i will no longer be obedient

▸ if these trees started talking, i bet you they'd only talk shit. ▸ we never do anything real, we just talk about it. ▸ i thought getting older meant knowing it's too late to try. ▸ i tried getting sober, i swear i did better this time. ▸ everything you see out here will die. it's a matter of time. ▸ anything you need, i will provide. a ride home or an alibi. ▸ i know the traffic light you can speed right by cause the camera's down. ▸ it's a place where most kids just grow up and have kids who grow up and have kids. ▸ i'd hurt anyone i could. anyone who got too close and anyone who wouldn't look. ▸ you were unsuspecting, not unwarned. ▸ you put your money on red, i'm a sure bet at a losing streak. ▸ it gets harder to see me the closer you look. ▸ have you ever stared directly at the sun? have you ever shared some closeness, so exposed, to have it spit back by someone? ▸ forgive me if i jump at the rattle of your keys. ▸ i'll be gone so long before the anger comes. ▸ i'll be only what you've known of me until now. ▸ i hope you're moving on. ▸ i was working on a plan to disappear completely, gaslighting my friends into thinking i was busy. ▸ if drinking was a day job, i'd be asking for more money. ▸ you're here and we're so grateful you are. ▸ you're gonna fix it. you're gonna patch it up. ▸ you always come running back whenever i ask. ▸ i hate to drag you back here but i think [he's] really lost it. ▸ make [him] talk, make it stop, all i want is a dialogue. ▸ we're drowning here, i've gotta stay for [mom]. ▸ you know how to talk. well, you did back then. we could talk so much and it's fine we don't but can you come home? ▸ there's something about the window seats that got you feeling like a poet. ▸ i think that we had everything. until now i just didn't know it. ▸ we'll be strangers in the morning. ▸ you know you never really could quite place when i'm angry and i'm joking. ▸ you state a feeling like a fact. ▸ call me when it goes to shit. ▸ i swear i won't tell anyone. ▸ i don't mind being your dead end. ▸ i think it's fine to never move on. ▸ i'm hoping that you open up to someone kind and they hold it all against you. ▸ i'll keep rooting for your downfall. ▸ i called you but i'd run out of words. ▸ if you were here, you'd make a joke of it. ▸ your love is like an open flame, i'm a running car and you're a closed garage. ▸ people grow up and then move away but you don't care and i don't mind at all. ▸ in the interest of time, we've got a whole lot to waste. ▸ i can't recall the last time that we talked. ▸ we ain't friends. we're just morons who broke skin in the same spot. ▸ i'm high enough to still care if i die. ▸ you know i think about you all the time. ▸ you know i think about you all the time and my deep misunderstanding of your life and how bad it must have been for you back then and how hard it was to keep it all inside. ▸ i hope you settle down. ▸ i hope you're scared of only ordinary shit. like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin and not your soul and what he might he do with it.

▸ the world is scared of hesitating things. ▸ i hope you threw a brick right into that stained glass. ▸ i hope you're with someone who isn't scared to ask. ▸ i hope that you're not losing sleep about what's next. ▸ it ain't a high road now, it's just uneven ground. ▸ if a lie turned true, a lie it would still be. ▸ you ain't a goddamn hero now cause you cry on live tv. ▸ at least i got a soul still, even if i'm in a bad place. ▸ you're showing up like bad news and leaving like a bad dream. ▸ help me if it helps you sleep. ▸ you grew your hair out long, now you think you're jesus christ. there ain't nobody mistaking your guilt for some great sacrifice. ▸ you walked into a haunted house and got angry at the ghosts. ▸ we were fine without you, baby. ▸ despite all odds, that was great. ▸ i'm willing and able if you wanna kick this rock around. ▸ i'll stay here til morning. we can fight like we used to fight. ▸ look at you leaving again, it's all you know how to do. ▸ they all say you're a light, all i see is the shadow. ▸ if i call you out, i'm an asshole but i tell the truth when i drink. ▸ i wish you could know me and i wish i could know you much more sometimes. ▸ you always went looking for an easy way out. ▸ you tell yourself lies and disguise them as facts. ▸ turns out that you're still an asshole. ▸ all your new friends look a lot like your last and i wonder why. ▸ it ain't our fault that you aren't suddenly somebody else cause you've worked on yourself. ▸ half as drunk as i thought i'd be by now, that's good. ▸ even when you're not here, it becomes about you. ▸ if i never see you again, you could be anything i want. ▸ stay gone. ▸ i still ball up my fists when they mention your name. ▸ no one gets to talk shit but the ones you've shit on. ▸ i would ask how you've been, it's all over the internet but, hey, i mean, you knew that after all. ▸ it is not irrelevant that you stopped taking your medicine but i'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. ▸ there ain't no shame in calling this thing quits. ▸ i ain't holding breath, ain't holding any faith at all. ▸ i'll pray for you, be in pain for you. ▸ i'll leave the porch light on. ▸ i guess you're my fault. ▸ i wanna see you lose it. i wanna hear you say it. ▸ i wanna know the dark that i share a brain with. ▸ tell me when you were broken. ▸ do you still have a heart or has somebody stole it? ▸ i'm far too tired to watch you lie.

