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❛ their whole nature fails to persuade ❜ ❛ they have never remained silence about any of their good deeds ❜ ❛ he always carries a biscuit for cerberus ❜ ❛ either we have no dreams or our dreams are interesting ❜ ❛ let those who have ears, hear ❜ ❛ before the effect one believes in different causes than one does afterward ❜ ❛ anyone with a very loud voice is almost incapable of thinking subtleties ❜ ❛ the purpose of punishment is to improve those who punish ❜ ❛ the sacrificial animal does not share the spectators’ ideas about sacrifice ❜ ❛ our eyes are also intended for hearing ❜ ❛ the mistrustful speak empathetically ❜ ❛ how can one constantly admire without constantly feeling contempt? ❜ ❛ is that not a blasphemy against your ideal? ❜ ❛ in applause there is always a kind of noise ❜ ❛ they are running away from people ❜ ❛ one hears only those questions for which one is able to find answers ❜ ❛ they know how to make things simpler than they are ❜ ❛ this is by all means a matter of taste, nothing more ❜ ❛ i’d sooner have people steal from me than be surrounded by scarecrows & hungry looks ❜ ❛ thoughts are the shadows of our feelings ❜ ❛ all voices sound different in solitude ❜ ❛ who has had the most convincing eloquence so far? ❜ ❛ i spoil the taste of their party for everyone ❜ ❛ some people need open enemies ❜ ❛ they are in a bad way ❜ ❛ we are always only in our own company ❜ ❛ in a moment they will be ready with a lie ❜ ❛ in the end one finds more than one might have wished ❜ ❛ why not be defeated some time too? ❜ ❛ all is lost if we fall ❜ ❛ you have no idea what you are living through ❜ ❛ to have a virtue one must really wish to have it in its most brutal form ❜ ❛ happiness is not nearly so contagious a disease ❜ ❛ even one’s thoughts cannot reproduce entirely in words ❜ ❛ there is no selflessness in my soul ❜ ❛ you are beyond all embarrassment ❜ ❛ i do not want to have people imitate my example ❜ ❛ no victor believes in chance ❜ ❛ what we do is never understood ❜ ❛ those who have greatness are cruel to their virtues ❜ ❛ with a great goal one is superior even to justice ❜ ❛ you shall become the person you are ❜ ❛ what do you love in others? ❜ ❛ i still live, i still think ❜ ❛ we were friends and have become estranged ❜ ❛ few people have faith in themselves ❜ ❛ there is yet another world to be discovered --- and more than one ❜ ❛ at the very bottom of my soul i feel grateful to all my misery ❜ ❛ i have given a name to my pain ❜ ❛ one must learn to love ❜

‘ they used to send flowers to my dressing room. ’ ‘ you’d have to be an explorer to find your way around in this fog. ’ ‘ the mice do not like the mist. ’ ‘ you are in terrible danger. ’ ‘ what am i in danger from? ’ ‘ i’m your other mother. ’ ‘ we’ve been waiting for you for a long time. ’ ‘ it wasn’t the same here without you. ’ ‘ we were here before you fell. you will be here when we rise. ’ ‘ i’m going outside to explore. ’ ‘ we’ll just wait here for you to come back. ’ ‘ i am not the other anything. i am me. ’ ‘ we could be friends, you know. ’ ‘ that’s because you don’t know who you are. ’ ‘ we know who we are, so we don’t need names. ’ ‘ it was sensible of you to bring protection. ’ ‘ it won’t hurt. ’ ‘ we only want what’s best for you. ’ ‘ if that’s what you want. ’ ‘ i think i’ve probably become a single child family. ’ ‘ she’s vanished under mysterious circumstances. ’ ‘ they aren’t going to come back, are they? ’ ‘ then i suppose there is only one thing left to do. ’ ‘ when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave. ’ ‘ you know you’re talking again? ’ ‘ how fortunate i am in having a traveling companion of such wisdom and intelligence. ’ ‘ you don’t frighten me. ’ ‘ you will always be safe here with me. ’ ‘ calling cats tends to be a rather overrated activity. ’ ‘ no need for names. ’ ‘ she wants something to love, i think. ’ ‘ i’d go inside if i were you. ’ ‘ and what do you think you’re doing? ’ ‘ nothing to find here. ’ ‘ maybe i just got turned around in the mist. ’ ‘ but how can you walk away from something and still come back to it? ’ ‘ spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies. ’ ‘ still, the proudest spirit can be broken with love. ’ ‘ i have no plans to love you. ’ ‘ you can’t make me love you. ’ ‘ how long have you been here? ’ ‘ i’m not running away. ’ ‘ we temper our justice with mercy here. ’ ‘ everyone knows that a soul is the same size as a beach ball. ’ ‘ i’m not afraid. ’ ‘ you know that i love you. ’ ‘ well at least you didn’t jump out at me. ’ ‘ i don’t want whatever i want. nobody does. not really. ’ ‘ what kind of fun would it be if i just got everything i ever wanted? ’ ‘ i hope you don’t mind my getting involved. ’ ‘ we are going to go home. ’ ‘ this is not a good place to be in. ’ ‘ i’m sorry i threw you at her. ’ ‘ i fell asleep. ’ ‘ i just miss you sometimes. ’ ‘ i’m just pleased it’s all over. ’ ‘ go away or you’ll be sorry. ’

