Emilia Fox as Morgause behind the scenes of Merlin - Season 3.

Episode: The Tears of Uther Pendragon II.

• “it goes in one ear, out the other.”
• “what’s gonna be left of the world if you’re not in it?”
• “now stop worrying and get dressed.”
• “every minute and every hour, i miss you.”

• “i can’t quite believe my ears.”
• “you’re making me feel nervous.”
• “do you even know what year it is?”
• “won’t you stop firing up the crazies?”

• “kindness is what you showed to me.”
• “you left me wanting more.”
• “you want nothing in return - i feel guilty.”
• “my back’s up against the wall.”

• “never good, just the bad and the ugly.”
• “i can’t stop thinking about it.”
• “tell me, did you see the news tonight?”
• “now draw me close.”

• “there’s no looking up for heaven.”
• “we made the best of what we had, you know?”
• “and was it feeling real?”
• “i’ll take my chances on the curb here with you.”

• “did you really think i’d fall to my knees?”
• “i will never understand the power you were holding over me.”
• “hurt the ones you love the most easily.”
• “if you’re gonna hit me, hit me harder, ‘cause you better knock me out the first time.”

• “who’s this man, who’s this act i hide behind?”
• “this is a game, no wrongs, no right.”
• “it pays to be the nice guy sometimes.”
• “we’re not that different, you and i.”

• “set me free from my jealousy.”
• “watch over as i sleep, through my darkest of dreams.”
• “hold me closer than anyone before.”
• “i should be thinking about nothing else when i’m with you.”

• “run away as fast as you can go.”
• “you told me not to be like anybody else.”
• “you checked out years ago.”
• “what i’d do not to worry like you.”

• “i don’t know, oh, i don’t know.”
• “what you have done is terrible, and now you carry it with you.”
• “now we’re faced with two wrongs.”
• “there’s no view from here.”

• “there’s no room for you here.”
• “send my regards to hell.”
• “i can feel your pulse from here.”
• “don’t pin it all on me!”

• “i wanna waste all of my time with you.”
• “my love, we can never go back.”
• “let’s destroy each mistake that we made.”
• “help me turn a blind eye.”

• “show me distraction even for just one night.”
• “it’s easier to bury my head in the sand sometimes.”
• “i pray for the ground to swallow me whole.”
• “oh, i’m not ready.”

• “i’ve got nostalgia running through me, and i don’t like it.”
• “i’m pedaling backwards.”
• “when we pick over the past, we glorify it.”
• “i’ve drunk too much to give you what you want.”

• “do you wanna be free of this?”
• “i’m gonna dust you off my shoulders.”
• “real life’s more fucked up than fiction.”
• “i just wanna feel something, like before.”

• “they lie together, oil on water.”
• “her mind, it was reaching out.”
• “it’s a catalogue of modern mistakes.”
• “warm affection runs through every word.”

• “someone else’s words in your mouth.”
• “oh, never leave me out.”
• “it must be so lonely, knowing what you know.”
• “heaven, help me.”

• “i can see a change in you.”
• “i don’t like who i’m seeing lately.”
• “maybe i’m living in the past.”
• “who am i to judge? i’m the worst of all!”

• “you cut through all the noise.”
• “i think of you all the time.”
• “bring me some hope.”
• “you’re the anchor that i tied to my brain.”

• “how many more times will we all bear witness?”
• “how many more ways are there to say this?”
• “it’s always you that is leading us astray.”
• “can’t you feel the temperature rising?”

• “remind me, what was it that i said?”
• “did i drink too much?”
• “am i losing touch?”
• “what’s with the long face?”
• “do you want more?”

• “you were on the other side, like always.”
• “i was drunk enough to deal with it.”
• “sometimes you’re half in and then you’re half out.”
• “how do you manage to have me crawling back for more?”

• “now there’s a few things we have to burn.”
• “tell me you see it too.”
• “i’m happy you’re beside me.”
• “maybe i’ll see you in another life if this one wasn’t enough.”

• “what is it worth when all that’s left is hurt?”
• “some things never sleep.”
• “come on, is this what you want?”
• “somebody’s gotta lose.”
• “you’re driving me away.”

• “i gave myself over willingly.”
• “i am teaching myself how to be free.”
• “if you could just forgive yourself…”
• “some things you let go in order to live.”
• “i know you’re bleeding, but you’ll be okay.”
• “one day this will be over - i swear it’s not so far away.”

• “i’m gonna be free and i’m gonna be fine.”
• “these chains never leave me.”
• “can’t you let me know?”
• “never knew i was a dancer.”

• “are you missing me?”
• “is it too late to come on home?”
• “i figured out where i belong.”

• “it’s the hardest thing i’ve ever had to do.”
• “when i sleep, i never dream of you.”
• “i can’t keep calm - i can’t keep still.”
• “i forget all that i’ve been taught.”

