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...but I never thought I'd look back on the times I laughed and cry.*

As you may have noticed, I head my entries with quotes, which I do my best to link to the content**. I do this for my (sadly neglected of late) paper diary. Thus, a list of the quotes gives a summary of the year. (I'd do the same for this LJ post, except that holy figs on stilts are there a lot of entries.)

So, read if you like quotes or puzzles.

ETA: Cleaning up the html was a bitch.

End of 2006 Recap: Because the holiday's count as 2007:

5/12/06 - Milan Airport - ...this baby's been tested in the field - it's been used, misused, and abused, but it's always performed. Sands, Wilderness of Mirrors, ScarlettBurns

8/12/06 - Chicago - With you know what, and you probably know why. - Ananzi Boys dedication, NGaiman

9/12/06 - Chicago - I have been thinking about going to therapy recently due to the fact that I have just been violently freaking out lately. - I Was a Teenage Psychopath, JTRowland

11/12/06 - Chicago - Neither of them understood Daisy, not even a little. - Ananzi Boys, NGaiman

12/12/06 - Chicago - She knew it was only a silly daydream, but it was a good dream, and it comforted her. - Ananzi Boys, NGaiman

14/12/06 - Chicago - Everything you're doing is wrong. - Secret Window

16/12/06 - Chicago - He abandons them, And sometimes they have to crawl on all fours - God has pity on kindergarden children, Yehuda Amichai (translated)

17/12/06 - Chicago - ...if they cry to you that they hirt, if you can, ease their pain. - Instructions, NGaiman

18/12/06 - Chicago - The loneliness is harder to explain. - I'm thinking about... in The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories, Smoke and Mirrors, NGaiman

21/12/06 - Chicago - he is there and here, or that, or this or nothing or an old man 3 thirds asleep - Suppose, EECummings

22/12/06 - Chicago - Beneath the instinct to preserve the self, there is a darker one to give it up. - Wild Animus, Rich Shapero

30/12/06 - Toronto - We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead. That's all I'm going to say. - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks

2007 Recap:

1/1/07 - Toronto - ...I would carry it around in my grubby pocket for several days, somtimes weeks - alright, it's true; sometimes I carried it with me for several months. - Black Book, OPamuk

6/1/07 - Milan Airport - ...in everyway that counted, I was dead. - Bitter Grounds, Fragile Things, NGaiman

7/1/07 - Barcelona - ...if more of us told our stories to each other, where I come from, we would be a far happier and les nervous people. - The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, MGVassanji

8/1/07 - Barcelona - ...but still you can't sleep. - Black Book, OPamuk

9/1/07 - Barcelona - You've got to keep testing people. But not to destruction. - Adam Young in Good Omens, TPratchett and NGaiman

10/1/07 - Barcelona - And they were such sad, wet girls. They always let things happen to them, without making any effort. - Soul Music, TPratchett

12/1/07 - Barcelona - It had only been a matter of time before it all caught up with him again. - Sands Through the Hourglass, ScarlettBurns

13/1/07 - Barcelona - These are the dreams I'll dream instead. - Why, Annie Lenox

14/1/07 - Barcelona - I know how much you like my things. Mort Rainey in Secret Window

15/1/07 - Barcelona - It wasn't the sort of thing you could do if you were aware of what you were doing. - Mr Phillips, JLanchester

17/1/07 - Barcelona - [she was] lying in a bed that had never existed before, though it had been in existence for years - Rituals, CNootboom

20/1/07 - Barcelona - We all have cameos in stories we are not conscious of. - It's What He Would Have Wanted, SHughes

21/1/07 - Barcelona - If I had the chance I'd ask the world to dance. - Dancing With Myself, BIdol (from SmutCutter's ibid Secret Window fanvid)

22/1/07 - Barcelona - I who am capable of passionate love am sexually starved. - The Journal of a Disappointed Man, WNPBarbellion

25/1/07 - Barcelona - The most desirable babysitters are adults who have no social lives of their own. - Rules of Thumb in Forms of Devotion, DSchoemperlan

27/1/07 - Barcelona - The story is the compass. - The Black Book, OPamuk

30/1/07 - Barcelona - your gloved-hands covering your lips good-bye event - Snow Rise by RPack and Effet de niege by JHollander, once passed through the spam machine

1/2/07 - Barcelona - Fucked into the bed like he's a suitcase that won't close. - Boredom, Khohen1, who comments "What the fuck does that even MEAN?!?!"

