" Ex nihilo nihil fit. "

The Sanctuary Network

[onlyxthexchosen]

For any curious of my list of characters:

https://onlyxthexchosen.tumblr.com/muses

The above is the main list, though this blog also includes quite a few other literary characters reimagined within the Sanctuary verse, as well as some original characters. Some of these literary characters reimagined are:

Allan Quartermain

Captain Nemo

Captain James Hook

Mycroft Watson

Nancy Drew

[rpmemes-galore]

The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey {Sentence Starters}

"I found it is the small, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay."

"I have... I have never used a sword in my life!"

"Well, that could have been worse..."

"I want to know - why did you come back?"

"I can't just go running off into the blue!"

"True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

"You don't have to do this. You have a choice."

"That is private, keep your sticky paws off!"

"Do you mean to wish me a good morning or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not?"

"I just need to sit quietly for a moment."

"The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there!"

"I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure."

"Have they got any chips?"

"Can you promise that I will come back?"

"There are some who would not deem it wise."

"There was nothing I could do! I barely escaped with my life!"

"Wait, wait! You are making a terrible mistake!"

"I'm going on an adventure!"

"You're right, I do believe the worst is behind us now."

"And I am sorry for doubting you."

"What will happen if your plan should fail?"

[ask-meme-addicts]

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" sentence starters

❝ There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ❞

❝ The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. ❞

❝ We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly. ❞

❝ I have grown to love secrecy. ❞

❝ Your cynicism is simply a pose. ❞

❝ You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. ❞

❝ Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. ❞

❝ I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ❞

❝ A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ❞

❝ Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain. ❞

❝ None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. ❞

❝ I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ❞

❝ There is nothing that art cannot express. ❞

❝ The harmony of soul and body—how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. ❞

❝ My heart shall never be put under their microscope. ❞

❝ It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. ❞

❝ I feel that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day.” ❞

❝ In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. ❞

❝ Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. ❞

❝ People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. ❞

❝ Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. ❞

❝ Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. ❞

❝ The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ❞

❝ Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ❞

❝ You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ❞

❝ Wherever you go, you charm the world. Will it always be so? ❞

❝ Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. ❞

❝ Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. ❞

❝ You like your art better than your friends. ❞

❝ I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. ❞

❝ Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. ❞

❝ Credit is the capital of a younger son, and one lives charmingly upon it. ❞

❝ Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. ❞

❝ The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. ❞

❝ I can sympathize with everything except suffering. ❞

❝ Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different. ❞

❝ Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. ❞

❝ You are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing. ❞

❝ I am always late on principle, the principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. ❞

❝ I adore it, but I am afraid of it. It makes me too romantic. ❞

❝ Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. ❞

❝ Passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. ❞

❝ If I ever did a crime, I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me. ❞

❝ When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ❞

❝ There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies. ❞

❝ I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ❞

❝ People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. ❞

❝ The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. ❞

❝ It often happens that when we think we were experimenting on others we are really experimenting on ourselves. ❞

❝ Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ❞

❝ To be in love is to surpass one’s self. ❞

❝ Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. ❞

❝ Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now; springtime for me, I think, a very dance of blossoms in blue skies. ❞

❝ I shudder at the thought of being free. ❞

❝ I know you would never harm anyone I love, would you? ❞

❝ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ❞

❝ Of course, it is sudden—all really delightful things are. ❞

❝ The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ❞

❝ Unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality. ❞

❝ You are much better than you pretend to be. ❞

❝ I cannot understand how anyone can wish to shame the thing he loves. ❞

❝ When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy. ❞

❝ The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich. ❞

❝ Being adored is a nuisance. ❞

❝ You are dreadful! I don’t know why I like you so much. ❞

❝ You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. ❞

❝ Love is a more wonderful thing than art. ❞

❝ There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ❞

❝ The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. ❞

❝ I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. ❞

❝ You taught me what reality really is. ❞

❝ You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. ❞

❝ I have grown sick of shadows. ❞

❝ You don’t know what you were to me, once. ❞

❝ You have spoiled the romance of my life. ❞

❝ Without your art, you are nothing. ❞

❝ There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ❞

❝ There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. ❞

❝ I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous. ❞

❝ You cut life to pieces with your epigrams. ❞

❝ Things like that make a man fashionable in Paris. But in London people are so prejudiced. ❞

❝ One should never make one’s début with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one’s old age. ❞

