You have to give them names or they’ll never come to life.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Perhaps it has always been there, this thing, this demon inside me. Or behind my back, waiting for me to turn around.
I tried to pray that night and God didn’t answer me, but another did.
There was a time I would have gladly killed you, and there may come a time when I gladly shall.
His name is Ariel. The most challenging bit is the eyes. They're glass, of course, so by nature are dead and dull. But that wouldn't do for my great predator. So I put mirrors behind the glass eyes, so they would spark. You see?
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It's like they're alive.
They are. I would put mirrors behind the entire world if I could.
An unforgivable transgression that has marked me for life. You think you've suffered. You think you know blood. You think you've walked on corpses. Spread them from here to the horizon and I have walked further! You weak, foul, lustful, vainglorious man. How dare you presume to speak to me of death?
I write in hope that one day you will answer me and that everything can again be like it was... Though I know that can never be.
I don't remember clouds when we were young. Were there any, my dearest Mina? Just beyond the horizon, perhaps? Or was it all seashore and sandcastles? Such a thought is naive, I know. But aren't memories always that?
Your father loves you very much and would do anything to save you. But I love you in a different way. I love you enough to kill you.
Of what I am about to tell you, we cannot enlighten him.
Why not?
Because the truth is unendurable.
She did not succumb to a disease precisely.
Of what did she succumb?
I drove a stake through her heart and cut off her head.
Do you hold out hope for her?
I hold out for dignity.
She will cease to be who she is.
Then I will love who she becomes.
I have a complicated history with the Almighty.
Do not weep. I've learned that skill. It brings no solace.
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