Keturah Strong

                                       Indie Keturah Strong Rp                                         Icon and Iconless roleplay                                      Historical and Turn Based                                                        Multiverse

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Tension/Dramatic 🎭 Frenemies/Fake Friends 🌸 Rivals 🐦 One-Sided Rivalry 🚦 Enemies 🍁 Betrayer/Betrayed 🛌 Unhealthy Exes € Friends To Enemies 💐 Lovers To Enemies 💦 Bully/Victim 🍭 Enemy-Of-A-Friend 🍗 Cheater/Cheated On ✤ Falling Out Of Love Ұ Dwindling Friendship

“ you can stay here, if you'd like. “

“ please don't go. “

“ why don't we stay at your place tonight? “

“ can i get you anything? “

“ let's be pathetic together. “

“ are you crying? “

“ i'm glad that you're here. “

“ you're not doing this alone. “

“ i don't have anyone anymore. “ “ you have me. “

“ are you sure [about staying]? “

“ you didn't force me. i volunteered [to be here], remember? “

“ you are what’s important right now. “

“ it’s okay, you know. if you need to vent. “

“ are you sure? it's quite heavy [of a topic]. “ “ i've got all night. “

“ tonight is about you. you can make it up to me some other time. “

“ i've got nowhere else to be. “

“ you said you needed a distraction. “ “ so... where is it? “ “ you're looking right at it. “

“ why don't you come here for a second? “

“ wanna talk about it? “

“ i can't talk about it. not tonight. “

“ you need to distract me. do something, anything. “

“ i just don't want to be alone tonight. “

“ i'm tired of thinking. let's just... make out, or something “

“ i feel like shit. “ “ you look like it, too. “ “ hey! “

“ it’s okay to cry, you know. “

“ you’re a little hurt, that’s all. “

“ anything you want me to get you? “

“ nothing a good [drink] can't fix. “

“ let’s get you cleaned up. “

“ this is you thinking rationally? “

“ you're really all i've got. “

“ c'mere. let me give you a hug. “

“ and you're absolutely sure this is what you need? “

“ you don't need this right now. “

“ how long are you gonna sit there? “ “ all night, if that's what it takes. “

“ what's it gonna take to make you smile? “

“ if you're not ready to talk about it, let's not talk about it. “

“ wanna play some mario kart? it'll give us both a reason to cry when you beat me. “

“ how about we stay like this, holding each other? “

“ i don’t know what’s wrong with me. “

“ i can’t stop crying. “ “ i'll be strong for the both of us. “

“ i didn’t know where else to go. “

“ the door's always open, you know that. “

“ i thought you were leaving town. “ “ i can't leave now. “

“ there's that smile i know and love... “

“ stay with me. “

“ hey, what’s your favorite snack? “

“ i’m not leaving. “

“ just let it out. “

“ you're stronger than you think. “

“ how about i make a quick run to the store, get you some aspirin? “

“ grab a burger or something on your way home. “

“ you were always there when i needed you. let me repay the favor. “

“ i don't mean to bother you. “ “ you're not. “

“ hey, listen to me... “

“ you’re not a burden. “

“ aren’t you tired? “ “ this isn't about me. “

“ you’re going to be okay. “

“ hey, look at me… “

“ i don’t know what to do. “ “ we’ll figure it out. “

“ you’re not alone. “

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Part one-I opened one of my 42 large moving boxes of books to a random page and wrote down the quote for Rp Meme- feel free to edit quotes or change pronoun or person

“knock knock! I just happened to have my ear pressed to this door. I might have overheard some things, and I have a suggestion!” 

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

“She was a pistol wrapped up in silk. She was a blade disguised as a girl.” 

“But how will we learn from our mistakes if we don’t make any?

“Hope is the most dangerous thing you can give someone.”

“You don’t go into battle because you’re sure of victory. You go into battle because it’s the right thing to do.”

“Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.” 

“Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.” 

“There’s not much to be afraid of when you’ve already lost everything that matters.”

“Let’s have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.” 

“Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.” 

“I want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.” 

“Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”

“We find things, just as we lose things. If you’ve lost your honor, you’ll find it again.” 

