In the name of the best within us

My life in review:

10. "But, you see, the measure of the hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love." Francisco d'Anconia
9. "But I'm scared I'll get scared." Jesse Lacey, taken out of context
8. "The way things separate and grow together/ Never ceases to amaze me." Hannah Irvin, from "Feeling Red."
7. "I'm not that kind of girl." Beyonce Knowles, also taken out of context.
6. "Well, you're my favorite bird, and when you sing I really do wish that you'd wear my ring." Jesse Lacey, TOC, can you guess what's playing as I'm writing this?
5. "You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice." Hillary Rodham Clinton
4."I think the reason I am important is that I know everything." Gertrude Stein
3. "Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." Eleanor Roosevelt
2. "I'm five. I can do anything." Cooper Spence
1. "But so long as I choose to go on living, I cannot desert a battle which I think is mine to fight." Dagny Taggart

Happily deranged

I have dreams in which I am dismembering myself. It's neither graphic nor a means of self-destruction. I just sit on the floor and unscrew my fingers, or unhinge my elbow, or take my shoulder out of its socket. I am so concentrated and methodic.

It's safe to infer that this dream is somehow related to my AP exams.