For it was the first snow of the season. And as any child can tell you, there’s a certain magic that comes with the very first snow, especially when it falls on the day before Christmas. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow…well, something wonderful is bound to happen.
Who could ever learn to love a beast?
She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.
Inside a snowflake like the one on your sleeve, there happened a story you must see to believe.
Once upon a time, or maybe twice, there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland. 80,000 leagues beneath the sea it lay, or lie. I'm not too sure.
uh-oh, better play it cool, old boy.
How could we be so stupid? That's 'blast him' spelled backwards.
Oh there is no doubt about it, you were meant to be a secret agent.
A delusion starts like any other idea, as an egg. Identical on the outside, perfectly formed. From the shell, you’d never know anything was wrong. It’s what’s inside that matters.
It was more than 150 years ago when a local fishing captain, Charles H. Pownall, fell in love with a mermaid in these very waters, enchanted by her beautiful siren song.
Where the pessimist sees danger hiding behind every back, the optimist sees friendship. Which is why, when we encounter coincidence, we often see conspiracy.
Human beings are the only animal that forms ideas about their world. We perceive it not through our bodies but through our minds. We must agree on what is real. Because of this, we are the only animal on Earth that goes mad.
If the idea of illness can become illness, what else about our reality is actually a disorder?
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