“Hope is the most dangerous thing you can give someone.”

“Love is a drop in the ocean of what I feel for her. Love is a single sun in a heaven full of stars.” 

“I’ll be your family now,“

“Girls hunger. And we’re taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn’t enough food for us all.” 

“I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.” 

“They trained me for this. It’s their own fault. They helped make their own doom.” 

“It’s weird how we have to get a little older to realize that people are just people. It should be obvious, but it’s not.” 

“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.” 

Because of me. Because I let fear make decisions for me. Because I’ve chosen to let the world push me around instead of pushing my way through the world.” 

“I am often told I defy expectations.” 

“All the time in the world is worth nothing if I don’t get to spend it with you.” 

“…Because the voices in your head that say otherwise are just fear talking. Never listen to fear.” 

“Do not accept an evil you can change.” 

“How can a man be so handsome and annoying at the same time” 

“I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to admit that sometimes they’re just assholes who screw up because they don’t expect to get caught.” 

“Apparently she’s got revenge on her mind, and it’s really annoying when people try to talk at you while you’re feeling murderish.” 

“Reasons we should get married:Because I love you.We both look good in black boots.I spent some time without you, and I didn’t like it.You make me happy.I make you laugh.I like the way you fight.You see through my masks.I really love you.You love me, too. “

“Do not cry for me, I am already dead.”

“If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.”

“Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?” 

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.” 

“ I couldn’t find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.” 

“Yeah, but broken isn’t the same as unfixable.” 

“I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we’d choose anyway.” 

“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.” 

“Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am.” 

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.” 

“The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”

“We want to prove things, in life, more than we want to disprove them. We want to believe.” 

   ❝   𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝑳𝑰𝑨𝑹. ❞

so i started listening to music, and reading poems, and my vibes were very shippy for a while, and then my sims got married so obviously that didn’t help??? anyway, none of these are written by me, aside from the third one. i saw them on insta or i read them in lyrics or smth, they’re incredibly romantic, very eloquent and passionate and sincere, so i hope you shippy angels like them!! as always, please DO NOT ADD ANY MORE PROMPTS TO THIS LIST!!! i will make more!! i am a simp!! 

“ you are half my soul. “

“ i wish i could tell you what you are to me. “

“ you say you’re dangerous. that you destroy everything you touch. so destroy me. ruin me. tear me apart, and let me love you all the same. “

“ our “almost” will always haunt me. “

“ only love can hurt like this. “

“ i just want you to be happy. if that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody… i just want you to be happy. “

“ i love you. i feel as though we were never strangers, you and i, not even for a moment. “

“ if anyone else were to kiss me, all they would taste is your name. “

“ the stars will go out before i forget you. “

“ i will love you if i never see you again, and i will love you if i see you every day. “

“ if i loved you less, i might be able to talk about it more. “

“ there’s nothing i wouldn’t do for you. “

“ i just realized i don’t care if they’re the most perfect person in the world. they’re not you. “

“ you know how i feel about you… you’ve always known. “

“ i forget every beauty in the universe, the moment you smile. “

“ i say it all the time, i just say it very very quietly. i tell you when you’re in another room, or right after we hang up the phone. i say it after you shut the door behind you. i say it in my head every time you look at me. i love you. of course i love you. i never stopped. “

“ i feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. maybe we’re from the same star. “

“ my only hope is that one day i can love myself as much as i love you. “

“ in the space, the pause, between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home in me. “ 

“ i loved the way you touched me with your eyes and felt me with mine. “

“ you’ve always seen me. and i think that’s all that anyone wants. seeing someone. really seeing someone. that’s love. “

“ you kissed my cheek. and then i knew, that you could be homesick for people, too. “

“ all i’ve known are temporary people, the leaving and the hoping, the begging someone to stay… so forgive me if i break apart when you say the word “forever”. “

“ sometimes i wonder if love is worth fighting for. and then i look at you and i’m ready for war. “

“ my darling, you will never be unloved by me. you are too well entangled in my soul. “

“ i climb into my bathtub the same way i’ll keep loving you; until my skin is wrinkled. “

