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Beautiful YA Book Quotes

inspired by @enchantedwritingdesk​ - feel free to edit or change pronouns for rp purposes- varied subjects of quotes all considered beautiful written by critics in the realm of Young Adult books of all genres

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”

“Don’t get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.” 

“We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither.” 

“Broken isn’t the same as unfixable.“

"Some walks you have to take alone.”

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today’s tasks.” 

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”

“Don’t get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.” 

“You should eat a waffle. You can’t be sad if you eat a waffle” 

“Making a decision isn’t about knowing every potential consequence. It’s about knowing what you want and chasing a path that takes you in that direction”

“When I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel.

“The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”

“I think that maybe forgiveness is like change—it comes in small steps.” 

“People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.”

“Even in its first faint traces, love could alter a landscape. It wrote unimagined stories and made the most beautiful, forbidding places.”

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.” 

“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.” 

“The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.” 

“Sometimes, when people get treated as less than human, the best way to help them feel better is to simply treat them as human. Not as victims. Just you as you.”

“We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.” 

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”

“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”

“The funny thing about armor is that it doesn’t just keep other people out. It keeps us in. We build it up around us, not realizing that we’re trapping ourselves.” 

“Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can’t be in life.” 

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.You’d be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It’s the saddest thing I know.”

“Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.” 

“Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.” 

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” 

“I feel like I need to speak out, because if no one speaks out, if no one says, this is me, this is what I believe in, and this is why I’m different, and this is why that’s okay, then what’s the point? What’s the point of living in this beautiful, great melting pot where everyone can dare be anything they want to be?”

“The universe is bigger than anything that can fit into your mind.”

“Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.” 

“I can’t seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.”

“You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it too, and that’s what scares you the most.”

“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”

“Things were rough all over but it was better that way. That way, you could tell the other guy was human too.”

“Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.” 

“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That’s why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

“Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”

“I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“I believed, and still believe, that you can build your dreams brick by brick. That you can accomplish anything with persistence.” 

”A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”

“It was impossible to feel alone in a room full of favorite books. I had the sense that they knew me personally, that they’d read me cover to cover as I’d read them.” 

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

“Child, no one is ever ready for anything. I would never doom you to that. What sort of adventureless life would that be?”

“The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like clouds, and she would ring them out like the rain.”

Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it"

“She delighted in the smell of the ink, the rough feel of the paper between her fingers, the rustle of sweet pages, the shapes of letters before her eyes.” 

“It’s amazing how the more you read, the less you know.”

“Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.” 

“It’s a lot easier to be lost than found. It’s the reason we’re always searching and rarely discovered–so many locks not enough keys.”

“As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

"Because sometimes chance and circumstance can seem like the most appalling injustice, but we just have to adapt. That’s all we can do.”

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

“I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”

“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”

“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”

“We believe in the wrong things. That’s what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We’re just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”

Why would you be given wings if you weren’t meant to fly?“

"People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.”

“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in by bones.”

"You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it’s a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”

"Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now.”

“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”

“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you.“

“I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don’t overlook.”

"We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.”

“It’s like being in love, discovering your best friend.”

“Sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words. It’s all in how you read them.”

“But if I’m it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I’m going to let the story end this way…Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity’s last war, then I am the battlefield.”

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”

“I wonder what it’s like to have that much power over a boy. I don’t think I’d want it; it’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.”

“Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. ”

“You need to be yourself, but you also shouldn’t feel like you have to fight everyone, even yourself, to be it.”

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

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”

“Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you’ll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.”

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”

“We all bear scars … Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”

“But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”

“Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.”

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

“When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly.”

“Things are rough all over.”

“I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in.”

“To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world.”

“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.”

“All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

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FRIGHT NIGHT (2011) SENTENCE STARTERS ;

145 starters. CW: alcohol mention, cussing, drug mention, sexual themes, violence. Feel free to change words and pronouns as needed!

“Defy reason. Defy everything you know.”

