Madame Royale (UC)

STARTER CALL!!!

Since I just started reading a biography about Marie Therese, it might take a while for me to fully get into her mindset!! But I’ll throw something your way as soon as I can :)

❛ So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ❜

❛ I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ❜

❛ Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. ❜

❛ And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. ❜

❛ I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ❜

❛ Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. ❜

❛ You see I usually find myself among strangers, because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ❜

❛ There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ❜

❛ In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ❜

❛ Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. ❜

❛ Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ❜

❛ Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!❜

❛ It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. ❜

❛ So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. ❜

❛ All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’ ❜

❛ I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ❜

❛ No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ❜

❛ It takes two to make an accident. ❜

❛ Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. ❜

❛ He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man. ❜

❛ There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind… ❜

❛ But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ❜

❛ I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! ❜

❛ I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ❜

❛ Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. ❜

❛ It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ❜

❛ The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. ❜

❛ I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. ❜

❛ So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight – watching over nothing. ❜

❛ Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. ❜

❛ The rich get richer and the poor get – children. ❜

❛ I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. ❜

❛ The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. ❜

❛ Murder your darlings. ❜

❛ It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before. ❜

❛ Human sympathy has its limits. ❜

❛ A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. ❜

❛ I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ❜

❛ I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. ❜

❛ I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ❜

❛ That voice was a deathless song. ❜

❛ I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. ❜

❛ All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back. ❜

❛ But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. ❜

❛ She was incurably dishonest. ❜

❛ What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? ❜

❛ Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on. ❜

❛ Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning. ❜

❛ I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ❜

❛ I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. ❜

❛ God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God! ❜

❛ He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive. ❜

RED FLAGS AND LONG NIGHTS

’ It’s never hard to tell when things are done. ’ ’ She looked into my eyes and a voice said: RUN. ’ ’ It’s alright, whether it’s two weeks, two years or just tonight. ’ ’ You can occupy my every sigh. ’ ’ You can rent the space inside my mind, at least until the price becomes too high. ’ ’ I can find a reason that we should quit. ’ ’ I can find a reason to do it. ’ ’ I can find excuses for all my shit. ’ ’ I need red flags and long nights. ’ ’ It’s not that it’s my fault, it’s just my style. ’ ’ He’s not into you, he’s into the idea of. ’

THESE THINGS

’ There’s nothing to see here. ’ ’ No one cares when the show is done. ’ ’ I heard it’s cold out. ’ ’ She’s locking me out. ’ ’ It’s cause of these things. ’ ’ Let’s make a fast plan, watch it burn to the ground. ’ ’ I try to whisper so no one figures it out. ’ ’ I’m not a bad man, I’m just overwhelmed. ’ ’ Lovers hold hands to numb the pain, gripping tightly to something that they’ll never own. ’ ’ No mistakes, only now you’re bored. ’ ’ This is the time of your life but you just can’t tell. ’

I DON’T WANT TO FALL IN LOVE

’ I knew that this would happen, that things would go this way. ’ ’ This was never planned. ’ ’ I know that you’re the right girl. ’ ’ But do you think that I am the right man? ’ ’ Right face, wrong time. ’ ’ Too late, so deep. ’ ’ Can’t sleep, can’t eat, can’t think straight. ’ ’ I don’t want to fall in love. ’ ’ You say it’s not a problem. ’ ’ You say it’s meant to be. ’ ’ But love is not an option. ’ ’ Our love is never free. ’ ’ And things are not so easy. ’ ’ So cold and we’ve been burned. ’ ’ That’s the price of one more lesson learned. ’

OUT OF CONTROL

’ Oh my God, it’s my favorite song! ’ ’ We can’t slow down even if we tried. ’ ’ Our hearts steady-beating, the sweat turns to cold. ’ ’ We’ve got nowhere to go. ’ ’ We’ve got nothing to prove. ’ ’ Instead of dancing alone I should be dancing with you. ’ ’ Or maybe it’s only you. ’ ’ Either way, let’s begin. ’

MONOLOGUE

’ Lover, forgive me. ’ ’ My guilt is my only crime. ’ ’ I’ll carry it round till it breaks me down every time. ’ ’ This is the time of night when the moonlight shines down and we can reveal who we truly are. ’ ’ Just give me the safe word. ’ ’ Take your hand and smack me in the mouth, my love. ’ ’ A half open mouth and the whole truth that no one would take. ’ ’ Pretend all you want you can cry to your heart’s own beat. ’ ’ We will take love and swear upon the things that we just can’t keep. ’

BROKEN PROMISES FOR BROKEN HEARTS

’ Pay attention, my love, cause it’s over. ’ ’ At the tip of my tongue is the price you weren’t willing to pay. ’ ’ Still this is something akin to a breakdown. ’ ’ Broken promises for broken hearts. ’ ’ When you look back now was it special? ’ ’ Was it nothing but anecdote that you can tell now and then? ’ ’ I delude myself it was worth it. ’ ’ From the beginning I could see exactly how it would end. ’ ’ I wanna wish you away. ’ ’ I wanna kiss you away. ’

SISTER

’ She smelled like 2am. ’ ’ This could only turn cold. ’ ’ No touching tonight. ’ ’ Tuck me in. ’ ’ You better lie down cause the angels are watching. ’ ’ Quit the talking. ’ ’ You can hurt me, do whatever you like. ’ ’ Shut your mouth, the angels are listening. ’

US

’ Late last night I was looking through pictures. ’ ’ Flooded with memories I lied on the floor. ’ ’ Still I can’t forget. ’ ’ All the fiction and lies, all the tears and the laughs take a walk through the past. ’ ’ You and I hand in hand as we look at this thing called us. ’ ’ I tried my hardest to cry but it just wouldn’t come. ’

SOMEONE MUST GET HURT

’ Please don’t touch me. ’ ’ I’ve come too far to let you bring me down. ’ ’ You think that I’m easy. ’ ’ Try as you might you can’t have me now. ’ ’ I can tell you’d like some company. ’ ’ I can’t fix you when you don’t want me. ’ ’ I call for the witness, present the facts, write down the little things. ’ ’ They say the heart is resilient in black and white. ’ ’ You swore there’d be no strings. ’ ’ Under the sound of my footsteps this time there will be no long goodbye. ’ ’ How can I trust you? ’ ’ How could you need me to know? ’ ’ It’s getting to be so cold. ’ ’ The decision is in and I won’t break. ’ ’ Well, someone might get hurt and it won’t be me. ’

TEAR YOU APART

STARTER CALL!!!

Since I just started reading a biography about Marie Therese, it might take a while for me to fully get into her mindset!! But I’ll throw something your way as soon as I can :)