🌟- For a secret wish or desire of theirs

for as disillusioned with love as solomon is, he would at some point like to settle down good and proper. he doesn’t mind the bachelor’s life but it’d be nice, one day, to have someone. have someone good, someone who he suits and wasn’t just someone he tied himself to on impulse, driven by blinded love and the want to do the right thing. he doesn’t think about it much but it’s there, somewhere. simmering far below the surface, where it’s too dark to really see. he’s keeping it there for now - for the forseeable future, too. got too much on with his life as it is, but it’s there. 

🏹- For a talent they wish they had

“a talent i wish i had, eh? guess stickin’ with the languages thing might’a been nice. would be good to speak a different one - i ain’t really got the brains or the ear to pick it all up now, but would’a been nice to learn. my french lessons didn’t stick - ain’t used ‘em since my bloody honeymoon. i would like to be one of those people, though. the ones that speak eight different languages easy as bloody breathin’. s’real useful, that. too bad i ain’t got the language gift. i do know how t’call someone a ‘cunt’ in italian, though.”

“My parents. Technically they don’t exist now; now, they’re pretty dead in the ground, but I wish they hadn’t existed at all. The pain and suffering that comes with living and all that lovely shit. I didn’t ask to be born in this shit hole of a life, so yeah, I wish they weren’t even around to bring me into this life.”

“Um — well, I do have a well-worn copy of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that I got when I was a kid. I think I’ve read it over fifty times just growing up. The pages are falling out and the spine is basically non-existent, but it just brings me back to being a kid when I open it. I’ve gotten a newer copies from families, friends… but I hold onto this one. I keep it in my nightstand.”

“no fuckin’ clue. probably wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance - i’m a bit soft, me. i’d probably be the first to snuff it.”