âlike weapons, do you?â
âit must be worth a lot.â
âhow do you know that?â
âpeople keep telling me that but it doesnât mean anything to me.â
âwe bear the glories and the burdens of our names, the good and the bad our ancestors have done, through all our lives.â
âIâm a pretty big deal.â
âso you were planning on running away I take it?â
âI donât belong here.â
âI donât need you. I donât need any of you.â
âyou might think you want to die, but trust me â you donât.â
âthatâs basically a squid, right?â
âIâve never been awarded a fish before.â
âI have won for you a fish, my fair one.â
âI couldnât keep a fish alive, I kill plants just by looking at them.â
âdoes anyone want to tell him that goldfish are freshwater fish and canât survive in the ocean?â
âjust tell me that he makes you happy.â
âthereâs a disturbing smell of calamari wafting from your general direction.â
âI wouldnât be worried about him, I might be worried about you.â
âyou look like a cop.â
âyou didnât really think that would work, did you?â
âit couldâve worked.â
âa strange evening, forsooth.â
âdonât you âforsoothâ me.â
âmost of us mind being naked in front of strangers.â
âreally? youâve never swum naked in the ocean?â
âare you on the floor?â
âI shouldnât feel bad, right? He was a terrible person. I had to do it.â
âwhen people die, our dreams of what they could be die with them. even if ours is the hand that ends them.â
âtell me something fun. you havenât talked about your love life in ages.â
âthereâs never going to be anyone else for me.â
âeveryoneâs afraid of dying.â
âI realize it sounds ridiculous, but I know what I know.â
âI knew I was going to die, and I wasnât scared.â
âI trust you to not ever give up.â
âdonât poke me with any of your weird little magic wands.â
âso what happens to me?â
âI mean your house is pretty screwed up with your agoraphobic uncle and your weird brother.â
âno, theyâre afraid of you. thereâs a difference.â
âhave you ever wanted a really up-close look at a gross tentacle?â
âno one ever seems to say yes to that question.â
âwho wants to carry the tentacle?â
âyouâve got to be kidding, Iâm not jumping off that.â
âmy father warned me you people would try to kill me.â
âyeah? and what happens if I splatter myself all over the floor?â
âyou drive me wild with your sexy talk.â
âwho knows what desires a sea demon might possess?â
âI mock you with my sugar cravings.â
âyou have blood on your hand.â
âhis hairâs too good. I donât trust people with hair that good.â
âIâll crash the wedding. Iâll jump out of the cake, but not in a sexy way. Like, with grenades.â
âhe lied to me and I forgave him, and then he lied to me again â what kind of idiot am I?â
âwhen someoneâs been part of your life for that long, cutting them out is like cutting the roots out from under a plant.â
âif you make a wish on it, itâll come true.â
âlook, just let me beat him up for you. youâll feel so much better.â
âI could beat him up with my feet. theyâre registered as lethal weapons.â
âweâre going to get revenge on (name) by folding his towels?â
âthere are ways you could hurt him without touching him.â
âno one can read someone elseâs mind or guess their reasons. not even you, (name).â
âyour heart feels something for her.â
âyou and I, together, it would have been ⌠such an easy thing.â
âpassion is not easy. nor is the lack of it.â
ânot everyone has the training to use every tool, and a weapon you donât know how to wield is wasted.â
âam I the only one whoâs read X-Men and realizes why this is a bad idea?â
âI didnât realize I was lost. I never felt lost.â
âam I imagining you? I was thinking about you and now here you are.â
âwhen a decision like that is made by a government, it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. they assume they are simply brave enough to say what everyone really thinks.â
âno. that was not a human noise.â
âI need you. you might be surprised to hear that.â
âdidnât you all just catch a murderer?â
âbesides, what else are you going to do? run away? and go where?â
âfiction is truth, even if it is not fact.â
âtell me again why you think theyâre up to something?â
âitâs strange, the things that blind us.â
âI hate feeling like this. I hate being afraid. it makes me feel weak.â
âthe way boys tell each other they love each other is very odd.â
âIâm going to use every bad word I know, and look up some new ones.â
âin sum, you may have to launder some of your own towels.â
âthe only things he shares with his father are moodiness and a penchant for burglary.â
âitâs a lot more complicated than that, believe me.â
âis there some reason you donât want to kiss me?â
âokay, I guess that suggestion was a little out of bounds.â
ânot bad. you really put your back into it. I didnât expect that.â
âan arranged marriage? how mundane and medieval.â
âI just donât believe in doing something for nothing.â