“Hey, kid. Don’t leer at the neighbors.”

“C’mon, you gotta get over it.”

“Attitude. You’ve been stressed or something.”

“Y’know, getting what you want can be stressful. Especially when you’re not used to getting it. More to lose.”

“I’m trying to get people to move in, not join the legions leaving town.”

“Hello? Can I get some help here?”

“That’s a very good question. Maybe you should spy on him some more and find out.”

“He’s thirteen feet from our house. That’s not spying. It’s merely observing.”

“I’m tired of making excuses for you, _____.”

“If you don’t wanna talk to him, just tell him.”

“I don’t have a worried thing. I never make that face.”

“About the prom. I was going to ask you. I just kind of figured it was a go. Y’know, you, me, ill-fitting tuxedo. The whole thing, y’know?”

“Nobody goes to the dance in senior year.”

“Did you find a freaking genie lamp, man? Make a sacrifice to the Hot Ass gods? How do you get that?”

“Holy crap, man. How did you get that?”

“You know _____’s missing, right?”

“Just meet me at his house after school. We’ll check around and see if he’s okay.”

“Do we really have to do this here?”

“Wow. Am I supposed to not even speak to you anymore?”

“Be quiet. Don’t spaz out.”

“You want me to go tell your pals how well we really know each other?”

“I’m insatiable.”

“I’m so sorry to take up your time. I really appreciate your help.”

“Is my mom flirting?”

“I’m sorry about the mess, _____.”

“My God. Why did you blow him off?”

“A guy that good looking, still single? Bad bet. He’s a player.”

“I’ve had enough man troubles. I am not getting suckered again.”

“I really hate to be the one to tell you this, but that guy, your neighbor, he’s a vampire, man.”

“Why are you walking like that?”

“Duh, dude, I know what you’re telling me. I’m making fun of you. I’m mocking you.”

“You read way too much Twilight.”

“That’s fiction, okay? This is real.”

“He’s a real monster, and he’s not brooding, or lovesick, or noble. He’s the fucking shark from Jaws. He kills, he feeds, and he doesn’t stop until everybody around him is dead.”

“I seriously am so angry you think I read Twilight.”

“You’re on drugs, dude.”

“I thought you’d take my word on this, man.”

“Can we just pretend for like one minute that you’re not a complete douchebag?”

“_____, this was fun when we were eight.”

“Point is, I grew up. If you don’t want to, that’s fine, but don’t get an attitude because I’d rather have a life than make shit up.”

“_____’s gone and you act like you don’t give a shit!”

“What the fuck happened to you? We were inseparable.”

“You know when my life started getting better? When I stopped being friends with you.”

“Just hit me, man. Really. I don’t have time for this.”

“Jesus, man, I just gave you a fucking invitation to hit me.”

“You better run, boy! I’m coming! You better run!”

“Back the fuck up, man! I’m armed! I know how to use this thing!”

“You’ve been watching me. I’ve been watching you. It seems fair.”

“That looked like it hurt.”

“You bit off more than you can chew.”

“And you think anyone’s gonna actually believe you?”

“Don’t play that crap, don’t play that mind shit with me.”

“You were born for this. And you know it.”

“It’s on you to look out for them. You up for that, guy?”

“There are a lot of bad people out there, _____.”

“Where have you been? You told me to meet you here like an hour ago.”

“Hey, are you alright? Are you alright? Everything good?”

“Did you ever read this? It’s really good. It’s kind of sexy, actually, in like, a frustrated, unconsummated sort of way.”

“What, am I boring you?”

“Do you wanna get under the covers?”

“Please believe me, there is nothing I would rather be doing right now than getting under the covers with you.”

“Don’t be nervous. It’s okay.”

“Oh, shit! Oh, shit, he saw us!”

“Okay, _____, if you’re not into this, can you just tell me? Because you don’t have to do me any favors.”

“Oh, God! Get me out of here!”

