Memes & Musings

As said by OUAT’s Rumplestiltskin takes from various episodes change pronouns as you please.

“All magic comes with a price”

“For your prison, all of our prisons, will be time. “

“No more happy endings”

“Great power requires great sacrifice.“

“Every story needs a memorable detail.“

“Everyone has a choice, dearie. Just make sure it's the right one.“

“We established that you owed me a favor.”

“I know that can be a bad feeling. Owing someone.“

“I'm sure we'll find some way for you to pay back what you owe me.“

“No one comes to see me without a deal in mind.“

“My power means more to me than you.“

“Don't let these bars fool you. I'm the only one with the power around here.“

“We’re back were we belong . . .  together”

“The person she was? There's no way to bring her back.“

“I broke one deal in my life, dear, and it certainly wasn't this one.“

“Yeah, but murder seems so much worse here, though doesn't it? You can't just turn someone into a snail and then step on them, can you?“

“Well, that is quite a list of grievances, now isn't it?“

“I know that things don't always happen the way we want them to.“

“Then I'll just have to kill him.“

“Conjuring magic is not an intellectual endeavor. It's emotion. You must ask yourself: "Why am I doing this? Who am I protecting?" Feel it.“

“Self-preservation has been a nasty habit I've had my whole life.“

“What needs to be done has a price. A price I'm finally willing to pay.“

“I wanted to make sure you had a chance at happiness. And that happiness is possible. Just not with me. I accept that.”

“I love you, _________, you made me stronger.”

“You make me want to go back, back to the best version of me”

“Ah, but I'm a villain. And villains don't get happy endings.“

“_________, when we met, I wasn't just unloved and unloving. I was an enemy of love.”

“I vow to you I will never forget the distance between what I was and what I am.“

“How you can see the man behind the monster, I will never know”

“Your strange fixation really holds no interest for me.“

“Dearie, I warn you. Do not overestimate your power.“

“If I have to choose between everyone else and me, me wins every time.“

Taken from the 1996 live action movie, feel free to change pronouns as you wish. tw for implied animal abuse.

“I live for fur. I worship fur.”

“My faith in your limited intelligence is restored, if only momentarily”

 “More good women have been lost to marriage than to war, famine, disease, and disaster”

“Congratulations. You've just won gold, silver, and bronze in the Morons' Olympics.”

“You have talent darling, don’t squander it” 

“I don’t care how you kill the little beasts just do it now!”

“Keep the little beasts. Do what you like with them.”

“Drown them, for all I care.”

“Just wait you’ll be sorry!”

“You fools, YOU IDIOTS!”

“Be sure to let me know when the blessed event occurs.”

“Fools aren't born. Pretty girls make them in their spare time.”

“Do you want a cup of marriage, uh, tea?”

“Oh yeah. Sounded like an annoying bug asking me irritating questions... Oh, good, it's stopped now.”

“What kind of sycophant are you?”

“Uh... what kind of sycophant would you like me to be?”

“You call yourselves men?! HA! I've seen more intelligent pieces of carpet!”

“OH! Look at the size of that scar! No bloody wonder you can't talk, mate!”

“You’ll never work in fashion again”

“Thank you. Now go and stand somewhere until I need you.”

“Darling, red isn't your color.”

“Give me the hat, or you will become a hat.”

“I want the job done tonight. Can you do it?”

“Oh, yes! I love the smell of near extinction!”

“I have no use for babies”

“Ah, ma'am, what a beautiful day it is out there! Sun shining, blue skies, the laughter of schoolchildren riding on the gentle breeze.”

“The noise I just heard, did you hear it?”

“Well, accidents do happen”

“Kept in a small bowl, they will remain small.”

“With more space, the fish can double, triple or quadruple its size.“

“There are some fish that cannot be caught. “

“They're just touched by something extra. “

“Call it luck. Call it grace.“

“This isn't how I die.“

“Everyone loves my father. He's a very likable guy.“

“Oh, come on. I can't go back, I'm a human sacrifice. If I go back they'll think I'm a coward. I'd rather be dinner than a coward.“

“Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.”

“Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard. “

“I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you're going to die. “

“It's not a woman, it's a fish. No one ever catches her. “

“Fate has a cruel way of circling around on you.“

“Truth is, I've been thirsty my whole life. Never really known why.“

“After all, no man can avoid reaching the end of his life.“

“People didn't use the old road anymore, and it had developed the reputation of being haunted. “

“ This is why you should never show a work in progress.“

“ I've been working on this poem for 12 years.“

“Most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in social niceties.”

