You're addicted to loneliness and desperation. It's the strongest emotion you've ever known, so your subconscious tells you that it's your destiny.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Heather Havrilesky, entry for the “Ask Polly” column
“How do you love?”
Like a fist. Like a knife.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Ada Limón, ‘The Good Fight’ in Bright Dead Things: Poems
Can you understand? Not having a dream... Not being needed by anyone... The pain of merely being alive.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Haku, Naruto: Shippuden
Our suffering is the only bond that we share.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Now I know why I was drawn to you. We have the same darkness inside.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Leah Raeder, Unteachable
I've never believed that beauty could exist in self destruction. Then I saw you. Yes, you were beautiful to me.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Quinn Torres, Self-Destructive Beauty
Icarus fell. With wind in his hair & wax burning his skin, he cried out in unrestrained joy. He was drunk on freedom & high on open air. Olympus shuddered at the sight, a dying boy with hunger in his eyes & teeth bared at the sky.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ J Bengt, Icarus Flew
Let him be soft, and let him be mine.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Sylvie j.p., Please, let him be soft.
Peel your heart like a pomegranate. Offer it to him, palms outwards. Say “eat.” watch him come away stained red by you. You’re in his teeth. He’ll kiss you with that mouth.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Azra T.
He was the one person in my life who understood. My intimate friend.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Nikolai Gogol, Bungou Stray Dogs
He was supposed to be an angel but they took him from that light and turned him into something hungry, something that forgets what his hands are for when they aren’t shaking.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Caitlyn Siehl
“You don’t think I’m a bad person?”
“All I think is that I love you.”
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Lee, Bones and All (2022)
I love you with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre
Never been born at all... Is that really all you wish for?
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Wanderer, Genshin Impact
If you are human, I will be human beside you. If you want to destroy the world, I will become the scourge of the world with you.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Jyahnar, Honkai Impact 3rd
"You're not a monster," I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be.
⸺⠀ ⠀⠀ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous