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Sofrendo por ela

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Querendo te ter

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Só querendo a companhia dela

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Cansei de correr atrás

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Nunca se importou demais

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Não quero mais te ver

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Here is an assortment of quotes to be used as starters or ask memes, all taken from the second season of the Turkish period drama Magnificent Century: Kösem. I translated all of them and English isn’t my first language, so I apologize in advance for any mistakes. Adapt them as you wish! Part 1.

“You and the way you look at me give me hope. It reminds me that I’m alive.”

“I came here to remind myself I’m alive, but I’ve just realized I am no different from a dead person.”

“Sometimes humans… we are prisoners in this world.”

“If you want to turn this into a war, then we will use our most powerful weapon. We’ll take our wisdom and use it against you.”

“I don’t need anyone’s protection, so don’t waste your energy.”

“We both knew the consequences, knew it was forbidden… but, trust me, I do not regret it.”

“If I must die, then may it be you who takes my life.”

“Obedience is not earned through executions!”

“I don’t recognize you. It is as if your soul has frozen.”

“While you insist on fighting the ‘oppressors’, you have become one of them.”

“Ever since you’ve reachen the top of the mountain you’ve forgotten a few things: it has snow, thunder and freezing winds; spring is never close and the only way of going back down is falling.”

“Tonight, while the city celebrates, we shall be crying.”

“Rather than dying in foreign lands, I want to die in my land, my home.”

“I have no strength left, because I couldn’t be as cruel as them and I could never be.”

“It turns out your biggest enemy is yourself, and you’ve already lost this battle long ago.”

“I seek loyalty from my subjects, not flattery.”

“If being a ruler means being like you, I don’t ever want to become one.”

“Every prince sees the throne as their natural right; it’s in their nature.”

“Ambition is certainly something to be feared.”

“I’ve already changed the order and there’s no coming back!”

“Instead of learning from the past you’d rather blame me.”

“If it is my destiny, may I die for your cause. Know that, for me, this would be the sweetest death.”

“Two servants can share in their chores, but two rulers cannot coexist in the same world.”

“Those who die go to a place of happiness and peace, while those who remain alive are trapped in pain and sorrow.”

“This is the price of being by my side… of being loyal to me… of loving me.”

“Not even a million candles could shine as bright as the fire in your soul.”

“For years I’ve hidden my feelings for you, kept them secret because it was forbidden, impossible, but now…”

“Although I know I’ll lose my head, I’m not ashamed of saying the truth.”

“When we were kids this was our playground, now it’s our prison.”

“Whenever my heart is hurting you’re the only one who notices it.”

“I feel as if I were surrounded by blood and I were dying.”

“I wish to be like him… merciful, just.”

“The earth is frozen. It can’t stand yet another tomb.”

“They saw you as a normal person, but you had a thousand worlds inside you.”

“If I were to cry my eyes would pour storms, but it’s better that my heart bleeds in secret.”

“What a pity that the eyes that once smiled are now shedding thousands of tears.”

“You are not the type to lose and accept defeat. It’s not in your nature.”

“I have personally seen you getting back up after storms, fire and death. You always get back up.”

“No darkness could put off your light. Don’t surrender.”

“There is no cure for the loss of your loved ones; no medicine can heal this pain.”

“I am back on my feet, like always, because I have no other choice.”

“Fear goes hand in hand with courage. Whenever you’re afraid, use it as your shield.”

“No shield is invincible as long as who strikes it doesn’t doubt their own stregth.”

“Open your eyes. This bloodshed is your fault!”

“I don’t want to sit in this blood-bathed throne!”

“How can one get bored of a dream?”

“I have never in my life done something I didn’t think was right. Never.”

“No one else saw it, no one knew, but I saw your wings.”

“You had a spirit just like mine: brave, powerful, that would bow to no one nor do anything it didn’t want to. This is what united us, but also what drew us apart.”

“Don’t think your existence ends upon death. Your body dies, but the soul God gave you lives.”

“No secret remains hidden, and one day this secret of yours will be the reason of your death.”

“Renouncing you isn’t so easy.”

“Your era is over, now mine begins.”

“You are the only one who understands me, the medicine to my soul.”

“I know that, if you want to be the most powerful tomorrow, you must destroy whoever is the most powerful today.”

“Whoever tries to drown you will end up drowning themselves.”

“This is not about my desires but about your safety.”

“You are my happiness,your presence is. I want nothing more than to be by your side.”

“Would you read me a book? I close my eyes while you read and imagine myself in its world, what do you think?”

“Every day you ignore and hate me you’re killing me.”

“Since you’ve chosen to be enemies with me, I’ll show you what being my enemy means.”“Is this how dark your heart has become?”

“Can a person ever forget the ones they love?”

“Accept that you’ve underestimated me and this will cost you greatly.”

“As usual your arrogance has blinded you.”

“Don’t you realize you are throwing your own self into the fire?”

“Innocence was the first thing I lost when I rose to power.”

“All that once was glorious and magnificent, destiny can turn into a bloody, disastrous ending.”

“You only wanted to protect them, and the only way to achieve it was by making yourself powerful. But this thing you call power has ruined all of their lives.”

“You loved the power and power poisoned you.”

“Power poisoned and blinded you, and you ended up without your conscience, without your mercy and without your innocence.”

“Innocence was your real weapon. Your shield and your sword.”

“Now… you are a tyrant. A murderer.”

“This throne is covered in blood, you’re mistaken if you think you’ll find peace sitting in it.”

“I didn’t come to try and change your mind, I came to be by your side.”

“I’m willing to accept whatever comes from you. Your rage, your favour, I happily accept everything.”

“I’ve understood that you are in my path. You are my fate.”

“Years ago the strings of fate tied me to you so tightly that only death can make us part.”

“My conscience will be at rest, but what about yours?”

“Perhaps this is your punishment. They do say all tyrants die alone.”

“I was alone in my hardest moments! There was no one by my side!”