ｓｅｄｕｃｅ / ｄｅｓｔｒｏｙ．

“Heard a rumor that something lives in these woods, something… otherworldly.” 

“Are you /trying/ to get yourself killed?!”

“Your spellwork is shoddy at best.” 

“Enunciate! Don’t mumble!” 

“What sort of Craft do you do?” 

“You’re… you’re a witch.” 

“You’re going to get caught walking around like that.” 

“What a beautiful creature…” 

“Please do not drop things into my cauldron.” 

“They say that you’re a Fae.” 

“Your eyes… you’re not human, are you?” 

“What are you doing in a place like this?” 

“This isn’t your natural habitat…” 

“This is… impressive spellwork.” 

“Oh! What beautiful enchantments!” 

“Do you think you can make me one of these?” 

“I’m looking for someone whom people say can brew any cure.” 

“This place is cursed… I can feel it in my bones.” 

“Your magic is very oppressive.”

“Supposedly there’s a dragon who dwells here. Heard anything about that?” 

“Your wards and shields are pathetic.” 

“Don’t be ridiculous, they’re a fairytale.” 

“Magic doesn’t exist.” 

“It’s probably some rabid wolves or something, not some ‘mythical creature’.”

“Ghosts aren’t real, and this place isn’t haunted!” 

“Isn’t it about time you crafted your own focus? 

“I’ve never seen magic quite like this.” 

“Please take your wand away from my throat.” 

“Is this a cure, or a poison?” 

“I didn’t know this type of herb grew here.” 

“Do you think someone will be willing to sell me a crystal?” 

“What are you going to do? Read my palm? Tell me my fortune on a poker hand?”

“I haven’t seen a creature like that in years.” 

“Excuse me, but have you seen any __ around these parts?” 

“A __ you say? No, I don’t believe I have.” 

“You should check the vendor down the block if you’re looking for /that/ kind of thing.” 

“You do know that even possessing that is illegal here, yes?” 

It Will Come Back by Hozier but you’re sitting at the edge of a cliff looking out onto the ocean and the thunderstorm that’s raging in the distance.

(best with headphones)

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠.

❛ I thought about it a lot. ❜

❛ I won’t lie. It hurt. ❜

❛ Hey, make sure you cover the exit, okay? ❜

❛ Distract the big one, go over that car for a clean shot. ❜

❛ That was hot. ❜

❛ I need you to do something for me. ❜

❛ You will pay. ❜

❛ You have a heart as soft as a baby bird. ❜

❛ Is this our life now? Is this our new normal? ❜

❛ Are you okay with it? ❜

❛ Choice is less about what happens than it is about how we deal with it. ❜

❛ I’ve been thinking a lot about all the things  that have happened to us over this past year. ❜

❛ I don’t think there’s been a single day  when I didn’t hear that same voice in my head telling me  "Whatever you do  do not let her go.” ❜

❛ You cannot change the world on an empty stomach. ❜

❛ I need a drink first. ❜

❛ Labels are the opposite of understanding. ❜

❛ It takes courage to remember that this is a world where our dreams do come true. ❜

❛ But our heart always knows the truth. ❜

❛ People who bear the full weight of truth sometimes break. ❜

❛ Courage. It is contagious. ❜

❛ Your life is either defined by the system, or by the way you defy the system. ❜

❛ Luck is something that reminds you how beautiful the world can be. ❜

❛ Life is not just full of surprises. It’s also full of gifts. ❜

❛ When I’m with you, all the rules and the logic of everyday life, things that were so important to me all go away. ❜

❛ Trying to change the world only leads to suffering. All we can change is ourselves. ❜

❛  Part of being a best friend is  caring more about them than you care about a damn job. ❜

❛ Feelings and emotions can overwhelm our logic, and at the same time, logic can ruin the emotions that make life worth living. ❜

❛ I have no room in my heart for hate. ❜

❛ That which does not kill you makes you stronger. ❜

❛ If your dream isn’t worth the risk, what is? ❜

❛ Nothing good ever happens when people care more about our differences than the things we share in common. ❜