“There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool will continue.“

“You spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill its head with nonsense and still it turns out perfectly fine.”

“Having a kid changes everything. I mean, there's the diapers and the burping and the midnight feedings...“

“Truth is, I've been thirsty my whole life. Never really known why.”

“The truth is, I've always been a fool.“

“I was never much for being at home. It's too confining.”

“ Dying is the worst thing that ever happened to me.“

“Now, there comes a point where a reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit that he's made a terrible mistake. The truth is, I was never a reasonable man.“

“And one day I realized I was in love with a man who could never love me back”

“I wanted to be as important to him as you were, and I was never going to be.“

“Not everything your father says is a complete fabrication.“

“ And if I were to end up here, I'd consider myself lucky. But the truth is, I'm not ready to end up anywhere.“

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops. And that's true. What they don't tell you, is that once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.“

“Promise me you'll come back.“

“See, to him, there's only two women: _____ and everyone else...”

“All the facts and none of the flavor.“

“I'm going to spend the rest of my life looking for her. That or die alone.“

“I've been shot and stabbed and trampled a few times— I broke my ribs twice— but it's all been worth it to see you here, now, and to finally get to talk to you.“

“Because I'm destined to marry you. “

“But it's romantic.“

“I have been nothing but myself since the day I was born. And if you can't see that, it's your failing, not mine.”

“And the strange thing is,there's not a sad face to be found,everyone is just so glad to see you.And send you off right.“

“Wake up buddy! C'mon boy wake up!”

“I haven’t done this since I was a kid!”

“You have to let go of fear”

“I’m not the one who makes muscles of myself every time I see my reflection in the water”

“Well you’re just a teenager”

“You are the most sexist, immature, nuttbrained-”

“That was food? I used it to start the campfire last night. Sorry.“

“Yep. Congratulations”

“I refuse to let him win”

“Thats it?! Your father raised a coward!”

“Next time you get in my way... I promise, I won't hold back“

“Thanks again for the tea, it was delicious.“

“I know you're upset, and I know how hard it is to lose the people you love!”

“There were no men. We ambushed you. Now tell us, who are you and what are you doing here?“

“My brother is just an idiot sometimes”

“The one that used to be the bad chamber, until the recent refurbishing that is. Of course, we've been calling it the new chamber, but we really should number them. Uh, take them to the refurbished chamber that was once bad!“

“You just sneezed and flew ten feet into the air!”

“They can't take away your courage and it is your courage they should truly fear!“

“Uh, I'm not sure what the difference is, but that's not really the point is it?“

“On second thought, why don't you take another few minutes?“

“I seriously have to use the bathroom!“

“Did the definition of 'genius' change in the last hundred years?“

“Let me guess, Your instincts told you?“

“You could call it luck... Or you could call it lying.“

“You ran away”

“The world needed me, and I wasn't there to help!“

“Take that, you rock!”

“You can't really tell the future“

“Just admit you might be wrong and you can come under the umbrella“

“Yeah. She said I'd meet my true love wearing red slippers.“

“Do you want me to be like you or totally honest?“

Various lines taken from the Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Feel free to change pronouns as you see fit.

"Why is the rum always gone?”

“Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare? All your sins punished?“

“I can offer you....an escape.“

“You can mistrust me less than you can mistrust him. Trust me.“

“Come to negotiate, eh, have you, ya slimy git?“

“I got a jar of dirt! got a jar of dirt! And guess what's inside it!”

“Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up to the sky with hope!“

“I am the sea”

“There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one's mistakes.“

“Keys... unlock... things?“

“She is locked up, in a prison, bound to hang for helping you!“

“You're not making any sense at all, mate.“

“You actually were telling the truth.“

“Have you considered keeping a more watchful eye on her? Maybe just lock her up somewhere.“

“And I say it was me being clever.“

“You know you can't read.“

“The dark side of ambition.“

“You smell funny.“

“Since we're not immortal no more. We've got to take care of our immortal souls.“

“I'm not sorry.“

“A man of the sea. A great sailor. Until he ran afoul of that which vexes all men.“

“What vexes all men?”

