#book starters

[littlelovelymemes]

𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐞 :   𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄  𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒓  𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄  𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬  𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 :  𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞  𝐭𝐡𝐞  𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥  —  ' 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞  𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡  𝐭𝐡𝐞  𝐬𝐤𝐲 '  ( 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐 )

‘  why  the  fuck  wouldn’t  you  say  something ?  ’

‘  please ,  don’t  abandon  me .  ’

‘  i  cannot  spend  another  night  in  this  home .  ’

‘  what’s  the  difference  when  you  beg  for  love ?  ’

‘  this  is  a  wasteland .  ’

‘  we  fell  in  love  and  now  we’re  both  alone .  ’

‘  i  know  it’s  hard ,  but  who  are  you  to  fall  apart  on  me ?  ’

‘  i  still  think  you’re  beautiful .  ’

‘  i  don’t  ever  want  to  lose  my  best  friend .  ’

‘  i  hate  this  flavor  with  a  passion  and  i  fucking  hate  the  aftertaste .  ’

‘  how  does  it  feel ?  well ,  it  feels  like  i’m  on  fire .  ’

‘  wake  up ,  i  know  you  can  hear  me .  ’

‘  i  bet  you  never  had  a  friday  night  like  this .  ’

‘  so  sick  of  playing ,  i  don’t  want  this  anymore .  ’

‘  the  thought  of  you’s  no  fucking  fun .  ’

‘  you  want  a  martyr ,  i’ll  be  one .  ’

‘  enough’s  enough ,  we’re  done .  ’

‘  i  don’t  wanna  feel  a  thing  anymore .  ’

‘  i  know  you  well ,  but  this  ain’t  a  game .  ’

‘  dying  is  a  gift ,  so  close  your  eyes  and  rest  in  peace .  ’

‘  do  you  know  i  count  your  heartbeats  before  you  sleep ?  ’

‘  i  really  hope  you  enjoy  the  show .  ’

‘  i  really  hope  you  enjoy  the  show  because  for  me  it’s  just  a  bad  day .  ’

‘  you  need  people  like  me  to  feel .  ’

‘  maybe  we’re  just  having  too  much  fun .  ’

‘  don’t  you  threaten  me  with  a  good  time .  ’

‘  i’m  sorry ,  i  can’t  see  that  you  truly  loved  me .  ’

‘  please  don’t  take  this  out  on  me .  ’

‘  you’re  the  only  thing  that’s  keeping  me  alive .  ’

‘  i’m  sorry ,  but  i’ve  made  up  my  mind .  ’

‘  you’re  about  to  miss  everything .  ’

‘  we’ve  got  poison  in  our  wells .  ’

‘  come  at  me  with  everything  you’ve  got .  ’

‘  when  i’m  sober  i  feel  pain .  ’

‘  separate  me  from  my  own  two  hands ,  i’ve  killed  so  many  times .  ’

‘  i’ve  killed  so  many  times .  ’

‘  i  can’t  save  the  world  from  the  creatures  that  won’t  die .  ’

‘  kinda  like  the  way  you  tell  me  “baby ,  please  come  home ” .  ’

‘  i  know  you’re  tortured  within .  ’

‘  i’ve  killed  so  many  times ,  but  i  can’t  save  the  world  from  the  creatures  that  won’t  die .  ’

‘  your  eyes  look  hungry  again .  ’

‘  i’ll  never  wander ,  my  friend .  ’

‘  am  i  the  only  one  that  thinks  that  you  should  stay  alive ?  ’

‘  please  don’t  be  afraid  of  me .  ’

‘  i  never  meant  to  hurt  you ,  no .  i  only  meant  to  do  this  to  myself .  ’

‘  let’s  go  in  style .  ’

‘  darling ,  it’s  cold  outside .  ’

‘  let’s  go  inside ,  it’ll  be  alright .  ’

‘  well ,  fuck ,  what  am  i  supposed  to  be ,  impressed ?  ’

‘  you’re  just  another  set  of  bones  to  lay  to  rest .  ’

‘  i  guess  it’s  time  to  say  goodnight ,  hope  you  had  a  really  good  time .  ’

‘  this  will  be  a  night  we  won’t  forget .  ’

‘  i  don’t  want  to  miss  when  you  cry .  ’

