Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny. Some quotes have been edited or paraphrased for RP purposes. Feel free to change it up to fit your muse. 2/?
“ i wasn’t one to accept death. to live beside it - that wasn’t my way. ”
“ i threw him away. i thought i loved him, but he was nothing to me. ”
“ i did not think that death could, or would touch me. before i met the devil, i was too worthless even for death. ”
“ i never feared the devil, no. he took something from me, but he gave me back something i lost, too. ”
“ when they died, it sucked the love right out of me. ”
“ i thought it would last forever. it should have. ”
“ joy? well, i think there’s more of it in the world than there was. ain’t mine to have, but it’s there. people dance more now. they smile more, i think. ”
“ you ever wake up, already silently screaming in your head? ”
“ do you need a soul to love? i don’t think i’m capable of it anymore. ”
“ what’s freedom to me? some say that when we end, that’s freedom. ”
“ i wish i could find comfort in the notion of death, but i know what waits for me beyond the veil. ”
“ don’t bother wishing me any luck. luck’s not in my stars. love ain’t in there, either. ”
“ sit with me - let’s talk. i don’t want to sleep tonight. ”
“ this life is a prison and sometimes i laugh because i made it. i made this whole world and now i’m trapped in it. ”
“ we were all cursed. right from the beginning. ”
“ i think i was born cursed. there was never a happy ending for me; i die alone no matter what path i took at that crossroads. ”
“ the devil doesn’t give even deals. ”
“ the devil gave me everything - but he took everything, too. ”
“ it was me. it was me who made this world. that’s all i have now, and i need you to know this; i made the world that ruined me. ”
“ there’s no running left in me. don’t weep for me. i will die here. ”
“ are we done here? i laid myself bare for you - that’s all there is to me now. ”
“ does being out here free that part of you? ”
“ i’ve met a lot of people like you on this road. there’s something you want from it, isn’t there? ”
“ i’ve been a wandering ghost for a while now, and i’ll be that way for some time to come. ”
“ it’s a fate i should have known i was in for. ”
“ sometimes i start to think: well, the world isn’t made for being happy in. not for someone like me. ”
“ i’ve seen a lot of change. everything - everyone - i thought i had is gone. ”
“ when i’m alone out here, i spend too much time inside my own head. ”
“ you know the hardest person for anyone to have faith in? it’s themselves. ”
“ what do you want from this life? do you think there’s a chance you’ll get it? ”
“ it takes a special kind of fool to become a poet. ”
“ writing poetry won’t make your sadness go away, nor will your problems be solved. but at least you’ll be able to look back and know how you felt. ”
“ maybe the traps i’ve fallen into are ones i made myself. ”
“ maybe what i think happened didn’t happen at all, and i’m the one who’s been a monster. ”
“ i don’t trust myself to see them and act like a decent human being. ”
“ i suppose after a while i’ll start to realize how little i can change and accept myself as seething with anger and pain. ”
“ a pity, isn’t it? to be stuck with ourselves like this. ”
“ i don’t want to be the way i am now. ”
“ looks like i’m still me and you’re still you. ”
“ it’s enough for something to exist in the past and for that to have been good. ”
“ i wanted to find what it meant to be alive. ”
“ most people go through life doing a lot of work to avoid the truth. ”
“ the past doesn’t even feel like it happened - it feels like it’s happening in every moment. in every slumber. ”
“ when your memories come back to you, do they clutch at you? at your heart? ”
“ do you know any happy stories? hopeful ones? ”
“ there’s some hope left for you, too, you know. don’t give it away too quickly. ”
“ faith? well, god and i haven’t been on speaking terms. i gave the fucker so many chances to make things right and he hasn’t followed through. ”
“ the days come and go and the terrors return. ”
“ they’ll never be able to pay back what they owe me, but i’ll always keep at ‘em. ”
“ what about you - is there something somebody owes you? ”
“ the journey - if you look at it all at once, it’ll overwhelm you. it’ll hurt your mind. if you take it day by day, then…then it won’t hurt quite so much. ”
“ they wanted someone to be proud of, and i did as they asked. ”
“ the sadness didn’t come immediately. when they died, it left me feeling like half of me was missing. ”
“ the emptiness didn’t last - it filled itself with sadness not long after. ”
“ for a moment there - just a moment - i felt better about it all, too. ”
“ the time for faith has long passed, friend. ”
“ love comes in so many forms. i love more dearly now than ever.”
“ i love more deeply than the sun and the earth. ”
“ loyalty to him is the only loyalty i don’t regret. ”
“ when everything has left you, all that remains is a peculiar peace. ”
“ the way people look at me…that’s when i miss being whole the most. ”
“ i wish i could talk about what happened the way you do. ”
“ wishes? if i had my way, i’d go back to a time before the war…but now, i have no wishes. ”
“ the stars cross the sky and they mean nothing. ”
