dialogue prompts from ruin and rising by leigh bardugo.
grief has its own life, takes its own substance.
it’s not overselling if you deliver.
i’m accustomed to being the center of attention wherever i go.
you know damn well i like you.
i make it a policy never to seduce anyone prettier than i am.
i appreciate your optimism.
know that i loved you. know that it was not enough.
you shouldn’t be out here alone.
turned out i needed a good cry.
i’ll stay by your side as long as you’ll let me.
all i want is a warm bed and a glass of wine.
eventually, either all that grief will spill over or you’ll drown in it.
when you can’t get up, you let me carry you.
not everyone dies for a reason.
are we philosophizing, or were those song lyrics?
don’t talk that way. don’t think that way, either.
don’t tell me all of this is happening for a reason, or that it’s going to be okay.
it’s not going to be okay. none of this is happening for a reason.
you’re one of us, whether you like it or not.
maybe you’re just doomed to be tacky.
let’s go set fire to something.
are you going to yell at me, too?
maybe it brought us together, but it didn’t make us who we are.
i would have noticed you.
i had some very distracting thoughts about you.
you are the hole in my heart.
my real passion is lost causes.
i am surrounded by fools.
i’m grateful to be alive. it just hurts.
you have the right to grieve.
there’s no fear left in me.
that life is over. maybe i’ll be smarter in the next one.
did i come at a bad time?
give yourself time to heal.
next time, warn me when you’re paying attention. i’ll talk less.
we were friends, weren’t we?
you will always be one of us.