‘  it’s  good  enough  to  make  me  wanna  fall  in  love .  ’

‘  why  can’t  we  just  be  friends ? ’

‘  it’s  not  that  easy .  ’

‘  i  can’t  wait  to  see  your  brilliant  face .  ’

‘  can  you  come  over ?  i  got  something  to  tell  you  and  it  just  can’t  wait .  ’

‘  nightmares  no  longer  wait  for  sleep .  ’

‘  i  changed  your  mind  and  ended  up  here .  ’

‘  fine ,  maybe  i’ll  pretend  right  now .  ’

‘  i  swear  to  god ,  i’m  gonna  change  the  world .  ’

‘  i  promise  you  someday  we’ll  tell  ourselves  “ oh  my  god ,  this  is  paradise ”.  ’

‘  this  is  paradise  and  it’s  so  goddamn  good.  ’

‘  did  you  search  for  me ?  ’

‘  i’ve  been  up  here  so  long ,  i’m  going  crazy .  ’

‘  this  love  was  out  of  control .  where  did  it  go ?  ’

‘  now  don’t  be  crazy ,  yes  of  course ,  you  can  stay  here .  ’

‘  big  deal ,  i  guess  you’re  official .  ’

‘  i  only  said  it  because  i  know  what  it’s  like  to  feel  burned  out !  ’

‘  we’ve  all  been  there  sometimes .  ’

‘  tonight  i’ll  make  you  feel  beautiful  once  again .  ’

‘  darling ,  you’ll  be  okay .  ’

‘  if  you  were  me ,  you’d  do  the  same .  ’

[poppystain]

SENTENCE  STARTERS :  ALONE  WITH  YOU  IN  THE  ETHER  BY  OLIVIE BLAKE 

PART ONE, BEFORES

❛ they see you closer than you are, but you’re further from reach than either you or they can imagine. ❜

❛ what are you thinking about today? ❜

❛ maybe tomorrow, everything would be different. ❜

❛ take me home, stranger. ❜

❛ maybe we should break up. ❜

❛ you’re one of those brainy fucks, right? ❜

❛ your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. ❜

❛ cigarettes are extremely out of fashion. and they’re bad for you. ❜

PART TWO, CONVERSATIONS

❛ you’re obviously a very good liar, ❜

❛ if i were a liar, wouldn’t my lies be extremely valuable currency to me? ❜

❛ i don’t think we’re really capable of loving the things our parents love. ❜

❛ can you make this less like an interview, please? ❜

❛ the point is, you’re observing me too closely. ❜

❛ i was formerly a thief. ❜

❛ did you get the lies you came for? ❜

❛ you want to puzzle me out like a math problem. ❜

❛ crime doesn’t make a person complex, everyone has a history. ❜

❛ do you want me to leave you alone? ❜

❛ i want to see what you see. ❜

❛ are you interested in me? ❜

❛ i’m not trying to predict you. i’m trying to understand you. ❜

❛ couldn’t you predict me if you understood me? ❜

❛ i like it, your brain. ❜

❛ right, one impossibility at a time. ❜

❛ i wasn’t really thinking about you, to be honest. ❜

❛ it’s very… austere, isn’t it? ❜

❛ i could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed. ❜

❛ don’t hold hands with anyone ever again. ❜ 

❛ there she is. queen of chaos. ❜  

❛ don’t worry, you’ll fit perfectly. don’t worry, there’s nothing here for you to break. ❜

❛ there, now it looks like somebody cares about you. ❜

❛ there is nothing worse than being predictable. nothing smaller than feeling ordinary. ❜

❛  so don’t speak. just stay here with me, just breathe. ❜

❛  haven’t you been paying enough attention to run? ❜

❛  don’t go, just stay. settle over me like the tide, cover me like a blanket, wrap around me like the sun.❜

❛ i think that, for someone to get close to you, you must have to give them one key at a time. and even then, only one level can be opened at once. ❜

❛ you know, it’s poor form to accuse a lady of lying all the time.❜

PART THREE, KEYS

❛ do you imagine things? Is your life a dream or a chart? ❜

❛ come closer, let’s see what happens, let’s see how the stars shine on your skin. ❜

