Sigrid is strong and busy like an aunt—and the professors are good to me. But sometimes . . . I dream about my real mother coming. Often I dream it—that she’s looked and looked for me and at last she’s found me. Do you think it’s wrong to keep dreaming that?”
“How could it be wrong?”
“Well, when Ellie and Sigrid look after me so well.”
“Dreams don’t work like that, Annika.” ~The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson

Ophelia's mind went wandering
You'd wonder where she goes
Through secret doors down corridors
She'd wander there alone
All alone
~"Ophelia" by Natalie Merchant

Pozzo: (Suddenly furious.) Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. (He jerks the rope.) On! ~Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett

Evie: Why are all of you speaking English?
Controller Vode: Oh, we're not. Your brain was upgraded for real-time language translation the instant you boarded the ship. Works with slang, derisive witticisms, and colloquial allusion. If one of us verbalizes a concept with no English approximation, the program tries its best to compensate.
Evie: Meaning what?
Controller Vode: Inappropriately jovial banana pants.
Evie: What?
Controller Vode: Exactly.
~eV by James Farr

Vincent: So . . . what now?
Edaniel: Hm. Wanna make out?
Vincent: I'm going to kill you right in the face.
~Bizenghast by Alice LeGrow

"Still Alive" from the game Portal

This was a triumph
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS
It's hard to overstate
My satisfaction
Aperture Science
We do what we must
Because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead

But there's no sense crying
Over every mistake
You just keep on trying
Till you run out of cake
And the science gets done
And you make a neat gun
For the people who are
Still alive

I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart
And killed me
And torn into pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you
Now these points of data
Make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta
We're releasing on time
So I'm glad I got burned
Think of all the things we learned
For the people who are
Still alive

Go ahead and leave me
I think I prefer to stay inside
Maybe you'll find someone else
To help you
Maybe Black Mesa
THAT WAS A JOKE, HAHA, FAT CHANCE
Anyway, this cake is great
It's so delicious and moist
Look at me still talking
when there's science to do
When I look out there
It makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run
There is research to be done
On the people who are
Still alive

And believe me I am
Still alive
I'm doing science and I'm
Still alive
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm
Still alive
While you are dying I'll be
Still alive
And when you're dead I will be
Still alive
STILL ALIVE
Still alive

excerpts from Kino's Journey:

Deep in your smile I see the world seeing me
I'm free to be free
To be what I'd be
When my heart's aching and is shallow on love
I gaze to the doves and I find it above

Let my desires fly along on a wing
Along with my dreams
Alone so it seems
Thoughts from the heart on a pure spring day
My heart flies away on a dream so they say

"Someone once told me that watching the birds made them want to go on a journey." -Kino

Birds flying in the sky are not always free, though.