jighooks.

dialogue prompts from the mountain in the sea by ray nayler.

i keep making it more dramatic than it was.

what did you see?

the weather is shitting rain.

you were crying. did you have the dream again?

there was nothing you could have done.

please stop pestering me about my vampirism.

i need enormous quantities of solitude.

i'm not up late. i'm up early.

profit is a powerful motivator.

why do you need me here, if you already know everything?

sacrifice should be worth something.

what monsters have we made?

i'm not a bad person, but i had to live.

sometimes i think i imagined that part.

i'm not ready to have someone try to heal me.

i need to carry it with me a while longer.

it's better to ask questions than to struggle for answers.

i'm not done with you yet.

there isn't anything a coward can't live with.

it's always been a game for you.

i thought you might listen to me.

it can't be any worse than this.

what do you do with all the things you no longer need to remember?

what i'd like to build is a forgetting palace. somewhere to put the things i don't want to remember anymore.

i don't want to be the person carrying around these memories anymore.

it's you who doesn't want to hear it. but i need to tell it.

nothing will make it better but time. you have to give it time.

you're playing games you don't even know the rules of.

it's so easy to justify our own actions.

i keep making the pieces fit how i want them to. not the way they are.

i like when you're gone. i win all our arguments in my head.

i think, therefore i doubt i exist.

consciousness is a self-sustaining illusion.

what did you do to make the feeling go away?

i learned to hide it. to smile.

i'm not like you. i never was.

how many people have you killed?

we don't get to choose our homes. they choose us.

i don't hate you. i just don't want to talk to you.

i can't imagine you trusting anyone.

i don't feel afraid. i feel angry.

inaction is also a kind of action.

i feel like i know you so well.

A SIDE

❛ i'm so high, i can see an angel. ❜ ❛ i hear your heart beating in your chest. ❜ ❛ the world slows 'till there's nothing left. ❜ ❛ in those heavy days in june when love became an act of defiance. ❜ ❛ hold onto each other. ❜ ❛ you were broken-hearted and the world was, too. ❜ ❛ i was beginning to lose my grip. i always held it loosely but this time i admit, i felt it really start to slip. ❜ ❛ at seventeen, i started to starve myself. ❜ ❛ i thought that love was a kind of emptiness. ❜ ❛ at least, i understood then the hunger i felt & i didn't have to call it loneliness. ❜ ❛ we all have a hunger. ❜ ❛ don't let it get you down, you're the best thing i've seen. ❜ ❛ we never found the answer but we knew one thing. ❜ ❛ in that pink dress, they're gonna crucify me. ❜ ❛ how could anything bad ever happen to you? ❜ ❛ you make a fool of death with your beauty. ❜ ❛ i thought that love was in the drugs. ❜ ❛ the more i took, the more it took away and i could never get enough. ❜ ❛ for a moment, i forgot to worry. ❜ ❛ i thought it doesn't get better than this. ❜ ❛ there can be nothing better than this. ❜ ❛ the world is at your fingertips. ❜ ❛ everything i ever did was just another way to scream your name. over and over and over again. ❜ ❛ i want a space to watch things grow. ❜ ❛ did i dream too big? do i have to let it go? ❜ ❛ what if one day there is no such thing as snow? ❜ ❛ i don't know anything. except that green is so green. ❜ ❛ there's a special kind of sadness that seems to come with spring. ❜ ❛ you need a big god. big enough to hold your love. ❜ ❛ you keep me up at night but to my messages, you do not reply. ❜ ❛ you know i still like you the most. ❜ ❛ you'll always be my favourite ghost. ❜ ❛ sometimes i think it's getting better and then it gets much worse. ❜ ❛ is it just part of the process? jesus christ, it hurts. ❜ ❛ though i know i should know better, i can make this work. ❜ ❛ shower your affection, let it rain on me. ❜ ❛ are you deeply sleeping or are you still awake? ❜ ❛ a good friend told me you've been staying out so late. ❜ ❛ be careful, my darling. be careful what it takes. ❜ ❛ from what i've seen so far, the good ones always seem to break. ❜ ❛ i can feel your anger from way across the sea. ❜ ❛ i was kissing strangers, i was causing such a scene. ❜ ❛ oh, the heart, it hides such unimaginable things. ❜ ❛ i want you so badly but you could be anyone. ❜ ❛ hold me down, i'm so tired now. ❜ ❛ leave me where i lie. ❜ ❛ i feel like i'm about to fall, the room begins to sway. ❜ ❛ i can hear the sirens but i cannot walk away. ❜ ❛ i thought i was flying but maybe i'm dying tonight. ❜

B SIDE

So I busted the wrong guy out of jail. Sue me.