❛ i know you’re not stupid. that’s the worst part. ❜

❛ all this time we’ve been talking and you’ve been syncopating your breath to mine and your pulse to mine and your thoughts to my thoughts, you’ve been learning how to love me, haven’t you? ❜

❛ if i am a lover of impossible problems then you will have loved me for my impossibilities. ❜

❛ what else matters but this, me, us? ❜

❛ am i imagining this? ❜

❛ i want to see your art. ❜

❛ this night is stolen, i want grand larceny and this is petty theft. ❜

❛ austere. it’s a cold word. ❜

❛ you have never understood beauty and all the worse for you, you never will. ❜

❛ i am more addicted to the thought of your name on my tongue than i am to any other form of vice. ❜

❛ the thought of having you is more dangerous than any cocktail of drugs, the idea of belonging to you endlessly destructive. ❜

❛ it’s a fire. i used to burn out, now i just burn.❜

❛ his name is written on my skin, he scarred me. ❜

❛ you just seem like you’re looking for something to overwhelm you.❜

❛ you can’t fix me. ❜

❛ i don’t see anything to fix. ❜

❛ thank you for the shape you took in my life but it’s over now, it doesn’t fit. ❜

PART FOUR, FIRSTS

❛ something is wrong with us, we are unwell, no one has ever felt any of this without destruction. ❜

❛ empires have fallen like this. ❜

❛ my god, what a waste of time doing anything else but holding you. ❜

❛ jesusfuckingchrist what have you done to me? ❜

❛ go on, ruin me. wreck me, please. ❜

❛ am i the girl who stays while others leave? ❜

❛ i love your brain.❜

❛ can you love my brain even when it is small? when it is malevolent? when it’s violent? can you love it when it doesn’t love me? ❜

❛ i’m going to tell you my secrets. ❜

❛ come home with me. ❜

❛ i want your future, i want it for me. ❜

❛ i’m going to replace those memories, i’m taking them back for me. ❜

❛ i want you to say everything, anything. i want to have your thoughts, i want to bottle them, i want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping. ❜

❛ jesus, we’re fucked, aren’t we? ❜

PART FIVE, VARIABLES

❛ come outside, come look at the stars. ❜

❛ i worry that if you try to keep up with her, you’ll burn out. ❜

❛ you’re wrong about her. ❜

❛ ether is what they called the air in the realm of the gods. a shining, fluid substance. ❜

❛ you poor thing, what a curse. i wonder which god you angered.❜

❛ you can’t just live in your past lives. ❜

❛ so this is what it is to love something you cannot control, it feels precisely like terror. ❜

❛ i thought you’d be sick of me by now. ❜

❛ every time you love, pieces of you break off and get replaced by something you steal from someone else. ❜

❛ yes, it is perilously wonderful to suffer so sweetly with you. ❜

❛ can’t you see how intangibly i exist, and how perilously? ❜

❛ will I always fear him as much as I love him? ❜

PART SIX, TURNS

❛ you really haven’t changed, have you? ❜

❛ you can always undream me, unbelieve me. ❜

❛ i’m strange, okay we’re both strange, nobody understands us except for us. ❜

❛ you think i don’t know that there’s something wrong with me? ❜

❛ i think you need me more than you want me. ❜

❛ there’s a difference between cravings and compulsions. ❜

❛ i love your brain even when i fear it. ❜

❛ have i already destroyed this little fledgling thing i tried to nurture? ❜

❛ whatever you are made of, i am made of it, too. ❜

❛ it isn’t pretty, it’s lonely, it’s desolate, it’s a chilling portrait of vastness. ❜

❛ she does burn me, she ignites me. ❜

❛ she is my hope and for that she is dangerous, unequivocally, but she is also alive, unreservedly. ❜

❛ it’s you and me right now, stranger ❜

❛ it’s you and me alone in the ether, and you don’t even know it yet. ❜

❛ this is what it looks like to love you; it looks like an abyss. ❜

❛ all falls come with danger, but not us. not us, we float. ❜

❛ because you and i, we are so different, aren’t we, and yet we are more like each other than the rest of the world is like us. ❜

[hyprmemes]

this is how you lose the time war - amal el-mohtar & max gladstone (2019) - pt. 1 edit as you see fit!

