“ let the record show that they were ill-equipped to deal with you. ”
“ you’ll be fertilizer regardless. ”
“ might as well have interesting stories for the dirt. ”
“ there is an exhaustion that comes with living. ”
“ fear is the absence of understanding. ”
“ horror is the act of understanding perfectly. ”
“ your love will always be rooted deeper than any grave. ”
“ you’ve long seen your downfall spelled out in another’s bones. ”
“ the victor spoils, the loser learns. ”
“ the body is rot waiting to happen. ”
“ you will never have loved for nothing. ”
“ quiet reflection is next to impossible. ”
“ you inspire me to be better! a better ‘what’ is up for interpretation. ”
“ we don’t know where you came from. ”
“ we need you to go back. ”
“ the dark doesn’t intend to hurt you. ”
“ i lived better when i was ignorant of the sun, tucked away in your chest. ”
“ and then there’s saying ‘fuck it,’ and doing what you may. ”
“ if only it were easy! to wish and want for nothing. ”
“ if only you weren’t less human for it. ”
“ in the end there is no blaze of glory. ”
“ die due to carelessness. ”
“ in the span of your life there’s plenty to avoid. ”
“ you are dazzling and terrifying. ”
“ those words are not as removed from one another as you may think. ”
“ pick a place and die there. ”
“ i know you mean well. ”
“ may fortune favor the fuckups. ”
“ remarkable that one plane of existence can host so much, and so little, distance. ”
“ learn when it’s best to bite your tongue. ”
“ temper the nest of hornets in your loveless mouth. ”
“ i worry. ”
“ time sours, rots, renews, sours again. ”
“ grief and growth live hand-in-hand. ”
“ sleeping, like dying, delivers you from one world to the next. ”
“ rest in crypts and wake in gardens. ”
“ make room for small, fragile things. ”
“ you win some, you lose some, you lie, cheat, and swindle some. ”
“ stranger things have happened. ”
“ you are happening all the time and should probably stop. ”
“ let none be the noose. ”
“ take what you can and run. ”
“ gratuitous violence : selfish, satisfying, heartbreaking, and so like everything else you love. ”
“ understanding builds bridges. ”
“ there is a variety of sadness that makes a home in your guts and never quite leaves. ”
“ being loathsome and lovely in equal measure is probably a talent. somewhere. ”
“ why fear the dead, when you can fear the living? ”
“ if you’re forging your own path, be prepared to light your own pyre. ”
“ you can’t wrestle apologies from the sea or the sun. ”
“ you were a plague none were prepared for. ”
“ assholery is incurable, unfortunately. ”
“ no one’s going to notice the difference between you pushing dandelions or daisies so leave them something worth talking about. ”
“ you aren’t obligated to be anyone’s cure. ”
“ soothe what you can, fight what you can’t. ”
“ devour the monsters and you can call any place home. ”
“ you’re only as lucky as your expectations are low. ”
“ worse than having too many secrets is having no secrets at all. ”
“ killing the monsters is the easy bit. it’s finding them that’s the hard part. ”
“ there exists a tipping point between gods and monsters. ”
“ your humanity is the largest burden you will bear. ”
“ but you have seen yourself in the mirror. ”
“ even spectres can tire. ”
“ it pays to kill with kindness. ”
“ you’re your own worst enemy. ”
“ you’re only armed to the teeth because you’re more brittle than you’d care to admit. ”
“ your ego cannot afford cremations or caskets. ”
“ whether you like what you see is up for debate. ”
“ whether it can be contained in a dark basement is another matter entirely. ”
