im assuming you meant to ask this to me, or I hope Iām assuming correctly!
this is a really hard one, because choosing just one line Iāve written that I canāt stop thinking about is not easy. i feel like, as a writer, iāve grown a lot over the years, and in growing i feel like iām more often very amazed at the things that my brain manages to come up with lmao i think i would have so many lines from TAoL (and Alliance, tbh) for this answer but itās such a long piece now i canāt imagine trying to go through that lol iāll just drop a few of my fave lines/exchanges, and try not to go to crazy lol
two lines i really love from i never knew how traumatic the words 'i' and 'you' could be when you put 'love' between us (the title of this is also something im really proud of):
Heād kept it short, afraid that if heād spent any longer on it he would break and the lie would come spilling from him like his guts.
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āI wish it were as easy as words,ā Lee said quietly, swallowing back emotion that tasted like blood. āI have only truly been in love the one time, you see.ā
I could pick a shit ton of lines from āif wanting were enough iād take you by the handā (tw for suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and past character death):
Sometimes he hates Gaara for making him smile, for making him feel anything besides miserable. He fears the burgeoning love in his heart as much as he hates it. What right does Gaara have to make him forget the pain from the loss of his sensei? What right does Lee have to love when Gai has died and will never love again?
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āIf I were going to,ā he says quietly, āyour sand could not stop me.ā
Gaaraās gourd rattles. āIs that so?ā
āAll it takes is Eight Gates,ā Lee points out. āI could turn to ash and blow away on the wind. Your sand could not stop that.ā
Gaara is suddenly close, closer than heās ever been. Heās been in Leeās personal space beforeāfar too many times and not quite enoughābut not like this. He is crowding him, hot and vicious and desperate and afraid.Ā
from Deadweight:
āDoes it make it easier? Keeping me at arm's length?ā
āNo.ā
āThen don't,ā Gaara murmured, leaning close.
this line from Thirteen Strokes is definitely a recent line that im just like overwhelmed by:
Everything was love in the chaitya. The one and only time he'd stepped foot in it as a child, he'd seen the word carved into a stone monument at the back, and traced its curling letters with fingers so tiny they fit into the grooves. It was the only time, as a child, that he'd fit perfectly into love.
this one isnāt like a line of dialogue so much as an exchange that i laugh about any time i remember it. i donāt consider myself particularly skilled with comedy, but sometimes im funny:
āOh. Uh. Right. So we're getting a nanny.ā
āNo shit,ā KankurÅ said with a laugh. āDo I gotta be on my best behavior?ā He batted his lashes and blew a kiss to Temari, snickering to himself.
Temari raised an eyebrow. āAbsolutely. I won't have you scaring off the person looking after my baby with your sexual wiles.ā
Shikamaru snorted, quickly hiding his face in his hands.
āI doubt KankurÅ will be able to seduce the nanny,ā Gaara said casually, his gaze sliding from Temari to KankurÅ.
āHey!ā KankurÅ threw a pillow at Gaara's head, which his sand promptly blocked. āI wouldn't do somethin' like that, but if I wanted to there is absolutely no way I couldn't seduce your nanny.ā
āOh, well, then I'll be sure to warn Lee about you,ā Temari said with a stifled laugh.
KankurÅ's mouth fell open. āLee? As in Rock Lee? Bowl-cut? Green suit? That Lee?ā
-Absolution, Part I
anyways, this went on much longer than i planned lol and a lot of those lines/fics were not super happy so i wanted to end on a happier note (not that Absolution itself is happy so much as that exchange is just really fantastic in my, completely biased, opinion)
