┋ ❛ — ᶰᵒᵗʰᶦᶰᵍ ᵇᵘᵗ ᵍᵒᵒᵈᶰᵉˢ

❛ I am no bird, no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will. ❜

❛ I would always rather be happy than dignified. ❜

❛ Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ❜

❛ I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ❜

❛ I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ❜

❛ You are my sympathy, my better self — I am bound to you. ❜

❛ I have, for the first time, found what I can truly love. I have found you. ❜

❛ And what is hell? Can you tell me that? ❜

❛ I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die. I will be myself. ❜

❛ Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own, in pain and sickness it would still be dear. ❜

❛ He made me love him without looking at me. ❜

❛ Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. ❜

❛ All my heart is yours, it belongs to you. And with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. ❜

❛ I must have you. The world may laugh – may call me absurd, selfish – but it does not signify. My very soul demands you, it will either be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame. ❜

❛ Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. ❜

❛ You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. ❜

❛ To attack the first is not to assail the last. ❜

❛ Conventionality is not morality. ❜

❛ It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer. ❜

❛ I know I must conceal my sentiments — I must smother hope. ❜

❛ Who in the world cares for you? Who will be injured by what you do? ❜

❛ Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. ❜

❛ I will never again come to your side. I am torn away now, and cannot return. ❜

❛ Your will shall decide your destiny. ❜

❛ I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide. ❜

❛ Make my happiness and I will make yours. ❜

❛ What necessity is there to dwell on the past, when the present is so much surer, the future so much brighter? ❜

❛ I envy you, your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. ❜

❛ I never meant to wound you. Will you ever forgive me? ❜

❛ I’m very pleased you’ve come with me. ❜

❛ If there’s anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I’ll hit them in the face. ❜

❛ When a monster stops behaving like a monster, does it stop being a monster? Does it become something else? ❜

❛ How absurd it is that the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - go unarmed and are taught nothing of fighting, while the strong are trained to the highest reaches of their skill. ❜

❛ What are you grinning at? ❜

❛ Is the ceiling about to cave in on my head or something? You look like we’re both on the verge of an enormous joke. ❜

❛ Only you would consider the collapse of the ceiling a good joke. ❜

❛ I’m afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you’ll… oh, I don’t know, throw me into the fire. ❜

❛ You’re more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. ❜

❛ I’ll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. ❜

❛ Wonderful — It’s quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet. It’ll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife. ❜

❛ Forgive me, I was only trying to get your attention. ❜

❛ I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you’d start by knocking down the house. ❜

❛ Almost as beautiful as you are conceited. ❜

❛ You saved my life. I’m going to name my firstborn child after you. ❜

❛ I’ve heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger. ❜

❛ Does it make it easier? To have beautiful eyes? Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes? ❜

❛ It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them. ❜

❛ I wouldn’t marry him to save my life. Not even to save yours. ❜

❛ I know you’re teasing me. And you should know I’m not easily humiliated. ❜

❛ I should have stuck to my lies. It was the truth that almost had me killed, after all. ❜

❛ When you’re a monster, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. ❜

❛ I would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it. ❜

❛ Mercy is more frightening than murder, because it is harder. ❜

❛ Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offence. ❜

❛ The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you. ❜

❛ How long will you be? I’d like to show you a couple of my new discoveries. ❜

❛ I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all. ❜

❛ I’ll protect you. You’ll be safe with me. ❜

❛ Let me explain what will happen the instant one of your men makes a move toward me. I’ll get out of the room alive, but most of the rest of you will be dead. ❜

❛ I didn’t know you were capable of such bad temper. ❜

❛ You’re afraid of your own anger. ❜

❛ What have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue. ❜

❛ There’s no shame in crawling when one can’t walk. ❜

❛ Don’t be ashamed. Your sadness is dear to me. ❜

❛ Don’t be frightened. I won’t die. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again. ❜

❛ The colour of sunrise? It’s the colour of blood. I am not going to wear a red dress. ❜

❛ Everyone has some kind of power to hurt people. ❜

❛ Please, at least talk to me. ❜

❛ And how I feel? Doesn’t it matter? ❜

❛ I can’t know your feelings if you don’t know them yourself. ❜

❛ I will have a life, even though I carry this burden. ❜

❛ If I’d been trying to kill him, he’d be dead. ❜

❛ I told you before, I won’t fight when you’re angry. I won’t solve a disagreement between us with blows. ❜