“ and if i could ever ask for one more blessing in this life of mine, i’d pray for a thousand years to see you one more time. “

“ when i am near you, i finally know how it feels to breathe without worry, without caution. i just feel safe with you… “

“ you kissed me goodbye, but you never left. i’ve been seeing you every time i close my eyes. “

“ what cloud did you fall from? because you taste like stardust and eternity. “

“ all i know is, when i think of you, i feel like singing. and i feel like i could run miles to find you. all i’m sure of is, i love you, entirely as you are. “

“ i will never regret us, because you taught me i could love and be loved without the fear of loss. “

“ i wanna spend the rest of my sunsets with you. “

“ let’s do something crazy. like grow old together. let’s show everyone how to do forever. “

“ and i’m not afraid to love you. only afraid my love won’t be enough. “

“ the universe has existed for billions of years, and by chance, we ended up living at the same time. that counts for something. “

“ the sky exploded into a thousand moonbeams dazzling with stars, and as you stared quietly above, i couldn’t help but stare at you, falling in love. “

“ there is a little bit of you in all the words i write. maybe you’re the language of love my heart speaks. “

“ you deserve someone who isn’t okay with losing you. “

“ they named a black hole after you, and i’d be lying if i said you weren’t pulling me in. “

“ i thought i knew what love was, until i felt your arms around me, and realized what it truly was. “

“So he must live.“

“Well, I don’t want you to die.”

“I won’t live like this. I’d rather die.”

“I love you so much, so incredibly much.”

“I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.”

“You can’t love her as I do. No one could.“

“You are human. Never think you are not.”

“Is it because I’m better-looking than you?“

“Who ever said we were owed happiness?“

“He’s going to kill someone. Or get us killed.“

“We are all the pieces of what we remember.”

“No one would blame you. He’s very annoying.”

“Every heart has its own melody, you know mine.“

“I can still hear her sometimes, calling out for me.“

“If there is a life after this one, let me meet you in it.”

“What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?“

“They say you cannot love two people equally at once.”

“I forget when you’re close to me, I forget who you are.“

“I want more than that. You made me want more than that.”

“And I will not be that person. I will not profit from his death.“

“When (name) says ‘enterprising’, he means 'morally deficient’.”

“Goodness — real goodness — has its own sort of cruelty to it.“

“If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love… then, you are human.”

“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read.“

“And I trust you. I don’t know why — I’ve just met you — but I do.”

“I was hoping for something more akin to indifference? Tolerance?“

“The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

“I would never let anyone touch a hair on your head. You know that, right?”

“Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic.“

“It is the only way any of this can ever mean anything. Otherwise it is only — “

“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.“

“You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so.“

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.“

“Everyone has something they can’t live without. I’ll find out what it is for you, never fear.”

“I was looking for the opposite, really… something that might put an end to being in love.”

“All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.“

“I’d have to be the worst sort of person to think what I’m thinking right now. But I am thinking it.“

“You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn your back on what you created.“

“Because it will be as if I were waiting for him to die, or took some joy in his death, if it let me have her.“

“Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.”

“Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is?”

“Well, I don’t want you to die. I don’t know why I feel it so strongly — I’ve just met you — but I don’t want you to die.”

“You said I am a good man. But I am not that good a man. And I am–I am catastrophically in love with you.”

“Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice.”

“We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.“

“I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain.”

- Cami is canonically bisexual just as the lovely actress who portrayed her- Leah Pipes-some quotes are slightly edited for rp purposes. feel free to change pronouns as well

“You are the architect of your own unhappiness.”

“Booze and board games… sounds like heaven.”

“You have lived long enough to never tell a woman that she looks tired.”

“Oh shut up, I am so mad at you that I can hardly speak.”

“Because against every ounce of my better judgement and my sanity and my common sense, turns out I have complicated feelings for a monster.”

“Love will make you strong. It will make you the man that I know you want to be, and you have to remember that because I won’t be here to remind you.”

“It never gets old for you guys. your like a dog with a bone.”

“I came through the front door. You appeared through the window like a creeper.”

“is there anyone not plotting your downfall? I doubt you would trust your own reflection.”

