dark matter is a novel by blake crouch. tw: self-harm and suicidal ideation.

• ‘ how does that feel? ’  
• ‘ you should eat something. ’ 
• ‘ is everything okay? ’ 
• ‘ you have cuts all over your face. ’ 
• ‘ we’ll go someplace safe. ’
• ‘ you’re in no condition – ’
• ‘ there’s a car following us. ’ 
• ‘ you’re burning up, __. ’ 
• ‘ i can’t sleep. ’ 
• ‘ we’re all real proud of you. ’
• ‘ don’t touch me! ’  
• ‘ i should take you to the ER. ’
• ‘ you’ll be right here? ’
• ‘ i hope you’ll be more comfortable here. ’
• ‘ what does your gut tell you? ’ 
• ‘ let me take you to the hospital. ’
• ‘ stay with me. ’
• ‘ i told you. we’re a family. ’ 
• ‘ keep your voice down. ’
• ‘ what about me? ’ 
• ‘ last night, you asked me how we fix this. ’ 
• ‘ turn around. ’ 
• ‘ i don’t need you doing something heroic. ’
• ‘ you’ve been following me? ’ 
• ‘ by the way, this is going to stay locked. ’ 
• ‘ they carried you in here a little while ago. ’
• ‘ i’m scared too. ’ 
• ‘ just fucking do it. ’
• ‘ can’t you see it’s me? can’t you tell? ’
• ‘ you don’t look fine. ’ 
• ‘ bullshit. ’ 
• ‘ is something wrong, and you’re not telling me? ’ 
• ‘ so how serious is it? ’ 
• ‘ what’s in the bag? ’
• ‘ i just need you to listen for a minute. ’  
• ‘ __, are you having any thoughts of hurting yourself? ’ 
• ‘ you don’t get to – ’ 
• ‘ i really miss you. ’
• ‘ my phone’s dead, so i borrowed one off this woman on the train. ’ 
• ‘ because i didn’t sign up for this shit. ’ 
• ‘ i know. i just didn’t want to wake you. ’
• ‘ i’m not suicidal. ’  
• ‘ you live with your choices and learn. ’ 
• ‘ i feel like i’m caught in a nightmare and i can’t wake myself up. ’
• ‘ go to hell. ’    
• ‘ you don’t remember? ’ 

• ❝ Sweetie, it’s four o'clock in the morning, what are you doing? ❞
• ❝ I don’t understand why magic can’t fix this. ❞
• ❝ There’s other magic, magic that we’ve used before. ❞
• ❝ I just thank God that I didn’t lose you too. ❞
• ❝ We lost our sister. How can we ever understand that? ❞
• ❝ Can we at least bury her in peace?! Is that too much to ask?! ❞
• ❝ Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Damnit! ❞
• ❝ You sure don’t recognize her from anywhere? ❞
• ❝ But somehow, we got to find her before nightfall, or else… ❞
• ❝ I don’t want to do this anymore, okay? It’s over! ❞
• ❝ You can tell them we buried their precious Charmed Ones when we buried our sister. ❞
• ❝ How am I? Are you kidding? Do you guys not get the news up there? ❞
• ❝ Why didn’t you come before when I called after…? ❞
• ❝ I’m not allow to tell you now, just like you’re not allow to see her.  ❞
• ❝ Why did they put us through so much for it to end this way? ❞
• ❝ Are you insane or are you just plain stupid? ❞
• ❝ What the hell is the matter with you?! ❞
• ❝ Isn’t it obvious by now that our only destiny is to die? ❞
• ❝ Your destiny still awaits, she says. There’s a reason for everything, she says. ❞
• ❝ You’ve caught us, congratulations! So what are you going to do about us, shoot us? ❞
• ❝ It was the only thing I could think of that rhymed with ‘undo’. ❞
• ❝ I’m angry, um, I’m confused, and you know what, this, this is just crazy! ❞
• ❝ It’s kind of hard to heal myself when I’m knocked out. ❞
• ❝ Three years together, and now you’re asking these questions? ❞
• ❝ I wanted to find out who I was, I didn’t want to find out I was a freak. ❞
• ❝ This is none of your business. You’re an assisstant, not a social worker. ❞
• ❝ That’s because you’re too cheap to make me one. ❞
• ❝ I guess blood’s a little thicker than evil.  ❞
• ❝ Two witches and a half-a-demon does not the power of three make. ❞
• ❝ If it’s the Source, I’ll just ask him to come back later. ❞
• ❝ Evil got the Book of Shadows, ‘oh no’ doesn’t quite cover it. ❞
• ❝ See, now, this is what I meant by over-reacting, it’s just that I.. ❞
• ❝ What? Why-why… why… Why would you think that?! ❞
