• ‘  we  never  painted  by  the  numbers,  but  we  were  making  it  count.  ’
• ‘  you  know  the  greatest  loves  of  all  time  are  over  now.  ’
• ‘  we  were  something,  don’t  you  think  so  ?  ’
• ‘  in  my  defense,  i  have  none.  ’
• ‘  if  my  wishes  came  true,  it  would  have  been  you.  ’
• ‘  when  you  are  young  they  assume  you  know  nothing.  ’
• ‘  i  knew  you’d  haunt  all  of  my  what-if’s.  ’
• ‘  you  drew  scars  around  my  stars  but  now  i’m  bleeding.  ’
• ‘  i  knew  i’d  curse  you  for  the  longest  time.  ’
• ‘  who  knows  if  you / he / she / they ‘d  never  showed  up,  what  could  have  been.  ’
• ‘  i  had  a  marvelous  time  ruining  everything.  ’
• ‘  you’re  laughing,  but  the  joke’s  not  funny  at  all.  ’
• ‘  you’re  not  my  homeland  anymore.  ’
• ‘  you  were  my  crown,  now  i’m  in  exile.  ’
• ‘  all  this  time,  we  always  walked  a  very  thin  line.  ’
• ‘  your  eyes  add  insult  to  injury.  ’
• ‘  if  i’m  on  fire,  you’ll  be  made  of  ashes  too.  ’
• ‘  did  i  deserve  all  the  hell  you  gave  me  ?  ’
• ‘  i  loved  you,  i  swear  i  loved  you  til  my  dying  day.  ’
• ‘  if  i’m  dead  to  you,  why  are  you  at  the  wake  ?  ’
• ‘  i  still  talk  to  you  while  i’m  screaming  at  the  sky.  ’
• ‘  you  had  to  kill  me  but  it  killed  you  just  the  same.  ’
• ‘  i  know  they  said  the  end  is  near.  ’
• ‘  i’ll  be  shining  just  for  you.  ’
• ‘  i’m  still  a  believer,  but  i  don’t  know  why.  ’
• ‘  i’ve  never  been  a  natural,  all  i  do  is  try.  ’
• ‘  i  used  to  scream  ferociously  any  time  i  wanted.  ’
• ‘  i  love  you  to  the  moon  and  saturn.  ’
• ‘  our  love  lasts  so  long.  ’
• ‘  i  can  see  us  lost  in  the  memory.  ’
• ‘  you  were  never  mine.  ’
• ‘  do  you  remember  ?  ’
• ‘  i  remember  thinking  i  had  you.  ’
• ‘  i  was  living  for  the  hope  of  it  all.  ’
• ‘  i  didn’t  know  if  you’d  care  if  i  came  back.  ’
• ‘  i  have  a  lot  of  regrets  about  that.  ’
• ‘  i  don’t  quite  know  what  to  say,  but  i’m  here  in  your  doorway.  ’
• ‘  at  least  i’m  trying.  ’
• ‘  it’s  hard  to  be  anywhere  these  days  when  all  i  want  is  you.  ’
• ‘  you  showed  me  colors  you  know  i  can’t  see  with  anyone  else.  ’
• ‘  look  at  this  idiotic  fool  that  you’ve  made  me.  ’
• ‘  for  you  i  would  ruin  myself  a  million  little  times.  ’
• ‘  time,  curious  time,  cutting  me  open  and  healing  me  fine.  ’
• ‘  all  along  there  was  some  invisible  string  tying  you  to  me.  ’
• ‘  hell  was  the  journey  but  it  brought  me  heaven.  ’
• ‘  what  did  you  think  i’d  say  to  that  ?  ’
• ‘  what  a  shame  she  went  mad.  ’
• ‘  you  took  everything  from  me.  ’
• ‘  you  want  a  single  glimpse  of  relief  to  make  sense  of  what  you’ve  seen.  ’
• ‘  it’s  like  i  couldn’t  breathe.  ’
• ‘  the  worst  thing  that  i  ever  did  was  what  i  did  to  you.  ’
• ‘  i  dreamt  of  you  all  summer  long.  ’
• ‘  right  now  is  the  last  time  i  can  dream  about  what  happens  when  you  see  my  face  again.  ’
• ‘  i  don’t  know  anything,  but  i  know  i  miss  you.  ’
• ‘  the  rain  is  always  going  to  come  if  you’re  standing  with  me.  ’
• ‘  i’m  a  fire  and  i’ll  keep  your  brittle  heart  warm.  ’
• ‘  i  would  die  for  you  in  secret.  ’
• ‘  would  it  be  enough  if  i  could  never  give  you  peace  ?  ’
• ‘  no  other  sadness  in  the  world  would  do.  ’
• ‘  your  faithless  love  is  the  only  hoax  i  believe  in.  ’
• ‘  i  don’t  belong,  and  my  beloved  neither  do  you.  ’
• ‘  i  want  you  right  here.  ’

• ‘  i  never  would  have  known  by  the  look  on  your  face.  ’
• ‘  the  more  that  you  say,  the  less  i  know.  ’
• ‘  wherever  you  stray,  i’ll  follow.  ’
• ‘  i  dropped  your  hand  while  dancing.  ’
• ‘  love  slipped  beyond  your  reaches,  and  i  couldn’t  give  a  reason.  ’
• ‘  i  never  was  ready,  so  i  watched  you  go.  ’
• ‘  sometimes  you  just  don’t  know  the  answer  til’  someone’s  on  their  knees  and  asks  you.  ’
• ‘  what  a  shame  she’s  fucked  in  the  head.  ’
• ‘  everybody  wonders  what  it  would  be  like  to  love  you.  ’
• ‘  what  must  it  be  like  to  grow  up  that  beautiful  ?  ’
• ‘  my  mind  turns  your  life  into  folklore.  ’
• ‘  there’s  an  ache  in  you,  put  there  by  the  ache  in  me.  ’
• ‘  i  won’t  ask  you  to  wait  if  you  don’t  ask  me  to  stay.  ’
• ‘  the  heart  i  know  i’m  breaking  is  my  own.  ’
• ‘  you’re  so  much  older,  and  wiser.  ’
• ‘  i  know  my  love  should  be  celebrated,  but  you  tolerate  it.  ’
• ‘  if  it’s  all  in  my  head,  tell  me  now.  ’
• ‘  you  assume  i’m  fine  but  what  would  you  do  if  i  break  free  and  leave  us  in  ruins  ?  ’
• ‘  i  think  he / she / they  did  it,  but  i  just  can’t  prove  it.  ’
• ‘  i’m  not  letting  up  until  the  day  i  die.  ’
• ‘  you  haven’t  met  the  new  me  yet.  ’
• ‘  there  is  happiness  in  our  history.  ’
• ‘  you’re  haunted  by  the  look  in  my  eyes  that  would  have  loved  you  for  a  lifetime.  ’
• ‘  i  can’t  make  it  go  away  by  making  you  a  villain.  ’
• ‘  when  did  your  winning  smile  begin  to  look  like  a  smirk  ?  ’
• ‘  sorry,  i  can’t  see  facts  through  all  of  my  fury.  ’
• ‘  do  you  ever  stop  and  think  about  me  ?  ’
• ‘  it’s  never  too  late  to  come  back  to  my  side.  ’
• ‘  i  guess  i’ll  never  know,  and  you’ll  go  on  with  the  show.  ’
• ‘  you  know  you’ll  always  know  me.  ’
• ‘  did  i  paint  your  bluest  skies  the  darkest  grey  ?  ’
• ‘  did  you  love  me,  or  were  you  too  polite  to  leave  me  ?  ’
• ‘  your  touch  brought  forth  an  incandescent  glow.  ’
• ‘  i  sit  here  and  wait,  grieving  for  the  living.  ’
• ‘  my  pain  fits  in  the  palm  of  your  freezing  hand.  ’
• ‘  i  can’t  stop  you  putting  roots  in  my  dreamland.  ’
• ‘  i’d  live  and  die  for  moments  that  we  stole  on  begged  and  borrowed  time.  ’
• ‘  takes  one  to  know  one.  ’
• ‘  you’re  a  bandit  like  me.  ’
• ‘  forever  is  the  sweetest  con.  ’
• ‘  you  had  some  tricks  up  your  sleeves.  ’
• ‘  now  i  know  i’m  never  going  to  love  again.  ’
• ‘  i  tried  to  pick  my  battles  until  the  battle  picked  me.  ’
• ‘  your  nemeses  will  defeat  themselves  before  they  get  the  chance  to  swing.  ’
• ‘  you’re  alive  in  my  head.  ’
• ‘  what  died  didn’t  stay  dead.  ’
• ‘  it  cut  deep  to  know  you  right  to  the  bone.  ’
• ‘  i  can’t  remember  what  i  used  to  fight  for.  ’
• ‘  in  the  cracks  of  light,  i  dreamed  of  you.  ’
• ‘  i  had  a  feeling  so  peculiar.  ’
• ‘  i’m  right  where  you  left  me.  ’
• ‘  i’m  still  sitting  in  a  corner  i  haunt.  ’
• ‘  if  my  love  died  young,  i  can’t  bear  witness.  ’
• ‘  you  left  me  no  choice  but  to  stay  here  forever.  ’
• ‘  it’s  that  old  familiar  body  ache,  from  the  same  little  break  in  your  soul.  ’
• ‘  sometimes  giving  up  is  the  strong  thing.  ’
• ‘  sometimes  to  run  is  the  brave  thing.  ’
• ‘  you  know  when  it’s  time  to  go.  ’

Mycroft Holmes + gloves

• You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
• You are going to break your promise. I understand.
• You’re lonely too.
