BE BRAVE !

taken from the gang of youths’ album of the same name. feel free to adapt as you wish.

❝ we’re at the stumbling phase of the midnight waltz. ❞

❝ hey, I’ll miss you when you leave. ❞

❝ there are feelings that are strong and there are ones that are mixed. ❞

❝ I guess I got nothing to prove. ❞

❝ a weary heart, they say, it shatters it all. ❞

❝ it’s bound to be much worse. ❞

❝ I feel it all and I never look back. ❞

❝ I waited on forever, but forever never came: just a latent sense of loyalty to the things I love in vain. ❞

❝ now I’m terrified of loving ‘cause I’m terrified of pain. ❞

❝ this is the sound of a soul in tune to a savage desire for a soul made new. ❞

❝ do I throw my hopes in the fire ? ❞

❝ can you still show me the way ? can you still show me a light ? ❞

❝ I was only a kid when I fell and you tossed me aside. ❞

❝ I wanna know if I’m heard and if I’m understood. ❞

❝ I’m not leaving tonight. ❞

❝ cram the armour and chains where the sun will not shine ! ❞

❝ get that thing out my face ! ❞

❝ I don’t care what it says, this is my goddamned place. ❞

❝ a traitor to country and glad, ‘cause my country’s disgraced. ❞

❝ I’m not bleeding tonight. ❞

❝ you will close in on madness and madness is not civilized. ❞

❝ I’m not dumb and you people can’t dick me around. ❞

❝ you can shake, you can cry, you can quake, you can rot in your sleep, you can shrug, you can weep, and I’ll watch as you bleed. ❞

❝ I have come for my shit and I won’t take less than that. ❞

❝ I will love you, but love not the powers you serve. ❞

❝ do not grow complacent and take less than what you deserve. ❞

❝ in the heart of redemption, there’s some furious song. ❞

❝ the herd is no place for the brave and the strong, but I bear no contempt for the ones who just want to belong. ❞

❝ their eminence is fixed upon things we could burn in one go. ❞

❝ I don’t know if I blame you for being so distant. ❞

❝ I’ll always struggle to think of you in a harsh way. I know that it’s weird but I still see you for the human beneath. ❞

❝ I wish that I was in love with your endless bullshit. ❞

❝ I’m getting used to the sleepless hours from sundown, the terrible dreams that lead me inward to terrible truths. ❞

❝ tell me how I can do this thing. tell me how I can help this thing go easily. ❞

❝ when did everything get this weird ? how the fuck did it start ? ❞

❝ did you ever believe in me ? was it always so hard ? ❞

❝ I deserve better than this. ❞

❝ so I have this dream, it comes like twice in a week. it’s been so for years and years on repeat and since then I’ve not had a full night of sleep. ❞

❝ and it’s strange, all the things that I’ve run from are the things that completeness could come from. ❞

❝ do not let this thing you got go to waste. do not let your heart be dismayed.  ❞

❝ do not let your spirit wane. ❞

❝ in love, I am careful to mostly reserved. ❞

❝ cut me out, take me home. ❞

❝ get the fuck out of your head if it says ‘ stay cold and be deathly afraid ‘. ❞

taken from the 1997 studio ghibli animated film. feel free to adapt as you wish.

❝ for those were the days of gods and of demons. ❞

❝ something’s there… [ name ], did you see it too ? ❞

❝ it isn’t human. ❞

❝ it’s some kind of demon ! ❞

❝ go back ! please, leave our village alone ! ❞

❝ disgusting little creatures. ❞

❝ soon all of you will feel my hate, and suffer as I have suffered. ❞

❝ I was prepared the very moment that I let my arrow fly. ❞

❝ is there no way we can stop it ? ❞

❝ you cannot alter your fate, [ name ]. however, you can rise to meet it, if you choose. ❞