3/2/07 - Cubelles - Trust the wolves, but do not tell them where you are going. - Instructions, NGaiman

4/2/07 - Barcelona - Sex is hardly ever just about sex. - Shirley MacLaine

6/2/07 - Barcelona - Take your clothes off, get on my bed, don't want to fuck you, be a threat instead, be my target. - At Least Be a Target, Gay for Johnny Depp

9/2/07 - Barcelona - My advice: get ninjas as soon as you can in the game. - [livejournal.com profile] hearmmemean

11/2/07 - Cubelles - He also thought that 'abbreviation' was too long for its meaning, that 'monosyllabic' should have one syllable, 'dyslexic' should be renamed 'O' and 'unspeakable' should be respelt 'unsfzpxkable'. - The Big Over-Easy, JFforde

12/2/07 - Barcelona - Q: Why are you so amazing? A: Demonic Salsa - [livejournal.com profile] adalone and NGaiman's Oracular Instrument of Divination

13/2/07 - Barcelona - I swear I'd burn this city down to show you the light. - from [livejournal.com profile] fox1013's header-quote

14/2/07 - Barcelona - Et puis toi, ma petite soeur, es-tu toujours aussi perdue? (And then you, my little sister, as you still as lost as ever?) - Toune d'automne, Les Cowboys Fringants

18/2/07 - Cubelles - nothing we are to percieve in this world equals the power of your intense fragility - somewhere i, EECummings

23/2/07 - Cubelles - Do your balls hang low? Do they dangle to and fro? - "schoolyard traditional", apparently, though overhead many-a-time on LJ

25/2/07 - Cubelles - love is a place - EECummings

26/2/07 - Barcelona - a loneliness that cuts so fine - Five Days in May, Blue Rodeo

27/2/07 - Barcelona - And if you heard someone asn't interested in kayaking, would your immediate reaction be, 'Oh my god, did someone beat you with an oar?' - on recreational sex and asexuality

2/3/07 - Cubelles - Before you take money from creepy doctors in out-of-the-way pubs, pause for a sober second thought. - JBurns, on Monarch of the Glen by NGaiman

4/3/07 - Vilanova i la Geltru - Seche tes pleurs, ma soeur. (Dry your tears, my sister.) - Seche tes pleurs, DBelanger

17/3/07 - Barcelona - Exactly my cup of tea but where is the pot containing my next two cups? Damn you, give me the pot! - [livejournal.com profile] mistful on City of Bones by CCLaire

20/3/07 - Barcelona - This gap in time, this season not their own, will be pencilled on the coffee-shop menus for a few dreamy dollars. - various spamified-poems further rearranged by myself

22/3/07 - Barcelona - There is no compromise: you must surrender everything. - The Book of the Die, The Dice Man, LRhinehart

24/3/07 - Cubelles - I've obviously got several thousand pages of life to report, just counting my life since D-Day, but the best I can do, my friends is random bits and pieces. - The Dice Man, LRhinehart

28/3/07 - Barcelona - Think of all the words you love that you haven't used yet. - How to Write a SErious Novel About Love, Forms of Devotion, DSchoemperlan

29/3/07 - Barcelona - Who is the third who walks always behind you? - The Waste Land, TSElliot

1/4/07 - Cubelles - Anybody can be anybody. - The Dice Man, LRhinehart

3/4/07 - Barcelona - My ears reported this. My brain sent back for a second opinion. My mouth hung open, awaiting orders. - [livejournal.com profile] ursulav

4/407 - Cubelles - And the old tattoos were always sentimental; you didn't mark yourself for life if you weren't sentimental. - Until I Find You, JIrving

5/4/07 - Cubelles - Angesl, answer me, are you near if rain should fall? - Angels, RRyan (sung by Enya)

6/4/07 - Cubelles - Take this tangle of conversation and turn it into your own prayer. - Do You Feel Loved?, Bono and The Edge

7/4/07 - Cubelles - If I lay here, if I ust lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world? - Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol

9/4/07 - Cubelles - When you reach the little house, the place where your journey started, you will recognize it, only it will seem much smaller than you remember. - Instructions, NGaiman

12/4/07 - Barcelona - You discover that you'd just be one more person crying. - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Dying), BDylan

19/4/07 - Barcelona - ...in the final end he won the wars after losing every battle. - Idiot Wind, BDylan

22/4/07 - Cubelles - All children, except one, grow up. - Peter Pan, JMBarrie

29/4/07 - Burgos - The dead travel fast. - Dracula, BStroker

26/5/07 - Cubelles - I am learning to live with the paradox that the horizon, when I finally get there, is not likely to be at all the way I pictured it. - A Matter of Perspective, Forms of Devotion, DSchoemperlan

31/5/07 - Barcelona - Funny little human brains, how do you get around in those things? - The Ninth Doctor, Doctor Who

3/6/07 - Cubelles - That which yields, is not always weak. - Kushiel's Dart, JCarey

10/6/07 - Barcelona - When presented in its proper, ripe form, an apple is a challenge; a gauntlet thown down by Creation itself. - [livejournal.com profile] fuseji

