I am Illyria. For those of you who want to know more, here you go:

Illyria is all you need to know.

Then came the Internet.

(smirk)

My partner-in-crime is, of course, Lynxgoddess.

If you haven't seen Buffy or Angel, you are seriously deprived.

I'm taking a leaf outta her book. Here is my list:

Important Quotes that Rule My World (for some, literally):

1. "There are no secrets in life. Just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface."-Dexter Morgan, TV series Dexter

2."We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams."-We Were Soldiers

3."Only the dead have seen the end of war."-Black Hawk Down

4. O’Neil: "Let me ask you something. Why did you become a pilot?"

Sheppard: "I think people who don’t wanna fly are crazy."

O’Neil: "And I think people who don’t want to go through the Stargate are equally as wacked."

-SGA ep 1 Rising

5. House: "Are you going to base your whole life on who you got stuck in a room with?"

Eve: "I'm going to base this moment on who I'm stuck in a room with. It's what life is. It's a series of rooms and who we get stuck in those rooms with adds up to what our lives are."

“One Day, One Room” S3 House, M.D.

6. as Angel "Say no more. Evil's still afoot. And I'm almost out of that nancy-boy hair-gel I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away." -Spike, Angel the series, In the Dark

7. "Lesson the second: Ask the right questions. You wanna know how I beat 'em? The question isn't how'd I win. The question is, why'd they lose?" -Spike, BTVS, Fool For Love

8. Spike: "We just keep coming. But you can kill a hundred, a thousand, a thousand thousand and the armies of Hell besides, and all we need... is for one of us, just one, sooner or later, to have the thing we're all hoping for."
Buffy: "And that would be what?"
Spike: "One good day." - BTVS, Fool For Love

9."See, Lindsey, during my stint as Wolfram & Hart's puppet, something occured to me: I loathe being used. If I recall, I sent a 15 body memo to that effect."-Darla, Redefinition

10."You didn't shoot to kill. I'm gonna have to up the stakes. Get you in the game a little."-Faith, "Five By Five"

11."I have a problem. I don't feel Angel's in the game. But somehow, I think you two are the key. Now what can I do that will really make him hate me? Hmm..."-Faith, Five By Five

12."Angel's got a kid. And Cordelia spent her last summer as...a divine being? Now you've unleashed Angelus to help you stop this demon that put the lights out. Can I just ask...what the Hell are you people doing?"-Faith, Salvage

13."I get it. You're a super-being. Are you a murderer? 'Cause I am. And if it came down to you or Angelus, you haven't shown me a thing to make me want to take your side."-Faith, Salvage

14."You know what the definition of insanity is, baby? Performing the same task over and over and expecting different results. Learned that in murder rehab."-Faith, Orpheus

15."Then I'm...whatever. Dust in the wind. Candle in the wind. There'll be a general wind theme."-Faith, Orpheus

16."Break me off a switch, son. 'Cause there's about to be a whoopin'."-Faith, Orpheus

17. "You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight and you'll shag and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it. " -Spike, BTVS, Lover's Walk

18."I love these little cliques. They're like the Mafia. Nobody knows nothing."-Stabler, Law and Order: SVU "Mean"

19. "My easy-going nature is getting sorta fuckin' tested." -Nathan Filion, Slither

20. Computer screen inside a briefcase lights up and displays these words: I am a bomb. You have just armed me. - Die Hard 2

21. "I took Gotham's white knight and I brought him down to our level. It wasn't hard. See, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push." -Joker, The Dark Knight

22. "It's not about what I want, it's about what's fair! You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong. The world is cruel and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Fair." -Harvery "Two-Face" Dent, The Dark Knight

23. "You either die a hero...or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." -Batman, The Dark Knight

24. "Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." -Alfred, The Dark Knight

25. "Jeff...playtime is over. Now it's time to wake up." -Hayley, Hard Candy

26. "I am every little girl you watched, touched, hurt, screwed, killed." -Hayley, Hard Candy

27. (In a discussion between lynxgoddess and myself on becoming serial killers):"We could go down in history books. Now I'm tempted..."

28. "Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that "violence never solves anything" I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." -Robert Heinlien

29. “To think that the spectre that you see is an illusion does not rob him of his terrors: it simply adds the further terror of madness itself – and then on top of that the horrible surmise that those whom the rest call mad have, all along, been the only people who see the world as it really is.” - C.S Lewis

30. "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - H.P. Lovecraft

31. “'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.

'Oh, can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here, I'm mad. You're mad.'

'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.

'You must be,' said the Cat, ' or you wouldn't have come here.'” - Lewis Carroll

Last but not least:

Guns don't kill people. I kill people.

Forgive me, Father. For I am sin.

Story Updates:

(10/13/09) Hey everyone, I knows it's taking me quite a while to get the third chapter if Puppet Maker up and again, I apologize. I'm working on it but like the last chapter, I'm forced to split it into more than one. Rest assured, though, it is NOT abandoned; my chapters usually end up being long and require a lot of revising to make sure they make sense. I hope it will be worth the wait.

I finally got the second chapter of Puppet Maker up, so for those readers that were waiting for it, it is there! I'm working on the third chapter, but I will warn you that it may take a while. Please don't get discouraged and simply keep an eye out for it. And a big thanks to everyone who has read and reviewed chapter 2! I really hope that you liked it.