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"‘Your mother is gone, I do not know where.’ The king paused, as if awaiting a response. Achilles said nothing. ‘My daughter, your wife, is in her room crying. She hopes you will come to her.’ I felt the flinch of Achilles’ guilt. His words came out stiffly; it was not a feeling he was used to. ‘It is unfortunate that she hopes for this.’ ‘It is indeed,’ Lycomedes said.
A Greek tragedy: deception, love, the works!" — 3 hours, 29 min ago
"‘Your mother is gone, I do not know where.’ The king paused, as if awaiting a response. Achilles said nothing. ‘My daughter, your wife, is in her room crying. She hopes you will come to her.’ I felt the flinch of Achilles’ guilt. His words came out stiffly; it was not a feeling he was used to. ‘It is unfortunate that she hopes for this.’ ‘It is indeed,’ Lycomedes said.
A Greek tragedy: deception, love, the works!" — 3 hours, 29 min ago
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"Classic Bateman maskin: preening, returning videos and killing.
"...head to the video store where I return two tapes I rented on Monday, She-Male Reformatory and Body Double, but I rerent Body Double because I want to watch it again tonight even though I know I won’t have enough time to masturbate over the scene where the woman is getting drilled to death by a power drill since I have a date with Courtney..."" — Jul 29, 2026 11:08AM
"Classic Bateman maskin: preening, returning videos and killing.
"...head to the video store where I return two tapes I rented on Monday, She-Male Reformatory and Body Double, but I rerent Body Double because I want to watch it again tonight even though I know I won’t have enough time to masturbate over the scene where the woman is getting drilled to death by a power drill since I have a date with Courtney..."" — Jul 29, 2026 11:08AM
Jules snorted. “After what I’ve just seen, I don’t trust you not to walk right onto his cock.”
“The woman was down for kinky sex, knew how I liked my coffee, and was more than willing to aid in the murder of a rapist. What had I done to get so lucky?”
― Lights Out
― Lights Out
“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“How about because I love you, Gianna? Because I think I have since the moment I saw you? Because if you weren’t in this world anymore, I would find a way to take myself out of it?”
― The Maddest Obsession
― The Maddest Obsession
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Amongst my growing list of flaws is cowardice,” Pestilence says in the darkness. “I come to you now like a thief in the night, for I fear you’ll never listen to me under the light of day,” his voice is whisper soft, “and I must confess all the things in my heart.”
― Pestilence
― Pestilence
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