O ' CHOSEN ,

❝ courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten. ❞

❝ you’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you? ❞

❝ am i so beautiful that you’ve got no words left? ❞

❝ forgive me. i’m a coward at heart. ❞ 

❝ you and i aren’t as different as we thought. ❞ 

❝ this time, we fight together. ❞ 

❝ if all else fails, use fire. ❞ 

❝ the history of light and shadow will be written in blood. ❞

❝ what makes you happy… does it make others happy, too? ❞

❝ it’s a secret to everybody. ❞

❝ do you ever feel a strange sadness as dusk falls? ❞ 

❝ tell them the war has ended. ❞ 

❝ many years ago, i felt so free… ❞ 

❝ we all deserve a happy ending, don’t we? ❞ 

❝ they were all good people…my people. ❞ 

❝ be careful about going around judging people by their appearance. ❞ 

❝ may the winds of fortune be at your back. ❞ 

❝ you have great eyes. they’re proud and wild…like a feral beast. ❞

❝ no matter what, a fake is a fake, and no matter how much you try to dress it up, the real thing always wins . ❞

❝ guess what? you got it for free. are you proud of yourself? ❞

❝ your true face… what kind of face is it? i wonder… the face under the mask… is that your true face? ❞

❝ you’re the bad guy. and when you’re bad, you just run. ❞ 

❝ you’ll come with me, won’t you? ❞

❝ this is your fate. don’t feel discouraged, even in the darkest of times. ❞ 

❝ may we meet again in another life. ❞

❝ you don’t have to look so sad. ❞

❝ everything. everything i’ve done up until now…it was all for nothing.. ❞

❝ i wonder, if you do the right thing, does it really make everyone happy? ❞

❝ whenever there is a meeting, a parting is sure to follow. ❞

❝ those who do not know the danger of wielding power will, before long, be ruled by it. ❞

❝ your friends… what kind of people are they? do these people think of you as a friend? ❞

❝ the flow of time is always cruel. ❞

❝ my bloodline endures the ravages of all the years. it survives. ❞ 

❝ the sight of your appalling hair makes my gorge rise. ❞ 

❝ we are fine here. we will greet the morning together. ❞ 

❝ i really am just a failure. ❞ 

❝ it’s dangerous to go alone. take me. ❞ 

❝ conquer yourself. ❞ 

❝ even though it was only a short time, i feel like i’ve known you forever. ❞

❝ it’s time for me to make up for my mistakes. ❞ 

❝ people are disgusting. my own father and mother are disgusting. you must be disgusting too. ❞ 

❝ there are some things in life you can’t change no matter how hard you try. ❞

❝ thought i chose the thief’s life, but it really chose me. ❞ 

❝ i’m not doing anything suspicious. really! ❞

❝ forgive your friend. ❞ 

❝ a man is an animal, too. ❞

❝ oceans…oceans…oceans as far as the eye can see. ❞

❝ heroes fade eventually but legends never die. ❞

❝ please…heal my sorrows. ❞

❝ i grant my eternal love to you. ❞

❝ he who wields such power would make a suitable king for this world, don’t you think? ❞

❝ i always believed you would come…because i know you. ❞

❝ it is destiny that you and i can’t live in the same world. ❞

❝ shadow and light are two sides of the same coin. one cannot exist without the other. ❞

❝ your slumber these past moons must have been restless and full of nightmares. ❞

❝ your gods have destroyed you. ❞

❝ your words are kind and your heart is true. ❞

❝ i believe this is what you call…happiness. ❞ 

❝ the mortal blow puts your life on the line. ❞ 

❝ your ears will bleed from the sounds of your own screams. ❞

❝ i consider the time spent with you some of the most special memories i have. ❞

❝ a sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage. ❞

❝ you fight like no man or demon i have ever known. ❞

❝ the thousand years of raindrops are my tears. ❞

❝ time passes, people move…like a river’s flow, it never ends. ❞ 

❝ it seems shadow has been moved by light. ❞

❝ the thunder that strikes the earth is my anger. ❞

❝ to tell you the truth, I’m feeling a bit frustrated, and right now I just need someone to vent to. ❞

