We're not in a fairytale story. This is not a movie. Scriptwriters don't write our fates. We do.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

Blake smiled while greeting him and turned to introduce me to his friend from Camp Lejeune. Blake made the formal introductions while I studied the two distinguished men. I liked the way they both carried themselves in a dignified manner with confidence, but not too much that they seemed arrogant. I was fascinated by them. Sleek. Forget eye candy. These two are like eye caffeine. I feel energized just looking at them.

There was magic in the air tonight, and something incredible was about to happen__elly just sensed it.

Stop,_ he murmured, or at least that__ what he meant to say. It came out sounding more like __es,_ which probably wasn__ the same thing at all.

This will be the way I__l be remembering you, Kel,_ he whispered softly into her ear, __n this beautiful place, where all that I__ thinking about it how much I want you.