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01Undated

We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.

David Arnold / quote

02Undated

Pain makes people who they are.

David Arnold / quote

03Undated

Music was more than subjective; it was erratic. It was the ship on the horizon that one sailor saw, the other sailor didn’t.

David Arnold / quote

04Undated

A pall fell over the room. A black shroud of disease and deathbeds and all the worst things from all the worst places. This mutant world, a tragic portmanteau, the unnatural marriage of two roots as different as could be. 'And do you, Ability take Vitriol to be your lawfully wedded suffix?' I wanted to scream objections to the unholy matrimony, but nothing came out. My mouth was clammy and dry, full of sand. Dr. Wilson smiled on, rambling about the benefits of Abilitol while my father nodded like a toy bobblehead immune to the deepening shadow in the room. As they spoke, I caught my mother's eye. I could tell by her face that she felt the deepening shadow too.Neither of us smiled.Neither of us spoke.We felt the shadow together.

David Arnold / quote

05Undated

Memories are as infinite as the horizon.

David Arnold / quote

06Undated

People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home is the heart

David Arnold / quote

07Undated

They lived and they laughed and they saw it was good.

David Arnold / quote

08Undated

However, if you're cursed as I am with a love of storytelling and adventures in galaxies far, far away, and mythical creatures from fictional lands who are more real to you than actual people with blood and bones---which is to say, people who exist---well, let me be the first to pass on my condolences.Because life is rarely what you imagined it would be.

David Arnold / quote

09Undated

I have limited experience, but I know this: moments of connection with another human being are patently rare. But rarer still are those who can recognize such a connection when they see one.

David Arnold / quote

10Undated

...the people arrogant enough to use the words 'I understand' are the ones who can't possibly understand.

David Arnold / quote

11Undated

(Every great character, Iz, be it on page or screen, is multidimensional. The good guys aren't all good, and the bad guys aren't all bad, and any character wholly one or the other shouldn't exist at all. Remember this when I describe the antics that follow, for though I am not a villain, I am not immune to villainy.)

David Arnold / quote

12Undated

Because this is my life, the only one I get. And if it's a choice between a life Albilitoled, or a life full of Life... well, that's not really a choice at all.

David Arnold / quote