“Same story, different versions. And all are true. You see, it was a woman. As harsh, changing and untameable like the sea. Him never stopped loving her.“

“Land is where you are safe”

“Dividing him from her and her from him would only be half as cruel as actually allowing them to be joined in holy matrimony, eh?“

“If you don’t want it, give it back”

“You have a debt to pay.“

“Technically, I was only captain for two years, then I was viciously mutinied upon.“

“The captain goes down with his ship.“

“Then you were a poor captain, but a captain nonetheless!”

“He's noble, heroic, terrific soprano.“

“You hired me, remember? I can't help it if your standards are lax.“

“And did I happen to mention... he's in love?“

“So tell me...what's become of my ship?“

“Come to join my crew, lad? Welcome aboard!“

“I'm here to find the man I love.“

“I'm deeply flattered, but my first and only love is the sea.”

“You know, these clothes do not flatter you at all, it should be a dress or nothing.“

“I am truly unhappy to have to tell you this but, through an unfortunate and entirely unforeseeable series of circumstances that have nothing, whatsoever, to do with me---” 

Various lines taken from the Disney’s The Little Mermaid ( movie + musical ). Feel free to change pronouns as you see fit.

“This, I haven't seen this in years. This is wonderful! A banded, bulbous snarfblatt.”

“Oh, my gosh! My father's gonna kill me!“

“The concert was today?!“

“Anytime, sweetie! Anytime.“

“My dear sweet child, that's what I do. It's what I live for”

“Look at this stuff, isn't it neat?“

“But you'll find that nowadays,I've mended all my ways”

“BAH! In my day, we had fantastical feasts, when I lived in the palace.“

“Look at me. Wasted away to practically nothing.”

“How many wonders can one cavern hold?“

“How many wonders can one cavern hold?”

“If only you’d come home . . .”

“Bedazzling, dazzing, utterly amazing!”

“What would I pay, to stay here beside you?“

“What would I do to see you smiling at me?“

“Pathetic!“

“If only you'd come back I'll change my ways!”

“She giggles like a fool”

“They weren't kidding when they called me, well, a witch.“

“The seaweed is always greener, in somebody else’s lake”

“Nothing happened.“

“If only you would notice how I ache behind my smile”

“It seems like time stops moving“

“How could she just suddenly completely disappear into thin water?”

“My heart’s an open book”

“Who needs words? Dancing beats small talk any day.“

“How many times must we go through this?”

“A dance is like a conversation“

“I'm 16 years old! I'm not a child anymore!“

“I set certain rules and I expect those rules to be obeyed.“

“Her song is meant for me”

“Once the music hits you, inhibitions fall away“

“Is it true you rescued a human from drowning?!“

“Life's full of tough choices, innit?“

“If only it were up to me this all would turn out right”

“She sure is acting fishy lately!”

“She don't got a lot to say but there's something about her”

“You wanna kiss the girl?”

“Isn't this perfection? Out on the open sea, surrounded by nothing but water!“

“I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue“

“Love to chop up and to serve little fish“

“Have I ever been wrong? I mean, when it's important?!“

“She really does love him, doesn't she?”

“Children got to be free to lead their own life.”

“Then I guess there's just one problem left.“

Various lines taken from the Marvel’s Black Panther. Feel free to change pronouns as you see fit.

“You were wrong! All of you were wrong!”

“We let the fear of our discovery stop us from doing what is right. “

“He is a monster of our own making”

“I lived my entire life waiting for this moment.”

“I trained, I lied, I killed just to get here”

“I’m King now”

“Tell me a story”

“Hey, look. If we get in and out quick, there will be no worries.“

“Just don’t freeze when you see her”

“What are you talking about? I never freeze” 

“Are you finished?”

“We had to maintain the lie”

“That is not what I am talking about. I am not ready to be without you.“

“A man who has not prepared his children for his own death has failed as a father.“

“What are those?!”

“I wanted to go old school for my first day.“

“You told me to strike it! You didn't say how hard!“

“You know what? I'm just going to take these chips, and set them over here for safekeeping.“

“ I don't trust anybody, not in this job.“

“You can scar yourself as much as you like. To them, you'll just be an outsider. You're crazy to think that you can just walk in there.“

“And to think I saw you as some crazy American.“

“I want the throne”

“Y'all sittin' up here comfortable. Must feel good.“

“I'm exercising my blood right.“

“No, it’s Kansas”

“Play nice!”

