i shall wash blood with blood.

❛ It seems to me we all play an important part in this group. I mean, we're just like a big, delicious banana split. ❜

❛ So I got a little cranky! ❜

❛ I am so over this damsel in distress nonsense. ❜

❛ You're whipped! ❜

❛ Oh, yeah? Why don't you say that to my face, man! ❜

❛ Hey, I am a man of substance. Dorky chicks like you turn me on, too. ❜

❛ Those creatures are taking over the world...That's so mean. ❜

❛ Like, chill out. You didn't have to try and take over the whole world and destroy humanity. ❜

❛ Let's get jinky with it. ❜

❛ He's not in a bad mood, he's a monster. ❜

❛ Friends don't quit. ❜

❛ I've got a major wedgie. ❜

❛ We're here to solve a mystery. ❜

❛ I've transformed my body into a dangerous weapon. ❜

❛ I'm not helpless! I'm not helpless. ---  ... I am helpless. I'm gonna die. ❜

❛ This is, like, the opposite of what I wanted to do today. ❜

❛ We don't go anywhere with 'scary', 'spooky', 'haunted', or 'forbidden' in the title. ❜

❛ Oh please. You get kidnapped so much you should come with your own ransom note. ❜

❛ Who's helpless now? ❜

❛ Kinda makes you nostalgic for the homicidal creatures, doesn't it? ❜

❛ Ghosts don't stand a chance with me, let me at ‘em. I'll rock 'em and I’ll sock 'em. ❜

❛ It's a cat with a bobbing head, please don't touch it. ❜

❛ For the thousandth time, there's no such thing as ghost. ❜

❛ Accident? You were marking your territory! ❜

❛ I always have a plan. Come on. ❜

❛ I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you! ❜

❛ I do not always get kidnapped. I can't believe you'd say that to me. ❜

❛ Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Maybe I quit. I do. Yeah, I quit! ❜

❛ Don't go. Come on, don't do this. Please, don't go. ❜

❛ You are, and always have been, my dream. ❜

❛ I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday. ❜

❛ I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had. ❜

❛ You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. ❜

❛ I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. ❜

❛ Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. ❜

❛ Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. ❜

❛ I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings, and you say ‘I'll give you anything’ but you never come through. ❜

❛ If you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand. ❜

❛ Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. ❜

❛ There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer. ❜

❛ I fell in love with a switchblade. ❜

❛ I know you're scared but you're so close to heaven. ❜

❛ You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed. ❜

❛ You fit into me. Like a hook into an eye. ❜

❛ If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person. ❜

❛ I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning. ❜

❛ Love is a kind of killing. Don't you know that? ❜

❛ Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. ❜

❛ We loved with a love that was more than love. ❜

❛ Deep in earth my love is lying. And I must weep alone. ❜

❛ Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone and marrow. ❜

❛ The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ❜

❛ You promised me you wouldn't be jealous. ❜

❛ Silly of me. To think someone like you could fall in love with someone like me. ❜

❛ We're creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love. ❜

❛ When I die I want your hands on my eyes. ❜

❛ Be still my foolish heart. ❜

❛ My heart is thrilled by the still of your hand. ❜

❛ 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. ❜

❛ It’s showtime. ❜

❛ I’ve seen the exorcist about 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it. ❜

❛ I’m the ghost with the most, babe. ❜

❛ Never trust the living. ❜

❛ I myself am strange and unusual. ❜

❛ Thanks, I’ve been feeling a little flat. ❜

❛ A little gasoline…blowtorch…no problem. ❜

❛ Go ahead, make my millennium! ❜

❛ Unhappy? What did you expect? You're dead! ❜

❛ My whole life is a dark room, one big, dark room. ❜

❛ Come on a little closer! Step right up! Test your strength! ❜

❛ I wanna be dead too. ❜

❛ I didn't realise you were into the supernatural. ❜

❛ Don't mind her. She's still upset, because somebody dropped a house on her sister. ❜

