Electric Idol

“I don’t care if she deserves someone just as sweet as she is. I want her chained to me, and I’ll rip out the throat of anyone who thinks they can take her away.”

“You might be amonster, but you’re my monster.”

“Love doesn't much care whether you deserve it or not. It's not exactly a conditional thing - or at least it shouldn't be.”

“I see a woman I don't deserve, but you make me want to be a better man so that one day I might deserve you. I see a goddess.”

“Look at us. Beauty and her Beast. Happily everafter and everything. Maybe fairy tales do exist.”

“It takes someone special to live among monsters and not become one.”

“When I'm with you, I feel human. I flat out fucking feel. Do you understand what that means for a person like me? I thought those parts were dead and buried so deep that they'd never see light again. I had to cut them down in order to continue to do the things required of me.”

“Stop talking about yourself like that. I wouldn't let someone else talk about you so cruelly, and I'll be damned before I let you do it, either.”

“Love makes fools of us all. I never realized that would be so literal. We're both so intent on saving each other from pain and harm, we're throwing ourselves right into those very things.”

“You're so willing to cut your own heart out to keep me safe, it never occurred to you that I'd feel the same way.”

“I'm not a dreamer by nature. I like facts and reality rather than the fantastic version of what could be.”

“I love my body. I've fought so incredibly hard to love my body, even if some days that feels like an ambition instead of truth. I'm still painfully aware that not everyone feels the same.”

“Tomorrow is Future Me’s problem.”

“Nothing lasts forever. Not the hibernation over the winter, but not the beautiful blooms of summer, either. There are seasons to everything.”

“You're not one, you know." "Not what?""A monster." I smile a little. "I would know, being a monster myself. You might move among us, but you aren't like us at all."She narrows her eyes. "I can't tell if that's a compliment or an insult.""It's a compliment. It takes someone special to live among monsters and not become one.”

“Oh." Her expression falls a little, but she shrugs it off quickly. "The first and foremost vital rule is to never read the comments. That is exponentially more important for anyone who doesn't fit the traditional views on beauty or anyone is marginalized in any way, but the truth is that even the thinnest, most gorgeous models get people being terrible in their comments. Trolls will be trolls.”

“don’t care if she deserves someone just as sweet as she is. I want her chained to me, and I’ll rip out the throat of anyone who thinks they can take her away.”

“I feel like I have a monster inside me, rattling the cage of my control. Eventually it will break out, and then there will be a price to pay.”

“I'm not saying them because I care about who's listening. I'm saying them because they're true.”

“It's pathetic that I'm so starved for any kind of softer emotion that the second someone comes to me with gentle hands instead of sharp words, I'm willing to walk to the Underworld and back to keep them in my life.”

“This woman will never submit, will always be looking at a situation from a thousand different angles, but right now, she's content to let me take care of her.”

“So clever and ambitious and you hide it behind this pretty face. Do you ever let down your walls, beautiful girl?”

“I just want to feel, to forget, to cease to exist for a little while.”

“But once she works through her anger? She'll already be examining the angles for how she can spin the situation to benefit her.”

“I suspected she was formidable, but she's even more than I could have guessed.”

“You don't survive this long without being at least a little bit monster.”

“I am not someone who needs to be protected. I am the knife in the dark, the threat ready to be leveled at any enemy that arises. What the fuck do I need a shield for?”

“Because you have only been told the negative about yourself for so long, that's all you believe. Every person contains a balance of both good and bad inside them. Even you. Especially you.”

“Oh, she has her mask and she lies as well as I do, but that thread of kindness, that desire to bring light into the world instead of darkness? That's real.”

“They'll see what they want to see, especially if it reinforces their beliefs of what power and beauty look like.”