❛ what a modern fucking tragedy you turned out to be. ❜ ❛ what do you think the stars wish for then? ❜ ❛ maybe i could have loved you in any life but ours. ❜ ❛ i used to ache for a hurricane, an earthquake. ❜ ❛ i found a catalyst for disaster in you. ❜ ❛ is this what happens when the poem ends? ❜ ❛ i found religion in betrayal. ❜ ❛ things like us only exist in dreams. ❜ ❛ you can’t give your storms to someone else. ❜ ❛ nothing lasts forever, not even the rain. ❜ ❛ it’s okay to fear. ❜ ❛ don’t claw out your own throat while waiting for someone else to scream. ❜ ❛ you are memories and moments. ❜ ❛ in some other universe you’re asleep. ❜ ❛ everyone leaves. let them. ❜ ❛ you are not a ghost.  ❜ ❛ you can’t haunt those that forget you. ❜ ❛ everything ends and it’s okay. ❜ ❛ my heart kept beating, out of sync with yours. ❜ ❛ maybe i get to have a reason for the ache you left in my chest. ❜ ❛ you exist still. ❜ ❛ we can’t remember how to be alive. ❜ ❛ the heavens burn for you and i. ❜ ❛ every star is another story, every night a different sky. ❜ ❛ we end to begin again. ❜ ❛ beyond every somewhere, we exist. ❜ ❛ the gods lie as often as men. ❜ ❛ i sit not upon a throne of bone. ❜ ❛ my kingdom wasn’t chosen. ❜ ❛ the dead of mine do not speak. ❜ ❛ history will write that you were the bravest of them all. ❜ ❛ all stars must burn. ❜ ❛ the greatest things must end. ❜ ❛ hell is just another place i guess i’ll go to keep you warm. ❜ ❛ if the monster always dies at the end of the book, why am i still alive? ❜ ❛ gods don’t care about what might have been. ❜ ❛ men shall fall and gods be forgotten. ❜ ❛ you will be remembered eternally. ❜

❛ I don’t think it’s a good idea to ever have librarians out in public. ❜ ❛ let’s celebrate our corpse strewn future! ❜ ❛ the days here pass like cancerous sun spots. ❜ ❛ you go to the zoo so the animals can watch you. ❜ ❛ no one will have to be anyone ever again. ❜ ❛ no one can fit their broken wings beneath their cloaks. ❜ ❛ there is no such thing as home. ❜ ❛ where are my children? do i have children? ❜ ❛ we are all poetry. ❜ ❛ another hopeless night of uneasy slumber. ❜ ❛ have you seen those new billboards all over town recently? ❜ ❛ they just appeared one day and we all sort of accepted that they were there. ❜ ❛ do you ever think about suicide? ❜ ❛ you’re watching me throw stones at the moon. ❜ ❛ he and the oceans watch her with a quiet concern. ❜ ❛ i’m highly contagious. ❜ ❛ i do not condone entering the dog park. ❜ ❛ we also have great schools and plenty of spiders. ❜ ❛ no one has lived here for years. you’re one of them. a no one. ❜ ❛ the gates to the dog park have been opened for the first time anyone can recall. ❜ ❛ no entrance. no exit. there may never be either again. ❜ ❛ i was not alone in the labyrinth. ❜ ❛ europe is not just about looking at monuments. ❜ ❛ you were a portrait of agony. ❜ ❛ time is like wax, dripping from a candle flame. ❜ ❛ nothing really matters. is anything even real? ❜ ❛ the moon is a government created myth. ❜ ❛ there is no reason to go explore nature. ❜ ❛ some things just aren’t meant to be questioned. most things, actually. ❜ ❛ if you want to die, you will have to achieve death yourself. ❜ ❛ fire is actually cold. it is the cold that burns you. ❜ ❛ they can’t help you. not if you’re gonna keep screaming like that. ❜