❛ We're dead. I don't think we have very much to worry about anymore. ❜

❛ These aren't my rules. Come to think of it, I don't have any rules. ❜

❛ You have got to take the upper hand in all situations or people, whether they're dead or alive, will walk all over you. ❜

❛ I am alone. I am utterly alone. ❜

❛ They were trying to scare you away, and you didn't get scared. ❜

❛ Please, they're dead. It's a little late to be neurotic. ❜

❛ What's the good of being a ghost if you can't frighten people away? ❜

❛ The only one I think I can deal with is Edgar Allan Poe's daughter. I think she understands me. ❜

❛ At least someone's life hasn't been upheaved. ❜

❛ Here hold that for me, would ya? ❜

❛ Not so fast. We're gonna have some laughs. ❜

❛ Come on. Think of it as a marriage of inconvenience, okay? We both get something. ❜

❛ I'm tellin' ya, honey, she meant nothin' to me. Nothin' at all! ❜

❛ I'm feeling a little, ooh, anxious if you know what I mean. It's been about six hundred years after all. ❜

❛ The man next to me is the one I want. You asked me, I'm answering. Yes, I love that man of mine. ❜

❛ But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. ❜

❛ He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none. ❜

❛ Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep. ❜

❛ It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness.  ❜

❛ If I had ever believed it, I no longer do. ❜

❛ I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands. ❜

❛ I cannot bear this world a moment longer. ❜

❛ I have a better idea. I will do as I please. ❜

❛ All my life has been murk and depths, but I am not a part of that dark water. I am a creature within it. ❜

❛ You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see. ❜

❛ When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world. ❜

❛ When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist. ❜

❛ But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults. ❜

❛ I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, too dull to fly even when the door stands open. ❜

❛ This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive. ❜

❛ You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you. ❜

❛ Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me. ❜

❛ If now I am wise, it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes. ❜

❛ You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite. ❜

❛ Give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for. ❜

❛ I have been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that is only a shape I’ve been poured into. I do not have to keep it. ❜

❛ I wake sometimes in the dark terrified by my life's precariousness, its thready breath. ❜

❛ Understanding the world is a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves. ❜

❛ Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two. ❜

❛ The truth is, men make terrible pigs. ❜

❛ My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it. ❜

❛ This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh. ❜

❛ Witches are not so delicate. ❜

❛ Those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats. ❜

❛ There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too. ❜

❛ The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them. ❜

❛ Life is warped. I'm just in sync. ❜

❛ Now it's a whisper from the past. ❜

❛ But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more. ❜

❛ Why is it always such a surprise? The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush. ❜

❛ Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it. ❜

❛ What is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?  ❜

❛ I have scars, inside me. ❜

❛ The dead are not entirely dead but are alive in a different way; a paler way admittedly, and somewhat darker. ❜

❛ However dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void. ❜

❛ Amazing how quickly the past becomes idyllic. ❜

❛ It is another way of saying tough luck. To people you aren’t going to help out. ❜

❛ I'm waiting, far off in the future. ❜

❛ The only sure camouflage is unpredictability. ❜

❛ There are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. ❜

❛ First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled. ❜

❛ I long to swim in liquid moonlight. ❜

❛ That's right, I don’t like to be summoned on trivial matters. ❜

❛ The part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. ❜

❛ Cut that part out of us: the grinning, elemental malice. Begin us anew. ❜

❛ Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot. ❜

❛ At last. It's you. ❜

❛ No, you will not be cooked on a fire when you die. Because you are not a fish. ❜

❛ Take what the moment offers. Don’t close doors. Be thankful. ❜

❛ How many others have stood in this place? Left behind, with all gone, all swept away. ❜

❛ Is it disapproval or extreme lust? With some men it’s hard to tell the difference. ❜

