I choose to love you in silence for there, Cut my skin, it makes me human Scorn your mind, just feel the pain When you're looking at pain, you're looking at truth Nothing like pain to make us all the same. -- Mia Zapata of The [awesome] Gits, Cut My Skin, It Makes Me Human --

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. -- Joan Baez --

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star; In somebody else's sky. Why? Why? Why can't it be mine? -- Pearl Jam, Black --