THE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT
a roleplay sentence meme with various quotes and sentences taken from carissa broadbent's the serpent and the wings of night. feel free to tweak as needed. content warning: foul language, mentions of violence/murder, suggestive themes
you have to push hard to make it through the breastbone.
death isn’t frightening when weighed against an insignificant existence.
they’re dead, and if you go after them, so are you.
you must be better than they are, to make up for what you are not.
here’s how you stay alive. here’s how you make sure that no one can hurt you.
think about what you have to gain from an interaction. the answer is usually nothing.
i want an apology. for stabbing me.
you just wanted to swing your cock around.
you haven’t said a single true thing since you strode in here, so i’ll be honest for the both of us.
i am the only person who will ever make that promise and keep it.
you are prey. you will always be prey.
you’ll bleed to death, or they’ll kill you.
i will stab you again if you come even a single step closer to me.
i taught you better than to serve yourself to your enemies that way.
you need to focus on staying alive. nothing else.
i tried to come to you for help and you weren’t there.
watch his back, but don’t let him see yours.
you don’t know how to give a fuck about a single person other than yourself.
you think my life is worth nothing, but i can still leave a stain on you that can’t be washed out.
what’s immortality if we don’t use it to do the same things over and over again, forever, until the end of time?
that’s an uncharacteristically boring retort.
i have my ways. very dangerous, very clever, very impressive ways.
do you want to change this world? then climb your cage until you are so high no one can catch you. break its walls and make them your weapons. nothing is sharper.
you cannot accomplish anything in this world without power, and power requires sacrifice, focus, and ruthlessness.
now is the time for conquering.
do you want people to think you’re a brute?
you fucking knew, and you still gave me that much shit -
do you wish to unseat me? try.
you have opened a door you cannot close again, and you are not prepared for the horrors that i will pour through it.
these horrors will not spare you. not even when you beg for death.
i’m glad your bedside manner is about as delicate as i would have expected.
he left me. i called and called, and he wouldn’t come.
stop resisting it. lean into it. that’s the only way we make it through.
i’d be disappointed if you didn’t walk into that party armed to the teeth.
don’t be so quick to throw away your humanity, you might find you miss it once it’s gone.
i’ve lived through some injustices. seen some fucking travesties. but the biggest is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.
your heart is beating very fast. you must be very concerned for my well-being.
that wasn’t how i’d imagined making you come for the first time.
are you really not aware that you are always making a face?
you seem to be good at winning the hearts of ill-tempered creatures.
our dream world is nice, but it’s not real. and i don’t want to be woken up from it by you tearing open my throat.
i didn’t want you to see me that way, so i pretended that version of myself didn’t exist.
i’m not going to just sit next to you while you die.
you made it so far, but at least your bones will lie in your homeland.
i’ve had many years of practice, it is always important to be decisive and efficient.
power demands ruthlessness. what did you expect me to do?
i gave you teeth and claws. i made your heart steel. do not pity them. they are less than you.
i appreciate your thoroughness, but i think he’s dead.
you think i pity you? i don’t pity you. i just think you deserve better.
i don’t want to fuck you for the first time in an alleyway three feet from a pile of entrails.
we’ll probably die tomorrow. show me something worth living for.
i would beg. for you, i would. you have fucking destroyed me. do you know that?
glad your pillowtalk is about as pleasant as your bedside manner.
promise me you’ll never stop fighting.
end the danger and the fear and the violence. end it.
i know grief. i know what it is to lose half of one’s soul.
a dead lover can never break your heart.
love was a sacrifice at the alter of power.
stop speaking. stop dying. stop leaving me.
i loved you. i loved you from the first moment.
power is a risky business.
we have teeth, you and i. now is the time to use them.
i can’t kill you. i tried. i can’t. a world without you would be a dark, depressing place.