❛ My hair was driving me crazy, but then … I died. ❜

❛ Seek and ye shall find, eventually. And you found. You’re right, I don’t dispute that. Sorry. ❜

❛ My head was once a filing cabinet. Now it’s a flurry of papers, floating on a draft. ❜

❛ You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there. ❜

❛ I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s something nobody knows about. ❜

❛ And if I don’t want to die, I’ve got to start living. ❜

❛ The world is a beautiful place. Don’t forget that. And don’t miss it. ❜

❛ I was fighting for my life. So I must not want to die. ❜

❛ Something’s happening to me, through me, something dangerous and new. ❜

❛ It’s taken root, a poison tree; it’s grown, fanning out, vines winding round my gut, my lungs, my heart. ❜

❛ We’re interpreters. We’re translators. ❜

❛ You’ll notice I’m not asking what made you this way. ❜

❛ No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other. Tolstoy was chock-fullo’shit. Remember that. ❜

❛ We lived in monochrome those nights. ❜

❛ You live in a dream. You’re a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? ❜

❛ Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you’d find swine? ❜

❛ I stand here in the dark: cold, utterly alone, full of fear and something that feels like longing. ❜

❛ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. ❜

❛ Not to warm the flesh, but solely to please the eye. ❜

❛ Selective emotional detachment. ❜

❛ Not for me, or at least not today. ❜

❛ Dead but not gone, watching life surge forward around me, powerless to intervene. ❜

❛ Do I sound like a hillbilly saying that? ❜

❛ Remember, you’ve got your secret weapon. ❜

❛ The dream drains away like water. The memory, really. I try to scoop it up in my palms, but it’s gone. ❜

❛ My shadow stretches along the carpet, as though trying to detach itself from me. ❜

❛ It curls away from me, like blood in water. ❜

❛ It’s been so long since I felt the rain. Or wind—the caress of wind. ❜

❛ But snow I never want to feel again. ❜

❛ Through adversity to the stars. ❜

❛ No hero. No sleuth. I am locked in. I am locked out. ❜

❛ So we’re just gonna ignore the bear then? ❜

❛ Do you feel held by him? Does he feel like home to you? ❜

❛ Hi. Hello! There you are! Listen: You can't speak. You can't move. ❜

❛ We have this dance competition and the winner gets crowned. ❜

❛ As an offering for our Father, we will today surrender nine human lives. ❜

❛ You will today be joined in harmony with Everything. ❜

❛ Maybe you can redeem this! ❜

❛ Do you think I don't know what you're doing? It's actually kind of outrageously unsubtle, the fact that you're being this bold about it, I'm honestly kind of impressed? ❜

❛ It makes him open, for the source. ❜

❛ Do you think that there is a masochistic part of you that is playing out this particular drama to avoid the work you actually need to be doing? ❜

❛ Wow, okay, thanks for the psychoanalysis. ❜

❛ You know, I’m very, very glad you’re coming. I think it’s very good you’re coming. ❜

❛ You know that what you’re doing is unethical, and leechy, and lazy. And, frankly, it’s kind of sad. ❜

❛ But I have always felt held. By a family. A real family. Which everyone deserves. And you deserve. ❜

❛ Are you not disturbed by what we just saw? ❜

❛ The Queen must ride alone. ❜

❛ You know what, um, I’m worried I’ll have a bad trip. ❜

❛ What? Okay, relax. Relax! What did I do? ❜

❛ I think we really need to just at least try to acclimate. ❜

❛ Hey. How you doing? Today was tough. Are you going to be okay? ❜

❛ And yet, I was the most excited for you to come. ❜

❛ I’m really sorry. Thank you for inviting me, but I really have to go. Can someone maybe drive me somewhere? ❜