• ❝ You stole our sacred book, so you could perform magical plastic surgery on yourself? ❞
• ❝ I’ve been watching you ever since you were a baby. ❞
• ❝ Do you have any idea how much this would cost in the salon? ❞
• ❝ Will someone please get me back to the ocean before I suffocate? ❞
• ❝ Look I am not a common goldfish. I cannot ignore the call of the sea! ❞
• ❝ Oh please, please. Somebody help me. ❞
• ❝ Okay…I’ve had enough. Your treatment of me is shocking. ❞
• ❝ No,this is not happening. This goes way beyond stalking. ❞
• ❝ What do you mean, didn’t you come on your own power? ❞
• ❝ Oh, my goodness, don’t tell me you’re already interviewing nannies. ❞
• ❝ No offense, but, uh, aren’t you supposed to be dead? ❞
• ❝ Can someone please tell me how I got in a coffin? ❞
• ❝ I don’t wanna chat. I got problems here. ❞
• ❝ I can’t believe he’s doing the “look at at me I’m a good guy” routine on prime time. ❞
• ❝ I’m sure that it’s just all this arguing that’s got the baby upset. ❞
• ❝ Okay, vanquish demon first, kill husband later. ❞
• ❝ Wait, how, why… Why does he have my pregnancy symptoms? ❞
• ❝ Think what you what, I think my niece is a genius. ❞
• ❝ A good marriage consultant would’ve swapped our powers? ❞
• ❝ Maybe the baby thought that fireworks were prettier than demon guts. ❞
• ❝ I guarantee you I am absolutely entitled to do the crying thing. ❞
• ❝ See this is why I don’t want to talk to you about this. ❞
• ❝ Just because you’re an angel doesn’t mean you can’t kick some ass now and again. ❞
• ❝ I’m just a big, dumb, fat unemployed loser. ❞
• ❝ Uh gross, what are you guys watching? Is that some horror movie? ❞
• ❝ I’m wildly popular and the money’s pretty damn good. ❞
• ❝ There’s a cherry pie cooling on the counter and I will be on my cell. ❞
• ❝ It’s herbal tea. I’m on a natural high today.  ❞
• ❝ I think somebody’s trying to drive me crazy. ❞
• ❝ Desperate demons call for desperate measures. ❞
• ❝ We don’t need to go looking for trouble. Trouble comes to find us anyway. ❞
• ❝ I don’t wanna use our relationship for leverage. ❞
• ❝ Apparently he’s trying to scare away all of my dates. ❞
• ❝ We’ll just hang out for the next million years or so, no problem. ❞
• ❝ It’s drawn to you, just like you’re drawn to it. ❞
• ❝ I said, “I love you too.” As if he said “I love you” first, which he didn’t. ❞
• ❝ So wait, you told him that he loves you before he told you that he loves you? ❞
• ❝ What? I’m being ridiculous? There is a demon in the playpen. ❞
• ❝ I still can’t believe we vanquished its mummy. ❞
• ❝ Why did I come here? To get picked on? ❞
• ❝ Wait, do you have to leave so soon? Can’t I help? ❞
• ❝ I didn’t go back to betray you, [Name]. I went back to save you. ❞
• ❝ It’s all about power, it’s as simple as that. ❞
• ❝ If I can’t save you, I swear to God I’ll stop you. ❞
• ❝ You’ll just have to hope the power of two will work, won’t you? ❞    
• ❝ You usually do something very final, if you catch my drift. ❞    
• ❝ Why not take advantage of him while you can? ❞    
• ❝ I need you to be honest with me. No games, no running away. Just the truth. ❞  
• ❝ Eww! Oh my God, you are sick! What is wrong with you? ❞    
• ❝ It’s a really, it’s a really good thing. It’s not a bad thing. ❞    
• ❝ I mean, how could that happen!? I mean, I know how that could happen!  ❞    
• ❝ I was just standing here, and then I had some weird high school flashback. ❞    
• ❝ Oh, well, you know, I’ve been meaning to call you but, you know… ❞    
• ❝ I don’t understand your wiccan ways, but I’ll try. ❞    
• ❝ I can’t tell you that, it could change the future in even worse ways. ❞    
• ❝ How do you know that you haven’t already changed mine? ❞      
• ❝ Well, whatever it is it obviously doen’t happen until after you’re born so save it.. ❞    
• ❝ From the womb? He had powers from the womb? That’s unbelievable.  ❞

1. “It’s not so bad, once you get used to it. But once you get out? All Hell breaks loose.”
