𝑺𝑼𝑵 𝑬𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹

“ well, hello there, honey. ”

“ now, tell me about your future [husband/wife/spouse]. ”

“ that’s what i’ve been telling my [daughter/son/child]. ”

“ i think you went with the right choice picking me because i will take care of you. ”

“ lord knows what problems she’s got. ”

“ simple is just elegant, you know what i mean? ”

“ honey, you’re preaching to the choir. ”

“ now, you know, i love my [brother/sister/siblings] to death and my family is everything, but… ”

“ them folks a little different than us down here. ”

“ i like to keep a pearl in at all times. ”

“ if it’s crappy, people are gonna be talking about it for months, years even. ”

“ you want some tea, coffee, or anything? ”

“ who’s paying for this? mommy and daddy? ”

“ that’s the way to do it, honey. that is the way. ”

“ shit, they were there. ”

“ pardon my language. ”

“ i’ve seen it all. i’ve seen the worst. ”

“ i’ve handled the worst. ”

“ he works in mysterious ways, he does. ”

“ oh, bless your heart. ”

“ i think there’s a fine line to be drawn there. ”

“ i’m gonna make you look absolutely beautiful. i mean you’re already beautiful, but you know, everybody looks a little better with some lipstick and eye makeup on. ”

“ you know what they say, a face without freckles is like a night without stars. ”

“ when the light hits it, oh lord, it’s gonna look gorgeous. ”

“ oh, you are glowing already, oh my goodness. ”

“ i heard it’s pretty dangerous, so y’all be careful, okay. ”

“ eyes are my favourite part, and you have really pretty [colour] ones. ”

“ chocolate is my weakness. ”

“ i swear, the devil himself could give me a piece of chocolate and i’d be like, hell, let’s go. ”

“ didn’t ya mama teach you right? ”

“ we gonna be drinking a lot of champagne tonight. ”

“ your lipstick always needs to be retouched. ”

“ do you love it? i’m so happy. ”

“ the only thing i’m good at is doing nails. ”

“ it works wonders, it really does. ”

“ you should be a hand model. ”

“ i’m telling you, that industry’s always looking for people, and you would be a fantastic candidate for that. ”

“ of course, honey. would i lie to you? ”

“ have you ever gone to a palm reader? i’ve always wanted to go to one, but i never got the opportunity to. ”

“ i feel like they’d tell me things and i’d be like, ‘oh shit, you’re lying, aren’t ya?’ ”

“ gorgeous diamond he got you, he’s a keeper alright. ”

“ hang on to those ones that treat you right. ”

“ don’t be telling anyone i told you that. we’ve got secrets down here. ”

“ it’s a nice job, i get to talk. i like to talk a lot. ”

“ when i first started, i was horrendous, i had to practice so much. ”

“ it gets so hot, sometimes i just wanna move up north, find some snow, and sit in it. ”

“ my [item] collection back home is iiiiinsane. ”

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?