“Your heart is so full of hatred“

“You want to see us become just like the people you hate so much!“

“Nah, I learned from my enemies. Beat them at they own game.“

“The world took everything away from me! Everything I ever loved! But I'mma make sure we're even.“

“Would you kill me, my love?“

Various lines taken from the BBC / Netflix series Dracula. Feel free to change pronouns + etc as seen fit. TW: Blood, Gore, Horror, Death mentions, Mentions of Religion / Religious Themes

“Ah . . . I have an appetite for it”

“Here’s an idea, catch!”

“There are many advantages to being a vampire. But it does make it hard to be a morning person”

 “Why did you kill her?”

“I’ve been dying to meet you”

“Oh um, because I wanted to see if they would die, I suppose.”

“Do I look like someone who can’t see themselves in a mirror?”

“You don’t look very dead”

“He’s a very persuasive man, one might even say, seductive”

“This is England, conversations precedes dinner”

“You said you didn’t drink”

“Why does death always come as such a shock to mortals?”

“Wasn’t there myself, not that old”

“I’ve been dying to meet you”

“No I’m dying, but don’t get distracted”

“Who gave them the wifi password?”

“Why would I bother lying to you?”

“You’ll be part of me, I will carry you in my veins” 

“I don’t want to worry you, but the army of the faithful can’t seem to look me in the eye”

“I’ve looked for God everywhere and never found him”

“_________, I am going to make you last”

“Like many women of my age, I’m trapped in a loveless marriage, maintaining appearances for the sake of a roof over my head”

“Do you love me? Will you ever love me?”

“I enjoy company and I like people”

“Cat got your tongue?”

“A bee can always find nectar”

“Well, you do look rather . . . drained”

“Journey’s end when lovers meet”

“Be careful what you say to me”

“Death completes you”

“I haven’t seen her in hundreds of years, describe her to me”

“I like the noise it makes, it’s a nice touch”

“I thought you deserved at least a glimpse of what might have been”

“You wanted to know who’s weakest? I’m showing you”

“Blood is lives”

“Remember, it is the soul not the aspect that one loves”

“Stay. Stay!”

“The others just became beasts, but you’ve kept your spirit”

“I’m not like you!”

“You’re mortal. You’ve been dying since the day you’ve been born”

“God doesn’t care”

“In a world of traveled roads, death is the last unprinted snow”

“I want to learn about you. I want to see the limit of your capability” 

“Perhaps they’re sensitive to criticism?”

“At sea, one meets an interesting range of characters, and I would advise you not to get too attached to any of them.”

“There is much to be learn from beasts”

“I’m undead not unreasonable”

“Your every nightmare at once. An educated woman in a crucifix”

“No, no please. Try and stay calm. You’re doing very well”

“The bats are a little noisy would you mind?”

“Why is that there? What is it for?”

“I intend not impertinence but why are you still alive?”

Various lines taken from the webtoon series Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe. Feel free to change pronouns + etc as seen fit.

“What I mean is, I don’t particularly feel like being seen in public with you today.”

“I left a perfectly good orgy for this”

“She’s like the personification of a friggin cinnamon roll”

“Well, I may be naive, but I’m not stupid”

“Two brothers and you still have only child syndrome!”

“Do I look like a scoundrel to you?”

“I’m paying for everything so I get to pick”

“You’re not just run of the mill sad. You’re melancholic”

“Fine is a dirty four-letter word that starts with F”

“We traded your daughter to ____ for a set of golf clubs. No takesies backsies!”

“So you get all the glory and I take the fall out?”

[sarcastically] “Stop . . . wait . . . how will I ever make it through the day knowing you’re mad with me?”

“Lurking is a perverts’ sport”

“A man gazing at me? Being me is such a curse”

“Oh sweet Gaia, we need to leave”

“Didn’t you get over that decades ago?”

“I can smell your ambitions as they rot at your feet”

“Do you have a widdle crush on my roommate? Stop it, she/he’s not up for grabs.”

“You were here for all of two seconds and you were nearly strangled”

“What’s wrong with being soft?”

