“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
“Stories are supposed to live longer than people.”
“All I know is that I think, and therefore I’m exceedingly angry.”
“The mind could conjure all kinds of fanciful scenarios to assuage the guilt of a poor choice of last words.”
“My mother once told me beautiful was the worst thing a girl could be.”
“My body is my enemy, and I will use every weapon in my arsenal against it.”
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will.”
“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it”
“I want, I lack, I hunger.”
“I do not need to contain my appetites. What is a monster but a creature of agency?”
“You are human and fallible.”
“Any predator can choose to smile without teeth.”
“It's the good things that hurt when you're missing them.”
“There’s hardly anything in life worth doing that doesn’t make somebody angry.”
“Even loneliness, hollow and cold, becomes so familiar it starts to feel like a friend.”
“He loved the idea of me before he peeled back all the layers.”
“I think I loved you then, and hated myself for it”
“You liked me best when I was like an oil painting; perfectly arranged and silent.”
“Nature was beautiful. But we did such a good job of making it ugly.”
“I'd burn anything down if you so much asked”
“I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer.”
“If I were in heaven, [ name ], I should be extremely miserable.”
“..perhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss?”
“Oh, little [ name ]. It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”
“Love me, then, or hate me, as you will.”
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
“Human beings reserved their most potent venom for the ones we love.”
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.”
“I am my own mistress.”
“If there is anyone I would damn my soul for, it would be you.”
“There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.”
“May she wake in torment!”
“God is an absent parent who demands loyalty despite never being around…”
“We all need different sorts of love to make us feel whole.”
“I'd wake up every morning and think, 'This will end in flames.”
“Hunger makes monsters of the kindest souls.”
“It's called optimism — but I’m losing the hang of it fast.”
“If you love me as you say you do, make it so that I am at peace.”
“Love is an act of sacrifice.”
“I would have torn his heart out, and drunk his blood.”
“Knowing is hard, but it’s a thing you can survive. The not knowing will kill you in the end. It’s the secrets that fester.”
“I haven’t needed anything big enough from you to justify being pleasant, and I doubt I ever will.”
“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”
“If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it.”
“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”
“Dread remorse when you are tempted to err… remorse is the poison of life.”
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
“Wanting anything ended only in misery.”
“But it is my own opinions which I wish to make better known, not other people's.”
“Disappointment tells us what we truly wanted. And to want is to be alive.”
“Any relic of the dead is precious”
“Magic is the first sip of good wine that makes the edges of your vision blur. Magic is the cool breeze of the boardwalk at night and organ music in the air.”
“Madness, yes... but heartfelt madness.”
“I want to be someone's right now, [ name ], not their happily ever after.”
“I wonder for what you hunger and whether you allow yourself to feel it.”
“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain.”
“You were supposed to be a promise of happiness, but you've eaten me alive.”
