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THAT BOY HAD WANTED
to be ser arthur dayne

but somewhere along the way he had become
THE SMILING KNIGHT INSTEAD

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I think the reason pawns can’t move backwards is because if they could, they’d kill their own kings in a heartbeat.

( GUANTE )

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

( RALPH WALDO EMERSON )

the dark is empty; most of our heroes have been wrong

( CHARLES BUKOWSKI )

Golden child,
Lion boy;
Tell me what it’s like to conquer.

Fearless child,
Broken boy;
Tell me what it’s like to burn.

( P.S. / SMOLBANE )

There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.

( MADELINE MILLER )

The Spartans do not ask how many enemies but where they are.

( AGIS II, KING OF SPARTA )

Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone?

( ANNE CARSON )

An intimacy

had grown between us
like a forest around a castle.

( LOUISE GLÜCK )

The word [jealousy] comes from the ancient Greek Ζῆλος, meaning ‘zeal’ or 'hot pursuit,’ which is also an extreme evacuation of the self—when we pursue with zeal, we leave ourselves behind. We are so deeply invest in the other that we manage, finally, to get beyond our own selves. This is the promise and the work of infatuation; it enables and even forces the self to exceed itself; it forces the ego to realise that life exists, thrives, beyond its own boundaries; in short, that life (as Gilles Deleuze said) is not a personal thing. Ironically, the complete and self-absorbed event that is infatuation is one of the quickest routes to jealousy, which is, in turn, one of the quickest and surest ways to catapult one outside oneself.

( ANNE CARSON )

—electrified by desire so that they touch not touching. Conjoined they are held apart.

( ANNE CARSON )

The love felt for the other awakens a kind of knowledge. This knowledge is that the beloved is never innocent, for the love itself is the derivation of ruin.

( J. MICHAEL MARTINEZ )

the truth is:
love is an organic thing.
it rots and softens.

( CLEMENTINE VON RADICS )

sometimes i turn around and catch the smell of you and i cannot go on i cannot fucking go on without expressing this terrible so fucking awful physical aching fucking longing i have for you. and i cannot believe that i can feel this for you and you feel nothing. do you feel nothing?

( SARAH KANE )

(a very long silence.)

– but you have friends.

(a long silence.)

you have a lot of friends.
what do you offer your friends to make them so supportive?

(a long silence.)

what do you offer your friends to make them so supportive?

(a long silence.)

what do you offer?

(silence.)

( SARAH KANE )

the truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it

( GILLIAN FLYNN )

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