❝ How extraordinarily dramatic life is! ❞

❝ I don’t think I am heartless. Do you? ❞

❝ The moment she touched actual life, she marred it, and it marred her. ❞

❝ Life has everything in store for you, ❞

❝ We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. ❞

❝ If one doesn’t talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. ❞

❝ You must not tell me about things. What is done is done. What is past is past. ❞

❝ I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. ❞

❝ You talk as if you had no heart, no pity in you. ❞

❝ if I told you, you might like me less than you do, and you would certainly laugh at me. I could not bear your doing either of those two things. ❞

❝ Your friendship is dearer to me than any fame or reputation. ❞

❝ You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. ❞

❝ Whatever I have done that is good, I owe to you. ❞

❝ There is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own. ❞

❝ Perhaps one should never put one’s worship into words. ❞

❝ There seems to be something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance. ❞

❝ It has a corruption of its own, worse than the corruption of death itself—something that would breed horrors and yet would never die. ❞

❝ The past can always be annihilated. ❞

❝ How exquisite life had once been! How gorgeous in its pomp and decoration! Even to read of the luxury of the dead was wonderful. ❞

❝ Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. ❞

❝ I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else. ❞

❝ I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty. ❞

❝ You don’t want people to talk of you as something vile and degraded. ❞

❝ You must not say things like that. They are horrible, and they don’t mean anything. ❞

❝ You have had more to do with my life than you think. ❞

❝ Each of us has heaven and hell in him. ❞

❝ Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ❞

❝ Keep your horrible secrets to yourself. They don’t interest me any more. ❞

❝ What is it to me what devil’s work you are up to? ❞

❝ I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you. ❞

❝ The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. ❞

❝ I am not at all surprised that the world says that you are extremely wicked. ❞

❝ It is perfectly monstrous, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true. ❞

❝ Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. ❞

❝ Everybody I know says you are very wicked. ❞

❝ I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ❞

❝ Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. ❞

❝ He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely overeducated. He is a very modern type. ❞

❝ What do you want? Money? Here it is. Don’t ever talk to me again. ❞

❝ Each man lives his own life and pays his own price for living it. ❞

❝ The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. ❞

❝ I think that it is better to be beautiful than to be good. But on the other hand, no one is more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than to be ugly. ❞

❝ To be popular one must be a mediocrity. ❞

❝ We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. ❞

❝ I wish I could love, but I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. ❞

❝ My own personality has become a burden to me. ❞

❝ Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. ❞

❝ The world has always worshipped you. It always will worship you. ❞

❝ Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. ❞

❝ The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all. ❞

❝ The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. ❞

[classic-starters]

starters from the 1818 novel by mary shelley, FRANKENSTEIN

“beware; for i am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

“life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and i will defend it.”

“i have love in me, the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage, the likes of which you would not believe.”

“if i cannot satisfy one, i will indulge the other.”

“if i cannot inspire love, i will cause fear!”

“there is something at work in my soul, which i do not understand.”

“man, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”

“i wish to be allowed to speak.”

“make me happy, and i shall again be virtuous.”

“i was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.”

“you accuse me of murder.”

“listen to me, ( name ).”

“accursed creator!”

“learn from me”

“i am alone and miserable.”

“only someone as ugly as i am could love me.”

“i shall need no other happiness.”

“it was the secrets of heaven and earth that i desired to learn.”

“i do not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”

“why did i not die?”

“i was doomed to live.”

“be men, or be more than men.”

“this ice is not made of such stuffs as your hearts may be.”

“i am malicious because i am miserable.”

“why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

“farewell.”

“my spirit will sleep in peace.”

“i looked upon the sea; it was to be my grave.”

“do you share my madness?”

“soon these burning miseries will be extinct.”

“you shall repent of the injuries you inflict.”

“devil, do you dare approach me?”

“evil thenceforth became my good.”

“my reign is not over yet.”

“follow me.”

“where can i find rest but in death?”

[aurcrean-archive]