• It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be.
• I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable.
• I am your servant.
• I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased.
• For you alone I will be weak.
• I belong here, and you will not deny me.
• I say these things, and the world listens.
• I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried.
• In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.
• I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories.
• I moved the earth and the water for you.
• You will always run away with her.
• You will always lose her.
• You will always be a fool.
• You will always be dead, in a city of ice, snow falling into your ear.
• You have already done all of this and will do it again.
• No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.
• We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying.
• What we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.
• There need never be any rules between us.
• Let us be greedy together; let us hoard.
• Do not leave me, swear that you will never leave me.
• I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
• Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
• I can’t abide a poor liar.
• You look like a winter’s night. I could sleep inside the cold of you.
• Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.
• Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.
• Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
• In his own country, Death can be kind.
• What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
• Men die. It’s practically what they’re for.
• I am no one; I am nothing.
• Nothing in me was not made by you.
• A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
• Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
• Forever isn’t bright; it isn’t like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.
• I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
• If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
• What did I do wrong? Was I boring? Did I ignore you?
• Don’t you dare speak to me like that.
• I have worn nothing but blood and death for years.
• I have fought all your battles for you, just as you asked me.
• I have learned not to cry when I strangle a man.
• I have learned to watch everything die.
• I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.
• Are we not devils?
• No one is now what they were before the war.
• I have not seen you without your skin on.
• Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.
• We obsess. It’s in our nature.
• I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
• In war you must always choose sides.
• If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
• We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive.
• My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
• It is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair.
• I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
• After love, no one is what they were before.
• I have survived, but I have not been spared.
• In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you.
• Frighten me, make me cry, only come back.
• It’s not so bad, my darling. Being dead. It’s like being alive, only colder.
• You’ll think it’s love, while he dines on your heart.
• You will be so beautiful when you are old.
• I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.
• You will live as you live in any world…with difficulty, and grief.
• I look at you and it is like my throat being cut.
• She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
• I still want to kiss you.
• My heart is being cut in two. I cannot bear it.
• What happens to anything beautiful?
• I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.