❛ i miss doing nothing with you. ❜ ❛ when i look at you all i can see are the mistakes we’re going to make. ❜ ❛ i wish being a good person could erase the bad things i’ve done. ❜ ❛ everyone you love will eventually die. but sure, go have another nap. ❜ ❛ if we couldn’t carry our dead inside us, we would be empty. ❜ ❛ when live gives you lemons take the lemons and be thankful you got anything. ❜ ❛ i don’t know how to make things right. so i’ll just keep pretending that nothing’s wrong. ❜ ❛ if you can’t stand the heat, stay out of hell. ❜ ❛ there’s two ways we can do this. the easy way, or i cut you. ❜ ❛ the hospital sounds restful. i could use a rest. ❜ ❛ I’m in love with the you I wish you were. ❜ ❛ you and i were meant to be together, even if we weren’t meant to be happy. ❜ ❛ sometimes i want to ruin my whole life so i can start over without feeling guilty. ❜ ❛ the only thing we leave behind when we die is fear. ❜ ❛ i wonder what kind of person i’d be if i didn’t worry so much about what kind of person you wanted.  ❜ ❛ even monsters are welcome when your home feels empty. ❜ ❛ ah, unrequited love. when your best isn’t enough. ❜ ❛ love is a drawer for knives to rust in. ❜ ❛ there’s no silence worse than the silence of a friend. ❜ ❛ looking at you is like looking in a mirror except i like what i see. ❜ ❛ when my cage is by the window i can see the sun. ❜ ❛ my body is a temple and there’s another funeral today. ❜ ❛ infinity does not have your picture in its locker. ❜ ❛ i have never seen them scared before. ❜ ❛ you can’t get any further away before you start coming back. ❜ ❛ nobody grows tired of something they can’t have. ❜ ❛ there’s a lot that can go wrong in a life. ❜ ❛ i was lost until i found you. now i’m lost and on the run from the cops. ❜ ❛ happiness is not a house where you can live. ❜ ❛ when they look back on their lives, they’ll smile. ❜

❛ we buried truth under playgrounds. ❜ ❛ it’s hard to get rid of people who don’t know you hate them. ❜ ❛ you make me want to pretend to be a better man. ❜ ❛ those who can, do. those who can’t apparently run this fucking place. ❜ ❛ live and learn, or die and teach by example. ❜ ❛ there should be a word for the things we do not because we want to, but because we want to be the kind of person that wants to. ❜ ❛ you won’t live forever in their memories. the way you treated them will. ❜ ❛ one day i’ll be me. ❜ ❛ nobody dies before their time. that’s what ‘ their time ’ means. ❜ ❛ some people aren’t books, they’re poems. ❜ ❛ there’s a darkness on the edge of town. ❜ ❛ it’s time to make yourself proud and everyone else a little nervous. ❜ ❛ i’m tired of being my best. ❜ ❛ if i could have just one wish, i would probably screw it up. ❜ ❛ my resolution this year is to buy a dog and practice loving something back. ❜ ❛ you’re too pretty to stab me in the face with that knife. ❜ ❛ can we be friends? i would try to be a good friend. ❜ ❛ nothing matters at all. might as well be nice to people. ❜ ❛ what sounds better? revenge or popcorn? ❜ ❛ it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. ❜ ❛ i hear smashing glass in my head, every time i laugh. ❜ ❛ i would sell my soul for a soul worth keeping. ❜ ❛ follow your horrible little heart! ❜ ❛ who has time for perfection? ❜ ❛ i don’t believe each person has just one true love, but sometimes we don’t have enough time to find another. ❜ ❛ i fought my way into this world. i’ll fight my way out. ❜ ❛ you are never so low you deserve to be lower. ❜ ❛ when you look down at people, don’t you want to help them up? ❜ ❛ well, i don’t like any of those things, but i like you. ❜ ❛ i’m the best there is at what i do, and what i do is think about my mistakes. ❜ ❛ the worst person you can think of gets scared sometimes too. ❜ ❛ everybody dies. every single person. so, style counts. ❜ ❛ if poetry could describe the way you make me feel poetry would be illegal. ❜ ❛ did it hurt? when you clawed your way up from the depths of hell? ❜