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❛  doesn’t look much like rain.  ❜

❛  i was hoping to eat alone.  ❜

❛  we talk about freedom the same way we talk about art.  ❜

❛  art doesn’t mean good or bad.  art only means art.  it can be terrible and still be art.  freedom can be good or bad too.  there can be terrible freedom.  ❜

❛  i could take a bite of you right now and it would be over.  ❜

❛  i could devour you.  ❜

❛  i know what you’ve seen and i need your help.  ❜

❛  no offense, i have to know if i can trust you.  ❜

❛  don’t you wish sometimes that you could forget?  ❜

❛  can’t control fear.  can control what you do while feeling it.  ❜

❛  it’s silly, what we’re doing, _____.  maybe even it’s wrong.  but you and i, we can’t not do it.  right?  ❜

❛  just get out of here.  ❜

❛  i’m fucking trying.  ❜

❛  i’m sorry.  i don’t know what to say.  i shouldn’t have done it the way i did.  ❜

❛  but it’s not about you anymore.  ❜

❛  look at you.  sweating like a scared child.  ❜

❛  you did a good thing today, _____.  a very good thing.  ❜

❛  it was dark.  i’ve gotten more used to the dark.  ❜

❛  i’ve grown as a person.  i would have thought you’d be proud of me.  ❜

❛  you misunderstand me.  ❜

❛  you don’t even understand the most basic shape of it.  ❜

❛  i’m alive, aren’t i?  we’re both alive, and that’s no small achievement.  ❜

❛  i don’t even know what taking care of myself would look like at this point.  ❜

❛  i’ve been fighting in it this whole time and i didn’t even know.  ❜

❛  you know they can’t protect you.  not if i decide to kill you now.  i wouldn’t think twice about taking them with you.  ❜

❛  i’m always afraid.  life makes me afraid.  ❜

❛  i really hope you find what you need.  i do.  ❜

❛  i thought maybe i was useful to them somehow.  ❜

❛  _____, i don’t believe you’ve been useful to anyone in a long time.  ❜

❛  you came in there brave, and you fought well.  i would have been dead for sure without you.  thank you for that.  ❜

❛  you don’t have to take that tone of voice.  ❜

❛  don’t tell me what i have and don’t have to do.  ❜

❛  _____, my love, i don’t have to do shit.  ❜

❛  i want proof of us.  ❜

❛  i don’t know.  i don’t know at all.  i just know we can’t keep doing and expecting anything to change.  ❜

❛  a few bad apples, shit.  good apples and bad apples don’t matter if the outcome of the system is harmful.  ❜

❛  a good person doesn’t matter if they’re working in a bad system.  ❜

❛  we’re like mosquitoes, _____.  we’re not dangerous for who we are.  we’re dangerous because of what we carry inside of us.  ❜

❛  some subjects are so complicated that even speaking of them plainly sounds cryptic.  ❜

❛  never tell me about what you thought was right ever again.  ❜

❛  i don’t need protection.  i never did.  i’m not helpless.  i’m not weak.  ❜

❛  love is the way her neck smells.  love is the beat of the heart and the passage of air and it’s the circulation of fluids, and it’s equilibrium.  ❜

❛  this is still the start of something.  ❜

❛  know that i am always seeing you, at every moment we had together, forever.  ❜

❛  i want to go home.  ❜

❛  you’re a good person, and good people deserve good things.  ❜

❛  do you like what you see?  ❜

❛  when a person asks you for help, you should help them.  ❜

❛  i’ve fought enough for one lifetime.  ❜

❛  i killed her.  she was a person and i killed her.  ❜

❛  this time i protect you.  ❜