2. “I don’t need you to hold my hand. I can do this alone.”
3. “That letter you wrote–did you mean every word?”
4. “Come watch the sunset with me.”
5. “Once, just once, I’d like for someone to bring me flowers instead of corpses.”
6. “Everyone I’ve asked says you’re someone who can’t be trusted. What do you make of that?”
7. “You’ve been so quiet, lately. Is there something we need to talk about?”
8. “Nobody completes another person. There’s no such thing as a soulmate.”
9. “If we die tomorrow, I want you to know that you were the (best/worst) thing to ever happen to me.”
10. “Love doesn’t always involve suffering. At the very least, it shouldn’t.”
11. “Who taught you love was supposed to hurt?”
12. “I’m not asking for your deepest, darkest secrets. I’m just asking you to open up a little.”
13. “You wouldn’t hurt me. You can’t.”
14. “Does (name/pronoun) know you’re here with me?”
15. “When they died, I didn’t know what to do with myself. I just… got lost.”
16. “Rage will only get you so far.”
17. “There are more lives at stake here than the ones you care about! What gives you the right to decide that one person’s life weighs more than countless others?”
18. “You look at (name/pronoun) like you want to fuck (name/pronoun).” 
19. “It’s been a bad day, please pay attention to me.”
20. “I want to make you feel good.”
21. “Can you stop eye-fucking me for five minutes?”
22. “What I’m saying is: I want to fuck you.”
23. “Not that I’m complaining, but your hand keeps brushing my groin.”
24. “Hands to yourself until I say otherwise.”
25. “On your knees, there we go.”
26. “Everyone knows the two of you have been fucking.”
27. “Getting laid might help you relax a little.”
28. “I could kiss you all day.”
29. “I’m not saying I don’t love you. I’m saying I don’t trust you.”
30. “Don’t think for one second that there’s anything I wouldn’t do for (name/pronoun).”
31. “Did I ever tell you about my parents?”
32. “You must have done something truly awful, to end up where you are now.”
33. “I didn’t know how to tell you, so I didn’t. I’m sorry.”
34. “Stop trying to make me feel guilty.”
35. “Tell me something nice, please. About anything.”
36. “If you don’t get out of bed, I’ll pour this coffee on you.”
37. “I’m afraid of a lot of things. You’re not one of them.”
38. “If you would just let me take care of you, this would be a lot easier on us both.”
39. “What makes you think I’d ever help you?”
40. “Do you need me to kill someone?”

1. ★ to clap a hand over my muse’s mouth and drag them out of sight
2. ❉ to kiss my muse on the mouth (or somewhere else, if specified)
3. ↑ to pick my muse up and carry them, for whatever reason
4. ™ to wrap an arm around my muse’s shoulders and pull them in for a hug
5. ♫ to playfully slap my muse’s ass
6. ✂ to grab my muse by the throat
7. ☛ to start shouting at my muse for something they did
8. ♦ to slide a drink towards my muse (alcoholic or otherwise)
9. ♠ to tend to my muse when they wake up injured and confused in your muse’s home, having been rescued by your muse
10. ≠ to slap my muse across the face!
11. ♡ to touch my muse any way you’d like - add a description!