“Excuse me, if I have to drink something to get through the killing.”

“I know why I am here. For someone to hear your side.”

“So be a good little boy and get back into bed.”

“Don’t do that crooked smile thing. i haven’t seen you for months and then you show up..”

“I realized that all my saddness was swallowing me up… and I couldn’t let them.”

“Is she right? Do you see me as some fragil thing to keep behind glass?”

“Bartender with a grad degree in therapy-  I know a bit of an oxymoron.”

“somethings not right. I just can’t figure it out.”

“I don’t know who you are, but if you have a problem with me. Let them go.”

“You are such a coward. This isn’t about me.”

“This is my time. You steal it from me.”

“I am beginning to think your sister is a bitch.”

“You are to scared to trust.”

“Has it ever occured to you that I am less interested in fixing your problems than I am at swallowing my own.”

“This is not about you. This is about me. And who I am.”

“You are not annoyed me. you are angry at yourself for getting us into a mess.”

“But today you saved someone who doesn’t mean a thing to you, why?”

“We are called therapists these days. And you could do with some couch time.”

“All of your violence is pointless.”

“what if someday his demons become mine too.”

“Who is this dirt bag eyeing me like a lack of lamb? Old friend?”

“I would step in front of a bus before I let your mother control my body.”

“I really don’t have another tomorrow do I?”

“I wanted to be brave, I wanted to handle this with dignity, but I can’t. I don’t want to go, I’m so scared.”

 “I guess that makes me immortal.” 

“You won’t kill me while the sun is still out.”

My mom said beer wasn’t lady like so I learned to love it as an act of rebellion”

“I need to feel that pain. Without it, I feel broken. Empty. Like there is someone to blame and I’m letting them get away with it”

“No one can control you unless you let them.”

“You don’t get to delete the details that annoy you. If you love something you have to accept the good with the bad.”

“Maybe we just do the best we can and never give up.”

“My sanity is not a joke.”

Oh goodie, the mystical knife of ludicrous torment. Glad that’s still around.“

“Oh than you served your purpose don’t let me hold you up.”

“It sounds like booze.. do we have anymore booze?”

“Some people don’t want to be saved.”

“I always imagined that having a woman’s mouth on my kneck would be a lot more erotic.”

“Look at you repeating the cycles of destructions again.”

“This is my time. You steal it from you.”

“You are a scared little kid convinced he will be tossed aside the second he isn’t needed.”

“Don’t patronize me.”

“He’s charming, sexy, confident, incredibly hot. Let’s be honest, he’s a bad guy just like you.”

“Would a laptop kill you?”

“No one is taking that away from me.”

“No I am just getting started.”

“I don’t think you want to hurt me. See he is the most ruthless man in all of history- and he kind of likes me.”

“I don’t know how but I will undo whatever the hell you have done to me.”

“You know I have a black belt in karate.”

“I think I am a pretty good drunk.”

"I know your heart. You’re so much better than this.”

Because love will make you strong. It will make you the man I know you want to be. And you’re going to have to remember that.. because I won’t be here to remind you.”

“whoever is out there, make yourself known or I will gouge out your eyes.”

“Every artist has a story you know. He’s angry. Dark. Doesn’t feel safe and doesn’t know what to do about it. He wishes he can control his demons instead of having his demons control him. He’s lost. Alone. Or…maybe he just drank too much tonight. Sorry, overzealous psych major.”

“Oh lovely, than instead of hating you darkness, she will become a monster herself by example.”

“I came here because you need me. You needed me to tell you that this is not you.”

“I know you are hurt, but please listen to me, you are better than this.”

“ Am I supposed to fear you too?”

“There is more to life than the pain that they made you feel.”

“There are good things and you need to see that too.”

“If it not for that, someone else would be standing here.”

We were bonded our whole lives. And I know… know he didn’t just snap. And I need to know who did this, and I need to make this right. No, no don’t take this away from me.”

“I was never naive enough to think that I was your light, but there is light in you. All that anger, the cycle of abuse that your father began, you can end it. You have to, so you can be the light for your little girl. “

“You know, sometimes I ask myself why I let people like him into my life. I have this destructive pattern. I’m always drawn to the bad boys. Maybe deep down, I feel like that’s what I deserve.”