❝ isn’t it petty? little battles like this? ❞ 

❝ wait! do not be so hasty. ❞ 

❝ a thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days. ❞

❝ don’t ever forget me. if you do, i’ll never forgive you. ❞

❝ if it is something that can be stopped, then just try to stop it. ❞

❝ my hate never perishes. it is born anew in a cycle with no end . ❞

❝ we’ll be friends forever, won’t we? ❞

❝ do you have any idea how that made me feel inside? Furious. Outraged. ❞

❝ i’ve taken all that you had to give… though I did not want it . ❞

❝ i follow the strongest side. that is all i have ever known. ❞

❝ he wasn’t talking about strength, like lifting stuff. he was talking about being brave. ❞ 

“in time we hate that which we often fear.”

“put on my crown.”

“i have immortal longings in me.”

“make death proud to take us.”

“we are for the dark.”

“the bright day is done.”

“come, sir, come, i’ll wrestle you in my strength of love.”

“thus i let you go, and give you to the gods.”

“the april is in your eyes.”

“my desolation does begin to make a better life.”

“did i ever love ( name ) as much as this?”

“may you choke on any other sentiments like that!”

“is this true?”

“usually that means a person is foolish.”

“if it be love indeed, tell me how much.”

“there’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.”

“see how i convey my shame out of thine eyes by looking back what i have left behind, ‘stroyed in dishonour.”

“i little thought you would have followed.”

“you did know how much you were my conqueror, and that my sword, made weak by my affection, would obey it on all cause.”

“fall not a tear, i say.”

“give me a kiss.”

“fortune knows we scorn her most when she offers blows.”

“kind sir, give me a good fortune.”

“i don’t make fortunes, i only see them.”

“you will love more than you are loved.”

“to be furious is to be frightened out of fear.”

“when valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.”

“may you die of the worst disease!”

                                        i think 

—

Rainer Maria Rilke, “Pathways” [excerpt of Advent], in First Poems (translator unknown)

Source — Weißt du, ich will mich schleichen leise aus lautem Kreis, wenn ich erst die bleichen Sterne über den Eichen blühen weiß. 

Wege will ich erkiesen, die selten wer betritt in blassen Abendwiesen? und keinen Traum, als diesen: 

❛ You will hear thunder and remember me. ❜

❛ If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly. ❜

❛ I seem to myself an accidental guest in this dreadful body. ❜

❛ Call me a sinner, mock me maliciously. ❜

❛ I, from the very beginning, seemed to myself like someone’s dream or delirium. Or a reflection in someone else’s mirror. Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. ❜

❛ I knew the list of crimes that I was destined to commit. ❜

❛ The future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future. ❜

❛ You are untranslatable into any one tongue. ❜

❛ I was hoping my silence would fit yours. ❜

❛ See, we were never about butterflies. All about us is unearthly and radiant. ❜

❛ You do not know just what you’ve been forgiven. ❜

❛ I need to slaughter my memory.  ❜

❛ Forgive me that I appeared to you in waking dreams. ❜

❛ I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy. ❜

❛ I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death. ❜

❛ Wild honey smells of freedom. But gold smells of nothing. ❜

❛ You are three times more beautiful than angels. ❜

❛ I will kill you without spilling your blood on the ground, not touching you with my hand, not giving you one glance. ❜

❛ You invented me. There is no such earthly being. ❜

❛ You’re late. Way too late. I’m glad to see you, nonetheless. ❜

❛ Forgive me that I felt forsaken. Forgive me that I kept mistaking too many others for you. ❜

❛ Real tenderness can’t be confused, it’s quiet and can’t be heard. ❜

❛ What else lived in that house besides us? ❜

❛ How unhappy we are together! ❜

❛ I defend not my voice, but my silence. ❜

❛ Without love, I’m more at ease, I’m sure. ❜

❛ I’ve got no more tears or explanations. ❜

❛ I’m not complaining. Happiness is not for me. ❜

❛ Are you not the only tie between good and evil, earthly pits and paradise? ❜