D.

❛ Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters. ❜

❛ I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in. ❜

❛ Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win. ❜

❛ The world’s a hard place. It doesn’t care. It doesn’t hate you and me, but it doesn’t love us, either. ❜

❛ The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge. ❜

❛ Pull your act together and just go on. ❜

❛ I had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there is nothing physically wrong. I hurt all the time. ❜

❛ Tough old world, baby. If you’re not bolted together tightly, you’re gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty. ❜

❛ Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford? ❜

❛ Truth comes out. In the end it always comes out. ❜

❛ Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are. ❜

❛ No matter where you go, the same asshole gets off the plane. ❜

❛ We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives. ❜

❛ That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. ❜

❛ Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl. ❜

❛ God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you. ❜

❛ Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you. ❜

❛ How many times, over how many years, have I—a grown adult—asked for the mercy of another chance? ❜

❛ I was suddenly so sick of myself, so revolted. ❜

❛ You listen to me. I’m going to talk to you about it this once and never again this same way. ❜

❛ But those pieces, they’ll never fit just the same way again. Never in this world. ❜

❛ Dying is a part of living. You have to keep tuning in to that if you expect to be a whole person. ❜

❛ Officious little prick. ❜

❛ I’ve been sleepwalking again, my dear. — The plants are moving under the rug. ❜

❛ How I wish you were fear. ❜

❛ But it was a dreadful kind of curiosity, the kind that makes you peek through your fingers during the scariest parts of a scary movie. ❜

❛ All we have is time, you know. An eternity of time. Or shall we end it? Might as well. After all, we’re missing the party. ❜

❛ We all remember our pleasant dreams more clearly than the scary ones. ❜

❛ The way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. ❜

sentences from amrit brar’s shitty horoscopes series. you may adjust as needed. part i.

BOOK VIII: MEDICINE

❛ you might not be afraid to die, but that doesn’t mean you’re ready. ❜

❛ you were a plague none were prepared for. ❜

❛ you are the mind and the malady, the medicine and the machine. ❜

❛ assholery is incurable. unfortunately. ❜

❛ no one’s going to notice the difference between you pushing dandelions or daisies, so leave them something worth talking about. ❜

❛ there’s no rule stating that parasites can’t be pretty. ❜

❛ justice: just us. ❜

❛ anathema - me without you. ❜

❛ you aren’t obligated to be anyone’s cure. ❜

❛ some are the bandage, some are the knife, some get creative.. ❜

❛ soothe what you can, fight what you can’t. ❜

❛ the only difference between a pathogen and a person is that one is far more creative with how they’ll infect you. ❜

BOOK IX: THE BODY AND THE WRECKAGE

❛ stranger things have happened. like you. you are happening all the time and should probably stop. ❜

❛ let none be the noose. ❜

❛ take what you can and run. ❜

❛ gratuitous violence: unnecessary, satisfying, heartbreaking, and so like everything else you love. ❜

❛ understanding builds bridges, suffering grows gardens, antipathy sets both on fire for shits and giggles. ❜

❛ there is a variety of sadness that makes a home in your guts and never quite leave. ❜

❛ you could have been anyone, operating this body. the good news is that you won! the bad news is that you’re stuck with it. ❜

❛ being loathsome and lovely in equal measure is probably a talent. somewhere. ❜

❛ why fear the dead, when you can fear the living? corpses in motion, cruelty and kindness. ❜

❛ if you’re forging your own path, be prepared to light your own pyre. ❜

❛ what possessed you to come this far? no, honestly. was it cute? ❜

❛ you can’t wrestle apologies from the sea or the sun but by fuck are you every going to try. ❜

BOOK X: LOVERS & LOSERS

❛ pick a place and die there. ❜

❛ i know you mean well. ❜

❛ may fortune favour the fuckups. ❜

❛ remarkable that one plane of existence can host so much (and so little) distance. the spaces between people, ideals, fingertips, the sky and the sea. ❜

❛ learn it’s best to bite your tongue. temper the nest of hornets in your loveless mouth. ❜

❛ i worry. i worry. worry. ❜

❛ time sours, rots, renews, sours again. ❜

❛ grief and growth live hand-in-hand. ❜

❛ sleeping, like dying, delivers you from one world to the next - to rest in crypts and wake in gardens. ❜

❛ words in couples carry weight: “fuck you.” “hell no.” “oh god.” “sorry mom.” ❜

❛ make room for small, fragile things, even with bones like cement and a leaden heart. ❜

❛ you win some, you lose some, you lie, cheat, and swindle some, you vanish on a crisp winter’s day never to be seen again. ❜

BOOK XII: ILLUMINATE

❛ quiet reflection is next to impossible if you mental landscape is one long scream. ❜

❛ you inspire me to be better! a better “what” is up for interpretation. (person? arsonist? alien?) ❜

❛ we don’t know where you came form, but we need you to go back. ❜

❛ the dark doesn’t intend to hurt you - only the creatures who plot during the cruel, cold light of day. ❜

