Negative

i’ll be in the kitchen rationalizing my panic attack.

we’re not at that stage in our friendship yet. please don’t cry in front of me.

i’m gonna dose the both of you with a scoop of shut the fudge up.

your eye is twitching.

we all have childhood issues. okay? believe me. i got the full subscription, okay? horror stories.

i think it’s brave to try to be happy. you’ve gotten so comfortable being unhappy.

listen to you, all judgey-judge.

i think it’s brave to try to be happy.

way to ruin a good apology.

the terrifying bee man.

a hug can turn your day around. it’s like an emotional heimlich.

could i just say that i know you can take care of yourself?    

that’s not as much fun to remember.

or cash. cash is good.

been hiding.

you’ve gotten so comfortable being unhappy.

you framed someone for murder, you ass!

everyone wants stuff. we wake up every day with list of wishes a mile long and maybe we spend our lives trying to make those wishes come true, but just because we want them, doesn’t mean we need them to be happy.

why love something? because we can.

i’m ripping off the band-aid!

musing on the idea of setting someone on fire doesn’t mean you really want to set them on fire. it’s just the thought of it that makes you happy.

candy might be sweet, but it’s a traveling carnival blowing through town.

pie is home. pie always comes home.

being honest is fun!

we make choices and we live with the consequences. if someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness. it’s the best anyone can do.

i’m having awkward silences with god!

but lying to yourself about love never works.

been looking.

clearly not the right choice of words.

nun on the run!

but, you know, messages are like nuts. who wants all the same kind? mixed is the best.  

who are you then?

who’s that lot down there?

so i’m gonna go upstairs and blow it up. and i might well die in the process, but don’t worry about me.

go home. go and have your lovely beans on toast.

don’t tell anyone about this, ‘cause if you do, you’ll get them killed.

nice to meet you. run for your life.

you could have been dead!

you’ve got to find some way of making money.

you deserve a proper drink. we’re going down the pub.

i’m in my dressing gown.

he’s gay and she’s an alien.

if we are gonna go to the police, i wanna know what i’m saying.

hold on a minute, you can’t just go swanning off!

this is me, swanning off. see ya.

ten out of ten for observation.

you said if i did that, i’d get people killed, so. your choice.

oh, suddenly the entire world revolves around you!

it was after me, not you! last night, i was there and you blundered in, almost ruining the whole thing!

so what you’re saying is the entire world revolves around you?

you lot- all you do is eat chips, go to bed and watch telly, while all the time underneath you, there’s a war going on!

that’s exactly what an internet lunatic murderer would say.

i’d better tell you now, my boyfriend’s in the car, just in case you’re gonna kill me!

a lot of this stuff is quite sensitive. i couldn’t just send it to you.

when disaster comes, he’s there. he brings the storm in his wake.

if he’s back, if you’ve seen him, then one thing’s for certain: we’re all in danger.

i think he’s an alien from another world.

i’m sorry, was i talking about me for a second?

i know it sounds daft, but i don’t think he’s safe.

the inside’s bigger than the outside.

are you alien?

that’s okay. culture shock. happens to the best of us.

are you going to witter on all night?

can we keep the domestics outside?

oh, don’t give me that! it’s an invasion, plain and simple!

i’m not your enemy. i swear, i’m not.

i fought in a war.

i couldn’t save your world. i couldn’t save any of them.

i’ve got no a-levels. no job. no future.

you could come with me.

you know, it goes anywhere in the universe. free of charge.

what do you think? you could stay here… fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere.

is it always this dangerous?

that’s a bit boring though.

you think you’re so impressive.

you lot spend all your time thinking about dying.

is that what you do? jump in at the last minute and save the earth?

i have come to honour them and say goodbye.

i just sort of hitched a lift with this man. i didn’t even think about it. don’t even know who he is.

they’re just so alien! the aliens are so alien.

your machine gets inside my head?

your machine gets inside my head and it changes my mind, and you didn’t even ask.

what sort of alien are you?

tell me who you are!

as my mate shireen says, ‘don’t argue with the designated driver’.

is that a technical term, ‘jiggery-pokery’?

is that dodgy or what?

so what you’re saying is if we get in trouble, there’s no one to help us out?

i would rather die.

it’s better to die than to live like you, a bitchy trampoline.

so many species evolved from that planet.

perhaps a man only enjoys trouble when there’s nothing else left.

is it me or is it a bit nippy?

i can’t open the door!

stay there, don’t move!

i’m afraid the steward is dead.

nice little cover for a real troublemaker.

you’re just as useful dead, all of you.

so you passed my little test.

everything has its time and everything dies.

they’re all gone. i’m the only survivor.

i’m left travelling on my own ‘cause there’s no one else.