“This is a city of death, fires, floods. To say nothing of the violence we do to each other. We may laissez les bon temps rouler, but really we’ve turned life into one big party to distract ourselves from a single, unavoidable truth: We’re all going to die.”

“I took a beer bottle and smashed it in his face.”

People are not awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad, makes them snap. There are always signs. Symptoms before someone has a psychotic break.”

(Feel free to edit like change it to first person or the gender)

“You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.”

“Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”

“You make me love you, and that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do.”

“Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens.”

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I’ll love you then.”

“I am catastrophically in love with you.”

“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

"I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.”

“I know you aren’t perfect. But it’s a person’s imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”

“The things is, you don’t forfeit your whole world to prove your feelings to someone. You bring your worlds together. You get more world, not less.”

“Turns out there’s a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that’s exactly how it feels. There’s no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone’s going to be there to catch you.”

“He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.”

“Love didn’t make you weak, it made you stronger.”

“And next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”

If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t

“Look at me. I choose you over everyone.”

“I don’t want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you.“

"My heart made its choice, and it chose you.”

“Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It’s a person. And we’re finally home.”

You look like my dream come true.’“

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”

“Love is when your weirdness matches up with someone else’s weirdness.”

“I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.”

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s the part of the risk. I don’t want to be scared anymore.”

"I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.”

“Meeting your soulmate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before.”

“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”

“I don’t want the world, I want you.”

“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.”

“The only thing that matters to me with you are the forevers.”

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away.”

“I’m not trying to overthink things. I’m trying to be less careful. But you have to be your heart’s own goalie.”

“If we had our entire lives ahead of us I bet you’d get tired of me telling you how much I love you because I’m positive that’s the path we were heading on. But because we’re about to die, I want to say it as many times as I want—I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.”

My preference is simple—you.”

“"He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.“

“As much as I had wanted a love story out of a movie, I know now that movies can only hope to to capture this kind of love.”

“The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat — soft and persistent, underlying everything.”

“A thousand electric cars could run on how you feel when you know that the person you like likes you back. It feels incredible. Like it shouldn’t be possible. Of all the happy coincidences to ever exist, it’s one of the happiest.”

. "It struck me as kind of crazy, kind of amazing, that one person could make me feel so serene just by being.”

“I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life - whatever length - happy, by spending it with you.”

“You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. And you don’t even know it. You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.“

“I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”

“Do you really have any idea how important you are to me? Any concept at all of how much I love you?”

“Nothing before you counts,and I can’t even imagine an after

"In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.”

“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

“In her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

“No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let’s start with forever.”

## for best friends or for lovers, if you pick the right ones

“you’re so dumb.” [insert fond smile here]

“you could punch me in the face and i would still want you ngl.”

“are you cold? here you go. come here.”

“you have stars in your eyes. i like looking at it.”

“i trust you. it’s okay.”

“you’re driving me crazy here.”

“wherever you want to go, i promise i’ll be with you every step of the way.”

“i’ll be damned if i don’t make you smile at least once today.”

“...please stay.”

“hey…” [hesitates] “be safe, alright?”

“i’ve been worried sick! where the hell were you!?”

“so what? you’re still my [name], idiot. i don’t care about what they say!”

“let me take care of you today. don’t do anything in return, just let me.”

[cups person b’s cheeks] “you are a menace and you almost died back there if it wasn’t for me.”

“how did you even get sick? you look ugly. come here.”

“i will never not think about you.”

“you… you don’t even have to love me back, you know?”

“i’m— i’m happy when you’re here. i’m happy.”

“this—” [points at their chest] “—this belongs to you. always.”

feel free to change pronouns or wording for rp purposes. A book series written by Sabaa Tahir

“Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.” 

“As long as there is life, there is hope.”

“Don’t you see? So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.” 

“Don’t make vows when you don’t know the cost.”

“You are an ember in the ashes. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.” 

“All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly.” 

“This is no band of thieves. It’s the Resistance.” 

“Life isn’t scary enough for you, girl?” 