❝ sometimes I think the gods are laughing at us. ❞

❝ you know I could never forget you. ❞

❝ a battle ? no, a massacre… ❞

❝ where did you learn to fight like that ? ❞

❝ what do you say we give ‘em a little demonstration of how fast we can run ? ❞

❝ to enter there is certain death. ❞

❝ easy there. you don’t want to make your injuries worse, do you ? ❞

❝ this place is magical… ❞

❝ you went white as a sheet all of a sudden… ❞

❝ save your sweet nothings for some other time. ❞

❝ hey ! you are not handsome, you are gorgeous ! ❞

❝ she’s not even afraid of the gods, that woman. ❞

❝ what do you plan to do ? what exactly are you here for ? ❞

❝ how much more hatred and pain do you think we need ? ❞

❝ I know what rage feels like, and grief, and helplessness… ❞

❝ the world is cursed, but still, you find reasons to keep living. ❞

❝ wait ! I don’t want to fight you ! ❞

❝ this is what hatred looks like ! this is what it does when it catches hold of you ! ❞

❝ you are beautiful. ❞

❝ the next time we meet, I will have to kill you. ❞

❝ you have fought valiantly and well. ❞

❝ respect ? what’s that ? we haven’t had any respect since the day we were born ! ❞

❝ the trees cry out as they die, but you cannot hear them. ❞

❝ stay here. I’ll come back for you. ❞

❝ everything started happening so fast. it was like a nightmare… ❞

❝ today we finish this. ❞

❝ what proof is there this isn’t a lie ? ❞

❝ lie ? don’t be ridiculous. what reason do I have to lie ? ❞

❝ I’m going to show you how to kill a god. ❞

❝ I’m sorry. I tried to stop it… ❞

❝ we are still alive, [ name ]. we’ll manage somehow. ❞

❝ well, I give up. you can’t win against fools ! ❞

taken from the 1995 movie adaptation. feel free to adapt as you wish.

❝ can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections ? ❞

❝ to love is to burn, to be on fire. ❞

❝ pathetic, to die for love ? how can you say so ? what could be more glorious ? ❞

❝ I must assume that you like him in spite of his deficiencies. ❞

❝ I do not attempt to deny that I think… very highly of him, that I greatly esteem him. ❞

❝ use those insipid words again and I shall leave the room this instant. ❞

❝ is love a fancy or a feeling ? ❞

❝ unfortunately we cannot always rely on the heart to lead us in the most suitable direction. ❞

❝ there is something of great importance that I need to tell you. ❞

❝ I would not brook refusals. I am quite deaf to them ! ❞

❝ your feet are cold. ❞

❝ I think I have unearthed a secret ! ❞

❝ I cannot remember when we last had a songbird in the house. ❞

❝ you have no right to parade your ignorant assumptions— ❞

❝ oh, are we never to have a moment’s peace ? ❞

❝ he said he’d come. why hasn’t he come ? ❞

❝ but he loves you, dearest, of that I am certain. ❞

❝ in such a situation it is perhaps better to use one’s head. ❞

❝ allow me to escort you home. ❞

❝ he lifted me as if I weighed no more than a dried leaf ! ❞

❝ time alone does not determine intimacy. ❞

❝ this place has a claim on my affections that none other can possibly share. ❞

❝ no, no, no— this is madness ! this is dribbling, babbling madness ! ❞

❝ neither of us have anything to tell. I, because I conceal nothing and you, because you communicate nothing. ❞

❝ [ name ] is the most incapable of being selfish of anyone i ever saw. ❞

❝ how long have you known ? ❞

❝ always resignation and acceptance, always prudence and honor and duty. [ name ], where is your heart ? ❞

❝ what do you know of my heart ? ❞

❝ his behavior has proved him proud, in the best sense. ❞

❝ I wish you both very happy. ❞

❝ what can I do ? give me an occupation or I shall run mad. ❞

❝ I cannot— I cannot do without you. please… I— I have tried to bear everything else. I will try… beloved, do not leave me alone… ❞

❝ if his present regrets are half as painful as mine, he will suffer enough. ❞

❝ I convinced myself that you felt only friendship for me, and that it was my heart alone that I was risking. ❞

when sunbeams do this.