❛ We’re going to stand until it’s right to sit. ❜

❛ Wait, you’re not talking about an actual one? ❜

❛ Tomorrow’s a big day. ❜

❛ You’ll get a better sense tomorrow. ❜

❛ That can’t be right! The sky is blue! ❜

❛ That feels wrong. I don’t like that! ❜

❛ That’s not fine! Why is it like that? ❜

❛ All hope abandon, ye who enter here. ❜

❛ The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. ❜

❛ The love that moves the sun and the other stars. ❜

❛ The devil is not as black as he is painted. ❜

❛ Through me you pass into the city of woe. Through me you pass into eternal pain. ❜

❛ Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.  ❜

❛ There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ❜

❛ Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. ❜

❛ Without hope we live on in desire. ❜

❛ Make my veins and pulses tremble. ❜

❛ I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath. ❜

❛ I found myself within a forest dark. ❜

❛ If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. ❜

❛ Here were every fruit and never-ending spring. ❜

❛ The well heeded well heard. ❜

❛ Through me the way that runs among the lost. ❜

❛ A longer ladder still is to be climbed. ❜

❛ Why should you care about what's whispered here? ❜

❛ Why have you let your mind get so entwined? ❜

❛ I was told about this torture, that it was the hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire. ❜

❛ What is it then? Why do you hesitate? ❜

❛ Why do you relish living like a coward? ❜

❛ A just request is to be met in silence, by the act. ❜

❛ There was not, nor will be, from the first day to the last night, an act so glorious and so magnificent. ❜

❛ Your name is widely known in hell! ❜

❛ Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, why fall ye thus before a little wind? ❜

❛ That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute. ❜

❛ The shining strengthened me against the fright whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart through all the terrors of that piteous night. ❜

❛ It was so dark, and deep, and clouded, that I could see nothing by staring into its depths. ❜

❛ I'm going to eat your soul and shit it out! ❜

❛ I need you frightened. I need you hopeless. ❜

❛ Hell is a teenage girl. ❜

❛ I will finish you if I have to. ❜

❛ You know what? You were never really a good friend. ❜

❛ You're killing people? ❜

❛ God. It's like I'm one of the normal girls. ❜

❛ I am a god! ❜

❛ I had one of my night terrors again. ❜

❛ You're lime-green jello and you can't even admit it to yourself. ❜

❛ Do you buy all your murder weapons at Home Depot? ❜

❛ He listens to maggot rock. He wears nail polish. My dick is bigger than his. ❜

❛ Oh! A puncture wound. God, that's so emo. ❜

❛ I recommend you shut the fuck up! ❜

❛ You goddamn monster, you dumb bitch! ❜

❛ She's just hovering... it's not that impressive. ❜

❛ God, do you have to undermine everything I do? You are such a player hater. ❜

❛ Wow, nice comeback, Hannah Montana. Got any more harsh digs? ❜

❛ I thought you only murdered boys. ❜

❛ I am not insecure. God that’s a joke, how could I ever be insecure? ❜

❛ PMS isn't real, it was invented by the boy-run media to make us seem like we're crazy. ❜

❛ I'm kinda the shit! ❜

❛ I mean, they did go all "Benihana" on my ass with that knife, and it should've killed me, but for some reason... it didn't. ❜

❛ I am scrumptious! ❜

❛ I've been through the Occult section of the library five times. ❜

❛ It's a rock show. This is my rock look. ❜

❛ You might get lucky for once in your miserable life! ❜

❛ I’ll just play hello titty with the bartender.  ❜

❛ I just got aquamarine on dvd. It’s about a girl who’s, like, half sushi. ❜

❛ The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you. ❜

❛ Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. ❜

❛ Women get consumed. ❜

❛ Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. ❜

❛ A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort. ❜

❛ Safer to be feared than loved. ❜

❛ I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence. ❜

❛ It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wish I could stop trying. ❜

❛ I always feel sad for the girl that I was. ❜

❛ Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. ❜

❛ How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? Anything could happen. ❜

