"For the first few months he lives far away from the cities, for fear of discovery. In the countryside of Callisto the snow lies fluffy and a handspan or more deep, and it has its own profound silence and its own soft roar of sound, and he understands."

   [ Gren's story, in sound ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 13

"Kimberly, it turned out, was a strange drunk, a ranting drunk, hunched over the table in the empty cantina muttering under his breath..."

   [ Mustang and Kimberly, one dark night in Ishbal ]

  Spoilers - general series backstory

"He has a terrifying amount of control over my body. It took him weeks to insinuate himself, to force my surrender into a habit."

   [ a brief look at Quirrell ]

  Beta - Ayla Pascal

"For any number, divided by a solitary one, remains itself."

   [ a hexadrabble on Nemuro and the hundred boys ]

  Ref. - author's notes

"Angels that are forced from heaven have to become demons. Isn't that right, Spike?"

   [ an experiment in explaining that line ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 5

"When she looks back at Jack, for a moment, he's still watching her, and there's something like need in his eyes, and for a moment she's happy, really happy."

   [ one big mess of Suzie and Gwen and Jack and Owen ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 8

"This was his life, in five digits and a silver palm."

   [ Peter and his hand ]

  Canon - written before bk. 5
  Beta - Ayla Pascal

"Envy stood barenaked in the window like the pillar of salt..."

   [ abstract Envy/Roy ]

  For - morningxstorm, by LJ ficlet request
  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"There is a part of me, a terribly small part of me, that loves to see you in pain."

   [ Mikage, on Mamiya ]

  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"Sleep was falling, was hanging, was chains hand-carved over mindless years and locked around his own wrists, was a linking book swallowed by acid-green fire, was ten thousand days alone in a prison written with words of madness on howling wind..."

   [ Atrus angst in the wake of Revelation ]

  Spoilers - for Myst IV

"When you talk to snakes, everything comes in long stripes, and everybody stares at you as the little scaly garter winds around your wrist and flicks its tongue and murmurs about how blades of grass go this way and that..."

   [ Tom at ten, the crazy boy ]

  Canon - written before bk. 6
  Beta - Dester'edra

"She was a shadow and a whisper in his mind, chitter-sharp spine and red lights in the green steaming dark, promising the impossible, the unthinkable, what he had shied away from all his life--unity."

   [ angsty cyborg trippiness ]

  Spoilers - Best of Both Worlds, First Contact
  For - ursule, by LJ ficlet request