“She’s/He’s not that great. She/He just makes me feel all warm and snuggly inside when I think about her/him”

“I’M GONNA KEY THEIR CARS”

“NO DOOR CAN STOP ME. . . okay I used the key under the doormat”

“Someone just admitted they have a crush and I need to get involved”

“I sensed an admission of a crush, and I came over as fast as I could”

“Oh, I was planning on crushing all my feelings deep down inside and letting them wither over time”

“But-but that's so boring . . . and also depressing”

“You! You’re bringing down the vibe with your mopey face”

“So, what’s up your ass?”

“Oh sugar snaps!”

“She is a beautiful lady who needs money to do beautiful lady things!”

“I was feeling nostalgic, sue me.”

“Are you trying to guilt trip me with your children?”

“You’ve finally outgrown me. Good”

“You know . . . turning around won’t make me go away”

“______ is always angry though. That’s not interesting”

“You’re so angry. You’re practically rotting from the inside.”

“Because it’s interesting. You’re interesting.”

“If I tell you, will you stop singing?”

“There’s a difference. But this will do for my entertainment for now, continue.”

“I don’t know how you managed to talk me into this.”

“It’s not my fault people leave important documents lying around”

“Sleep my darling, safe and sound”

“In this river all is found”

“But not too far or you’ll be drowned”

“And in her song, all magic flows”

“But can you brave what you most fear?”

“Can you face what the river knows?”

“Come, my darling, homeward bound”

“When all is lost, then all is found”

“Yes, the wind blows a little bit colder and we’re all getting older”

“That’s why I rely on certain certainties”

“Yes some things will never change, like the feel of your hand in mine”

“Maybe you should leave all the romantic stuff to me”

“I can’t freeze this moment but I can go out and seize this day”

“There’s a thousand reasons I should go about my day”

“You’re not a voice, you’re just a ringing in my ear”

“Everyone I’ve ever loved is here within these walls”

“I’ve had my adventure, I don’t need something new”

“I’m afraid of what I’m risking if I follow you”

“You’ve been keeping me awake”

“Are you here to distract me so I make a big mistake?”

“Are you someone out there who’s a little bit like me? Who knows deep down I’m not where I’m meant to be?”

“Are you out there?”

“Do you know me?”

“Can you show me?”

“Where are you going?”

“Don’t leave me alone”

“This will all make sense when I’m older”

“Growing up means adapting”

“This is fine.”

“Again, you’re gone”

“I’m left behind, wondering if I should follow”

“I probably could catch up with you tomorrow”

“When did I become the one who’s always chasing your heart?”

“I’m the one who sees you home”

“Who am I, if I’m not your guy/girl?”

“You’re my true north”

“But I’ll wait for a sign that I’m your path, because you are mine.”

“Every inch of me is trembling”

“Something is familiar, like a dream I can reach but not quite hold”

“I can sense you there”

“It feels like I am home”

“I have always been a fortress”

“You have secrets too, but you don’t have to hide”

“Show yourself”

“I’m dying to meet you”

“Are you the one I’ve been looking for all of my life?”

“All my life I’ve been torn”

“I’m here for a reason”

“Could it be the reason I was born?”

“I have always been so different”

“I’ve come so far”

“You are the answer I’ve waited for all of my life”

“Let me see who you are”

“Don’t make me wait one moment more”

“You are the one you’ve been waiting for all of your life”

“I’ve seen the dark before but not like this”

“The life I knew is over”

“Hello darkness, I’m ready to succumb”

“I follow you around, I always have”

“This grief has a gravity”

“You are lost, hope is gone. But you must go on, and do the next right thing”

“The only star that guided me was you”

“How to rise from the floor, when it’s not you I’m rising for?”

“Just do the next right thing”

“Take a step, step again”

“It is all that I can do”

Taken from various movies, feel free to change pronouns as you see fit.

"Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape."

“Life is cruel, why should the afterlife be any different?”

"Ah. Love. A dreadful bond. And yet, so easily severed."

"Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!"

"It's my nature. Would you love me if I was anything but what I am?"

“I do not love you”

“Cruel is a matter of perspective”

“Are you prepared for what’s next?”

“Tell me, do you fear death?”

“I invoke the right of parley”

“Do you like pain? Try wearing a corset”

“This is barbaric! This is no way for grown men to settle—oh, fine! Let's just haul out our swords and start banging away at each other, that will solve everything! I've had it! I've had it with wobbly-legged, rum-soaked pirates!"

“I’m here to find the man I love”

“I’m deeply flattered son but my first and only love is the sea”

“Hide the rum!”

"We are very much alike, you and I. I and you. Us.”

