i’ll say it here, i’ll tell you soon, until then, i love you

don't think you're apart, from the world that make you

please don’t leave me. i can’t do this on my own. please. i’m not enough on my own. alone. all. all alone.

if i am killed for simply living, let death be kinder than man.

then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, i will take you i will love you, again.

— what do you think will happen when ayda sees the real you? — i hope she finds something in me that i didn't know was there.

oh, well, who was i? who was i to watch you wilt?

but i can finally eat, and i can fall asleep it’s fine, fine, fine

the youngest version of me always sat by my side. like she wanted to protect me. that always made me mad. i hated her the most.

i wish i could make the promise, i am this and nothing more but there's holinenss in finding i was something else before

when it dims, we see ruby, wielding crescent rose, looking simultaneously different and more herself than she's ever been. a fire burning behind her eyes.

you think you look older, i think you look alive

intertwined, sewn together, not a lot, just forever

so clean the house, clear the drawers, mop the floors, stand tall like no one's ever been here before or at all

was i just a bragging right? i meant something to you, right?

it's amazing how much blue there is in the world if you look. you're different colors of flame. bismuth burns blue, and cerium, germanium, and arsenic. see? i pour you into things.

you will not make every perfect choice, and the fear that you will make some choice that does some wrong within the world is exactly what your enemies are hoping will stop you.

— i can't stop it... — you can't. all you can do is hope to control it.

you are nothing like me. and that is the most wonderful thing i could imagine.

emily is my best friend. i hope she never learns how to peel oranges.

if i could leave, i would’ve already left

everyone you ever knew who told you that they would keep you safe as long as you behaved were already hurting you. live your life without apology, little girl. it's never wrong to tell the truth about what you are.

beholden to the rules but who created rules?

i'll tell you a secret, sutes... this feeling that you have now, this doubt... have you ever felt so alive? and doesn't it feel good?

i miss my friends that i pretend i don't need, but i could've done with them this week

so, all the people you saved will look up in the sky... and see you.

waves of gold overwhelm my senses, a fire blooms why should i fight to connect with a world i cannot exhume?,

— what do you think will happen when ayda sees the real you? — i hope she finds something in me that i didn't know was there.

you can touch me, feel me, see my rage, but we drown each other out

— i can't stop it... — you can't. all you can do is hope to control it.

i’ve been less than half of myself for more than half my life

— just.. tell me one thing before i go. why were you so set on Grian? — hmph, him. he was never meant to be there, he was only ever meant to watch.

but if i leave you now, then what's out there waiting for me?

keep your faith. travel hopefully. the universe will surprise you. constantly.

you could absolutely break my heart, that's how i know that we're in love

so, i'll live my life being so unsure, 'cause i can't quite tell what i'm hoping for.

aren't you tired? i know i am do you still want me here, in the space between you and your hands?

half of me says, don't breathe. but only half.

you've bled your whole soul into things you can't control in a world you'll never satisfy

— i expected no one more than you to understand — i expected no one more than you to want to live.

we buried our friends today. i mean, you can't really bury someone that isn't there, but we needed to do something.

i think our experience of the universe has value. even if it disappears forever.

- our family did not love us. and perhaps there is some trait of us that made that easy. - yeah, i fear that all the time. i fear it every day. but i know that my friends do love me. and so, maybe there's hope for us yet.

— maybe you just need a little time to grow and learn? —...is that okay? —i don't hear vash complaining.

— this was once a cozy little house...the girl who lived here befriended a giant. — hmph. guess she learned her lesson. — not likely. odds are, she'd do it again.

i love you. i love you. i love you. i'll write it in waves. in skies. in my heart. you'll never see, but you will know. i'll be all the poets, i'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.

well, you don't know me, but i know you.

you think you look older, i think you look alive

turn me into a believer, make me out as some old healer i'll change for the better, and i'll even make it last, too

i will live a life worthy of stalling death at my front door.