❛ Hope is undiscovered disappointment. ❜

❛ You think you’re hunting us? We’re coming for you. ❜

❛ It is not a game. This is a war. ❜

❛ The real violence, the violence I realized was unforgivable, is the violence that we do to ourselves, when we’re too afraid to be who we really are. ❜

❛ Some things in our lives are inevitable. ❜

❛ Look, love is not something we wind up, something we set or control. ❜

❛ Love is just like art: a force that comes into our lives without any rules, expectations or limitations. Love like art, must always be free. ❜

❛ Impossibility is a kiss away from reality. ❜

❛ Without the past,  there would be nothing to think about, let alone  someone  to think it. ❜

❛ I’m one of those people who’s comfortable with the idea that there’s more going on in this world that we don’t understand than all the things that we do. ❜

❛ He’s my brother. And not by something as accidental as blood… by something much stronger. By choice. ❜

❛ This is what life is: fear, rage, desire… love. To stop feeling emotions, to stop wanting to feel them, is to feel… death. ❜

❛ Our existence depends on sheer implausibility. ❜

❛ I take everything I am feeling, everything that matters to me… I push all of it into my fist, and I fight for it. ❜

❛ Sometimes you make a mistake. You’ve got two choices: you live with it, or you fix it. ❜

❛ That day, I learned life and death are always so mixed up together, in the same way some beginnings are endings, and some endings become beginnings. ❜

❛ We, like these books, or these diamonds, have the secrets of our past hidden inside us. ❜

❛ It’s obedience, not resistance. That’s the glue of every country, every army, every religion in the world. ❜

❛ In the end, we will all be judged by the courage of our hearts. ❜

❛ We all know when people are lying to us, we just don’t want to listen. ❜

❛ Death doesn’t let you say goodbye. It just carves holes in your life, in your future, in your heart. ❜

❛ There’s a huge difference between what we work for and what we live for. ❜

❛ I love you. That’s why you can’t give up. I love you. ❜

❛ Killing is easy when you can feel nothing. ❜

❛ The past is done with us the moment we are done with it. ❜

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠.

❛ 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. ❜

❛ And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you. ❜

❛ Oh, I will be cruel to you. ❜

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

❛ But you understand, don’t you? ❜

❛ I am a demanding creature. ❜

❛ I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. ❜

❛ For you alone I will be weak. ❜

❛ I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. ❜

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

❛ I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. ❜

❛ I moved the earth and the water for you. ❜

❛ Because my magic is as strong as an arm. ❜

❛ Magic does that. It wastes you away. ❜

❛ Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all. ❜

❛ You will always run away with her. ❜

❛ You will always lose her. ❜

❛ You will always be a fool. ❜

❛ War is not for winning. ❜

❛ But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt. ❜

❛ You look like a winter night. ❜

❛ But if you must be clever, then be clever. ❜

❛ Be brave. ❜

❛ Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight. ❜

❛ She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat. ❜

❛ How I adore you. ❜

❛ Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me. ❜

❛ Oh, quit that. ❜

❛ In his own country, death can be kind. ❜

❛ Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing. ❜

❛ Someone ought to write a novel about me. ❜

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

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

❛ After love, no one is what they were before. ❜

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

❛ No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back. ❜

❛ How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it. ❜

❛ I have survived, but I have not been spared. ❜

❛ After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance. ❜

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

❛ Everyone is a criminal! ❜

❛ Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught. ❜

❛ Forests have secrets. ❜

❛ We are better at this than you are. ❜

❛ We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. ❜

❛ It’s not so bad, my darling. ❜

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

❛ Do you think I am a fool? ❜

❛ Did you never think, even once, that I loved lipstick and rouge for more than their color alone? ❜

❛ I still want to kiss you. ❜

❛ I hate it here. ❜

❛ He’ll burn you down like wax if you let him. ❜

❛ Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand? ❜

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

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

the darkness of a woman is such that,       stripped off our sight ,      we must   FEEL OUR WAY THROUGH IT .         we crawl,     we enter circles of hell !         until we sympathise with her sorrow ,    until we learn from her rage .