English: "Reading is but the start of the quest for knowledge." -Me

French: "La lecture n'est que le debut de la quete vers le savoir." -Moi

I have just been newly introduced to FictionPress, but I've read many (understatement) books. If any of you wish to discuss a book with me, feel free.

My Fanfiction pen name is GoldenAura.

Three Facts About me:

- I can read and finish a 400 page book on a school night if it's really interesting and I don't have too much to do.

- My friends say my hidden talent is getting amazing grades when I don't understand. (They're lying! I totally understand!)

- I love playing soccer and dodge ball.

Random Thoughts:

Why is it that when clothes are wet they get darker? Is there a scientific explanation for that?

Was toilet paper invented before or after the toilet?

Why do movies always display dinosaurs as creatures with brownish, greenish skin? How do they know that dinosaurs weren't purple or blue? They can't possibly have found remains of their skin since it would have decayed over the years, unlike the bones?

If anyone knows any of these answers, feel free to tell me.

Books That I Can Remember Who Deserve This Attention (no specific order):

- The Sweet Far Thing

- Ranger's Apprentice

- The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

- The Disreputable History of Frankie Laundau-Banks

- Harry Potter

- Triskellion

- Gallagher Girls

- Twilight

- 1-800-Where-R-You

- Artemis Fowl

- The Darkest Powers Trilogy

- The Season

- The Mediator

- Percy Jackson

- Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys

- The Lioness Rampant

- The Missing series by Margaret Haddix

Quotes I Enjoy And/Or Agree With:

- Men win battles, strategists win wars. -The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

- He who believes he knows the ending of things before they begin is either a very wise person or an idiot. Regardless, he is unhappy for he hast drove a knife into the heart of wonder. -Osten Ard

- Smile, it confuses people. -Twilight4eternity

- Knowledge is power. -Francis Bacon

- I'm the kind of person who walks into a door and apologizes. -Twilight4eternity

- A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -John Burroughs

- I know one thing, it is that I know nothing. -Socrates

- A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. -Claude Bernard

- You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same. -Twilight4eternity

- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. -Unknown

- Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. -Dale Carnegie

- Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. -Marie Curie

- Watch me not care. -Dillbert

- If a child runs into the room saying "Mummy, mummy! I love Jesus and He loves me! We're all going to Heaven when we die and God is looking over us!", people will smile and praise the child. Nobody would say "Don't be silly. You can't possibly say that because you don't fully understand everything about the religion. How can you know that for sure, when you've not read the Bible in the original Hebrew?!". But if a child (or teenager, or adult) says "I've had a good think about it, and have come to the conclusion that Jesus is a myth and nothing in Christianity makes much sense. I declare myself to be a freethinking secular humanist.", then they are quite likely to receive the latter response. You could have all the theological training of a hedgehog and still get wild applause if you stand up and say you're a Christian, but it seems that atheists are required to demonstrate more intelligence and Biblical expertise than all the clergymen and theologians that have ever lived before they are allowed to publicly express their doubts. -Adrian Barnett

Quote that makes me laugh:

Morgana: Morning.
Merlin: Is it?
Morgana: Aw, don’t be like that, we have a lot of catching up to do. After all, I haven’t seen you since you condemned my sister to a slow and painful death, faulted my plans to take over Camelot, and forced me to live in a hovel.
Merlin: Couldn’t do me a favour, could you? Let Arthur know. He still thinks of me as an underachiever, but I’m quite proud of those accomplishments. I can die happy.

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