❛ i lived better when i was ignorant of the sun, tucked away in your chest. ❜

❛ there’s asking for forgiveness, there’s asking for permission, and then there’s saying “fuck it,” and doing what you may. ❜

❛ if only it were easy! to wish and want for nothing. if only you weren’t less human for it - wishing and wanting for nothing. ❜

❛ in the end there is no blaze of glory. ❜

❛ love to distraction, die due to carelessness. ❜

❛ in the span of your life there’s plenty to avoid: the wicked, the merciless, the things you want for no reason other than wanting them. ❜

❛ you are dazzling and terrifying - those words are not as removed from one another as you may think. ❜

❛ flirt with death, tease the inevitable, give the void a saucy wink. ❜

BOOK XII: OBITUARIES

❛ things to bother believing in: love, switchblades, extraterrestrials. ❜

❛ let the record show that they were ill-equipped to deal with you. which is unsurprising, since you ill-equipped to deal with you. ❜

❛ you’ll be fertilizer regardless, might as well have interesting stories for the dirt. ❜

❛ there is an exhaustion that comes with living in an embrace like a vice, a kiss like a canker sore. ❜

❛ fear is an absence of understanding. horror is the act of understanding perfectly. ❜

❛ to labour in love, to toil in tenderness. ❜

❛ your love will always be rooted deeper than any grave. ❜

❛ you’ve long seen your downfall spelled out in another’s bones. ❜

❛ the victor spoils, the loser learns. ❜

❛ the body is rot waiting to happen. ❜

❛ you will have never loved for nothing. ❜

I’m finding it difficult to find memes for nonverbal characters ( be they mute, or just not fond of talking ) so I thought I’d make a few!

Neutral

☝️ Tap my muse on the shoulder

👉 Point to something for my muse to see

🤙 Bump into my muse

😊 Sit down next to my muse

🤨 Sit down across from my muse

📓 Push/Slide [an object] across a table to my muse

✍️ Pass my muse a note

🙄 Roll their eyes at my muse

🚪 Tap on a table/door/wall/chair to get my muse’s attention without speaking

Aggressive

🐺 Growl at my muse

😬 Snarl/show teeth at my muse

😠 Death Glare at my muse

🙌 Push/Shove my muse

👊 Punch my muse

👖 Kick my muse in the shin

👠 Stomp on my muse’s foot

😵 Knee my muse in the gut

💀 Knee my muse in the groin

🔪 Point a weapon at my muse

🖕 Flip my muse the bird/a similar gesture

👔 Roughly pull my muse down by the collar

💢 Bang on a door/wall/table to get my muse’s attention- angrily

Angst

👩‍⚕️ Put pressure on my muse’s wound

🌡 Push my muse down to give them medical attention

🥣 Bring my muse soup/medicine when they are sick

🤢 Hold my muse’s hair back/Rub my muse’s back while they are sick/throwing up

👐 Hold my muse when they are badly wounded/dying

👁 Wake my muse up during a nightmare

🐱 Hold my muse after a nightmare

😭 Hold my muse when they are crying

😢Touch my muse’s shoulder while they are crying in secret

💧 Wipe away my muse’s tears

💥 Try to calm my muse during an overwhelming emotional moment

⛈ Find my muse after some kind of trauma

Soft

👕 Tug on my muse’s sleeve/shirt/skirt

🐈 Lean against my muse’s side

🤝 Hold my muse’s hand

🤗 Pull my muse into a hug

🐕 Rest their head on my muse’s shoulder/knee

🐶 Nuzzle my muse with their nose [specify a location]

✋ Touch the back of my muse’s hand

🤝 Reach for my muse’s hand to hold it

👗 Fix/Straighten my muse’s clothes

😴 Stand by the bed to see if my muse will let you under the covers with them

🛌 Crawl under the covers with my muse

🥪 Set a plate/tray/bowl of food down for my muse

😚 Kiss my muse on the cheek

Playful

🌸 Put a flower in my muse’s hair

✨ Playfully shove my muse’s shoulder

💃 Pull my muse onto a dance floor/up to dance

🤞 Come up beside them and tap the shoulder opposite where they’re standing

😈 Jump out of the shadows to scare/startle my muse

😛 Stick their tongue out at my muse

😱 Make a silly face at my muse

🤭 Tickle my muse

👃 Poke my muse’s nose

💪 Pick my muse up

Sensual/Sexual

💘 Pull my muse in for a rough kiss

💕 Pull my muse in for a tender kiss

💞 Pull my muse in for a messy/desperate kiss

💖 Lean in to give my muse a sweet/chaste kiss

❤️ Lean in to give my muse a tender kiss

🔥 Pull my muse down by the collar/by their clothes - in a sexy way

😉 Pull my muse in by the hips

😲 Smack my muse’s butt

💋 Kiss my muse’s neck

👌 Push my muse down and give them a massage

👙 Pull [an article of clothing] off my muse

👀 Push my muse down on the bed