two great empires broke themselves here, each a reef to the other’s hull

twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action

a fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist, or worse, a poet

and all this blood for nothing

killing gets easier with practice, in mechanics and technique

a tremor passes through the soil - do not call it earth

if the planet lasted long enough, the vines that sprout from the corpses’ mouth would grow berries

it is a trap, of course

the planet waits for its end

this letter was meant to be read once, then destroyed

trust that i have accounted for all variables of irony

you’re wondering what this is but not, i think, wondering who this is

i shall confess to you here that i’d been complacent, bored, even, with the war

you invigorated your shift’s war effort and, in so doing, invigorated me

please find my gratitude all around you

i must tell you it brings me great pleasure to think of you reading these words in licks and whorls of flame

in order to report my words to your superiors you must admit yourself already infiltrated

i wish you to know that i respected your tactics

the elegance of your work makes this war seem like less of a waste

it’s been so long since i last started a new conversation

remembering our last encounter, i thought it best to ensure you’d twist no other groundlings to your purpose, hence the bomb threat

not every battle’s grand, not every weapon fierce

it’s so easy to crush a planet that you may overlook the value of a whisper to a snowbank

i imagine you laughing at this letter, in disbelief

you marched scornful and fierce through the halls, hunting an agent you did not know was me

will you respond, establishing complicity, continuing our self-destructive paper trail, just to get in the last word?

will you cut off, leaving my note to spin its fractal math inside you?

start a stone rolling, so in three centuries you’ll have an avalanche

winning tastes sweet, but sweeter still to triumph and tease

knowing your fine attention to detail, i thought i’d put a little devil in it

it flatters me to find you so attentive

will you go still or turn sharply when you know that i’m watching you?

i’ll be long gone by the time the wind turns right

made you look, though, didn’t i?

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[echo-shard]

I don't know what to feel... Am I happy? Am I empty inside? 📕

[communistkenobi]

two iron-clad maxims I have learned through researching trans issues:

If an article claims to be talking about LGBTQ issues but doesn’t mention trans people and/or only uses the word queer, it is a waste of time

If an article about transgender politics is posted in a cultural or media studies journal, don’t even bother opening it

[luvmoonie]

‘what hobbies do you have?’

so i do this thing where i’ll see a piece of media and make it my whole entire personality and life source for the next few months

[littlestpersimmon]

I just saw you mention Ursula Le Guin in your last answered ask. I’ve been meaning to start reading stuff by her. I want to regardless, but do some of her books have trans characters?

[retrogamingblog2]

Pokemon Corner Bookmarks made by MokosMakery

[cherikdogfood]

“In A Different World, We Are Still Bookends Of The Same Soul”

Dear Erik...

(Shame x Starter For 10) Maybe in another life, you are a charming businessman and I'm a college student.

(The Book of Clarence x 300) Or maybe we're both warriors, facing each other as enemies in the battlefield.

(Centurion x The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe) In another life, you're a Roman Soldier fleeing for your life, and I'm the faun you encountered amidst the snow.

(Wanted x Assassin's Creed) And maybe in another, we are members of opposing assassination groups...

(The Killer x Wanted) Perhaps in another life you are a hired killer -- and I, your next target.

(Prometheus x Victor Frankenstein) Or maybe I'm a scientist, and you, my most deadly creation.

(Children of the Dune x Prometheus) Perhaps in a different world you are an alien, and I, too, am not entirely human.

(Trespass Against Us x Submergence) Or maybe in another life, I am a spy and you are my target.

(Atonement x Steve Jobs) Perhaps in another life we meet as noblemen...

(Inglorious Basterds x Atonement) Or maybe we are both soldiers, mere pawns in the midst of a raging battle.

But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter...

Because no matter who we are...

We will always find our way back to each other...

Fall in love...

And grow old together...

[Made by cherikdogfood for #revivecherik: #2 Alternate Meetings]

[runningracingdancingchasing]

@reanimatedmuses

There was nothing Rapunzel liked more than a sunny day, and boy was today sunny! Sometimes, she felt like she was downright solar-powered, to the point where she sometimes wondered if her chosen mutant name was a bad fit. But then, her powers didn't really relate to the sun at all, did they? And every time she activated them, her hair grew to seventy feet and turned golden blonde, practically glowing with an inner light. (Solar Flare? Would that make a good mutant name? Oh well, whatever.) For now, at least, 'Rapunzel' was certainly an obvious way to go, name-wise.

