M. L. Rio

If We Were Villains. 5th Anniversary Edition

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“Make art, make mistakes, and have no regrets. It would be a shame to waste such brief morality.” 

“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live...the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”

I never even liked him but my god these funeral speeches are making me sob

“No, why don't we just— We can share, can't we?"

"You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."

🌸 Crybaby 🌸

"I'm afraid." she said, after what felt Iike a year, speaking very slowly, "That I'm prettier than I am talented or intelligent, and that because of that no one will ever take me seriously. As a performer or a person."

Per aspera ad astra. Id heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.

 if you haven't made any enemies in life, you've been living too safely. 

 You're lovely, but you're not worth that. 

If We Were Villains. 5th Anniversary Edition quotes

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