“My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,” he said. “Because it is an enemy to thee.”
The balcony scene. Too mistrustful to guess at the meaning, I said, “Don’t do that, James, please—right now can we just be ourselves?”
He crouched down, lifted the mangled script from the floor. “I’m sorry,” he said. “It’s easier now to be Romeo, or Macbeth, or Brutus, or Edmund. Someone else.”
― If We Were Villains
The balcony scene. Too mistrustful to guess at the meaning, I said, “Don’t do that, James, please—right now can we just be ourselves?”
He crouched down, lifted the mangled script from the floor. “I’m sorry,” he said. “It’s easier now to be Romeo, or Macbeth, or Brutus, or Edmund. Someone else.”
― If We Were Villains
“I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful.”
― Fleabag: The Scriptures
― Fleabag: The Scriptures
“You can’t quantify humanity. You can’t measure it—not the way you mean to. People are passionate and flawed and fallible. They make mistakes. Their memories fade. Their eyes deceive them.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Anything can feel like punishment if it’s taught poorly.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“You want me to stay?” I asked. I didn’t want to leave him. “Please,” he said, in a small voice. “I just couldn’t deal with the rest of them, for a while.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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