• ❛ So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ❜
• ❛ I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ❜
• ❛ Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. ❜
• ❛ And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. ❜
• ❛ I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ❜
• ❛ Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. ❜
• ❛ You see I usually find myself among strangers, because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ❜
• ❛ There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ❜
• ❛ In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ❜
• ❛ Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. ❜
• ❛ Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ❜
• ❛ Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!❜
• ❛ It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. ❜
• ❛ So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. ❜
• ❛ All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’ ❜
• ❛ I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ❜
• ❛ No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ❜
• ❛ It takes two to make an accident. ❜
• ❛ Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. ❜
• ❛ He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man. ❜
• ❛ There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind… ❜
• ❛ But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ❜
• ❛ I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! ❜
• ❛ I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ❜
• ❛ Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. ❜
• ❛ It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ❜
• ❛ The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. ❜
• ❛ I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. ❜
• ❛ So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight – watching over nothing. ❜
• ❛ Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. ❜
• ❛ The rich get richer and the poor get – children. ❜
• ❛ I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. ❜
• ❛ The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. ❜
• ❛ Murder your darlings. ❜
• ❛ It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before. ❜
• ❛ Human sympathy has its limits. ❜
• ❛ A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. ❜
• ❛ I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ❜
• ❛ I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. ❜
• ❛ I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ❜
• ❛ That voice was a deathless song. ❜
• ❛ I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. ❜
• ❛ All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back. ❜
• ❛ But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. ❜
• ❛ She was incurably dishonest. ❜
• ❛ What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? ❜
• ❛ Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on. ❜
• ❛ Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning. ❜
• ❛ I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ❜
• ❛ I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. ❜
• ❛ God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God! ❜
• ❛ He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive. ❜
• ❛ I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. ❜

BOOM! Starter call!

BOOM! Starter call!

@thearachnidhero || starter

played by ceph

TW: suicide, ns/fw themes, violence, drugs

• “college will be paradise if i’m not dead by june.”
• “life can be beautiful.”
• “what can i say? i’m a sucker for a happy ending.”
• “you’re a high school has-been waiting to happen. a future gas station attendant.”
• “she is a mythic bitch.”
• “if i took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, i’d have matching halves. that’s very important.”

• “you’ve come so far, why now are you pulling on my dick?”
• “it’s time for you to prove you’re not a loser anymore.”
• “maybe sesame street is on.”
• “keep on testing me and end up like her!”
• “color me stoked.”

• “why, when you see boys fight, does it look so horrible yet feel so right?”
• “i shouldn’t watch this crap.”
• “could you be seen with me and still act proud?”
• “i would fight for you.”
• “holy shit!”

• “no point planting roots when you’re gone in a hurry.”
• “who needs cocaine?”
• “does your mommy know you eat all this crap?”
• “when the voice in your head says you’re better off dead, don’t open a vein.”
• “freeze your brain.”

• “let’s get naked in my pool!”
• “so it’s salt, then lime, then shot?”
• “a hot guy smiled at me!”
• “hey, is that weed? i want a hit!”
• “i think that’s what they call ‘third base’.”
• “i wasn’t gonna come, but since you took the time to write that sweet note…”
• “people wouldn’t hate you so much if you acted normal.”

• “what are you doing in my room?”
• “you’re my last meal on death row.”
• “shut your mouth and lose them tightie-whities.”
• “it’s ‘cause you’re beautiful.”
• “you say you’re numb inside, but i can’t agree.”
• “i think you tore my mattress!”
• “slap me, pull my hair—”

• “no one thinks a pretty girl has feelings.”
• “jesus, you’re making me sound like air supply!”
• “call me when the shuttle lands.”
• “maybe i can help the world by leaving.”
• “you’re very quiet. what’s on your mind?”
• “holy crap! this is awesome!”

• “you got a left hand, use it.”
• “don’t run from me!”
• “look! booze! drink!”
• “my balls are in your court!”

• “they made you cry…”
• “you are the only thing that’s right about this broken world.”
• “you’re not alone.”
• “how did you know it was always a fantasy of mine to have two guys at once?”
• “i’d trade my life for yours.”
• “well i was hoping you could rip my clothes off me, sport.”
• “stop being a dick!”
• “what the fuck have you done?”

• “i’ve been thinking. praying. reading some magazines.”
• “they just had flair!”
• “they took a rebel stance!”
• “that was one hell of a fishing trip.”

• “we don’t choose who lives or dies.”
• “don’t you want a life with me?”
• “if you could let me in, i could be good with you.”
• “you’re right, that really blows.”
• “i wanna be with you.”
• “i’ll stay if i’m what you choose.”

• “deep inside of everyone there’s a hot ball of shame.”
• “no volunteers? fine. i’ll start.”
• “i faked it, every single time.”

• “everyone’s pushing! everyone’s fighting!”
• “there’s nowhere to hide.”
• “the weakest must go.”

• “stupid childproof caps—”
• “you don’t deserve to live!”
• “you’re gonna die alone.”

• “he was sweet. he said that i was smart.”
• “now we’re all grown up and we know better.”
• “certain girls are meant to be alone.”
• “i believe that any dream worth having is a dream that should not have an end.”

• “oh my god, is s/he dead—?”
• “we’ve been worried sick!”
• “i’ve experienced everything you’re going through right now!”
• “you don’t know what my world looks like!”
• “sorry for coming in through the window—dreadful etiquette.”

• “you’re my date to the pep rally tonight!”
• “they’re keeping you away from me.”
• “you left me and i fell apart.”
• “i was meant to be yours.”
• “can we not fight anymore please?”
• “sure, you’re scared, i’ve been there.”
• “one, two—fuck it!”

• “no one here deserves to die—except for me and the monster i created.”
• “it’s one more dance and then farewell.”
• “yeah, well, s/he’s wrong about a lot of things.”
• “this little thing? i’d hardly call this a bomb.”
• “i wish we’d met before they convinced you life is war.”

• “stick around here. make things better.”
• “you beat me fair and square.”
• “wish you’d kiss me.”
• “say hi to god.”
• “you look like hell!”
• “i just got back.”

• “we are done with acting evil.”
• “are you free tonight?”
• “my date for the pep rally tonight kind of… blew me off.”
• “are there any happy endings?”
• “i’d be honored if you let me be your friend.”
• “if no one loves me now, someday someone will.”