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It's my body and it's a constant source of horror for me.

— not another d&d podcast: bahumia

Well, the architecture, that interests me. I feel the grandeur, the... the mystery, the intended emotional effect. It's... And it's like someone has shone a story at me that I do not believe. It's built upon the empty promise of a child's fairy tale filled with malevolence and misogyny and homophobia and its justified untold acts of violence and cruelty while all the while, and still, hiding its own shameful acts. So like an ornery mule kicking back, I want to pick it apart and pop its perfidious bubble of belief and get to a truth I can swallow without choking. The rafter details are very fine, though. Listen... you want to kick me out, you go right ahead.

— wake up dead man: a knives out mystery (2025)

Well don't just stand there, you skinny boys in suits! Get to work!

— doctor who (2005)

...If there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

— italo calvino

It can be anything. I just find people who give their utmost to a pursuit cute. It makes me want to treat them well.

— welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop by hwang bo-reum

Pop, that’s how I know that Hera can’t be built. Because if it could’ve been, you’d have done it already.

— mythic quest (2020)

"Why dont you like hugging, Doctor?"

"Never trust a hug. It's just a way to hide your face."

— doctor who (2005)

"I love you."

"It'll pass."

— fleabag (2016)

The way I see it, there's only three kinds of people in this world: bad ones, ones you follow, and ones you need to protect.

— the expanse (2015)

One: don't you ever touch me again. Two: don't you ever touch me again.

— pacific rim (2013)

But every night, Doctor, when it gets dark and the stars come out, I'll look up. On her behalf, I'll look up at the sky, and think of you.

— doctor who (2005)

"Bend the knee."

"Bend the knee?... I'm gonna bend this guy over and knee him on the throat."

— not another d&d podcast: bahumia

I was half-elf as soon as I met you.

— not another d&d podcast: bahumia

"What does anyone mean by gods?" he asked. "Why do we have gods? What purpose does a god serve in a society? Vex these issues. Find these answers for me."

— the poppy war by r. f. kuang

The words kept wanting to come out. *It gave me context for the emotions I was feeling*, I managed not to say. "It kept me company without..."

"Without making you interact?" she suggested.

That she understood even that much mae me melt. I hate that this happens, it makes me feel vulnerable.

— exit strategy by martha wells

"He's not your friend. You keep trying to kill him."

"He keeps trying to kill me. It's sort of our texting. We've been at it for ages."

"Oh, it must be love."

"Oh, don't be disgusting. We're Time Lords, not animals! Try, nano-brain, to rise above the reproductive frenzy of your noisy little food chain, and contemplate friendship. A friendship older than your civilization and infinitely more complex."

— doctor who (2005)

Something out there discovered us.

— pacific rim (2013)

Yet again the ice stills the water.

— not another d&d podcast: ba2mia

These sins I confess to you, Father. I have lied, I have killed, and now, I have topped it all off with a real doozy.

— wake up dead man: a knives out mystery (2025)

When I was a kid, whenever I'd feel small or lonely, I'd look up at the stars, wondered if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction.

— pacific rim (2013)

Nothing cemented innocence quite like a more believable form of malicious self interest.

For the rest of your life, an additional favored enemy will be the people you don't want to become.

— dimension 20: the seven

"You would be stunned." The Sorquan Sira looked very sad. "You have no idea how many men are like Altan Trengsin."

— the dragon republic by r. f. kuang

Forgive me that another place could so quickly become my home. Forgive me for loving twice. I'll do it again. I'll fall in love again. It doesn't diminish you. It was for you, in its way. We fell in love together, the shard of you in my brain and me. We devoted ourselves to the Choir and chose to continue living.

— metal from heaven by august clarke

A hero is someone with the strength of heart, courage of spirit, and might of will to go to strange lands and enact violence on things there.

— dimension 20: fantasy high

Jiang reached out to tuck a lock of hair behind her ear. "Darling, people pay ou less attention when you don't leave a trail of bodies in your wake."

— the burning god by r. f. kuang

You think it was the secrets, but it was the condescension. You thought I didn’t understand your morality because obviously if I understood, I’d agree with you. So there must be something wrong with me, because my father screwed me up.

Man, kid I got you rattled.

— dimension 20: fantasy high: sophomore year

You stole from me. Not just who I was, but who I could’ve been. You stole from me things I didn’t even have yet. You reached through time, Joe Collie! You reached through time and you stole.

— midnight mass (2021)

I'm meticulous except where feeling good is concerned.

— metal from heaven by august clarke

Are you Lucifer? 'Cause I've been fucking waiting for you my whole life.

— dimension 20: the unsleeping city: chapter 2

"—and I don't care if you're pissed, you can't throw food at the Dragon Warlord,"

— the dragon republic by r. f. kuang