thedahliaflower

Life is short... and it doesn't matter how good your grades are -- or how many hours you put in at the soup kitchen... you're not safe. Bad things happen. Things you can't control. Things that have nothing to do with you. And they will destroy you if you let them. Or you can try to learn from them... so that next time, you'll be prepared. So that -- even if you never feel safe again -- you can do your best to make sure that what happned to you never happens to anyone else. And if you're very lucky... you won't have to do it alone.
          	
          	(Kate Bishop)

thedahliaflower

Life is short... and it doesn't matter how good your grades are -- or how many hours you put in at the soup kitchen... you're not safe. Bad things happen. Things you can't control. Things that have nothing to do with you. And they will destroy you if you let them. Or you can try to learn from them... so that next time, you'll be prepared. So that -- even if you never feel safe again -- you can do your best to make sure that what happned to you never happens to anyone else. And if you're very lucky... you won't have to do it alone.
          
          (Kate Bishop)

thedahliaflower

'"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die?"'
          
          -William Shakespeare 

thedahliaflower

There's a humming in the restless summer air
          And we're slipping off the course that we prepared
          But in all chaos, there is calculation
          Dropping glasses just to hear them break
          You've been drinking like the world was gonna end (it didn't)
          Took a shiner from the fist of your best friend (go figure)
          It's clear that someone's gotta go
          We mean it but I promise we'r