âyouâve had enough dancing. and drinking.â
âI liked dancing with you.â
âI have never known anyone as human as you.â
âI never thought youâd even look at me, not someone like you.â
âyou thought you were kissing me because you were intoxicated, not because you wanted to, or because you actually like me.â
âwill you not come back to my arms for more kisses?â
âcome and speak your words of challenge to my blade.â
âitâs not our strongest position, but itâs something.â
â(name) ! thatâs how you black out and wake up the nest day under a bridge with a tattoo that says âI LOVE HELICOPTERSâ.â
âsometimes we must deceive the ones we love.â
âI cannot be the instrument that causes him pain.â
âyou enter a cave. inside the cave is an egg, lit from within and glowing. you know it beats with your dreams â not the ones you have during the day, but the ones you half-remember in the morning. it splits open. what emerges?â
âyou will be the champion of your people.â
âshow no mercy, (name).â
âall that death and destruction and what will you gain?â
âwhatever gods have done this, they are gracious to bring me the one my soul loves, in my last moments.â
âIt is true as they say, the pain leaves you as you die.â
âI donât need help! I donât need to be saved!â
âI was baptized in blood and fire.â
âyou are soft, gentle as angels are gentle.â
âyou think angels are gentle. they are anything but.âÂ
âthey bring justice in blood and heavenly fire. they take vengeance with fists of iron.âÂ
âtheir glory is such it would burn out your eyes if you looked at them. it is a cold and brutal glory.â
âdo you think I am someone who has anything to lose?â
 âI might kill you for being so stupid.â
âweasel face, youâre surprisingly helpful when you want to be.â
âI said I was tired of threatening you, not that I was going to stop doing it.â
âhow did you know I would need saving?â
âdonât feel bad, he always falls asleep yelling that.â
âI spent so much time looking for revenge, but finding it didnât make me happy.â
âI will always choose you, too.â
âI thought I would die this night. I was prepared for it. I was ready.â
âfor any blood ritual, willing blood is better than unwilling.â
âI would rather be mad in my way than yours.â
âI would bargain with you, and here are things I would not have you be ignorant of when we do.â
âtimes change, and so do alliances.â
âthat is beyond your power.â
âare they ever useful?â
âyouâre staying within these walls and thatâs final.â
âI will always come back to you (name).â
âI donât believe in providence, or an interventionist Heaven.â
âare you quoting shakespeare?â
âspeaking of dreams, you have been in mine, and often.â
âwe could together slay a frost giant or devour a deer.â
âthen what are you doing here, if you are not family?â
âI sense the distance but do not understand its cause.â
âitâs clear none of you have practice in observing the dead.â
âI have done everything to get your attention outside of smacking you in the head with a ouija board.â
âis he in Heaven? I mean, it seems so unlikely.â
âif you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and youâll be sorry.â
âin my time children were seen and not heard, and they certainly didnât complain.â
âit is better that you go, that I might forget your fair, cruel face, and heal my heart.â
âyour pretense does not fool me, gnome. my eye will be upon you.â
âmore scones, less death.â
âI didnât know you were that invested in our relationship.â
âso you admit that youâre a control freak?â
âdraw me like one of your french girls.â
âthe first time we watched Titanic, you cried.â
âweâll have to figure another way in.â
âwho would ever want movies or TV when there are books?â
âso tell them I ran off there and you had to catch me.â
âno trespassers usually means the local kids have made it into a hang out and the whole place is covered with empty candy wrappers and booze bottles.â
âthis doesnât look deserted. not by a long shot.â
âwhy are you trying to ruin y good time?â
âI get my caffeine the way right-thinking people get it. from chocolate!â
âthe only people that know about (name) are people he wants to know.â
âitâs not your fault, (name), sheâs just being cruel.â
âHolmes never lets Watson do the talking. Watson is backup.â
âwar like this benefit no one.â
âwhen you strike at a king, you must kill him.â
ânot my favorite nickname. I prefer âOur Lord and Masterâ or maybe âUnambiguously the Hottestâ.â
âwas that before or after you attacked him?â
âis this about my boyfriend? jealous, (name)?â
âlove me, because nobody ever has.â
âthatâs the problem with revenge â you wind up destroying the innocent as well as the guilty.â
âis this like when the family dog dies and they say heâs living on a farm now?â
âyou donât know a lot of things about me.â
âsadly, that is his name. hence his life of evil.â