tv show ask meme : GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES (2022). (2/2)
a selection of lines from the horror anthology cabinet of curiosities. modified slightly for rp purposes.
behind everything beautiful lies the dark.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what about the horror?
you can't rush perfection.
all i said is i don't see what the fuss is about.
i just fail to see what's so interesting about them.
i think the rats got to her.
these are...powerful. the darkness, the ugliness, the corruption.
we cannot let sympathy or altruism shield us from finding the truths of this world.
sometimes, when i'd wake in the night, i'd hear them through the floor.
i mean, you knew how important this was to me.
i don't even recognize you anymore.
what is art in this modern world without truth?
i think we need to give them some names. i think they deserve that.
someone's up awfully late this evening.
Ii's my business to catch the undertones of the soul.
if there are any ghosts round here, they're the tame ghosts of a salt marsh and a shallow cove.
i feel like you're disappearing from me.
the darkness has a way of catching me.
it must be shocking to see the state of things here.
do you feel it, [name]? the fear.
what you make--it crawls behind the eyes, it makes you crazy.
DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE.
don't you worry. i'll help you figure it out.
i promised you I'd protect you. you remember that, don't you?
who has the power to break it down?
i know the other side is real. i've seen it.
maybe it's time that we consider what else we can do with our lives.
the house has undeniable powers.
you care more about your dead sister than the living.
i've seen a forest. a forest that takes the dead inside.
wait, wait. you're telling me that you put an unknown chemical from an unknown gentleman into your body?
what we need to do is knock some sense into you.
i think you're desperate, [name].
i think you'd do anything, anything, to prove that what you've been fighting for is real.
i'm sorry. i'm sorry i couldn't save you when i had the chance.
if i hadn't been so afraid, i wouldn't have ended up here.
i couldn't think of anything else but seeing you again.
i have to investigate that house.
something stalked you here. it followed you through the door.
there's something in there trying to hurt us.
i feel the energy her anger left behind.
they stuck pins in her to see if she would bleed.
what demons have you been conjuring?
i hope you understand what you brought to this world.
what i've done cannot be undone!
i told you, you couldn't escape me.
i'll ride this body as long as it will last.
i was intrigued for sure.
what kind of flowers are these?
well, it looks amazing and sounds amazing.
i am not gonna let temptation get the better of me.
it made its way across all that chaos, all of that potential destruction, longer than many human lives, to us here tonight.
i want to know what your stunning mind makes of it.
now i'm even more curious than ever before.
dead worlds seed new, living ones, time and time again.
she's proven what others refuse to admit about the nature of the universe and humanity.
it's hard to talk about it in words, you know?
your presence here has made this night so much brighter to me.
science tells us you can never truly know the future state of a particle.
perhaps control of the machinery is your real ambition.
i want something that doesn't exist.
there's a void inside of me, you, everyone. an endless abyss.
everyone has a black hole inside of 'em. what i want is for mine to stop eating everything up all the time.
you are really harshing my mellow, man.
yhe truth is much more complicated.
i can't tell you about an image you already have in your mind.
i saw his blood, i saw his tears.
oh, a test where i have to do cocaine? finally, a test i can pass.
it's not as if you've never done this before.
it made me nostalgic for things that never happened.
you brought me all the way out here to show me a fucking rock?
did you not hear anything we just said right now?
birds carry our souls, our beliefs, our hopes.
but that word...that word also suggests a voice, a whisper, a prayer uttered in the dark when we think we have lost it all.
pop me in a room with a stack of books, and I'm happy.
who wouldn't want to lift off and fly away from the world like that sometimes?
if there is a god, he certainly is a very cruel one.
i'll check, you go back to bed.
what are you doing here in the gloom?
they sound different. more melancholy.
you haven't had any sleep. you're very tired.
it might help if you tell me what i'm meant to be listening for.
you get that crease, just there, when you're trying to solve a mystery.
this is beautiful. but when i look at it, all i feel is sad.
she must have felt very trapped here.
is it so wrong to read a dead person's letters?
and how do you know they're dead?
god forbid i should feel something.
the minute some people step into a falling-down old house, they start seeing ghosts.
you haven't cried at all. not since...everything happened.
people say they see things here, but it's just a morbid fascination
with other people's misery.
how am i ever supposed to help you if you never tell me anything?
why is it always about me? you went through this too, [name].
i feel lost. i feel...angry. i feel completely heartbroken.
i try and i try, and i just feel you slipping away.
take my hand. you won't be alone or cold anymore.
