Et Imperatrix Noctem > Quotes

“I know who you are when the camera is not on.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“Conspiracy theories of the feeble or gaslighting of the twisted.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“The Universe has faith in you even if you don't.' the Gypsy Queen said, 'That why I am here, to be a thread of your tapestry, even you couldn't see the whole picture quite just yet.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem, Kintsugi

“Only when one is free to choose, one can be responsible for one’s actions.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem, Kintsugi

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Should? Do I look like I need you to mansplain the purpose of my craft? I disturb indiscriminately.”
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“You don't need me, and that's ok, coz I want you to love me.”
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“In the end, all she got was a weak, barely audible 'sorry' from the man she trusted with all her heart and now could not even look her in the eye.”
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“It means whatever you think it means.”
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“Some children sit in their warm cosy beds with snacks and hot cocoas watching Hollywood movies with age rating while others shivering in the freezing blizzards drinking from icy broken pipes and ripping pieces of jewellery off bloody bombed up limbs.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“I know you are busy pulling the wool over my eyes but you may want to address the inconsistencies in your persona first.”
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“Are you the kind of person who always knows your place in this world? I don't.”
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“Stop whining about 'how could anyone do such a thing' every time you get poked by a stick. Which part of 'they are bad people, that's what they do' don't you understand?

But you do understand, you make comments such as 'I'm not surprised' on the sufferings of others of equal magnitude.

The problem, therefore, is not of lack of insight. What do you think your problem is?”
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“Does my existence constantly cause cognitive dissonance in you?”
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“You don't need me, and that's ok, cos I want you to love me.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“Pure empathy will make you dissociate.”
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“It’s not what people are showing that’s worrying, it’s what they are concealing and the extent of the concealment.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem, Kintsugi

“If you so much as looking at my darling the wrong way, I will bathe you in your own blood.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“You mistake identities with material possessions because you are a soulless moron.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“Willful victims are dull, it's as if they can't wait to die.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“Reinventing yourself is the most pretentious slogan sprang from an unstable mind.”
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“Wherever words worked, for her, it was just a single look.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“Can you stop being disrespectful and calling her a ho? I hope you realize every woman is somebody's daughter.

Uhm, I should also like to append that it's not only the ho that I'm disrespecting but also everyone that contributed to her transformation from a daughter to a ho.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“Let me in and I will tear you apart.”
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“They spilt the blood of their people for self-advancement in the name of serving the same people.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“Nightmare asleep, nightmare awake, there's no fucking escape.

Still, I'd trade places with you in a heartbeat.

Are you demented?

Not at all. To me, being a tortured genius is better than a life of mundane at any given moment.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“Does labelling yourself as a sheep make you sleep easier at night?”
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“No, I am nobody's alley by default. I don't hand out my love and support that readily and freely. You want my friendship and respect, you are gonna have to earn it.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“You are alive, you can do anything with anyone at any time. You realize your frustrations and regrets are not for lacking opportunities nor potential, they are rather results of cowardness, simple as that. And now, what could be, shall never be.”
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“He was ever so optimistic until reality hit him hard.”
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“What do you know about grief? You don't have anyone close to you die.

I died, twenty years ago.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem