feel free to change pronouns if needed ! ____ signifies a place where you can insert a name.

❛ You have no power because I’ve taken it all away. ❜

❛ How many people have you killed? ❜

❛ I know I’ve made mistakes. ❜

❛ But it’s all meaningless without you. ❜

❛ Have you ever wanted something so much that the fear of not getting it makes you wonder if you ever should have wanted it at all? ❜

❛ Something we both want so deeply warrants a bit of fear. ❜

❛ No one will ever keep us apart again. ❜

❛ Men in general like to win ❜

❛ Well, your taste in men always did leave something to be desired. ❜

❛ In the darkest of times you were my conscience. ❜

❛ The more we try to help each other, the more harm we do. ❜

❛ Have you learned nothing? ❜

❛ I lose everyone I love. ❜

❛ What odd turns our lives have taken. ❜

❛ Your life is more valuable than this. ❜

❛ My life is once again the sum of my choices, not someone else’s crimes. And I choose to help my friends. ❜

❛ Tell me, what would hurt more. Knowing the person you love will die, or knowing they’re alive but you cannot have them? ❜

❛ I don’t give my heart or give up easily. ❜

❛ Despite your heartbreak, I must warn you, I show no mercy. ❜

❛ I’m not sure I trust my own fate anymore. ❜

❛ You have to admit, your fate does have a sense of humor. ❜

❛ I need to forget a ridiculous, childish idea that I could love someone, they could love me, and nothing else mattered. ❜

❛ Choose because of what you think, not what others might. ❜

❛ There is always risk. At least when you love someone it’s worth taking. ❜

❛ I never said I was a good person, but one can receive good advice from a bad person.❜

❛ Please, let there be one honest thing between us. ❜

❛ You want to hear something honest? I would do anything to keep you. ❜

❛ Love is never simple. Not that I’m any expert. ❜

❛ We can’t do this. ❜

❛ We were supposed to dance under the stars. ❜

CHANGE PRONOUNS AS NEEDED / AS YOU SEE FIT !

❝ Silly of me, to think y-you could fall in love with someone like me. ❞

❝ Can’t fall in love? But a life without love, that-that-that’s terrible! ❞

❝ Come what may… come what may. I will love you, until my dying day! ❞

❝ It’s a little bit funny this feeling inside. ❞

❝ The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ❞

❝ I’m not one of those who can easily hide… ❞

❝ You’re free to leave me, but just don’t deceive me. ❞

❝ Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love. ❞

❝ I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. ❞

❝ I’m paid to make men believe what they want to believe. ❞

❝ You’re going to be bad for business, I can tell. ❞

❝ The difference between you and I is that you can leave anytime you choose. ❞

❝ If I should die… this very moment.. I wouldn’t fear.  ❞

❝ Outside it may be raining, but in here it’s entertaining! ❞

❝ You can hardly blame me for trying to hide, uh, Christian away. ❞

❝ We’re creatures of the underworld. We can’t afford to love. ❞

❝ And in the end should someone die? ❞

❝ It’s not that I’m a jealous man, I just don’t like other people touching my things! ❞

❝ The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ❞

❝ Stand your ground for freedom, beauty, truth & love. ❞

❝ All right! No problems! Go back to work! ❞

❝ The hills are incarnate with symphonic melodies! ❞

❝ Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself. ❞

❝ She suddenly had a terrible desire…to go to a priest and…confess her sins. ❞

❝ It’s nothing. It’s just an infatuation… it’s nothing. ❞

❝ Things aren’t always the way they seem. ❞

❝ Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong! ❞

❝ Don't…leave me this way. I can’t survive, without your sweet love, oh baby… ❞

❝ I was made for loving you, baby, you were made for loving me. ❞

❝ Just one night, give me just one night. ❞

❝ In the name of love, one night in the name of love. ❞

❝ Love makes us act like we are fools. ❞

❝ We could be heroes … Just for one day. ❞

❝ We should be lovers, and that’s a fact. ❞

❝ You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. ❞

❝ Well, what’s wrong with that? ❞ 

❝ Just because I … will always love you. ❞

❝ Love is just a game. ❞

❝ Please don’t start that again. ❞

❝ The only way of loving me, baby, is to pay a lovely fee.. ❞

❝ The greatest thing, you’ll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved … in return. ❞

❝ I know what love is, only because I long for it with every fiber of my being. ❞

❝ It will be rehearsed in the morning, ready for the opening tomorrow night… ❞

❝ I don’t like this ending… ❞

❝ All my life you made believe I was only worth what someone would pay for me! ❞

❝ But there was only one problem…..I’ve never been in love! ❞

❝ The most beautiful of all these was the woman I loved. ❞

the following prompts were taken from the novel deathless by catherynne m. valente, an american novelist & poet. the novel was loosely based on the tale of koschei the deathless, incorporating other elements of russian mythology, & setting it against the backdrop of the russian revolution. feel free to change the pronouns / prompts as you see fit, but be warned – below the cut, it’s quite long !

