NO REDEMPTION

❛ Are you a genius or something? ❜

❛ Need you to work me some magic here. ❜

❛ I thought I was calling the Office of Supreme Genius. ❜

❛ Nietzsche once said, “When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.” ❜

❛ You can do what you want to do.  ❜

❛ You can choose teaching her that, yes, there are monsters and it is okay to be afraid of them, but it is not okay to let them win. And it is not okay to be one. ❜

❛ Do you believe in heaven? ❜

❛ Jean Racine said, “A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.” ❜

❛ I’m thankful for my years spent with this family, for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. ❜

❛ This isn’t what I want, but I’ll take the high road. ❜

❛ Maybe it’s because I look at everything as a lesson, or because I don’t want to walk around angry…or maybe it’s because I finally understand.  ❜

❛ There are things we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go. ❜

❛ "We all wear masks, and the times comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin.“ ❜

❛ I believe humanity was born from conflict. ❜

❛ Maybe that’s why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. ❜

❛ At some point, all of us are forced to face the truth. ❜

❛ We are each on our own journey. ❜

❛ Each of us are on our very own adventure, encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go. ❜

❛ Those choices will stretch us and test us and push us to our limit, and our adventure will make us stronger than we ever knew we could be. ❜

– So I really liked the original meme here, so much that I ended up buying the poet’s book Crush to read. 

Inspiration hit and here are 79 lines, categorized by poem. Feel free to change pronouns and any names!

SCHEHERAZADE

❝Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.❞ ❝Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means we’re inconsolable.❞ ❝Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.❞ ❝Tell me we’ll never get used to it.❞

DIRTY VALENTINE

❝There’s a part in the movie where you can see right through the acting, where you can tell that I’m about to burst into tears.❞ ❝I swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth.❞ ❝You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.❞ ❝I’m sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.❞

LITTLE BEAST

❝I like him and I want to be like him, my hands no longer an afterthought.❞ ❝Someone once told me than explaining is an admission of failure.❞ ❝I’m sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.❞ ❝History repeats itself.❞ ❝There are many names in history but none of them are ours.❞ ❝You could drown in those eyes, I said.❞ ❝But damn if there isn’t anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills.❞ ❝What would you like? I’d like my money’s worth.❞ ❝Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.❞     ❝I couldn’t get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.❞

SEASIDE IMPROVISATION

❝Tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.❞ ❝You do the math, you expect the trouble.❞ ❝Draw a circle with a piece of chalk. Imagine standing in a constant cone of light. Imagine surrender. Imagine being useless.❞ ❝A stone on the path means the tea’s not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody’s angry.❞ ❝The stone inside you still hasn’t hit bottom.❞

THE TORN-UP ROAD

❝There is no way to make this story interesting.❞ ❝I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything, without having to say that I ran out into the street to prove something.❞ ❝Tell me we’re dead and I’ll love you even more.❞ ❝And he knew it wasn’t going to be okay, and he told me it wasn’t going to be okay.❞ ❝But the minutes don’t stop.❞ ❝And words, little words, words too small for any hope or promise, not really soothing but soothing nonetheless.❞

LITANY IN WHICH CERTAIN THINGS ARE CROSSED OUT

❝You will be alone always and then you will die.❞ ❝So maybe I wanted to give you something more than a catalog of non-definitive acts, something other than the desperation.❞ ❝I’m sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing.❞ ❝You want a better story. Who wouldn’t?❞ ❝I can tell you already think I’m the dragon, that would be so like me, but I’m not. I’m not the dragon. I’m not the princess either.❞ ❝Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future.❞ ❝And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.❞ ❝Shut up. I’m getting to it.❞ ❝For a while I thought I was the dragon.❞ ❝Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal.❞ ❝You still get to be the hero.❞ ❝What more do you want?❞ ❝Are you there, sweetheart? Do you know me?❞ ❝Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.❞ ❝There is something underneath the floorboards.❞ ❝I arrived in the city and you met me at the station, smiling in a way that made me frightened.❞ ❝This doesn’t look that much different from home.❞ ❝Love, for you, is more than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying.❞ ❝Okay, if you’re so great, you do it–❞ ❝Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.❞ ❝I have told you where I’m coming from, so put it together.❞ ❝When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.❞

A PRIMER FOR THE SMALL WEIRD LOVES

❝And you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn’t do.❞ ❝Because you are weak and hollow and it doesn’t matter anymore.❞ ❝And the boy who loves you the wrong way is filthy.❞

UNFINISHED DUET

❝He wants to be tender and merciful.❞ ❝He meaning you.❞ ❝Do you love yourself?❞ ❝I don’t have to answer that.❞ ❝It should matter.❞

I HAD A DREAM ABOUT YOU

❝I don’t think I can take this much longer.❞ ❝In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.❞ ❝In these dreams it’s always you: the boy in the sweatshirt, the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me from jumping off the bridge.❞ ❝Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.❞ ❝I borrowed your shoes and didn’t put them away.❞ ❝You didn’t show up. I kept waiting.❞

STRAW HOUSE, STRAW DOG

❝You have a cold cold smile.❞ ❝Watch me, just watch me.❞ ❝I swallowed crushed ice pretending it was glass.❞ ❝I don’t really blame you for being dead but you can’t have your sweater back.❞ ❝You can sleep now, you said. You said that. I had a dream where you said that. Thanks for saying that. You weren’t supposed to.❞

PLANET OF LOVE

❝And you play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.❞

WISHBONE

episode 4.   trigger warning for murder.

❛  i’m sorry to startle you.  ❜

❛  you think this might help?  ❜

❛  what do you say we get down to brass tacks?  ❜

❛  you can’t live with them.  ❜

❛  the whole thing is fucking chaos.  ❜

❛  no more drama.  ❜

❛  you had a gun, why not use it?  ❜

❛  it’s a weird feeling.  ❜

❛  you don’t expect us to buy your mercy horseshit.  ❜

❛  throat’s a little dry.  ❜

❛  we just need to extract what’s useful and discard the rest.  ❜

❛  what the fuck’s the matter with you?  ❜

❛  you got a lot going on. it’s a lot of pressure.  ❜

❛  you could’ve been killed, and i didn’t see it coming.  ❜

❛  you have no idea what i’m trying to say, do you?  ❜

❛  isn’t that just life?  ❜

❛  what else is a criminal except someone who just can’t function in society?  ❜

❛  nobody wanted me, man. nobody on this earth ever wanted me.  ❜

❛  put that on your fucking tape.  ❜

❛  the three pillars of criminal investigation: what, why, who.  ❜

❛  it’s not a contest or a competition. we’re all on the same side.  ❜

❛  i’m not trying to make you feel bad. maybe a little.  ❜

❛  a killer will usually choose someone smaller and weaker than himself.  ❜

❛  you need to be with family at times like this.  ❜

❛  i got a bit of a record, all right?  ❜

❛  when you’re married, it’s a contract.  ❜

❛  resentment builds on both sides. a thousand tiny cuts.  ❜

❛  follow your own logic.  ❜

❛  we can’t end crime, no matter what we do.  ❜

❛  should i be jealous?  ❜

❛  do you plan on getting married? having kids, the whole thing?  ❜

❛  are you proposing?  ❜