Not only was the weather itself gorgeous, but the atmosphere in Genosha was just as bright and warm. The whole nation, small as it was, was buzzing with joy and excitement! While she didn't live here, she, like so many other mutants, had amassed on the island nation in celebration of it being accepted into the United Nations. The entire place felt like one giant party, and there was going to be a gala tonight to commemorate the historic occasion!

Everywhere she looked, people were laughing, happy, and possibly most importantly, relaxed. People were firing off their mutant powers (provided they weren't dangerous ones) without a care in the world, because here, in Genosha, you were allowed to be a mutant. You were allowed to be yourself! The positive energy was downright palpable!

Usually, at home, Rapunzel kept her power turned off, blending into human society with short brown hair that didn't draw attention. Her parents supported her, didn't fear her, but they feared for her, and generally requested that she keep a low profile. She understood why, but it made her feel like they were ashamed of her, which, in turn, made her feel ashamed of herself. But here in Genosha? Even though she had no specific, immediate need to heal anyone, she had her mutant ability turned on, and had her golden hair plaited into a heavy braid that fell to her feet. She was glad her parents had not only allowed, but encouraged her to come.

The place was packed shoulder-to-shoulder with jubilant mutants. Sometimes she spotted a familiar face, and exchanged a quick hello when she could (provided they weren't all the way across the plaza and busy with their friends), but more so, she was being regularly floored with just how many of them there were here! When she'd first heard about this mutant nation, she hadn't imagined there were enough mutants in the world to fill a nation! Now, she was starting to wonder if the island was even big enough to house them all!

Strolling through one of many marketplaces that had been set up, she paused at an ice cream stall and got a cone of rainbow sherbet. It was extremely expensive, but she could afford it, and all money spent in Genosha went towards a good cause, right?

[min-play]

Art back then and now

16 year old me was doing their best and had a great time

[poppystain]

SENTENCE  STARTERS :  BLUETS  BY  MAGGIE NELSON

❛ do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning. ❜

❛  please do not write to tell me about any more beautiful blue things. ❜

❛  we don’t get to choose what or whom we love. we just don’t get to choose. ❜

❛  perhaps the same could be said of the heart. ❜

❛  but whether there is a violence at work here remains undecided. ❜

❛  thus begins the adventure, the high romance, the romance of seeking. ❜

❛  blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire. ❜

❛  and the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ❜

❛  and what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back? ❜

❛  are you sure that it cannot love you back? ❜

❛  can it die? does it have a heart?  ❜

❛  but how can it be? how can it be? was i too blue for you. was i too blue. ❜

❛  is there a good kind of hustler? ❜

❛  i have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. i have been finding this hard to do. ❜

❛  loneliness is solitude with a problem.  ❜

❛  mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. i am still looking for the beauty in that.  ❜

❛  what I know: when i met you, a blue rush began. i want you to know, i no longer hold you responsible. ❜

❛  can a reflection be a witness? can one pass oneself the sponge wet with vinegar from a reed?  ❜

❛  this is how much i miss you talking. this is the deepest blue, talking, talking, always talking to you. ❜

❛  but please don’t write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. i already know how you are in love with your weeping. ❜

❛  this is generous, for to be close to your pain has always felt like a privilege to me. ❜

❛  at times i have heard it said that we don’t dream in color. but surely this is a mistake. ❜

❛  for who would be so concerned about a flower in this world? i’ve never heard of anyone being in love with a flower. ❜

❛  thus begins the adventure, the high romance, the romance of seeking. ❜

❛  one of the last times you came to see me, you were wearing a pale blue button-down shirt, short-sleeved. i wore this for you, you said. ❜

❛  i’m in love with you both in completely different ways.  ❜

❛  eventually you will have to give up this love, it has a morbid heart.  ❜

❛  whenever i speak of faith, i am not speaking of faith in god. ❜

❛  we cannot read the darkness. we cannot read it. it is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.  ❜

❛  to take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?  ❜

❛  to see blue in deeper and deeper saturation is eventually to move toward darkness. ❜

