a sea of quotes;

[madscenes]

THE QUOTE PROMPT MEME

How to play -

1. Comment with your character. Include prefs and the like, if you wish.
2. Others will leave a quote/lyric/poem. Try a sea of quotes or tumblr if you need help searching for a quote.
3. Reply to them with a setting based on the quote/lyric/poem.

Credit. sockies. [ Source ]

Comments

diana prince | dceu

[yuvaika]

elia martell | asoiaf | ota

[veryfond]

marguerite gautier | the lady of the camellias | ota

[manonique]

one. | For a woman whose education has not taught her goodness, God almost always opens the way to two paths that lead to it - the path of suffering, and the path of love.

- Alexandre Dumas, The Lady of the Camellias

two. | Paris is always a good idea.

- Audrey Hepburn

three. | There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

wildcard. | Bring your own!

Preference for contemporary-ish characters or characters AU'd into a 19th century setting.

moriarty || bbc

[jimmymoriarty]

un: I can't forgive you. Even if I could, / you wouldn't pardon me for seeing through you. --W. Cope
deux: Come to the edge. / We might fall. / Come to the edge. / It's too high! / COME TO THE EDGE! / And they came. / And he pushed, / And they flew. --C. Logue
trois: 1. Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter. / 2. The easy way: get to know him better. --W. Cope
quatre: [carte blanche]

Natasha Romanoff | MCU | ota

[plightful]

aphrodite | hades

[aphro]

( voice testing! i absolutely forgot the sources of these quotes when pasting, my b. )

1. He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.

2. “You make the rarest canvas, love.”

3. “For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.”

4. “You should know by now that love is never a weakness. Love is the mortal world’s greatest strength.”

5. “Some of the best victories in history came about when well thought-out plans went to shit.”

megaera | hades

[raspiness]

( voice testing! )

1. “I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart...” ― Virgil, The Aeneid

2. “All limits are self imposed.” ― Icarus

3. “You're afraid of your own anger.” ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

4. “The finest fury is the most controlled.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

5. “Only the winner and coward may survive.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

louis de pointe du lac (the vampire chronicles)

[deathoftheauthor]

john watson ( sherlock )

[presurgery]

i. "Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity."

( Sun Tzu, The Art of War )

ii. "Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm. If they are in hostile country, they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help for it, they will fight hard."

( Sun Tzu, The Art of War )

i.

[insuperiorstrength]

[ It's not quite an office yet, the glass dome erected on the building grounds of the palace, but for meetings that require actual, verbal communication, he prefers it to the underground part of the castle. The remaining ruins of Beijing's inner cityscape can be glimpsed from here, along with the skyscrapers in the distance, the proof of continuous growth. Unlike Rachita, Khan's had no interest in ruling over dying land - rather, he'd like to keep developing, to give his people the opportunity to evolve beyond humanity's limitations. For that, they require resources.

A continent of ashes is hardly conductive for that.

He's standing by one of the glass panels now, looking out. Waiting for John Watson to arrive. The man had chosen a rather unconventional approach to demanding a meeting, consisting of a note on top of his half-empty dinner plate, saying I know you can read this - we need to talk. The kitchen staff hadn't quite known whether to pass the message on or pretend they'd never seen it.

The fact that John's actively posing demands despite the fact that he's basically a prisoner in a glass cell, buried alive underground, is almost laughable. But Khan's regrown his face completely at this point and luckily for John Watson, his humour, such as it is, has been restored along with it. Consequently, here he is.

Waiting. ]

Jin Guangyao (Meng Yao)| The Untamed|ota

[hidden_fragrance]

A needle is not sharp at both ends. - Chinese Proverb

Two good talkers are not worth one good listener. - Chinese Proverb

The more acquaintances you have, the less they know you. - Chinese Proverb (modified)

There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet. - Chinese Proverb

lily evans 🌿 hp (ota)

[lancifolium]

Remus Lupin (Marauders-era)

[timenssecundus]

I have lost you, my brother
And your death has ended
The spring season
Of my happiness,
our house is buried with you
And buried the laughter that you taught me.

~ Catullus

[and/or]

In nature there's no blemish but the mind.
None can be called deformed but the unkind.

~ Shakespeare

[OOC: Hallo, it's me, same player as riseheliacal. I'd feel weird not saying so. I hope this doesn't count as spamming you!]

Jamie | Changeling: The Lost OC | OTA

[the_fairest_flower]

[m/m m/nb for shipping; cross canon and assumed CR welcome]

Ganymede | Greek mythology

[eagleswept]

1. All of it was good, in every sense of the word. And in this life, nothing good is truly lost. / Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

2. Whosoever shall behold any of the immortals, when the god himself chooses not, at a heavy price shall he behold. / Callimachus, The Bath of Pallas

3. It's always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches. / Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

4. or bring something of your own

Steve Rogers | MCU | OTA

[on_ur_left]

( 1 ) "I'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear." - Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

( 2 ) "I thought about when colors had been outrageously bright and the air had smelled incredibly good and when I had forgotten how it felt to be sad." - Lorraine Zago Rosenthal, Other Words for Love

( 3 ) "You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake?" - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

( 4 ) [give me one!]

