Marshmallow [Paperback]
Clare Turlay Newberry


story about a rabbit.

"We create ourselves by the choices we make."

Kierkegaard

"Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone”

Mario Puzo, The Godfather

"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.” Never trust a lawyer. Never trust a piece of paper. And even a handshake can betray. People are going to do what they are going to do. Evil people will do evil.
Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.” Or managed to have a box stuffed with votes for him/her.
Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a person must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.” soooooo true.
Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
Mario Puzo, The Godfather

"It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal.

They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from?

The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something?

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday . It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it.

Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster”
Mario Puzo, Fools Die

"There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store—that includes me,” he said.

“There are very few African-American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me—at least before I was a senator,” he said.

“There are very few African-Americans who haven’t had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.”

So “the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history,” judging “what happened one night in Florida” through that lens, he said.

barack obama

"so where's your party at

"don't end a sentence with a preposition

"so where's your party at, bitch?" lol. love this joke and so true!

what is worse than a birthday?

happy birthday,

it could be worse

you could be looking at yourself in a bikini, in front of a 3 way mirror with fleuroscent lights." lmao, so true.

Comes the Dawn by Veronica Shoffstall

After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,


And you learn to build all your roads on today,
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans,
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.


After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong,
And you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn...
With every goodbye you learn.

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit." dawna markova


"Higher consciousness, enLIGHTenment, comes from meaningful experiences and lessons passed with the understanding" you have to live it to understand it. studying it isn't enough, it isn't "it." first hand knowledge outweighs everything else.

Goodnight Moon

This is the text form one of my favorites childrens books:

(It is a much better read with the illustrations.)

Goodnight Moon:

...Goodnight room
Goodnight moon
Good night cow jumping over the moon
Goodnight light
And the red balloon
Goodnight bears
Goodnight chairs
Goodnight kittens
And goodnight mittens
Goodnight clocks
And goodnight socks
Goodnight little house
And goodnight mouse
Goodnight comb
And goodnight brush
Goodnight nobody
Goodnight mush
And goodnight to the old lady
whispering "hush"
Goodnight stars
Goodnight air
Goodnight noises everywhere

--"Goodnight Moon", text by Margret Wise Brown

"To the ancient Greeks the word "thekaeossini", justice, was often synonymous with "ekthekissis", vengeance, and Demiris was obsessed with both. He remembered every [major] slight he had ever suffered, and those who were unlucky enough to incur his enmity were paid back a hundredfold. They were never even aware of it, for Demiris' mathematical mind made a game of exacting retribution, patiently working out elaborate traps, spinning complex webs that finally caught and destroyed its victims.

...Demiris' sense of thekaeossini was a two-edged sword. Just as he never forgave an injury, neither did he ever forget a favor. A landlady who had fed and clothed the young man when he was too poor to pay her suddenly found herself the owner of an apartment building...

...many get away with the evil they do. I am in a position to make them pay for it. That is justice...

He enjoyed the hours he spent devising traps for his adversaries. He would study his victims carefully, analyzing their personalities, assessing their strengths and their weaknesses...

...he was in no hurry. He enjoyed the anticipation, the planning and the execution. It was like a chess game, and Demiris was a chess master. These days he made no enemies, for no man could afford to be his enemy, so his quarry was limited to those who had crossed his path in the past."

The Other Side of Midnight, by Sidney Sheldon Pages 244 - 245 (love this book!)

THE GODFATHER

"There are people in this world who go about demanding to be killed. You must have noticed them. They quarrel in gambling games. They jump out of their automobiles in a rage. They humiliate and bully people whose capabilities they do not know.

These are people who wander through the world shouting, "kill me". And there's always someone ready to oblige to them."

THE GODFATHER

"There are people in this world who go about demanding to be killed. You must have noticed them. They quarrel in gambling games. They jump out of their automobiles in a rage. They humiliate and bully people whose capabilities they do not know.

These are people who wander through the world shouting, "kill me". And there's always someone ready to oblige to them." Mario Puzo