“Oh, no, he’s coming back! He’s coming back! No!”

“The hours you keep. It’s like living with a vampire.”

“Under no circumstance is he invited into our house, alright? He’s dangerous.”

“_____, I’m serious. Don’t acknowledge him. Don’t talk to him, and at night, please stay inside.”

“Look, I can’t answer a million questions right now. Will you just trust me?”

“You weren’t in class. What are you working on?”

“I’m gonna pop your cherry.”

“Over there, that’s haunted antiques. Cursed stuff!”

“So, I’m the expert for your vampire thing, huh?”

“Say I wanted to kill a vampire. How would I go about doing that?”

“I read books, man. You think I’m hanging out with Dracula? And the Easter Bunny? Fuck off.”

“Do you think I don’t know how this sounds? I mean, two days ago I would have laughed in my face, but it’s really happening.”

“I’m not crazy. I’m not. I don’t wanna know this shit.”

“Dude, is that _____? What the fuck is he doing?”

“Y’know, once I thought I was being chased by carrots with machetes.”

“You guys are both ruining my high.”

“Don’t, _____, don’t! Don’t open it!”

“Oh my God… _____, please, I told you to lock the door!”

“You are flipping out. You’re acting all weird. You’re blowing everything off.”

“Is that a stake?”

“Look. Even if you are losing it, you do not get to blow me off. You don’t go from something to nothing overnight.”

“You’re not nothing to me, _____, so whatever is happening, I would like you to talk to me, to tell me what is going on.”

“I need you to just forget about me, okay? I’m not going to let you get hurt. I’m sorry.”

“I’d rather not take this to the authorities, but I will. I have no choice.”

“We’re alright as long as we stay inside.”

“I can’t believe you got _____ to go along with it.”

“I don’t think this is funny.”

“I don’t need an invitation if there’s no house.”

“Jesus Christ, _____, what the hell is going on?!”

“This is seriously not okay, _____! Who the fuck is this guy?!”

“_____, I told you, he’s a fucking vampire!”

“Noo! That’s his fucked up vampire hand! Now do you believe me?!”

“_____, fucking kick him!”

“Get away from me!”

“I repel you with the power of Christ the Lord.”

“You ever get a stake in the chest, _____? I have. It hurts. But they missed the heart. But it’s right here, _____.”

“You shouldn’t have been so nosey.”

“I don’t know. I think maybe you should’ve said something to the police.”

“I just really wanted you to like me, that’s all.”

“_____, I knew you were a dweeb. Do you think I wanted some dude like _____? Or _____? No. I like you. Because you’re different.”

“I’ll tell you what I know, but that’s it. Don’t expect me to join your little Scooby gang.”

“You’re going to need an army.”

“eBay. I order things late at night when I’ve had a few cocktails. So, yeah, some nice stuff.”

“Look, _____, if you have a problem, just keep it with me, okay?”

“Are you enjoying your panic room, master of darkness?”

“There’s more than one way out and there’s a million things to fight with. We’re gonna be okay, alright? Trust me.”

“If you hadn’t turned out to be such a dick, I could’ve tricked you out. We could have rocked this evil shit together!”

“I expected more of a fight from you, _____.”

“I can hear you breathing. It’s really fucking cool. I can feel you. I can taste you.”

“We got some catching up to do, my friend.”

“Aww, nice weapon there, _____! Not gonna do you much good though, because I’m a goddamn killing machine.”

“Come on, it’s like you’re not even trying.”

“Bone is a motherfucker. It’s hard to cut.”

“Security is a little lax since everybody got their throat torn out.”

“I’m gonna end him or he’s gonna end me. That’s how it’s gonna be, and you’re gonna come with me.”

“Don’t you understand this yet? There will be no fighting. There will only be surviving. Maybe.”

“You think if you live and we all die, you’ll be able to get us out of your head?”

“You think I collected all this stuff because it was bitching?”