❛ See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was. ❜

❛ Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. ❜

❛ To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting. ❜

❛ I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. ❜

❛ I'm tired of dying. ❜

❛ What if you hurt because it feels so good? ❜

❛ How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. ❜

❛ Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can’t stop them? You can’t do anything, you just have to wait? ❜

❛ Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own. ❜

❛ Everyone has their own version of a memory. ❜

❛ Isn’t a smile a girl’s best weapon? ❜

❛ My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past. ❜

❛ Do what I want; I might like you. ❜

❛ I feel sorry for Persephone because even when she’s back with the living, people are afraid of her because of where’s she’s been. ❜

❛ She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. ❜

❛ The sight of it actually does something to you, makes you less human. ❜

❛ It infects you. It ruined me. ❜

❛ Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects. ❜

❛ We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ❜

❛ Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. ❜

❛ The strongest of all warriors are these two — time and patience. ❜

❛ If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. ❜

❛ There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. ❜

❛ The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness. ❜

❛ Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy. ❜

❛ It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. ❜

❛ You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. ❜

❛ If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. ❜

❛ We are asleep until we fall in love! ❜

❛ I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. ❜

❛ Everything I know, I know because of love. ❜

❛ Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. ❜

❛ If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ❜

❛ Yes, love, but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him. ❜

❛ How can one be well...when one suffers morally? ❜

❛ Kings are the slaves of history. ❜

❛ God is the same everywhere. ❜

❛ Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. ❜

❛ One must be cunning and wicked in this world. ❜

❛ We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. ❜

❛ When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair! ❜

❛ For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed? ❜

❛ He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died. ❜

❛ Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps. ❜

❛ Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible. ❜

❛ The distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. ❜

❛ How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? ❜

❛ When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. ❜

❛ My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: the parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seem to have vanished completely. ❜

❛ Would it be worse to love someone who is no longer there, or not to love someone who is? ❜

❛ Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness. ❜

❛ It is not that I was credulous, simply that I believed in all things dark and dangerous. ❜

❛ Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on. ❜

❛ Love will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure. ❜

❛ He died alone. It don't matter a rat's ass whether there was anyone with him or not. He died alone. ❜

❛ It was love, I knew, and it tasted like champagne in my mind. ❜

❛ The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck. ❜

❛ She was my dream; and if you touch a dream it vanishes, like a soap bubble. ❜

❛ Daylight is always safe. ❜

❛ If not for death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with death, well, their lives will have meaning. ❜

❛ You want to know the future, love? Then wait. ❜

❛ There are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm. ❜

❛ Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated ❜

❛ But sometimes you leave blood on your instruments. ❜

❛ I'd like to be a wolf. Not all the time. Just sometimes. In the dark. I would run through the forests. ❜

❛ You've seen them. They have mouths that twitch, and eyes that stare, and they babble and they mewl and they whimper. ❜

❛ They are not mad, or rather, the loss of their sanity is the lesser of their problems. ❜

❛ Good a reason for writing as I know: releasing demons, letting them fly. ❜

❛ That miserable state in which everything seems flat and of equal importance; when nothing matters, and in which reality seems scraped thin and threadbare. ❜

❛ Someone had scrawled graffiti in black marker on the metal: JUST DIE, it said. Like it is easy. ❜

❛ Winter started today. The sky turned grey and the snow began to fall and it did not stop falling until well after dark. ❜

❛ Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. ❜

❛ I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.  ❜

❛ If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. ❜

❛ I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other. ❜

❛ But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. ❜

❛ I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other would have borne it. ❜

❛ There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. ❜

❛ One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ❜

❛ Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ❜

❛ You must be the best judge of your own happiness. ❜

❛ Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing ; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature ; and I do not think I ever shall. ❜

❛ Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. ❜

❛ If I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream. ❜

❛ If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. ❜

❛ Faultless in spite of all her faults. ❜

❛ A heroine whom no one but myself will much like. ❜

❛ There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ❜

❛ Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its fragrance on the desert air. ❜