“Oh. Except for a sense of honor and decency and a moral center. And personal hygiene."

“Then what shall we die for?”

“And what will they see? Frightened bilge rats on a derelict ship?” 

“There is more to you than meets the eye, isn't there? And the eye…does not go wanting."

“I make a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates”

“So this . . .  is your able-bodied crew?”

“I should have told you everyday from the moment I met you, I love you”

“Everyone stay calm, we’re taking over the ship”

“Then that’s not much incentive for me to fight fair then, is it?”

“You know, for having such a bleak outlook on pirates, you are well on your way to becoming one.”

“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”

“I’m curious. After killing me what are you planning to do next?”

“You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters”

“I feel . . . cold”

“I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request...Means 'no'."

“Your Father, what was his name?”

“Who am I to you?”

from various episodes, some have changed to make them more open to interpretation! tw: death mention

“Courage or cowardice, I know which I choose”

“Tell the people that the battle is about to begin”

“I don’t have to kill you because you’re already scared to death”

“My former subjects were willing to let you get eaten by mum rats”

“I’d prefer to take my chance with the homicidal maniac with the snake stick, thank you though”

“When you really love someone. you don’t need proof. You can feel it”

“There are no shortcuts sometimes . . . life is as it should be”

“All this time we've been using rocks for pillows when we could have been sleeping here.”

“Darlings can I be honest with you? Your problems bore me”

“I don’t know how to lose you either” 

“Death and I have met already, send him my regards”

“What do I say to the woman who has traveled worlds and risked her life to find me?” 

“Hold onto your heart this time”

“Oh bloody hell”

“There's no time to fight, there's only time to die.”

“You won’t be able to love again”

“I’m afraid that the man I like doesn't feel about me the way I feel about him”

“Have you considered the possibility that you’re a lazy imbecile?”

“Confidence. Confidence is a terribly sexy quality in a woman”

“Same old ____. only ever thinking of him/her/theirself”

“You two are even more insufferable together, do you know that?”

“I’m pretty sure I’m a genie”

“Well, if you can't believe in love what can you believe in?”

“Perhaps the only way to truly protect her, is to let her go”

“I’ve known _____ , since she/he was a little girl/boy and all they’ve ever wanted was a place to call home.”

“Do what you want with me, everybody else has”

“Sometimes people turn on you and you’ll never understand why”

“Sorry nature was calling”

“I’d hate for you to miss it”

“I needed you to believe me because you believed in me”

“You treated me like an obligation. Like a part of your life you had no choice but to tolerate.”

“What child doesn’t want to be rescued by their Father?”

“The harsh reality is that sometimes love is not enough”

“Everyone keeps underestimating me”

“I know how to get my hands dirty”

“So I should just sweep it under the rug like you did with me?”

“I’m not going to abandon anything, certainly not hope”

“Stay strong ____, I’m coming for you”

“Sometimes the maddest Stories are the truest ones”

“When two people love each other, there's nothing they can't accomplish together.”

“I’m many things darling, but pure of heart is not one of them”

“There’s darkness everywhere when the sun goes down”

“There’s something I never told you before”

“When my heart was ripped from me. I mean, literally, taken from my chest. I thought that hole could never be filled, and then you got it back for me.”

“It felt like you gave me something more than I deserved, like I still owe you something”

taken from various songs from the Original Broadway Cast Recording

“You must make yourself remember”

*exaggerated gagging noises*

“Don’t you know who you are?”

“Look, everybody just SHUT UP!”

“What are you talking about? You are home”

“This is it. Don't try to stop me this time, ____. Don't try to stop me this time, _____.”

“You'd better get up off your ass. Get over here, _____!”

“You are a fart factory”

“I want to speak to a grown-up!”

“All pirates are grown-ups”

“We kill pirates”

“I am not a pirate. More specifically, I am a lawyer”

“What is this? Lord of the Flies Preschool?”

“I think you mean epiphany”

“Firefly from hell!”

“Are you related to Mighty Mouse?”

“Oh no I think I’ve killed it”

“Where’s the Hook?”

“A man so deep he’s almost unfathomable”

“The pewling spawn, how I despise them”

“Go get ‘em Captain!”

“Revenge is mine”

“So  . . . your adventures are over?”

“Oh, no. To live . . . to live would be an awfully big adventure”

“Yes, you made a boo-boo”

“To die would be a grand adventure!”