Tsubasa Hanekawa · Bakemonogatari

[halleberry]

• “Have you ever had that feeling—that you'd like to go to a whole different place, and become a whole different self?” - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
  
• “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” - The Letters Of ..., Virginia Woolf
  
• “Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? Or would you take it?” - Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
  
• “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” - Ernest Hemingway
  

Dante | Devil May Cry

[demonrebel]

i.

Going on and on, I have the future in my hands,
Getting lost from days I never could get over,
Going on and on until I'm finally myself --- Elena Huston

ii.

Killed before a time to kill them all,
Passed down the righteous law,
Serve a justice that dwells in me,
Lifeless corpse as far as the eye can see!--- Shawn McPherson

iii.

Forsakened I am awakened,
A phoenix’s ash in dark divine,
Descending misery,
Destiny chasing time, ---Casey Edwards and Victor Borba

Helmsman Metawing | Homestuck OC | OTA

[psycholumin]

A.
Remember, kids, the only difference between screwing around and doing science is writing it down.
- Adam Savage, Mythbusters
B
Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly… stupid.
- Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
C
The prudent text-books give it
In tables at the end
'The stress that shears a rivet
Or makes a tie-bar bend—
'What traffic wrecks macadam—
What concrete should endure—
but we, poor Sons of Adam
Have no such literature,
To warn us or make sure!
- Rudyard Kipling, Hymn of Breaking Strain
D
Wildcard; bring your own quote.

aino minako / sailor moon

[pluckily]

1. “Once, I loved. Once, I loved. Once, when I couldn’t stop the wind, I broke the chimes.” —Jeanann Verlee
2. “Would it be too childish of me to say: I want? But I do want: theater, light, color, paintings, wine and wonder.” —Sylvia Plath
3. “You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.” —Carl Sagan
4. Wildcard!

kai / mutazione

[semenya]

1. “Bone dry, we say. Even though one-third of the weight of a living bone is water. We know nothing about ourselves.” —Natalie Diaz
2. “But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?” —Kazuo Ishiguro
3. “Adapt. Adjust. It ends or it doesn’t. It ends or it doesn’t. We do not perish.” —Caitlyn Siehl
4. Wildcard!

pippin took | lotr | ota.

[pippin]

A. “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” ― Voltaire.
B. “Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words: Wait and hope.” ― Alexandre Dumas.

or choose your own.

Kit September | Original (Changeling: the Lost) | OTA, Gen preferred

[technobek]

1. And I'm laying out my winter clothes / and wishing I was gone / going home / where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me - Simon and Garfunkel, the Boxer
   
2. I should really learn to recognize when I am in the middle of perpetrating a bad idea. One of the major tipoffs is when I start mentioning the Olive Garden. - Andrew Hussie
   
3. It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you. - Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

...or bring your own quote.

Midnight | BNHA

[love_the_smell]

1. Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
- Invictus, William Ernest Henley

2. "You've a good heart," she told him. "Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go." Then she shook her head. "But mostly, it's not."
- Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

3. Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
- Hope is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson

2 - lmk if this works!

[ofrockbottom]

[Whenever it became to butting into people's business, Ichiban usually found him extending a hand to people regardless if he wanted to or not. At the end of the day, he never really complained about helping others. But it lead to him getting into rather bizarre and outlandish situations. In this case, he couldn't help and notice an innocent looking office lady getting harassed by three lowly looking gangsters. Perhaps someone who was smarter would've walked away, but Ichiban's first impulse to seeing someone in trouble was to step in and try to smooth out the situation in order to help.

It wasn't the first time that he's done this and it probably wasn't going to be the last. That's why whenever they decide to threaten him and get physical... Ichiban does what he does best and fight right back. Since he's a pretty big and strong guy, it doesn't take much effort for him to beat them down and install a little fear into them. As the thugs run away from him, Ichiban dusts his hands and lets out an annoyed sigh.

Of course he was completely unaware that this innocent lady could've easily handled the situation on her own.]

Hey, uh... You okay? Those assholes didn't touch anywhere, did they?

madeleine gautier | original

[demimondaines]

[ ooc; permissions | character info ]


one. | A truth that's told with bad intent / Beats all lies you can invent. - William Blake, Further Ideas of Good and Evil
two. | Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths. - George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
three. | In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

wildcard. | Bring it!

2ish, but 1 or 3 could easily come into play further along the line...

[gqmotherfucker]

If Madeleine's goal was to hang off the arm of one of Gotham City's most notorious womanizers, there was an obvious choice... and there was a much easier but much riskier alternative. Oswald Cobblepot was not, after all, so very different from the men she'd wrapped around her finger before, with the significant difference that he was far more dangerous, far more vicious. Well, and his appearance.

Of course, neither of those things stopped him from surrounding himself with beautiful women, not when he was filthy rich, not when he owned the most recognizable nightclub in Gotham: the Iceberg Lounge.

In fact, Madeleine found, Oswald could be quite the gentleman when besotted... even if his table manners left something to be desired. Of course, as his new favorite, the rest of his flock of women were staring daggers at her back from the moment she'd enchanted him... that is, until their attention was drawn another new arrival, exchanging excited whispers as they peered out from the upper floor VIP area, across their view of the dancefloor to the entrance... where none other than Gotham's Favorite Son had walked in.

Bruce Wayne visiting the Iceberg Lounge wasn't unheard of... but not a regular by any means. What a coincidence he'd be visiting on Madeleine's first night in Gotham...