you’ve seen how dangerous it is. do you wanna go home?

i want chips.

what sort of date are you?!

we’ve only got five billion years til the shops close.

i promised you a time machine and that’s what you get.

don’t look at me like it’s my fault.

something terrible is happening in this house and we’ve got to get help.

we’re going bodysnatching.

you can go back and see days that are dead and gone.

oi, oi, oi! where do you think you’re going?!

even my imagination grows stale.

what’s wrong with this jumper?

i thought you said you were my fan.

the dead don’t die on schedule.

there’s something inside the walls.

the dead are walking.

first of all you drug me, then you kidnap me, and don’t think i didn’t feel your hands having a quick wander, you dirty old man!

you sent me into a room full of zombies!

if that ain’t enough, you swan off and leave me to die!

can’t keep the beggars down.

there must be some mechanism behind this fraud.

and what does the human body do when it decomposes..?

i hoped that i was a force for good.

now you tell me that the real world is a realm of spectres and jack-o'lanterns!

has it all been for nothing?

to be honest, i hated school.

times haven’t changed that much.

i bet you’ve got your eye on someone.

you’ve got all the clothes and the breeding, but you talk like some sort of wild thing.

now, don’t antagonise her. i love a happy medium.

i can’t believe you just said that.

you’re their only chance of survival.

she’s exhausted and she’s not fighting your battles.

this new world of yours, it’s too much for me.

i trusted you. i pitied you!

i haven’t even been born yet, it’s impossible for me to die… isn’t it?

time isn’t a straight line. it can twist into any shape.

it’ll suck them into the air like poison from a wound!

i won’t leave her while she’s still in danger!

after all i’ve learnt tonight, there can be nothing more vital.

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

You are going to break your promise. I understand.

You’re lonely too.

It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be.

I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable.

I am your servant.

I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased.

For you alone I will be weak.

I belong here, and you will not deny me.

I say these things, and the world listens.

I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried.

In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.

I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories.

I moved the earth and the water for you.

You will always run away with her.

You will always lose her.

You will always be a fool.

You will always be dead, in a city of ice, snow falling into your ear.

You have already done all of this and will do it again.

No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying.

What we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.

There need never be any rules between us.

Let us be greedy together; let us hoard.

Do not leave me, swear that you will never leave me.

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

I can’t abide a poor liar.

You look like a winter’s night. I could sleep inside the cold of you.

Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.

Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

In his own country, Death can be kind.

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

Men die. It’s practically what they’re for.

I am no one; I am nothing.

Nothing in me was not made by you.

A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.

Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Forever isn’t bright; it isn’t like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

What did I do wrong? Was I boring? Did I ignore you?

Don’t you dare speak to me like that.

I have worn nothing but blood and death for years.

I have fought all your battles for you, just as you asked me.

I have learned not to cry when I strangle a man.

I have learned to watch everything die.

I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.

Are we not devils?

No one is now what they were before the war.

I have not seen you without your skin on.

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

We obsess. It’s in our nature.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

In war you must always choose sides.

If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive.

My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

It is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair.

I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.

After love, no one is what they were before.

I have survived, but I have not been spared.

In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you.

Frighten me, make me cry, only come back.

It’s not so bad, my darling. Being dead. It’s like being alive, only colder.

You’ll think it’s love, while he dines on your heart.

You will be so beautiful when you are old.

I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.

You will live as you live in any world…with difficulty, and grief.

I look at you and it is like my throat being cut.

She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.

I still want to kiss you.

My heart is being cut in two. I cannot bear it.

What happens to anything beautiful?

would you like to talk about it?

please tell me what’s bothering you.

hey, are you okay?

i don’t have to know everything. just what you’re comfortable telling me.

i’m your friend. of course i care.

there’s nothing bad about going to therapy.

would you like to try a different approach?

i – i didn’t know that. i’m sorry.

is this helping?

i’ll try not to ask a lot of questions.

i’m always here if you need me.

shh, it’s alright. shh. 

we’re safe now. you’re safe now.

it was just a nightmare.

sweetheart, you have to tell me these things.

you know i’d never judge you for that, right?

i’m worried about you.

is something going on? 

everything you say will just be between you and me.

what method do you prefer?

do you need help falling asleep?

anything i could do to help?

why are you like this?

i understand. 

sweetie, is there something you aren’t telling me? what’s wrong?

let’s get you cleaned up.

this is good. this is important. 

you’re healing, and healing takes time. 

we can do more tomorrow.

how about you get some sleep, hm?

bedtime.

it’s ok not to be ok.

tomorrow is another day.

hey, hey, hey. look at me, look at me. it’s okay.

breath in for seven seconds, exhale for eleven …

do you need some space?