Pride & Prejudice (2005) Sentence Starters

“Good heavens…. People.” “Have you no compassion for my poor nerves?” “If every man in the room does not end the evening in love with you, then I’m no judge of beauty.” “How can you tease me so?” “One of these days, someone will catch your eye, and then you’ll have to watch your tongue.” “Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not.” “Count your blessings. If he liked you, you’d have to talk with him.” “I wouldn’t dance with him for all of _, let alone the miserable half.” “Do you like to dance?” “I thought poetry was the food of love.” “What do you recommend to encourage affection?” “No, men are far too easy to judge.” “Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.”  “Her Ladyship demands it.” “You’ve liked many a stupider person.” “All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.” ”So which one of these painted peacocks is _?” “I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.” “Your skills in the art of matchmaking are positively occult.” “I’m no longer surprised at your knowing accomplished women, I rather wonder at your knowing any.” “Our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask him nothing about it.” “Would you find pride a fault or a virtue?” “No excellence can be acquired without constant practice.” “My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.” “How happy for you, _, to possess the talent for flattering with such…delicacy.” “What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.” “Believe me, no one would suspect your manners to be rehearsed.” “Dear, oh dear. You must be the shame of the regiment.” “Oh, _, do you never think ill of anybody?” “These are the kind of delicate little compliments that are always acceptable to the ladies.” “It is my intention, if I may be so bold, to remain close to you throughout the evening.” “It would be most inconvenient, since I have sworn to loathe him for all eternity.” “Please advise me on what you would like most to hear.” “Oh no, I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn.” “I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.” “I hope to afford you more clarity in the future.”  “She’s just shy and modest.” “Men are eaten up with either arrogance or stupidity.” “There are few of us secure enough to be really in love without proper encouragement.” “We are all fools in love.” “I will not and I certainly never shall.” “He does not know her character as we do.” “I am perfectly serious!” “There are few people who have more true enjoyment of music than myself.” “You give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.” “With 5000 a year, it would not matter if he had warts and a leer.” “You know perfectly well I do not believe marriage should be driven by a lot of money.” “Only a man truly confident in himself would admit to that.” “Can’t help but feel at any point someone’s going to produce a piglet and make us chase it.” “You have insulted me in every possible, and can now have nothing to say.” “Headstrong, foolish child!” “If they are amiable, they are so easily led that they have no minds of their own whatsoever.” “You’re free to go off and be jilted yourself.” ”Please understand, I cannot accept you.” “Oh, for heaven’s sake, _, don’t look at me like that.” “Not all of us can afford to be romantic.” ”I think that’s the most unforgiving speech you’ve ever made.” “I must confess, the view from where I sit has been rather grey.” “I’m well enough acquainted with you to know that I cannot alarm you even should I wish it.” “I do not have the talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before.” “What on earth have you done to poor _?” “I have struggled in vain and can bear it no longer.” “I love you… Most ardently.” ”I am very sorry to have caused you pain.” “Is that your opinion of me?” “Take care, that savors strongly of bitterness.” “Can you die of happiness?” “You may ask a question, I may choose not to answer it.” “What are men compared to rocks and mountains?” “Do you not think him handsome?” “How can I ever make amends for such behavior?” “You must know… surely you must know it was all for you.” “One word from you will silence me forever.” “You have bewitched me, body and soul.” “Your hands are cold.”

[gallixie]

tell me, love, how are you still so soft? how are you not made of edges? how can you look at the world and still see so much good when it has done you so much wrong?

and tell me, love, what is it like to have a heart that big? do you feel the weight of it with every breath? how can your heart hold so much pain and so much love at the same time?

tell me, love, how has the world not carved you into something sharp?

— please tell me it never will // p.s.

[rpboxmemes]

valentine's day application

Name: Age: Do you like to cuddle?: Can we make-out?: A night in or dinner out?: Ice cream or chocolate covered strawberries?: What makes you a good Valentine?: Would you cook for me?: Would you let me cook for you?:

[arashikagesteeldoesnotbreak]

“ It’s possible to feel so much HATE that you stop feeling it at all. Like a fish not realizing it’s in water… ”

RP Account for Storm Shadow from G.I. JOE // Indie. Private. Selective. Multiverse & AU friendly. // Written by Walden

[onlyxthexchosen]

@legendariia continued from here

“And yet,” James offered, with his usual warm wisdom, “you seem to have adapted remarkably well, my dear girl; especially considering the challenges you have faced that other young people your own age would not experience in their entire lifetime.” Gentle hands pushed a cup of tea into Nancy’s own, as the detective regarded his protege – and great-great-something niece – with gentle eyes. “For what it is worth, Nancy, I am proud of you. You have done tremendous work, and you should feel proud of yourself, too.” A smile tugged at the corners of his lips, his laughter lines crinkling up kindly. “You are every bit a Watson.”

She doesn’t ask if he means it. She doesn’t have to ask. Even without her own formidable skills of deduction, she is well aware that her uncle—‘Uncle’ because it is far more reasonable a title than the actual relation—is an honest man never given to saying anything that he does not consider truth.

And so she smiles when she accepts the cup of tea from him.

