irises, 1889

your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me.

i always want you when i'm finally fine.

would you tell me if you want me?

i love it when you call my name.

what do you do with a loving feeling if the loving feeling makes you all alone?

can i sleep in your house tonight?

i don't want your pity, i just want somebody near me.

come inside and be with me.

i don't know what to do without you.

why didn't you stop me?

i can still smell the fire even though it's long died out.

there’s no need to be brave.

i think i'm gonna lose my mind.

i fell in love with a war and nobody told me it ended.

nobody fucks me like me.

i'm staying up late just in case you come up and ask to leave with me.

i'll leave once i figure out how to pay for my own life too.

fuck you and your money.

it would be a hundred times easier if we were young again.

i gave too much of my heart tonight.

i am stronger than you give me credit for.

i don't need anything other than you.

but how long can we play this way? i'm tired of not loving you.

you know me better than i do.

it doesn't matter how you lived, the only thing that matters is the way that you died.

i just need a quiet place where i can scream.

i'm a fool to want you.

i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right.

you only love me when we're all alone.

i get mean when i'm nervous like a bad dog.

i don't know what to say about any of this.

can tell them what you saw in me, and not the way i am?

i love it when you look my way.

we're two slow dancers, last ones out.

i should tell them that i'm not afraid to die.

i think my fate is losing its patience.

when i find a knife's sticking out of my side, i'll pull it out without questioning why.

i miss you more than anything.

can I dream for a few months more?

i just want to feel alright.

this is the kind of job that needs a bastard to see it through.

my god, i'm so lonely.

i always wanted to die clean and pretty.

there's nobody better than you

i don't think about the past, it's always there anyway.

i will take good care of you.

time and time again i’ve said i'd leave you.

i thought maybe we would kiss tonight.

what those dead men say that they do will never be the absolute truth.

don't wait for me, i can't come.

just 'cause you're dead doesn't mean that your mission is done.

A collection of quotes taken from various poems by Mary Oliver, edited for roleplaying purposes.

Don’t think I’m not afraid.

How everything shines in the morning light!

In the wilderness of our wit, we will all cry out last words.

Whoever he is, he won’t answer.

The connections have broken.

I want to go to sleep, but I’m restless.

I don’t even think of the eventual corruption of my body.

They won’t hurt me unless I take them between my lips and swallow.

All through the sweetness, I heard voices.

In my dreams I sleep with the moon.

You don’t want to know more about this.

You don’t know anything unless you do.

I had simply climbed the tree for something to do on a summer day.

I think this is the prettiest world, so long as you don’t mind a little dying.

How could there be a day in your whole life that doesn’t have its splash of happiness?

If I stopped, the pain was unbearable.

If I stopped and thought, maybe, the world can’t be saved … the pain was unbearable.

How long can you live fluttering in and out of the shadows?

Oh, I could not have said it better myself.

Death, too, is a carpenter.

All afternoon, it rained.

What does barbed wire feel like when you grip it?

This morning the water lilies are no less lovely than the lilies of Monet.

I have heard this music before.

If the world were only pain and logic, who would want it?

I’m tired of sleep.

How could anyone believe that anything in this world is only what it appears to be?

How do you believe anything dies a perfect death?

I’m only stopping here for a little while.

A collection of quotes taken from the first act of 36 Questions.

Put your phone away.

My god, you’re recording this!

What, so you can prove it in court?

I just want you on the record.

Do you ever listen back?

Oh, I’m gonna die out here.

There is literally nothing out here, not even an A.M. radio station.

Oops! There goes the element of surprise …

All that’s left to do is just to … do it.

I can hear you on the other side of the door. You might as well just open it.

I’m just gonna … stare at these trees.

It’d be really cool of you to open the door.

Is that a duck? Are we in the fourth season of Friends?

Can you put the drill down? It’s very intimidating.

You think I care about a fake name?

Do you actually need food and sleep to function or are you some sort of cyborg?

You know, “renovating” is such a strong word.

Uh, yeah, that’s a fire!

Just stay on your side of the room.

After tonight, you’ll never hear from me again.

Well, it’s definitely a poetic gesture.

I can’t believe I’m entertaining this. I should not be entertaining this.

Why did you do it?

That one question has a thousand answers.

When were you even in Arizona?

Are you actually really good at golf, and you were just saying you hated it so that I wouldn’t see how good you were?

You’re trying to trick me!

Aren’t you going to ask me?

I’m definitely wearing the wrong shoes.

This is not funny, I don’t know why you’re laughing.

I’m a total duck novice, though.

So you see how that could be awkward.

Are you going to let me borrow a shirt?

Wait. Was this part of your plan?

Yeah, [ name ]. I made this storm happen, because I’m an X-Man now.

It’s kind of like a weird first date. Which is why we really ought to have more booze.

I can’t imagine all the horrible stuff you’ve heard about me.

Well, it’s all true.

You’re not a whiskey drinker, are you?