“Come with me. We’ll go in at dawn. He’s got to rest some time.”

“The only reason I survived the last time is because I had the sense to hide.”

“Look, if you want to be a dead hero, good for you. I’m out.”

“You think I’m a coward. I’m not. I’m a realist.”

“So you just bail on people.”

“I don’t want to live till tomorrow if you’re the kind of man I’m going to be.”

“Here. Blessed by Saint Michael. You kill your vampire with this, it’s supposed to change his victims back.”

“Torch him. A vampire on fire is not thinking clearly.”

“Let’s kill something.”

“What do you think is down there?”

“Oh, shit. I may not be drunk enough for this.”

“You know this is a trap, right?”

“You know you should have saved me, _____.”

“I’ll be the best you ever had. The only you ever had.”

“_____, we could be together forever.”

“You smell that? It’s your fear. It’s intoxicating. It’s a very specific scent, _____.”

“You little shit. Next time you use my plan, give me a heads up first, yeah?”

“That was a fucked up night.”

“If you’re naked, I’m absolutely going to look.”

“Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do. That doesn’t narrow it down. There’s, like, mini-golf and sushi. Carry on!”

“Will you promise me, now we’ll finally be alone?”

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continued. | @frxgments-of-frxgments

Working under Mack was some tough stuff. As a member of the science and research department, no less. Mack was fussy, with more than your daily dose of superiority at times, but Casper could manage. He was one of the only people on the ship that listened to his crazy theories and explanations for natural phenomena, anyway. Plenty of ADS people rolled their eyes at his concerns over aliens boarding the ship, getting trapped in a tractor beam, all sorts of things deemed "silly" in their eyes. It was nice to get away from all of that.

There was a window in an area of the ship that had less traffic than the rest, and Casper often found himself sitting in front of it for hours on end, watching space pass by.

He hadn't ever seen the Captain come down here before, though. It startles him just a bit, but he doesn't falter, planting himself in his usual spot, a few feet away from the Captain so he doesn't take up any of their space. He doesn't say anything until they start signing, and he lets out a laugh.

“Mack would have a thing or two to say about that,” he says with a shake of his head. Working with the man has subjected him to heaps and heaps of complaints over the engineering and design behind the ship.

“Oh, uh— Casper Huxley, Captain. I’m a member of the science and research department." He salutes them with a smile. "I love these windows, regardless of what Mack thinks. I mean, being able to watch the stars as we pass by them? The knowledge that there's hundreds of thousands of undiscovered planets and galaxies, all with their own planetary systems? And all we have to do is find one that can support human life? It's crazy."

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fog in the Redwood Valley, 2021

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SHHHHHH…. hes eeping zzzzzz *honk shoo mimimi hhhoonk sshsooo mimimi*

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Misc. Ask Meme

❣️ - What are their love languages? 🌙 - What’s their sleep schedule like? 🎁 - How do they feel about their birthday/birthdays in general? 🧑‍🦰 - Have they ever dyed their hair? Ever cut it themself? 🍷- How do they feel about alcohol? 🗣️ - How do they handle public speaking? 🎮 - What’s their favorite game? 💓 - What are some signs they’ve fallen for someone? How do they show their affection? 🤡 - What’s something dumb they’re embarrassed about? 🌱 - Do they have a green thumb or are they a plant killer? 📱 - What social media do they use the most? 👪 - What’s their relationship with their parents like? 🐒 - What’s their favorite animal? 🧳 - What countries have they been to? 🤔 - What’s something they’ll never understand? 🎨 - What’s their favorite color? ☂️ - How do they feel about rain? 🎶 - What’s a song they really like? 🖌️ - Do they have any hobbies? 💤 - What do they absolutely need to have to fall asleep? 🎢 - Do they like amusement parks? What’s their favorite ride? 🗺️ - What languages do they speak? 🍳 - How well can they cook? 🍪 - How well can they bake? 💘 - What do they find attractive about their partner(s)? 👗 - How comfortable would they be wearing a skirt or dress? 💝 - What gestures do they really appreciate? How do you get on their good side? ☕ - Coffee or tea? 💀 - How do they feel about horror movies? 🧸 - Do they have any stuffed animals? If so, are they decorative or do they sleep with them? 💖 - How and how often do they try to impress their partner(s)? How and how often do their partner(s) impress them? 🍽️ - What’s their favorite food? 🧑‍🍼 - How do they feel about kids? 🐾 - Do they have any pets? 💬 - What are some filler/buffer words they use? (Like, um, etc.) 🏳️‍🌈 - What do they identify as? What are their pronouns? 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 - Do they have any siblings? 🥰 - What pet names do their partner(s) use for them? How flustered do they get by them? 🌳 - What’s their extended family like? 🎲 - Pick a random question to answer from this list.