“Death is the only adventure you have left!”

“You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... _____. That's where I'll be waiting.”

“Your children love you, they want to play with you. How long do you think that lasts?”

“Oh, flog off!”

“Is it you? My great and worthy opponent?”

“You are not even a shadow of, ____”

“You lewd, crude, rude, bag of pre-chewed food dude.”

“Now, you put that thing away! Now, put it down before you poke somebody's eye out.”

“You're not old enough to shave! What are you doing with a sword?“

“Eat what? There's nothing here. Gandhi ate more than this.”

“I remember you being a lot bigger”

“To a ten year old I’m huge”

“ Well, whoever you are it's still you, 'cause only one person has that smell.”

“ Oh remember, ______? The world was ours. We could do everything or nothing. All it had to be was anything 'cause it was always us.”

“You better get an attorney and hope to God he's better than me. “

“When I saw her lying there sleeping, that moment, something changed in me forever.”

“I wish I had a dad/mom... like you.”

“Well, I think you can get them at Armani.”

“Wake up you sleepy-heads!”

“What’s goodbye?”

“If you so much as step foot in here with that trolley, I shall scream.”

“One cannot live on cake alone!”

“What’s wrong with his/her leg?”

“He got shot”

“This is your night, none of this would be possible without you”

“You know a little sprinkling of tinker-bell’s fairy dust can make you fly”

“Can I expect anymore drama from anyone else?”

“We’re just not going to get it right, are we?”

“Life is a harsh sentence to lay down for yourself”

“I’m tired of remembering it that way”

“Now we all have our sad tales, but don't you want to finish the story? Let it all go and have a life that isn't dictated by the past?”

“Disappointments are to the soul, what thunderstorms are to the air”

“It’s blasphemy you know. Tea in a paper cup”

“No one likes a show-off”

“It smells of . . . chlorine and sweat”

“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”

“Poor A.A. Milne”

“Where did she come from?”

“You can wait outside”

“They’re like family to me”

“Which kinds of kisses do you prefer? Scratchy ones, or silky ones?”

“It’s their Father. It’s your Father”

“You know you haven't been to Disneyland and it's the happiest place on earth”

“That wouldn’t be appropriate”

“I’m wondering what I have to do to make you happy”

“A man cannot break a promise once it’s made to his kids. No matter how long it takes for him to make it come true”

“It’s something you say when you don’t know what to say”

“Oh, no. I had a wager I couldn't get you on a ride. I just won twenty bucks!”

 “Don’t say money! It’s a filthy word!”

“Oh, that’s a canny observation”

“Those aren’t songs, they’re recitations” 

“______ and all he/she stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination”

“What is all this jollification!” 

“A man must save, to spare his daughter’s cheeks”

“He/she’s gone”

“Where is she when I need her?”

“You promised you would fix everything”

“Well unmake it up!”

“I’m suddenly very anti-red”

“We share a soul you and I”

“Oh stop your babbling nonsense I’m here now and I shall fix everything”

“_____ was against it, so I wanted until he/she was out of town to get it done”

“There’s a little bit of child in all of us”

“Get on the horse, ____”

“Being a mother is a job. It’s a very difficult job and one that not every woman should have taken on in the first place”

“Money, money, money, don’t you buy into, _____. It’ll bite you on the bottom”

“We have to teach the witch to be happy again”

“I know you gave it to him”

Taken from various episodes of the vampire diaries. Feel free to change pronouns or anything else however you see fit.

“I never thought i would be happy again, and then i met you. you changed everything for me.”

“You quite literally saved my life”

“I know. I just get so worried about you”

“We’re normal tonight, remember?”

“I got you. I got you”

“I met a girl/boy. We talked. It was epic”

“I was coming back for you _____, I had to choose and I picked you.”

“It’s you and me _____, always”

“Well I figure if you’re going to dump me, you should at least know who you’re dumping”

“Hey come here, are you hurt? Are you okay?”

“So you don't remember what it used to feel like when we would dance? When my hand would touch your waist? How about this? When our fingers would touch”

“Your humanity is the one thing that makes you who you are, don’t let it go”

“I came back to this town to start a life with you, we can’t forget to live it”

“That’s just in case there is no later”

“Is that what you’re doing? Trying to make me hate you?”