❛ I pity you. I thought you cleverer. ❜

❛ Evil to some is always good to others. ❜

❛ I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. ❜

❛ She is loveliness itself. ❜

❛ Time does not compose me. ❜

❛ A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. ❜

❛ I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice. ❜

❛ I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more. ❜

❛ I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment. ❜

❛ I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed. ❜

❛ With all your little faults, you are an excellent creature. ❜

❛ The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. ❜

❛ What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? ❜

❛ Out of the frying pan into the fire! ❜

❛ We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. ❜

❛ She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. ❜

❛ And, oh, God . . . how frequently I weep! ❜

❛ From the coffin of your madness there is no escape. ❜

❛ I am feeling supernatural tonight. I want to eat diamonds. ❜

❛ All the same there is a chance that if we keep on shaking our chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles will part. ❜

❛ It was sad music fit to make you cut your throat. ❜

❛ Nothing is more boring than being forced to play. ❜

❛ Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest? ❜

❛ Wherein does a woman’s honour reside? In her vagina or in her spirit? ❜

❛ Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment! ❜

❛ Have you ever stared stark failure in the face? The trick is to outstare it. ❜

❛ Sometimes it seems that the faces exist of themselves, in a disembodied somewhere, waiting for the one who will wear them, who will bring them to life. ❜

❛ I have the febrile gaiety of a being without a past, without a present, yet I exist. ❜

❛ I felt myself turning, willy-nilly, from a woman into an idea. ❜

❛ She looks wonderful, but she doesn't look right. ❜

❛ The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind. ❜

❛ I raised you up to fly to the heavens, not to brood over a clutch of eggs! ❜

❛ I love to hear my bones rattle. That’s how I know I’m alive. ❜

❛ I learnt, first, as the birds do, from the birds. ❜

❛ Inside and outside match exactly, but both are badly wrong. ❜

❛ During the less-than-blink of time it took the last chime to die, there came a vertiginous sensation. ❜

❛ I fear a wound not of the body but the soul, an irreconcilable division between myself and the rest of humankind. ❜

❛ I fear the proof of my own singularity. ❜

❛ Still nothing could calm the fearful storm in my erupting skin. ❜

❛ Petersburg, loveliest of all hallucinations. ❜

❛ I'm beginning to feel totally cut off from the world. ❜

❛ What does this all mean? Where are we? ❜

❛ Sometimes I bleed. ❜

❛ If you see a ghost, you say "hello". ❜

❛ The war is not over. ❜

❛ You're not going. You left us once already. ❜

❛ You can’t go! ❜

❛ I loved you, but that wasn't enough, was it? ❜

❛ If you're dead, then leave me in peace. ❜

❛ The only thing that moves here is the light, but it changes everything. ❜

❛ I won't ask for forgiveness for something I didn't do! ❜

❛ Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead. ❜

❛ Death of a loved one can lead people to do the strangest things. ❜

❛ Sooner or later, they will find you. ❜

❛ They're everywhere - they say this house is theirs. ❜

❛ You're always teasing me, and telling lies. I'm sick of it. ❜

❛ Others will come. Sometimes we'll sense them. Other times, we won't. ❜

❛ No crying now. No crying. Stop that. Here. Look what an awful face you've got when you cry. ❜

❛ You listen to me. I've seen them too. ❜

❛ You'll see. There are going to be some big surprises. There are going to be... changes. ❜

❛ Why did you go and fight that stupid war that had nothing to do with us? Why didn't you stay like the others did? ❜

❛ Your place was here with your family. ❜

❛ So you say you know this house well? ❜

❛ I wasn't expecting you so soon. ❜

❛ What's the matter? Has the cat got your tongue? ❜

❛ You mean they just vanished? Into thin air? ❜

❛ No door must be opened without the previous one being closed first. ❜

❛ Here, most of the time, you can hardly see your way. ❜

❛ Whatever you do, don't open the curtains. ❜