possession 1981 writing prompts.
“ one mustn’t be afraid. one must speak honestly. “
“ what’s happening to us is just… it’s just natural. feelings… change. “
“ without you, i wouldn’t feel anything at all. “
“ there you are, you see. it’s the same with me. i don’t even want you now. “
“ how do you intend to live now? “
“ i’m going to be fucked up enough as it is. “
“ how do you dispose of ideas like honesty and loyalty? “
“ no-one is good or bad, but if you want, i am the bad one. “
“ i came to tell you that i can’t live without you and i’m ready to understand whatever there is, but it doesn’t look like it makes much sense. “
“ you must restore order. you must leave ____. “
“ i don’t care if you tell ____ you love them, but they’re not your family. your family is here. “
“ i can’t stand to see you like this. it could be the way you want. just don’t cry any more. “
“ ____ is with me, and they’ll stay with me. “
“ we don’t have to be brutal to each other or even impolite. ”
“ i am not astonished that you are here. i was thinking about you just before you came. “
“ you can hate me as much as you like. but it’s you who wants to know things from me. “
“ i am suffering as much as you are. “
“ i was just trying to make you comprehend that i love you. “
“ i’m not obliged to listen to you speak in that way. it’s offensive. “
“ how long have you been fucking me over? “
“ i accept your ways. the key being infinitive. to accept. “
“ i could have perfect peace if you never came back. “
“ i didn’t want it to happen, but it happened and now… “
“ don’t come any closer! don’t you understand? you disgust me! i can’t stand you touching me. “
“ yes! a monster, a whore. i fuck around with everybody. whenever you turn around, i fuck around with everybody on every corner. “
“ you can’t stop me. i’ll open the window and jump! “
“ you know what this is for? the lies. “
“ what have i done that you hate me so much? “
“ when i’m away from you, i think of you as an animal, or a woman possessed and then i see you again and all this disappears. “
“ it’ll be the way you want it. “
“ you don’t have to say anything you don’t want to. “
“ oh, come on. don’t be so formal. “
“ why don’t you like me? why don’t you draw in the plentitude of my love and pull it over your life like a veil? “
“ i used to be afraid of you. but i don’t think i am anymore. “
“ there’s nothing to fear except god. whatever that means to you. “
“ for me, god is a disease. “
“ i come from a place where evil seems easier to pinpoint because you can see it in the flesh. “
“ that was out of pure, blind ambition. and you know something? i don’t feel like there’s anything much ambitious left in me. “
“ darkness is easeful. and the temptation to let go… promises so much comfort after the pain. “
“ i can do as well. i can be better. i’m the best. “
“ that’s why i’m with you. because you say ‘i’ for me. “
“ i recognize the self who has just done something horrible like a sister i’ve casually met on the street. “
“ you’re looking at me as if to tell me that i need you to fill me up, as if i’m an empty space. “
“ i can’t exist by myself because i’m afraid of myself. because i’m the maker of my own evil. “
“ goodness is only some kind of reflection upon evil. “
“ it’s getting… so difficult for you, isn’t it? you’re not as strong or as sure of yourself as you thought you were, so you keep coming back. “
“ i’ve been a cheat, a liar, completely alone, wounded. “
“ you think i’m immoral shit. i think so too, but not for the same reasons. “
“ i feel nothing for no-one! “
“ i’m the only one in your life who has rights on you because i don’t claim any. “
“ you are no different from anyone else. we are all the same but in different words. with different bodies, different versions. like insects. “
“ perhaps you did it to yourself. maybe you’re learning how to suffer. “
“ i take what i want. and i’m at peace with myself. “
“ do you believe in god? it’s in me. “
“ you come like the angel of death. the one who kills. “
“ how do you want to finish it? “