11/6/07 - Barcelona - ...not be Alone, but reduce the monster and be Two things, the two together as one - The Man with the Blue Guitar, WStevens in The Orphan, RStallman

17/6/07 - Cubelles - 'Even if we say that the monsters are unhappy because they are different and not loved by anyone, it is puzzling because they do seem to be waiting,' she paused in genuine thought and ended the sentence as if to herself, 'for disaster'. - The Orphan, RStallman

24/6/07 - Cubelles - Alone is safe. - The Orphan, RStallman

1/7/07 - Vinaroz - La belleza del paisaje esta en su amargura. (The countryside's beauty is in its bitterness.) - Istanbul: Hatirsalar ve sehir, OPamul

8/7/07 - Cubelles - What pretty sugar; I've never seen such cubic lumps! - [livejournal.com profile] alienagentsab

11/7/07 - Barcelona - Plucked from a scone-bearing tree, were they? - [livejournal.com profile] aliengentsab

17/7/07 - Barcelona - Dont' sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. - Laura J on [livejournal.com profile] livequote

18/7/07 - Barcelona - We save our lives in such unlikely ways. - Inventing Aladdin, Fragile Things, NGaiman

24/7/07 - Barcelona - Come on, Sparky. Let's go. This heart ain't gonna cut itself out. - Charles Gunn, Angel

25/7/07 - Barcelona - a-looking for someone a-looking for me - Lord Gorum's Song, Sister Dark, Sister Light, JYolen

30/7/0-7 - Barcelona - You're like voodoo, honey. - Voodoo Child, Rogue Traders

1/8/07 - Cubelles - It's so funny how we never have big cries but then unexpectantly break down while cuting carrots. - [livejournal.com profile] katarinagram, personal correspondence

2/8/07 - Cubelles - Don't cry, don't cry, oh please don't cry. - Halit Ziya, The Black Book, OPamuk

5/8/07 - Cubelles - Who's there that makes you so afraid? - Good Enough, SMcLachlan

6/8/07 - Cubelles - I'm inside, like a wrecking-ball through your eyes. - Wrecking-Ball, Interpol

7/8/07 - Cubelles - Does God find you funny? - Heard on the Street: Chicago

8/8/07 - Cubelles - It was closer to the cage than where it landed. - I Was a Teenage Billionaire Psychopath, JTRowland

27/8/07 - Amsterdam - For five hellish days, Ben had walked from village to village, drunk sweet tea and instant coffee in cafeterias and cafes, stared out at grey rocky vistas and at the slate-coloured sea, shivered under his two thick sweaters, got wet, and failed to see any of the sights that were promised. - Shogoth's Old Peculiar, Smoke and Mirrors, NGaiman

28/8/07 - Amsterdam - from barren strands to verdant fields, from city streets to lonely wealds - Winter Moon in Winter Moon, DKoontz

29/8/07 - Noordwijk - I love it when you call but you never call at all. - Love it When You Call, The Feeling

26/9/07 - Den Haag - Why am I typing? Why aren't I sleeping? - NGaiman

4/10/07 - Den Haag - Too many people want to have written. - TPratchett

7/10/07 - Den Haag - Anything you say can and will be turned into an icon. - Uncredited

9/10/07 - Den Haag - There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? - The Marquis de Carabas in Neverwhere, NGaiman

25/10/07 - Den Haag - Hey, check it out. It's monsoon season again. - I Was a Teenage Billionaire Psychopath, JTRowland

29/10/07 - Den Haag - A state of confusion, bordering madness and terror. So, essentially, Sparta. - [livejournal.com profile] pirho_mania in [livejournal.com profile] ljdq

8/12/07 - Den Haag - I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. - The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who


* Uncredited
** OCD much?***
*** Very.****
**** Liek woah.

Date: 2007-12-14 07:16 pm (UTC)
ext_27713: An apple with a heart-shape cut into it (mo/pete: caption not necessary)
From: [identity profile] lienne.livejournal.com
<3

The gathering on the 23rd that I'm inviting you to is at 6ish at Masha's place, by the way. Which is kind of slightly a while after our noonish meeting, but I'm sure we'll find plenty to talk about in the interim. :D?

Date: 2007-12-14 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bending-sickle.livejournal.com
A most definate :D

*curious* Would I know Masha or other folk there by any other (LJ) name?

Date: 2007-12-14 07:29 pm (UTC)
ext_27713: An apple with a heart-shape cut into it (Default)
From: [identity profile] lienne.livejournal.com
Masha is [livejournal.com profile] aplysia_06. None of the others have LJs so far as I know. A couple of the invitees (well, one) think that LJ is in fact somehow Satan. XD

Date: 2007-12-14 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bending-sickle.livejournal.com
Crush* the unbelievers! (Or convert, which is what I've been trying to do with Elisa. So far, she's shown only mild interest, but I have hopes.)

* Gently and with affection.

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