❛ the service of your body is not yours to give as you please. ❜

❛ you probably won’t survive. ❜

❛ go. run. don’t look behind you. ❜

❛ i have come for the girl in the window. ❜

❛ i will never be without information. ❜

❛ i will see him with his skin off before i fall in love. ❜

❛ if the world is divided into seeing & not seeing, i will always choose to see. ❜

❛ secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization. ❜

❛ no, it’s not like that, when magic comes. ❜

❛ magic does that. it wastes you away. once it grips you by the ear, the world gets quieter & quieter until you can hardly hear it at all. ❜

❛ the sight of it bruised my heart so that i cannot think about anything else. ❜

❛ i’ll be so quiet, i’ll never talk again. ❜

❛ keep me & obey me, for i am your husband, & i can destroy you. ❜

❛ i shall be clever, & i shall not let him go. ❜

❛ it is a new world, & we do not wish to be left behind. ❜

starters  /  prompts taken from various characters starring in the game   fire emblem : three houses .  feel free to change pronouns  /  tenses as necessary .

“  feel free to say hi whenever you like  ”

“  don’t hold back for my sake  ”

“  you think I’m so clumsy that I need someone to watch over me ?  ”

“  you act like you’re full of regret  ,  but I know you don’t really mean it  ”

“  you actually look more handsome to me with honesty on your face  ”

“  don’t be ashamed of crying  ”

“  could you keep quiet for a bit ?  ”

“  you’re actually kind of amazing  ”

“  do you mean to imply you have no intention of acting a bit more respectably ?  ”

“  stop acting so nonchalant about getting hurt or killed  ”

“  naive and uptight is no way to live your life  ”

“  you’d better watch that temper  ”

“  i am absolutely disinterested in spending any time with you  ”

“  your lack of self-awareness is deeply troubling  ”

“  I’ll just be straightforward about taking advantage of you  ”

“  when will you tire of challenging me in pointless competitions ?  ”

“  you expect me to believe that ?  ”

“  i’ve had enough of your foolish antics  ”

“  i wish you would not sneak up on me like that  ”

“  before you reprimand me  ,  take a moment to consider your own failings  ”

“  it is like hearing a snake sing an aria  ”

“  am I hearing a deathbed confession ?  ”

“  i never have any idea what you’re talking about  ”

“  don’t walk away when i’m talking to you  ”

“  you’ll be the death of me for sure  ”

“  i do not intend to die  ”

“  i can’t believe you put yourself at risk for my benefit  ”

“  i don’t think i’ve ever seen you smile  ”

“  i do not desire your gratitude  ”

“  you’re surprisingly strong for how slender you appear  ”

“  perhaps i was flustered needlessly  ”

“  i had forgotten how charmingly ethereal you can be  ”

“  you’re going a little overboard  ”

“  you have shaken me to my very core  ”

“  so this is what death is like  ”

“  if you get sick of me  ,  i’m sorry ahead of time  ”

“  i’m embarrassed just thinking about it  ”

“  you’re like a little brother to me  ”

“  spending the rest of my life with you doesn’t sound so bad  ”

“  if our roles were reversed  ,  I don’t think I’d be able to forgive you  ”

“  you actually hate me  ,  right ?  ”

“  you haven’t stabbed me yet  ”

“  i want to be more like you  ”

“  i actually envy the size of your heart  ”

“  i don’t think you can solve all your problems by throwing a few punches  ”

“  there aren’t a lot of people like you in the world  ”

“  sorry I’ve been so oblivious to your needs  ”

“  sometimes you just can’t afford to wait around for someone else to notice ”

“  yesterday’s enemy is today’s ally  ”

“  you have to abandon old feuds  ”

“  learn to protect yourself before trying to protect me  ”

“  i always trust that you’ve got my back  ”

“  if only people could be more like flowers  ”

“  if you promise not to resort to violence  ,  I’ll do whatever you want  ”

“  i can’t stand the sight of me either  ”

“  i would be even more impressed if you hadn’t been screaming the whole time  ”

“  i did what was necessary to get you to comply  ”

“  you have so much power in you  ,  just waiting to be unleashed  ”