it's been so long since anyone listened to me talk, won't you stay?

but if she ceased, not in culmination of fire, but in a cold and quiet death, perhaps her spark would return to the lightless flame and she could try again.

i   have   a   very   childlike   rage,   and   a   very   childlike   loneliness.

my heart goes out with this one. / i promise i will return your heart to you.

one moment you're not in my mind and the next, you are so sharp and intense that all my attention is focused there.

' just the two of us? ' ' do we need any more? '

it was always you: your unutterable name, this growl in my throat.

i  do  not  come  up  here  anymore  —  i  miss  him.

there's always collateral damage with you and me. it's our paris.

“ stop. give me your hand. i am your friend. ” “ i fear to stain your clothes with blood. ” “ stain them, i don't care. ”

' i'm lost .. i've lost .. i've sunk too far. ' ' no. i know you, my friend. you are in there. you saved me before. i will not let you drown. '

he kisses you, and you walk away with the shape of his lips etched onto yours, every bump and wrinkle superimposed onto your own skin. you lick your lips and it feels like licking his.

you  lived  what  anybody  gets.  you  got  a  lifetime.  no  more.  no  less.

i could always rely on you, you could always rely on me .. we're a team. a group! a group of us two. and we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't.

what am i? / you're alive.

my last wish was to sleep beside you in our tent, to hide you so well in the afterlife that no god could take you from me again. my quiet love was yours from the beginning.

why .. didn't you make me good enough .. so that you could've loved me?

' are you sure about this? ' ' no. but i love you. ' ' i love you too. '

i'm  a  flinch  in  your  cheek,  i'm  the  shake  in  your  hand,  and  i've  laid  here  before  and  i'll  lay  here  again,  and  i  haven't  seen  war  but  i've  tasted  the  sand.

' i can’t lose you. not like this .. ' ' tough! okay? where you go, i go! ' ' that's the deal .. '