promises

❝ i’m charged with guarding the portal to another world, and you’re asking me to just let you through? ❞

❝ what do you want of me? ❞

❝ don’t forget the flowers! ❞

❝ are you all right? ❞

❝ want some breakfast? ❞

❝ look, i’m sorry about last night. ❞

❝ i lost my job. i’m sorry. ❞

❝ every man i ever envied when i was a boy has led an unremarkable life… so you don’t fit with the popular crowd. i take that as a very good omen. ❞

❝ i have something for you. a surprise. ❞

❝ i’ve never had champagne before. ❞

❝ there’s a big world out there. i’m gonna make my fortune. ❞

❝ for your hand in marriage, i’d cross oceans or continents. ❞

❝ i would go to the gold fields of san francisco, and bring you back your weight in gold… i’d go to africa and bring you back a diamond as big as your fist. or i’d go to the arctic and i— i’d slaughter a polar bear and bring you back its head. ❞

❝ people like you and people like me we’re just… not… ❞

❝ i should be going, it’s really late. ❞

❝ oh, please. you’re not annoyed about that whole murder thing, are you? ❞

❝ i’ve never opened it… it’s addressed to you. ❞

❝ do i look like i’m your mother? ❞

❝ you can help by leaving me alone! ❞

❝ you’re funny. ❞

❝ may i just say in advance that i am sorry? ❞

❝ nothing says romance like the gift of a kidnapped, injured woman! ❞

❝ how have we lived this way all these years? ❞

❝ don’t you ever sleep? ❞

❝ coming out is off the agenda. ❞

❝ don’t push your luck. ❞

❝ i know what you are… ❞

❝ one can never be too careful. ❞

❝ i’ll get you a seat. ❞

❝ heads or tails? ❞

❝ how do you know my… ❞

❝ so let me get this straight. you think you know we’re going the right way because, and i quote, ‘i just do.’ ❞

❝ please don’t do this again. ❞

❝ has excessive begging or pleading ever persuaded me to spare the life of a traitor? ❞

❝ please, let me ride with you. ❞

❝ maybe providence sent me to you just as it sent you to me. ❞

❝ how do you like your bath? warm, hot, or boil-a-lobster? ❞

❝ let’s get you out of your wet things, shall we? ❞

❝ i’m just glad you’re feeling better. ❞

❝ you seem happier in yourself. ❞

❝ you have no idea what you’re meddling with! ❞

❝ they’re going to kill us, aren’t they? ❞

❝ i used to watch people having adventures… i envied them. ❞

❝ you ever heard the expression, be careful what you wish for? ❞

❝ you saved my life. thank you. ❞

❝ do you have any idea what this means? ❞

❝ there’s nothing more to tell you. ❞

❝ this was a way for me to prove how i felt. ❞

❝ murdered by pirates… heart torn out and eaten… meet ____… i can’t quite decide which sounds more fun. ❞

❝ this is the part where you tell me who you are and why you’re here. ❞

❝ that’s one lie too many, ____. ❞

❝ ever try to get blood stains out of a silk shirt? nightmare. ❞

❝ when i’m done, your own mother won’t recognize you. ❞

❝ honey, you’re wearing a bathrobe. ❞

❝ why fight to be accepted by people you don’t actually want to be like? ❞

❝ you’re being very rude. ❞

❝ reputations, you know. a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy. ❞

❝ are you mocking me? ❞

❝ i don’t trust anyone. ❞

❝ you seriously think i could kill anyone? ❞

❝ everlasting life? i imagine it would be kind of lonely. ❞

❝ you know when i said i knew little about love? well, that wasn’t true… i know a lot about love. ❞

❝ i know that love is unconditional. but i also know it can be… unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable, and… strangely easy to mistake for loathing. ❞

❝ i’m trying to say, ____, is… i think i love you. ❞

❝ my heart, it feels like my chest can barely contain it. like it doesn’t belong to me anymore. it belongs to you. ❞

❝ i warned you. save your strength. ❞

❝ i’ve been so worried about you. ❞

❝ excuse me? i think you’re in my bath. ❞

❝ you know what i want. ❞

❝ you must have a death wish. ❞

❝ are you talking to me? ❞

❝ you look awful! ❞

❝ how do i know you can be trusted? ❞

❝ we have to learn to live with each other. ❞

❝ i couldn’t have done that without you. ❞

❝ i thought i’d lost you. ❞

“I wish it could always be like this.”

“You’re always there for me.”

“The stars are the only thing that makes sense.”

“There’s more out there, you just have to be patient.”

“It doesn’t all have to be existential dread.” 

“You’re so much different when we’re alone.”

“I like it when the worlds quiet.” 

“There’s a place for us somewhere.”

“They’ll name constellations after you one day.”

“Your hearts beating so fast.”

“They don’t know what they want.”

“You don’t know what you want.”

“That’s what they’re supposed to say.”

“We really don’t know what we’re doing.”

“I miss the old you.”

“Nostalgias a trap.”

“Aliens are out there.”

“Did you hear that?”

“I really want pizza right now, think it’s open?” 

“What time is it?”

“But why would they abduct cows?”

“We’ll all be dead soon enough anyways.” 

“I wish we didn’t have to sleep.”

“What do you believe in?”

“What happens after we die?”

“Seems like a silly thing to say, don’t you think?” 

“And what’s your excuse?”

“You’ll get it together soon.”

“Sometimes I feel like I’ll never have it together.”

“It’d be better if people weren’t so afraid of their feelings.”

“You keep quiet and we both lose.”

“I wish I could save this forever.”

“When did you realize you were in love with me?”

“The rooms spinning.”

“I loved you long before you knew.”

“I’m not afraid of death, I think it’ll be peaceful.”

“The Universe is too big for that.”

“Do you think we’ve met in other lives?” 

“I’d come back to haunt you.” 

“Would you come back to haunt me?”

“What’s alternate universe you doing right now?”

“Tell me a secret.”

“Why haven’t you told anyone?” 

“I wish we knew each other sooner.”

“You’re a game changer.” 

“I’m a game changer.”

“Don’t ignore fate.” 

“Ignorance isn’t bliss.”

“What, is that a conspiracy theory?”