“Yeah exactly! It’s your life and I’m gonna do everything I can to make sure you live it”

“I hate fighting with you even if it’s fake”

“You know when you and I were together every single atom in my body told me it was the right thing, that we were the perfect fit.”

“You don’t know what it’s like being in love with you”

“Then later you’re going to take me to the Ferris wheel, we’re going to ride to the very top and then you’re going to kiss me, and my heart will flutter like a normal high school girl/boy”

“If it were my choice I’d want to be with you forever”

“A part of me wishes she/he and I could have an eternity together”

“Now, you remember that because it’s never going to happen again”

“You know, this is a future memory. This is where your boyfriend/girlfriend whispered ‘I love you’”

“How many more ways are there for you to rip my heart out?”

“Don’t hide from me”

“When he/she looks at me all he/she’s is a broken toy”

“We have history together”

Taken from the animated Batman movie based on the comic from the same name. TW Dark themes, murder references, torture, etc. As always, feel free to change pronouns etc however you see fit

“Wow. That looked like it really hurt.”

“Whoa, now, hang on. That looked like it hurt a lot more.”

“So, let's try and clear this up, okay, pumpkin? What hurts more? A? Or B? Forehand? Or backhand?”

“A little louder, lamb chop. I think you may have a collapsed lung.”

“Okay, kiddo, I gotta go. It's been fun, though, right? Well, maybe a smidge more fun for me than you.”

“Anyway, be a good boy/girl, finish your homework, and be in bed by nine. And, hey, please tell the big man I said..."hello".”

“So, what's the plan? Slumber party? Charades? A little Truth or Dare? Yes! I'll start with dare! . . .Or maybe I’ll just go with truth”

“You wanna die?! There’s easier ways to kill yourself”

“Those are the heads of all of your lieutenants. That took me two hours. You wanna see what I get done in a whole evening?”

“But he is locked up, like a lot locked up. Maybe we should go for a visit?”

“Could you just for once say let’s get in the car? Is that so hard?!”

“You look good. Been working out? You could probably use a little sun... then again, who am I to talk?”

“When I wore that number, it was classy — more flashy maitre d' than motorcycle fetish.”

“You gonna do it this time, or are you just gonna put me in another body cast for six months?”

“So... disappointing. But, back to the matter at hand”

“I’m chatty, it’s part of my charm”

“He/she did just . . . thank me, didn’t he/she?”

“Weird”

“I want this man/woman dead. When I say "dead", I mean seriously dead! Beaten...broken...his/her-head-mounted-on-my-wall kind of dead!”

“What the hell took you so long?”

“Shut up and fight”

“I’m cleaning up, more than you ever did”

“Plan? You’re becoming a crime lord”

“You wanna rule them by fear. But what do you do with the ones who aren't afraid? I'm doing what you won't, I'm taking them out!”

“It's too late. You had your chance. And I'm just getting started.”

“Tell me what happened to you. Let me help”

“Fearless, arrogant, brash and gifted.”

“My partner. My soldier. My fault”

“I’ll carry that like everything else”

“It’s a hell of my making”

“You loved him/her. He/she knows that, it should be enough”

“I need guys. Not these guys, because, they’re kinda dead”

“I'm sorry, could you hold on? I was just in the middle of setting fire to your gang.”

“You think I care if that scum dies?”

“Don’t know. I just wanted your attention”

“So I’ve been bamboozled. Oh my”

“Well . . . here’s to warm memories!”

“You do seem really familiar. We double at the prom? Or maybe blow up a school bus together?”

“That's pretty cryptic... but interesting. Tell me more!”

“Is that what you think this is about? That you let me die?”

“I don't know what clouds your judgement worse, your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality”

“I forgive you for not saving me”

“But why... why on God's earth...is he still alive?!”

“Party pooper. No cake for you!”

“Ignoring what he/she's done in the past. Blindly, stupidly disregarding the entire graveyards he/she's filled, the thousands who have suffered, the friends he/she's crippled.”

“You know, I thought... I thought I'd be the last person you'd ever let him/her hurt.”

“If it had been you that he/she beat to a bloody pulp, if he had taken you from this world, I would've done nothing but search the planet for this pathetic pile of evil, death-worshiping garbage and then send him/her off to hell!”

“You don't understand. I don't think you've ever understood”

“Because he took me away from you.”

“If you want to stop me, you're going to have to kill me!”