You are my affliction...
30 writing prompts compiled from Robert Eggers' Nosferatu:
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Image: Hans Schwarz, Death and the Maiden, boxwood carving, c. 1520.
"...if we are to tame darkness, we must first face that it exists."
"Does evil come from within us, or from beyond?"
"Come to me..."
"I have felt you...crawling like a serpent in my body."
"I am an appetite, nothing more."
"There is a devil in this world, and I have met him."
"...I had never been so happy as that moment, as I held hands with Death."
"You awakened me from an eternity of darkness..."
"Soon, I will no longer be a shadow to you."
"You are not for the living. You are not for human kind."
"Your passion is bound to me."
"...I cannot be sated without you."
"I abhor you."
"Do you ever feel at times as if you're not a person?"
"...my dreams grow darker."
"Thank you for loving me."
"You cannot love."
"...what is this insufferable darkness?"
"He is my shame; he is my melancholy."
"Our love was supposed to be sacred!"
"...it was you who gave me the courage to be free of my shame."
"I'm only glad you've become yourself again."
"Did you not think of me...?"
"I brought this evil upon us."
"We must know evil to be able to destroy it."
"You deceive yourself."
"Soon, our flesh shall embrace, and we shall be as one."
"...you could never please me as he could."
"Remember how once we were—a moment."
"Love is inferior to you."