❛  what depression ever felt like a fire? ❜

❛  rather than your face as a young woman, i prefer your face as it is now. ravaged. ❜

❛  to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose to make a habitat of your heart. ❜

❛ this acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender. ❜

❛ i suppose it is possible that one day we will meet again and it will feel as if nothing ever happened between us. ❜

❛ i believe in the possibility—the inevitability, even—of a fresh self stepping into ever-fresh waters. ❜

❛ letting a particularly potent person inside you, can alter you irrevocably. ❜

❛  it often happens that we treat pain as if it were the only real thing: everything before it, around it, and, perhaps, in front of it, tends to seem fleeting, delusional. ❜

❛  perhaps, in time, i will also stop missing you. ❜

❛  in any case, i am no longer counting the days. ❜

❛  i want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when i would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words.  ❜

❛  but now you are talking as if love were a consolation. ❜

❛  love is not consolation, it is light...  ❜

❛  when i was alive, i aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.  ❜

[torpublishinggroup]

This advertisement is for Starter Villain, a new science fiction adventure from Hugo Award–winning author John Scalzi.

Meet the new boss.

JK this cat doesn’t work for Tor. At least, we’re pretty sure, with remote work it’s hard to tell who is and isn’t a cat. The person posting this could be a cat. You’d literally never know.

But we do know you should check out Starter Villain by John Scalzi, because it does have hyper intelligent cats working for a villainous organization.

WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT

When divorced substitute teacher Charlie’s long-lost uncle Jake dies, he’s not expecting much. Certainly not to inherit a supervillain business, complete with an island volcano lair, giant laser death rays, lava pits, and hyper-intelligent talking spy cats.

But it gets worse.

Because his uncle wasn’t just a supervillain. He was a supervillain who was in the middle of trying to take down the other supervillains. Somewhere along the way he decided that the rich, soulless predators back by multinational corporations and venture capital were a bad idea. And they needed to be stopped.

And now they’re after Charlie.

[devious-little-milkmaiden]

[jannwrites]

book meme : A MONSTER CALLS by PATRICK NESS.

a selection of lines from the novel a monster calls. modified slightly for rp purposes.

what happened in the nightmare is something no one else ever needs to know.

don't be stupid. you're too old for monsters.

shout all you want. i've seen worse.

you really aren't afraid, are you?

i'm sorry i wasn't up.

was that you i heard last night?

i thought i was dreaming but i could have sworn i heard your voice.

there's the smile i love.

i wish you didn't have to be quite so good.

don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

why did you butt in when it was none of your business?

i'm kind of used to it by now.

open up. i want to talk to you.

it is not what i want from you. it is what you want from me.

i am everything untamed and untameable.

i am this wild earth, come for you.

stories are the wildest things of all. stories chase and bite and hunt.

you know that your truth, the one that you hide, is the thing you are most afraid of.

we need to talk about what's going to happen.

nothing i do seems to make you frightened of me.

you thought i might have come to topple your enemies. slay your dragons.

you would not say that if you heard the screams of a man killed by a spear. or his cries of terror as he was torn to pieces by wolves.

i know injustice when i see it.

sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

how long are you here for?

i'll come back, though.

i'm fine on my own.

you would give up everything you believed in?

that's quite a mess you made.

i know i must look a fright.

this is a talk, isn't it? everybody always wants to have a talk lately.

stories don't always have happy endings.

you still do not know why you called me, do you?

stories are important. they can be more important than anything. if they carry the truth.

i no longer see you.

there once was an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen.

it was not that he was actually invisible. it was that people had become used to not seeing him.

if no one sees you, are you really there at all?

i will make them see me.

you think i'm ever going to be afraid of you?

what secrets do you hide that are so terrible?

there are harder things than being invisible.

i've never been more sorry about anything in my life.

i think, deep in your heart, you've always known. haven't you?

it's okay that you're angry.

i'm pretty angry myself.

i know everything you needed to tell me without you having to say it out loud.

i wish i had a hundred years. a hundred years i could give to you.

i did not come to heal them. i came to heal you.

it will kill you if you do not. you must say it.

a part of you wished it would just end. even if it meant losing them.

you were merely wishing for the end of pain. your own pain.

it is the most human wish of all.

you do not write your life with words. you write it with actions.