• “it tore you open.”
• “you don’t know why.”
• “you don’t have to be a ghost.”
• “you deserve to be loved.”
• “i’m the same. i’m trying to change.”

• “each side is a loser, so who cares who fired the gun?”
• “maybe i’ve always been more comfortable in chaos.”
• “i couldn’t keep my mouth shut.”
• “i’m trying to find the meaning.”

• “won’t you leave me?”
• “i want no more than this.”
• “can you protect me from what i want?”
• “all these couples are kissing.”

• “you don’t have to tell me why.”
• “not sure i can deal with this.”
• “i know there’s a part of you that i just cannot reach.”
• “you don’t have to let me in, just know that i’m still here.”
• “it’s your pride that’s keeping us still so far apart.”

• “i never thought i’d be a killer.”
• “while you’ve been saving your neck, i’ve been breaking mine for you.”
• “make up your mind before i make it up for you.”
• “let me live or let me love you.”

• “it’s an old scar.”
• “who’s a heretic now?”
• “am i making sense?”
• “you can’t tell me to regret.”
• “i’m on trial.”

• “it was more than i could bear.”
• “you know, i hoped to see you there.”
• “i keep on moving in the spaces where you used to be.”
• “i knew that this would end in tears.”

• “does that make you mine?”
• “this work is never done.”
• “who’s in control? who’s playing who?”
• “i know this part so well.”

• “wasting my goddamn time.”
• “i went as far as i could get.”
• “i am unloved.”
• “i’m not far enough yet.”

♡  this to get a lil’ something of varying length

• 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.

[inspired by this]

• “actually… i just miss you.”
• “alright, i’ll leave you alone.”
• “and slowly… i was forgotten.”
• “and then everything just disappears.”
• “and where do i go?”
• “anyone could tell from here.”
• “are you finishing that or…?”
• “are you stupid or stupid?”
• “anything, just call me, okay?”
• “bitch better have my money.”
• “bro… that’s so… not cool…”
• “but did you do it?”
• “call me now. it’s urgent.”
• "can’t you listen to me?”
• “cross that. don’t answer that.”
• “don’t even think about it.”
• “don’t you dare walk away.”
• “do it. i dare you.”
• “did you think i forgot?”
• “eventually… you just move on.”
• “even if you still do.”
• “everything will fall into place.”
• “fight me, you attractive stranger.”
• “for once, i need you.”
• “for once… i was right.”
• “for once… i was wrong.”
• “forget i even asked you.”
• “forget it. you fucking suck.”
• “fuck’s sake, what’s your problem?”
• “fuck off. i mean it.”
• “give and take. that’s life.”
• “great. perfect. nice. fuck this.”
• “have you lost your mind?”
• “hello? it’s me. i was-”
• “hey… that wasn’t so nice.”
• “here’s a glass of whatever.”
• “how about a hug, hm?”
• “how about you make me?”
• “i haven’t forgot you yet.”
• “i can’t be around you.”
• “i don’t need you, really.”
• “i don’t need this now.”
• “is this your first time?”
• “it’s just a cut, really.”
• “it wasn’t me, i swear!”
• “i said i love you.”
• “just don’t fuck it up.”
• "just… come back alive, okay?”
• “just make sure you’ve eaten.”
• “kick his ass for me.”
• “killed him? wait, what, literally?”
• “life really sucks. feel better.”
• “letting go hurts… a lot.”
• “let me live, will you?”
• “no, i don’t need you.”
• “nothing can hurt me now.”
• “nothing matters anymore to me.”
• “okay it was me… so?”
• “people lie all the time.”
• “pipe the fuck down, asshole.”
• “please, you can’t die now.”
• “please don’t leave me alone.”
• “quiet. they can hear us.”
• “quick! give me your phone!”
• “quicker, you freaking piece of-”
• “quit it or i’ll bite.”
• “quit staring! they’ll notice us!”
• "really? do i look stupid?”
• “real smooth, tripping over air.”
• “rise and shine, sweet thing.”
• “rise and fucking shine, motherfucker.”
• “seriously? give me a break.”
• “so… what are we now?”
• “so… did you miss me?”
• “so… can we go eat?”
• “so… when’s the next flight?”
• “so… how did everything go?”
• “sometimes, i wish you died.”
• “so what? you did it.”
• “time passes slower without you.”
• “then what do you suggest?”
• “the fuck? who are you?”
• “then you tell me why.”
• “this is not working out.”
• “this isn’t what i wanted.”
• “this is all a fucking disaster.”
• “when did it all happen?”
• “who knew you’d be here?”
• “why do i even bother?”
• “why do i love you?”
• “why didn’t you tell me?”
• “you’re just… so, so stupid.”
• “you can’t be here now.”
• “you look like an accident.”
• “you really need to go.”
• “you know who to call.”
• "zero fucks given. next please.”