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(some Friends and Pals, casper and the gang! casper, kris, desmond, erin, and yurusu are their names. casper’s the extrovert, kris is the chill one, desmond is the anxious one, erin is the smooth one, and yurusu is their tired father figure. truly a movie-worthy protag gang

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(i have other members of casper’s theory squad bouncing around in my head so i’ll add them here later

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Send 🧸 to give my muse a stuffed animal!

Bonus points if you describe what kind of stuffed animal it is!

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(casper and murdock cannot interact. why? casper’s immediately going to the top of his list the moment he starts poking around for evidence

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                                           Find a way to start again,                                       brush off the dirt and make some friends!                                                  It’s no big deal, yeah no big deal!                                         I feel at home in a place that shouldn’t be real.

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Send 😶 + a really uncomfortable question and my muse has to answer it

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DON’T BE SHY, SEND MY MUSE SOME NOSEY ANONS!

ASK ABOUT PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES, ABOUT THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES, WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS, ANYTHING YOU WANT! HIT ME UP WITH QUESTIONS!

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Stedtport, CA - 2009

"It hunts for sport"

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🐝  *  ―  𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄  𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃  𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄  𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒.   (  all  of  these  are  just  some  random  sentences  i  thought  could  be  fun  to  use.  feel  free  to  adjust  to  better  fit  your  muses.  )

❛  are you okay ?  ❜ ❛  believe in yourself.  ❜ ❛  care to explain ?  ❜ ❛  close your eyes.  ❜ ❛  don’t be afraid.  ❜ ❛  don’t overthink it.  ❜ ❛  don’t underestimate me.  ❜ ❛  forget i asked.  ❜ ❛  how are you ?  ❜ ❛  i don’t care.  ❜ ❛  i don’t remember.  ❜ ❛  i hate you.  ❜ ❛  i love you.  ❜ ❛  i need you.  ❜ ❛  i’ll be there.  ❜ ❛  i’m so sorry.  ❜ ❛  it’s over now.  ❜ ❛  i’ve missed you.  ❜ ❛  just be honest.  ❜ ❛  just trust me.  ❜ ❛  leave me alone.  ❜ ❛  let me in.  ❜ ❛  maybe you’re right.  ❜ ❛  never give up.  ❜ ❛  no , stop it !  ❜ ❛  please be careful.  ❜ ❛  please believe me.  ❜ ❛  please don’t cry.  ❜ ❛  please forgive me.  ❜ ❛  so … that’s it ?  ❜ ❛  speak the truth.  ❜ ❛  talk to me.  ❜ ❛  that’s fucked up.  ❜ ❛  this isn’t working.  ❜ ❛  we can’t stay.  ❜ ❛  what about me ?  ❜ ❛  what’s going on ?  ❜ ❛  what’s your problem ?  ❜ ❛  where are we ?  ❜ ❛  who are you ?  ❜ ❛  you did it !  ❜ ❛  you don’t understand.  ❜ ❛  you need help.  ❜ ❛  you’re kidding me.  ❜ ❛  you’re safe now.  ❜