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i don't make decisions anymore.

come down here. we need to talk.

if you understand what it's like to have a daughter, then how can you threaten to kill someone else's?

look, we can settle this.

there's enough room for all of us.

honey, you’re weak.

you take one sip before those meds get in our people, i will beat your ass into the ground. you hear me?

i hereby declare we have spaghetti tuesdays every wednesday.

when you care about people, getting hurt is kind of a part of the package.

it's not a farming hat.

liar.

i still believe there’s a reason.

i know you look at me and you just see another dead girl.

why hurt yourself when you can hurt other people?

seems to me like things are finally starting to fall together.

we all have our jobs to do.

just so you know, i liked you first.

you never let me win anyway.

you don't think it'll hold?

when can i have my gun back?

the only thing you can choose is what you’re risking it for.

i don't want to be afraid of being alive.

i think you made the right call.

sooner or later, you gotta make a move.

at the camp, it just got worse and worse.

i know we all can change.

how many people have you killed? why?

first we have to find some spaghetti.

it was a nice watch.

we'll make it.

come on, let's play.

what do you want me to say?

i was just another monster.

any requests? books? comics? some stale m&ms?

i think we should make some new rules before they get back.

it was all of us.

look at us, digging through drawers.

we don't need to take any chances.

you should have seen him back in the day.

he told me all i had to do was believe, and that's what i'm gonna do.

you either live with them, or you don’t.

we can all live together.

time for you to leave, asshole.

anger makes you stupid. stupid gets you killed.

i mean, what the hell is going on in this cabin?

i'm a pirate.

you didn't wake me up.

best not waste any more time.

so you want to spend the rest of our lives staring into a fire and eating mud snakes? screw that.

how many walkers have you killed?

was there ever a time you weren't the boss of me?

you're the one that likes stale m&ms.

some council meeting, huh?

is this what you want?

he's too loyal to bounce.

you walk outside, you risk your life. you take a drink of water, you risk your life. nowadays you breathe and you risk your life.

i killed two people and you haven't said a word about it.

you're gonna have to learn to live with the love.

we’ve all lost someone.

we've all done the worst kinds of things just to stay alive.

you're a tough son of a bitch.

i don't know how to talk about it.

what we want is what you got. period.

i can make these people feel better and hang on a little bit longer.

was your dad mean?

so you tell me how in the holy hell did you possibly kill this truck?

she'll need a safe place when it comes.

now you put down your weapons, walk through those gates you're one of us.

everybody makes it until they don't.

you can be a farmer, but you can't be just a farmer.

there are some things you don’t come back from.

we're not too far gone.

they're gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out.

if you wanna live, you have to become strong.

you're gonna miss me so bad when i'm gone.

where should we go?

you're a tough son of a bitch.

i'm gonna be honest, i forgot about you.

it's not about what you say.

hey. i know it's been a while.

i'm never going to let anything happen to you, okay?

i don't want it!

why would you want my help?

we care about you.

don't look back.

probably best not think too much about it.

did you have kids?

everything we've been working so hard to keep out, it found its way in.

he made it through the night.

we don’t get to be upset.

i think it was the humane thing to do.

i can save lives, that's reason enough to risk mine.

a sad soul can killer quicker than a germ.

we just went through something terrible.

that's the guy you want to capture.

what i’m picking up is, murder is ok in this place now.

you do a lot for us. for the kids. you sacrifice a lot.

what the hell are you gonna do now, sport?

they're fucking with the wrong people.

we can live here for the rest of our lives.

it was a real treat, sir.

you can’t keep me from it.

he seems stable enough for me to get some air.

i still think there’s a plan.

is there anything you wouldn’t do for the people here?

they wanted to go out together same as they lived.

but i made it and you don't get to treat me like crap just because you're afraid.

i'm sorry. i'm not very good at making boys your age laugh.

your place or my place?

do you think we can make it?

it was stupid. i was so stupid.

i'm just tired of losing people.

that's what my daddy used to say.

did you think it was right?

you have to have numbers. people are the best defense against walkers or people.

i'd be honored to shake your hand.

you fight it. you don't give up. and one day you just change.

you gonna help us figure this out?

i screwed up too many times.

i'm gonna take a group out.