“I don’t know that you’ll ever understand how much it means to me that you think so. Learning from you this past month seems like a dream.”

[onlyxthexchosen]

@legendariia continued from here

Utterly aghast, James tossed one book, followed by another, aside in quick dismissal of their contents. “Wrong,” he muttered, “wrong, wrong, and again, wrong!” He felt apologetic for his act of violence against literature a moment later, pausing to reorganise the books in question back into a far more suitable sort of pile, but his mouth was set in a grim, thin line all of the same. “Historians, it seems, lie on a disturbingly regular basis, with no care whatsoever as to the people involved. All of these books are used in academic study at major universities, and they are all filled with little more than erroneous opinion and baseless conjecture! I thoroughly despair for today’s youth, I truly do.” 

“Now the question would be, dear Doctor,” and it should be noted that the title is at least slightly less scathing than it was wont to be prior to the case of the Distraught Bride with her temporal powers.

“—what, praytell, do y’ do when yer precious books have most decidedly failed you?”

[onlyxthexchosen]

"You need to stop putting yourself into danger." - Lenore, for Emily

@legendariia { Lenore }

“Don’t be ridiculous. I take no more risks and, indeed, far fewer than any other member of this sanctuary or perhaps any other,” she answers, looking up from her paperwork.

That she’s filling out in the observation room of the infirmary after an episode.

Though, she hardly put herself in danger to find herself here.

“There is a difference between putting oneself into danger and when circumstances conspire against you.”

[onlyxthexchosen]

@elemcntarymydear​

                                                                                      —-@onlyxthexchosen The very second that that voice trespassed upon the edges of his consciousness, James was out of the chair he had evidently spent the night in in a flash. He rubbed the haze of sleepiness away from his observant eyes, and immediately fixed his gaze upon her, the intruder — The Woman. “How on earth did you manage to get into my apartment?” Although, James thought that he might have more than a few ideas exactly as to how Miss. Adler had managed to achieve such a feat. Alas, Mrs. Hudson had been — ah, slipping — recently in terms of being an adequate deterrent to anyone who might deign to intrude upon James’ Baker Street sanctum, but he could forgive his housekeeper for her oversight, in this instance. Irene, at least, was about as likely to genuinely try to harm him as Queen Victoria was to concede the rule of Britain to the French. “I thought that I had confiscated your key after last time.” The amusement & curiosity colouring his tone could not be well-hidden; around Irene, James was as open a book as a Bible in a Sunday service, however fervently he might attempt not to be!

“Dearest James, why surely you don’t think so little of me as to suppose that I only had one key in my possession?” she retorts, that little smirk lingering on her lips as she crosses the room to him.

As usual, she has a total disregard for personal space or propriety, drawing in close.

“Now, what exactly has kept you up all night, hm? Is your bed so uncomfortable that you found the chair a more restful place? Or has that brilliant mind of yours refused to allow you the sleep so necessary to mere mortals?”

[onlyxthexchosen]

@elemcntarymydear

                                                                                       —–@onlyxthexchosen   Twit-twooo, came the hooting softly on the night-wind from the garden wall. Twit-twoo! Outside Emily’s bedroom window, the branches of the silver birch twitched in the warm summer breeze, traffic rushed past in Baker Street, and somewhere far away, a train rattled & roared its way down the tracks towards the hustle and bustle of London Victoria Station. The Sanctuary was an oasis of calm in the centre of the city’s chaos, and where better for an owl — or a little girl, for that matter — to come to roost? “I hear him too,” James murmured, sitting on the end of Emily’s bed. “He says that it is late, and wishes his family ‘goodnight, goodnight!’, for little owlets and little girls should both be snug a-bed, and dreaming.” Lovingly, he folded and tucked the quilt covers around her small body, and leaned forward to press a soft kiss to her forehead. “What story would you like tonight, my little owl? Should you wish to spend your time with the Darling children and vicious Captain Hook? Or perhaps with Mr. Baggins, of Bag End?” 

The little girl almost seems as though she will settle when her father presses a kiss to her head. She had been sleepy when she was brought to bed. Apparently, however, somewhere between being scooped up in the library and tucked into bed, she had decided she was not quite so sleepy, after all.

“Must I go to bed so soon?” she questions, looking up at him with serious expression and furrowed brow.

“If the owl is still awake, why can I not be?”

[rp-meme-central]

The Princess Bride sentence starters

1. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” 

2. “Hello. My name is ______. You killed my ______. Prepare to die.” 