“We never had much, but whatever we did have was made with love, which I now know transforms simple fare into a feast.” 

“Once, I’d have wanted that. I’d have wanted someone to tell me what to do, to fix everything. Once, I’d have wanted to be saved.” 

“Your fear is good. It makes your story real.” 

“Just because he’s a good leader doesn’t mean he’s a good person.” 

“I’d rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.” 

“You are full. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.” 

“I don’t need to believe in the supernatural, not when there’s worse that roams the night.”

“Life is hard enough without having to avoid entire rooms in my own head.” 

“Duty first, unto death.”

“They took our souls a long time ago,”

“Also, he’s shorter than me. Considerably shorter. Half a foot, at least.”

“Slavers catch lies the way spiders catch flies.”

“I recognize the smell—his smell—spice and rain.” 

“The thought appears in my head, but I hardly know what I means.”

“You will be chained to the darkness within yourself as surely as if chained to the walls of a prison cell.” 

“So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful.”

“Seeing the enemy as human. A general’s ultimate nightmare.” 

“Safety is an illusion never to trust.” 

“Come on, I want to add. But doing so would be like tattooing “I am up to no good” on my forehead.” 

“I swear it to the skies, to the stars. You’ll pay.” 

“But he never seemed to focus on what could turn out wrong. He only ever thought about how things could turn out right.” 

“Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It’s damaged, but it’s there. Don’t let them take it from you”

“The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.” 

“Nan always said that as long as there is life, there is hope.”

“In the night, your loneliness crushes you, as if the sky itself has swooped down to smother you in its cold arms.”

“You’ll never forget them, not even after years. But one day, you’ll go a whole minute without feeling the pain. Then an hour. A day. That’s all you can ask for, really.” 

“Your kind doesn’t need to read.” 

“I realize in that moment that I cannot be afraid of something if there’s no chance it could ever occur.” 

“But I’m not strong. I’m weak, and I’m sick of pretending I’m not.” 

“All evil here. Monsters. Little monsters and then big ones.” 

“So many bleeding, stupid questions. Do girls think like this all the time? No wonder they’re so confusing.” 

“You really should run, You’re just going to die.” 

“It will get better. You’ll never forget them, not even after years. But one day, you’ll go a whole minute without feeling the pain. Then an hour. A day. That’s all you can ask for, really.”

“The best lies come from the truth.” 

“I’m too hot to care.” 

“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after.”

“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”

“You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”

“Look at me, do not make me face this alone.”

“I don’t need to believe in the supernatural. Not when there’s worse that roams that night” 

“Beauty’s a curse when one lives among men”

“Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us. 

This should be interesting” 

“Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But her dying because I didn’t find a way to get her back on time—that’s permanent.” 

“I do not doubt, I do not hesitate. I am the Lioness’s daughter, and I have the Lioness’s strength.” 

“I realize that some naiive sliver of me hoped that he was better than this. Not good, necessarily. Just not evil.” 

“She’s still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I’m still wandering lost in my battlefield.” 

“My brother is still fighting, and his screams slice right through me. I know then that I will hear them over and over again, echoing in every hour of every day until I am dead or I make it right. I know it.” 

“She has no idea how pretty she is—or what kind of problems her beauty will cause for her at a place like Blackcliff. The wind pulls at her hair again, and I catch her scent—like fruit and sugar.” 

“Shadows will bloom in your heart, and you will become everything you hate.”

“I throw her over my shoulder” 

“When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible, to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.” 

The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.”

“She feels out the melody the way a blind man feels his way forward in an unfamiliar room.” 

“You killed my mother, who had a lion’s heart, and my sister, who laughed like the rain, and my father, who captured truth with a few strokes of a pen.

“There will be so much more in between. So much uncertainty. I don’t know if we’ll survive the catacombs, let alone the rest of it. But it doesn’t matter. For now, these steps are enough. These first few precious steps into darkness. Into the unknown. Into freedom.” 

“I look up at the stars hanging low in a sky that makes me think I’m seeing the infinite. But beneath their cold gaze, I feel small. All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly.”

“There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that’s a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It’s damaged but it’s there. Don’t let them take it from you.”