still, it is survival of the fittest.

he's a lying sack of shit.

the whole world is haunted now.

i've been afraid to get my hopes up thinking we can actually stay here.

i have to talk you all in to doing something i know we need to do.

end of the world don't mean shit when you got a tank.

he’s already given me fleas.

i tied the door shut.

they could have gotten hurt.

we get to come back.

see, going it alone, that ain't an option nowadays.

i think it’s my job to try.

smells good.

everybody loves a hero.

look, i fought him before.

i've survived and you don't get it 'cause i'm not like you or them.

you don't have to like what i did, just accept it.

if you don't have hope, what's the point of living?

you can't think forever.

you guys got separated?

you don’t have a choice.

you can lose a lot of soldiers but still win the game.

all this time you've taking off, you earned it.

it could work, you know it could.

whatever else this place needs, i'm here for it.

when i fell on my ass, they should have just left me out there.

she didn't have a mean bone in her body.

the walkers didn't see me anymore.

i knew you were up all night reading comics with a flashlight.

we wouldn't be here without you.

that's what it always comes down to.

man, what happened here?

those douchebags in the vines took themselves out, holding hands, kumbaya-style.

we go in, kill them all!

i could use a vacation.

today, we're talking about knives. how to use them, how to be safe with them, how they could save your life.

wasn't much use without my gun.

you’re kind of a dick.

photo time. no dumb-ass faces, no peace signs.

excuse my friend.

this is it. bon appétit.

give me that. you’re taking too long.

it’s okay. i’m tough.

this isn’t normal, bud.

welcome, make yourself at home.

some people can take it. some people can’t.

go away. you will bring ghosts with you.

that cop car will have a better map.

one of these days, i’m not going to have a sharpie in my bag.

just take what you can.

it’s a big city. there has to be more people out there.

daytime is more dangerous than night. we should go outside when it’s dark.

i think we all want to be brave in our own minds. but the truth is that you don’t know who you are until something happens.

you fight fire with fire.

what’s the dress code for the end of the world?

well, thanks for the tip. it’s definitely living up to expectations.

no human society exists without booze or religion.

i’m just trying to keep my freak-out on the inside.

see if they have any water, food, supplies.

when was the last time you wore that?

nobody’s going to find us hiding in the storeroom.

listen to me. that person is surviving, right in the middle of all this.

i said 27 hours. give or take an hour.

enemy territory. you can’t go through.

gives us five or six hours.

it isn’t safe up there. i saw it.

what’s important is that you and i stick together, okay?

i’m just more used to screwing up than you are.

you may like to think of yourself as a wolf so you can sleep at night. but the truth is, you’re just a straight-up thief.

here, take these waters.

i’ve been hearing all types of stories.

didn’t you get my e-mail?

it would take five weeks. if your luck hasn’t run out.

this crew doesn’t inspire confidence.

they've suffered enough.

i have seen the worst that humanity has to offer... and yet i'm still standing.

the world can keep knocking me down, but i'll get back up.

i don't give up.

i just want to live a peaceful life.

i don't want conflict.

there were nicer ways to ask that, you know.

i don't want to hurt anybody.

i still don't hate you.

i want peace at all costs.

if you would only try and see the world from my point of view.

i don't want to fight with you.

things always get better.

this isn't the end.

you have to stand tall.

the world is cruel, but i won't be.

i believe in you. i always have.

my morals are firm.

there's no harm in a little kindness.

just be gentle with them.

i mean well.

there's too much pain in this world. i don't intend to add to it.

i don't want to fight anyone.

don't you believe in yourself?

i'm not leaving them.

there is enough hate in this world.

i try to lead with love.

it's the right thing to do.

this doesn't have to end in violence.

why don't we talk this through?

maybe he's having a bad day.

i'm going to try again.

there has to be another way to do this.

this isn't the time to quit.

i've seen too many things go wrong. this has to go right.

i'm not giving up just yet.

kindness is not weakness.

you can do better than that.

i try to see the good in everyone.

you can't just give up!

you're a special person.

i deserve better than this.

you deserve happiness.

it costs nothing to be kind.

there's no need to be so mean.

if only you could see yourself the way i see you.

it's still a beautiful day.

there's always tomorrow.

are you asking me to quit?

tomorrow will be better.

you didn't mean that, did you?

maybe we should talk this out.

i will always choose to be kind.

despite everything, i just want to be good.

i do my best to see the good in everyone, no matter what.

you didn't have to do that.

that wasn't very nice.

do you have to be so rude?

a nice word goes a long way.

try smiling at them. see what happens.

you could try being nicer.

i deserve a happy ending.

don't beat yourself up.

don't talk about yourself like that.

i see the goodness in you.