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Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 33m

Does she mean to treat you like a pet?
"I am not just treating you like a pet: you *are* my pet. I own you, and you belong to me. You are mine, to toy with as I choose..."
"But, for the present, I would prefer to be nice to you, not nasty. Don't make me regret this decision."

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Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 1h

It is here, and here alone, that the woman betrays your narrow definitions of beauty, for her legs are non-existent.
Rather than two awkward appendages, this woman has, instead, the sleek, shimmering tail of a fish.
Is she not, then, a human?
She cannot be: not with a tail like that.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 1h

I feel so stupid. And I know it's my fault.
I just wanted to stay with you. I didn't want to complicate things. I didn't want to overstep, to know more than I was supposed to.
But I don't know what's real anymore. What I'm allowed to think, to feel, to say, to do.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 2h

All those words it spoke must have meant something.
They said as much—that she could hear them, so it's not for nothing.
But what was that meaning? Why was it here? Why did it say those things to *her?*

...And what things, exactly, did it say?

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 2h

All those words it spoke must have meant something.
They said as much—that she could hear them, so it's not for nothing.
But what was that meaning? Why was it here? Why did it say those things to *her?*

...And what things, exactly, did it say?

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 3h

You are a princess, after all. You were raised like a sacrificial lamb, to be bartered away to the highest bidder.
That is how all princesses are, whether they are engaged to princes or kidnapped by witches.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 4h

I can be your strange singing girl, who takes refuge in the church at night to recite hymns, and you can be my wet, windswept stranger, come in from the cold.
I’ll wait for you tomorrow night too, in this church, and we can have another wonderful tryst inside this crooked old building.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 4h

We had so much fun together... I thought it would last for all eternity.
But then... my light faded... and you stopped.
You stopped, but... I was still here.
I was... still here... but you rewound to be with the light I'd left behind.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 5h

You can't leave roobi t! because... Because!!!
Because I love yOU!!
"!!!"
"i am does a shock!"
'you won a girlfriend at the carnival???'
'What the hell Kiane why wasnt i invited'

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 5h

He's dead and buried — *I* buried him — and now I'm all alone!

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Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 6h

It's a valuable lesson, that's all...
No matter how sweet someone seems...
How nice, or caring, or thoughtful...
How much they claim to care about you...
"...Nobody...actually...cares..."

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 7h

Her eyes look up at yours. Wide. Pleading. 'Come back,' you can imagine them saying. 'Don't leave me here!'

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Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 7h

Mini doesn't want to think about crying at tea time with Rhyme... But she thinks about her anyway.
"You shouldn't have wasted a bus ticket on me."

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 8h

I'm not happy here. I don't think I ever was.

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Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 8h

Being a prisoner must be in your blood.
It is part of who you are: ingrained into you, just like your knowledge on how to pour a cup of tea without spilling it, or how to address your superiors without making a nuisance out of yourself.
You know how to be quiet; how to be meek; how to be mild.

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Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, my heart, don't spare me the truth!
When I bloom, it won't be for you.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 9h

Her eyes look up at yours. Wide. Pleading. 'Come back,' you can imagine them saying. 'Don't leave me here!'

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Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 10h

i used to be afraid of getting bad grades.
i used to be afraid of not looking pretty enough.
i used to be afraid of disappointing people.
i used to be afraid of death.
but now
i'm afraid of forever.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 10h

"UGHHHHHHHHH
I'M DONE WITH YOU."
"This is my beach now. If you hate me so much
YOU CAN JUST LEAVE!!"
Juvie leaves to sit by the shore. They look REALLY upset.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 11h

But I feel so stupid 'cause you feel the same, and when I water the roses I can’t trust you to stay.
So here I lay 'neath the shimmering moon; just a love-struck fool. What do I do but wait for you?

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 11h

"We're not gonna make it, are we? We're gonna be stuck again, we're—"
You are seated in a room that is empty. A chain digs into your wrist, binding one arm to the wall. It is quiet, and you are alone. This is what you deserve.

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Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 12h

What if I just laid down in the road and waited for one of those cultists to finish the job because I'm too weak to stop them without my friends.
I guess probably it'd take a really long time and I'd be bored.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 13h

I only want what is best for you, you know?
Hurting you hurts me too...
But, if that is what you want, so be it.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 13h

I feel so stupid. And I know it's my fault.
I just wanted to stay with you. I didn't want to complicate things. I didn't want to overstep, to know more than I was supposed to.
But I don't know what's real anymore. What I'm allowed to think, to feel, to say, to do.

Yuri Quote Bot @yuriquotes.bsky.social · 14h

She meant, I suppose, to torture me, just as I tortured her — yet, all this time, she was laboring under a misunderstanding.
I never once meant to torture her, and neither did I wish to hurt her.
Why would I do that, when I loved her so much?