ᵉʰ˒ ᶤ ᵈᵒᶰ'ᵗ ᵇᵉʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵎ

❝ Didn’t I say the world was cruel? ❞

❝ Let your life be a dream. ❞

❝ You can never trust a monster. ❞

❝ Blood is cheap. ❞

❝ In you is a world of promise. ❞

❝ I can’t feel nothing at all. ❞

❝ Tell me, why do you hide your pretty face? ❞ 

❝ All you have to do is pull the trigger. ❞

❝ Pray he never comes knocking at your door. ❞

❝ Why are my genetics such a bitch? ❞

❝ I’m the monster, I’m the villain. ❞

❝ It’s my job to steal and rob. ❞ ❝ Daddy’s girl’s a fucking monster! ❞

❝ You could have died! You… you scared me to death! ❞

❝ It’s a thankless job, but somebody’s got to do it. ❞

❝ You break my friggin’ heart. ❞

❝ I am not a murderer. ❞

❝ What is this? You disgust me. ❞

❝ I am only living out a lie! ❞

❝ “Accidents” don’t end in murder. ❞

❝ She needs a little help with the agony. ❞

❝ Would you change who you are, if you could? ❞

❝ Commence your groveling! ❞

❝ I thought I’d seen a ghost. ❞

❝ It’s too painful. ❞

❝ Sometimes I wonder why they need me at all. ❞

❝ Remember who you are. ❞

❝ How self-absorbed people can be! ❞

❝ No one is around who might rescue you. ❞

❝ You missed your medicine. ❞

❝ I’m the smartest and the toughest. ❞

❝ Sorry to be so theatrical. ❞

❝ I’m infected. ❞

❝ Sometimes I wonder why we all don’t move on! ❞

❝ You want the world for nothing. ❞

❝ No one wants a thankless job. ❞

❝ Someone’s gonna hang if i don’t get my coffee! ❞

❝ Your designer heart still beats with common blood. ❞

❝ I guess I’ll take it to my death! ❞

❝ Look what I’ve become. ❞

❝ What’s this? Rat piss? ❞

❝ All these years have come and gone. ❞

❝ You never were a man of many words. ❞

❝ Why relive that moment? ❞

❝ Oh, I have hated and loved you. ❞

❝ I’m afraid… I’m afraid it’s terminal. ❞

❝ You’re not men, you’re creatures. I’m embarrassed by you. ❞

❝ There are things in life that we do best to leave alone. ❞

❝ I’m sweeter than sixteen! ❞

❝ We have both been kept in bondage. ❞

❝ I’ve always longed for true affection, but you compared me to a corpse. ❞

❝ This is your fault! I asked you to help me. ❞

❝ It’s gonna be a bloodbath. ❞

❝ Didn’t you say you were infected? ❞

❝ I don’t think that I can be fixed. ❞

❝ You never should have left me. I would have given you the world. ❞

❝ It’s nice to see young talent blooming. ❞

❝ I will shoot you in the face! ❞

❝ A sheltered rose needs a little room to bloom. ❞

❝ Stay with the dead. I’m joining the living. ❞

❝ You’re gonna be alright now, that’s all that matters. ❞

❝ I can go out with a bang! ❞

❝ How much of it’s genetics? How much of it is fate? ❞

❝ These eyes can do more than see. ❞

❝ I will not be betrayed. ❞

❝ You gonna start applauding? ❞

❝ Happiness is not a warm scalpel. ❞

❝ Now I can drink whatever I want! ❞

❝ It’s all part of the show. ❞

❝ You’re no better than they are! ❞

❝ I’ve made my peace. ❞

❝ You could learn from all my failures. ❞

❝ I’d be lost if I were to lose you, I will stop at nothing to keep you safe. ❞

❝ Didn’t you say that you’d protect me? ❞

❝ I hate you. Go and die. ❞

❝ I look like a crime scene. ❞

❝ Thanks for the disease! ❞

❝ A tale befitting any opera. ❞

❝ Nothing ever lasts in this world. ❞

❝ You’ve got to fight through it. ❞

❝ I will find a hole and fuck it! ❞

❝ I’m not supposed to talk to strangers. ❞

❝ Gold, it makes the world go round. ❞

❝ Let the monster rise! ❞

❝ It’s too late for me. ❞

❝ I’m the cause of all your sickness. ❞

❝ I’m dying, you idiots. ❞

❝ Sometimes I wanted to cry when the people on TV were not quite the way we were. ❞

quotes are all taken from various poems and essays by the queen of aesthetes, anne carson. feel free to change pronouns/add things/etc if needed.

‘ you are not a god. ’

‘ we begin in the dark and birth is the death of us. ’

‘ now you’ve crowned yourself one final perfect time. ’

‘ [ name ] was a monster. everything about him was red. ’

‘ what are we made of but hunger and rage? ’

‘ i finally decided that understanding isn’t what grief is about. ’

‘ honey is the sleep of the just. ’

‘ it is perilous to live past the end of your myth. ’

‘ you remember too much. ’

‘ when i desire you a part of me is gone. ’

‘ humans in love are terrible. ’

‘ under the seams runs the pain. ’

‘ men know almost nothing about desire. ’

‘ sex is a substitute, like money or language. ’

‘ what is the holiness of conversation? ’

‘ —you burn me. ’

‘ i ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way. ’

‘ sometimes i just want to stop seeing. ’

‘ we’re all mortal, you know. ’

‘ i am the shape you made me. filth teaches filth. ’

‘ why does tragedy exist? ’

‘ you’re a beauty. ’

‘ madness and witchery are conditions commonly associated with the female voice. ’

‘ it made me merciless. ’

‘ desire is no light thing. ’

‘ i do not exist. there is nothing left. ’

‘ gods are stubborn. so am i. ’

‘ we had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal. ’

‘ i am someone who did not die when i should have died. ’

‘ why are you so in love with things unbearable? ’

‘ everything can collapse. ’

‘ someone will remember us. even in another time. ’

‘ my mind is burning. ’

‘ each night, about this time, he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. ’

‘ love does not make me gentle or kind. ’

‘ i can give you reasons not do die. ’

‘ passivity is killing her. ’

‘ they are victims of love, many of them. ’

‘ he is a young god. ’

‘ you touch my soul, you pain my mind. ’

‘ it’s something of a cliché to say that we all think we’re monsters. ’

‘ i fear your sorrows make your tongue grow wild. ’

‘ it’s what they call ‘ecstasy’. ’

‘ a man who can’t die is no tragic hero. ’ 

‘ i want everything. ’

‘ it was like a beautiful dance where your partner turns and stabs you to death. ’

‘ to survive you need an edge. ’

‘ girls are cruelest to themselves. ’

‘ we are dust. ’

bonus! further quotations from award-winning poet and author anne carson:

‘ i am a philosopher of sandwiches. ’

‘ pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire. ’

‘ english is a bitch. ’