“Don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re not my father.”

She never understood Phil, but she was always proud of her brother.

Still getting used to the twenty-first century, Steve comforts himself with memories of long-gone friends. But Howard Stark, the man Steve remembers, is nothing like the man he sees in the newsreels.

Three years on an asteroid makes for a lot of hanging out to do, and it's during one of these hang outs that Terezi discovers Dave's photo album. It takes a little convincing, but soon Dave is taking her on a trip down his particular Memory Lane.

Fuyumi can read between the lines of Mako’s file. The justification for having Mako on the base is paper thin -- strings have been pulled and favours have been bartered, and somewhere along the line someone decided Fuyumi was the perfect combination of talent and expendability to be brought into this mess. It’s only slightly closer to a compliment than an insult -- the balance tipped by the child at the centre of this, nine years old and heart-breakingly brave. -- Scenes from the year after Stacker and Mako first meet.

Alicia liked to pretend she had an Invisible Daddy.

Some choices, once made, cannot be taken back.

According to the Bingo Book, Hatake Kakashi has two dæmons.

The king is dead, but a cousin cannot inherit before a brother, or before a sister.

It's the one holiday they actually mark with any kind of consistency

What's left of the little eggplant is a half-empty packet of cigarettes and a bloodied tie.

Jiang Yanli and Jin Guangyao knew each other, during the year they both lived at Carp Tower.

A week later, Jiang Cheng gets a chance to talk to someone he trusts about the revelations during and preceding the confrontation at Guanyin Temple. Part of the Therapy for the Sunshot Generation Agenda