3. “Yes, you’re very smart. Shut up.”

4. “Is this a kissing book?” 

5. “S/he’s got very good arms.” 

6. “I hate waiting.” 

7. “S/he’ll pinch my cheek. I hate that.” 

8. “You be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted.” 

9. “Look, I don’t mean to be rude, but this isn’t as easy as it looks, so I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t distract me.” 

10. “I don’t mean to pry, but you wouldn’t by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?” 

11. “Do you always start conversations this way?” 

12. “I would as soon destroy a stained glass window as an artist like yourself. However, since I can’t have you following me…” 

13. “I did that on purpose. I didn’t have to miss.” 

14. “You mean, you put down your rock and I put down my sword, and we try to kill each other like civilized people?” 

15. “Frankly, I think the odds are slightly in your favor at hand fighting.” 

16. “It’s not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don’t even exercise.”

17. “Death cannot stop True Love. All it can do is delay it for a while.” 

18. “They’re kissing again. Do we have to hear the kissing part?” 

19. “Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.” 

20. “You don’t look so good. You don’t smell so good either.” 

21. “_____, tear his arms off.” 

22. “We need a miracle. It’s very important.” 

23. “Don’t rush me, _____. You rush a miracle wo/man, you get rotten miracles.” 

24. “I never work for so little. Except once, and that was a very noble cause.” 

25. “Well, it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.” 

26. “You’ve been mostly dead all day.” 

27. “Who are you? Are we enemies? Why am I on this wall? Where’s ____?” 

28. “Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.” 

29. “Now if we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.” 

30. “Now, I’ll need a sword eventually.” 

31. “I do not marry tonight. My _____ will save me.” 

32. “I want my _____ back, you son-of-a-bitch.” 

33. “I’ll explain, and I’ll use small words so that you’ll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon.” 

34. “That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.”

35. “Drop. Your. Sword.” 

36. “As you wish.” 

37. “Whatever happens to us, I want him/her to have a long life alone with his/her cowardice.” 

38. “You know, it’s strange. I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.” 

39. “I wasn’t nervous. I may have been a little bit concerned, but that’s not the same thing.” 

40. “A book?” 

41. “It doesn’t sound too bad. I’ll try to stay awake.” 

42. “Hear this now. I will always come for you.” 

43. “I’ve hired you to help me start a war. It’s a prestigious line of work with a long and glorious tradition.”  

44. “You have a great gift for rhyme.”

45. “I just don’t think it’s right, killing an innocent girl/boy.” 

46. “Do you know what that sound is, _____? Those are the shrieking eels. If you don’t believe me, just wait. They always grow louder when they’re about to feed on human flesh.” 

47. “Swim back now, I promise no harm will come to you. I doubt you’ll get such an offer from the eels.” 

48. “Hurry up! Move the thing! And… that other thing!” 

49. “I don’t envy you the headache you’ll have when you awake, but in the meantime, rest well and dream of large women.” 

50. “So. It is down to you and it is down to me.” 

51. “There’s nothing to explain. You’re trying to kidnap what I’ve rightfully stolen.” 

52. “You’re trying to trick me into giving away something. It won’t work.” 

53. “Life is pain, ____. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” 

54. “Move? You’re alive. If you want, I could fly.” 

55. “I told you I would always come for you. Why didn’t you wait for me?” 

56. “It’s not that bad. I’m not saying I would ever want to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.” 

57. “We are men/women/people of action. Lies do not become us.” 

58. “I thought you were dead once, and it almost destroyed me. I could not bear it if you died again. Not when I could save you.” 

59. “Have fun storming the castle.”

60. “Are you still trying to win? You’ve got an over-developed sense of vengeance. It’s going to get you into trouble someday.”

[3amsuggestions]

someone help me differentiate what is real and what is not

[onlyxthexchosen]

"I cannot change the complex history that surrounds us, but allow me to take care of you now. As I should have done." -- James, for Nikola

@aflockcfravens { James }

The statement catches him off-guard, and that much should be obvious in that there is no immediate retort. Nikola Tesla always has something to say, after all.

A fact that is quickly proven following the half-second it takes him to recover.

“Now why the sudden change of heart, dear Doctor Watson?” Nikola asks and a half-smirk is quick to appear on his lips, his default disguise for confusion and such other feelings as he doesn’t wish to allow more often than not.

“Don’t tell me a little brush with death and suddenly you have a change of heart. How cliché. You’re better than that.”