#* m.

the myth of the barrel.

bonus:

“Their golden age was a cancer.”

“Let us speak of the terrible beauty of becoming ourselves.”

“And she cut her way between moons through green fire and joyous screams.”

“The world is my court, wherever there is war.”

“I killed my sister today.”

“I think joy and sorrow will be the same thing soon. Like love and death.”

“We inhale the smoke of their burning.”

“They are huge, huge, and they burn with furious power.”

“We must obey our natures. We must be long-sighted, and cunning, and strong.”

“Fight hard. We stop them here, or see our galaxy devoured.”

“I will learn all the secrets of our destiny.”

“This is my law. I carve it thus, in ruin.”

“The universe is run by extinction, by extermination, by gamma-ray bursts burning up a thousand garden worlds, by howling singularities eating up infant suns.”

“In his fist he’s got a black sun and he holds me by the throat and goes to tip the black sun inside me.”

“Sometimes I wonder if I’m a nihilist. I don’t do much except break things.

“They don’t believe in anything but death.”

“The only way to make something good is to make something that can’t be broken. And the only way to do that is to try to break everything.”

“I’m glad I learned that the universe runs on death. It’s more beautiful to know.”

“When he looks upon you, you feel that you may vanish if he looks away.”

“This love is war.”

“Your life will be a battle too.”

“Will we have songs instead of swords?”

“You will never be what I am.”

“What have you done with my people? What have you done?”

“If it kills you, then you deserve to die.”

“I’d shut them all in cells.”

“The universe offers only one choice and it is between ruthlessness and extinction.”

“Let me be what I am because to be anything else would be fatal.”

“Far better to have a savage universe with a happy end than a happy universe with no hope.”

“I have died many times but these deaths were only temporary.”

“We aren’t meant to be the world’s prey.”

“We weren’t born to live and die in the dark.”

“We have a better destiny.”

“This entire world is deadly to us.”

“Alone I must act to save my kingdom.”

“We have secrets to hunt, storm-lit realms to explore, and great armies to raise.”

“My father died afraid.”

“Somehow she seems to manufacture good luck by sheer will.”

“It’s dead but it still speaks to me.”

“Listen closely, oh vengeance mine…”

“I desire to cut through the flank of the world and find its beating heart.”

“There’s something down here. Something secret.”

“What instinct draws you away from high hope?”

“For eons I have watched you struggle, clinging to the sharp edge of survival.”

“You were my treasure, my proof against despair.”

“Existence is the struggle to exist.”

“If that’s the way the world’s supposed to be, I won’t have it!”

“I’ll kill anything in the way!”

“I exist as hungry ruin.”

“It is by my will alone that you survive.”

“Let my flesh be your sacrament.”

“We’ve had enough of this dismal place. Haven’t you?”

“But you must know that reclaiming your home is not enough.”

“You love to conquer, don’t you?”

“Reality is a fine flesh. Let us feast of it.”

“Your war is divine work.”

“You’re fighting the hypocritical puppets of a cosmic parasite. Avenge your ancestors.”

“If we cannot defeat their strengths, we will infect their weaknesses.”

“Small minds might call it magic.”

“Observe how the universe shrinks from you in terror. “