666

✞ 666 ✞

𝐀 𝐅𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐒 sentence starters taken from Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964).  Adjust as needed.

❝  get three coffins ready.  ❞ ❝  i am getting tired of these killings.  they must stop.  ❞ ❝  in my opinion you’d make a fine pallbearer.  ❞ ❝  it’s strange ,  how you always manage to be in the right place at the right time.  ❞ ❝  everybody here has become very rich ,  or else they are dead.  ❞ ❝  ghosts are better left where they are.  ❞ ❝  i hope you rot in hell.   ❞ ❝  may you die spitting blood.   ❞ ❝  we spend our time here between funeral  &  burials.  ❞ ❝  things always look different from higher up.  ❞ ❝  life can be so precious.  it’s foolish to risk losing it every minute.  ❞ ❝  you are without a job ,  &  you don’t have any money to pay what you owe me.  ❞ ❝  now, old fool, loosen up your tongue.   ❞ ❝  me right smack in the middle ?   mm-mmm ,  too dangerous.   ❞ ❝  his big mistake ,  i think ,  was getting born.  ❞ ❝  that’s all very cozy ,  but i don’t find you men all that appealing.  ❞ ❝  i’d like to know where we are going ,  or is it a secret ?  ❞ ❝  i’m a woman who’s rich enough to appreciate the man that my money can buy.  ❞ ❝  you are behaving like a stubborn idiot.   ❞ ❝  you will get rich here ,  or you will be killed.  ❞ ❝  i want law  &  order in this place.  ❞ ❝  i don’t think it’s nice ,  you laughin’.  ❞ ❝  a bullet in the back ,  eh ?  &  it’s ended ?  &  what happens if your hand should tremble slightly ?  ❞ ❝  why aren’t you sleeping ?  ❞ ❝  i want to see for myself how you’re going to get yourself in trouble.  ❞ ❝  i’ve decided to hang my gun up on the wall.  ❞ ❝  if you don’t mind doing a little killing ,  you’ll have no trouble finding someone eager to pay you.  ❞ ❝  well ,  i never found home that great ,  but let’s go.  ❞ ❝  get up close to it  &  take a little look at what’s in it.  If they fire at you ,  you know it’s gold.  ❞ ❝  you look as though this place suits you very well.  if you go on like this ,  you will soon be here permanently.  ❞ ❝  you see ,  there was once a wagon load of gold the soldiers were taking to the border.  ❞ ❝  when a man’s got money in his pocket he begins to appreciate peace.  ❞ ❝  i have to tell you some news that’s very bad.   ❞ ❝  you shoot to kill ,  you better hit the heart.   ❞ ❝  if you want any work ,  looking like that ,  you could try being a scarecrow.  ❞ ❝  if you’re thinking what i suspect ,  i tell you ,  don’t try it.  ❞ ❝  you mustn’t do the thinking.  let me think instead.  ❞ ❝  tell me ,  is that the way you go to bed every night ?  ❞ ❝  i arranged for the bodies to be lying as if both companies killed each other.  ❞ ❝  the dead can be very useful sometimes.  they’ve helped me out of tough spots more than once.  ❞ ❝  sorry ,  but when a husband finds a man in his wife’s bedroom ,  you’re never sure how he’s gonna react.  ❞ ❝  in a week you’ll be back in shape ,  you can get out  &  do whatever you want.   ❞ ❝  eating  &  drinking  &  killing.  that’s all you can do ,  just like the rest of your kind.  ❞ ❝  there’s money to be made in a place like this.  ❞ ❝  now what do you suppose they’re carrying in that coach ?  ❞ ❝  i saw the whole thing.  you killed all four of them.  ❞ ❝  you want to get rich ,  huh ?  well for that you’ve come to the right place ,  if you use your head.  ❞ ❝  you said you didn’t have any need for me anymore.  ❞ ❝  i told you i wasn’t cheap.  but i think you’ll find it’s worth your while.  ❞ ❝  i don’t like to take money unless i feel i’ve earned it.  ❞ ❝  it’s not really easy to like something you know nothing about.  ❞ ❝  is it possible ,  old fellow ,  that you’ll never be able to reach any conclusions on your own ?  ❞ ❝  if we’re not gonna bury them i would like to know what we will use them for.  ❞ ❝  when a man with a pistol meets a man with a rifle ,  the man with the pistol will be a dead man.  ❞ ❝  i think you will find this more amusing than cards.   ❞ ❝  any town that sells guns  &  liquor has gotta be a rich one.  ❞ ❝  you’re finished playing the smart boy.   ❞ ❝  i got it by first using my head.  No one can resist two barrels of wine.   ❞ ❝  here you can only gain respect by killing other men.  ❞ ❝  when i see you staring like that ,  it bothers me.  ❞ ❝  we’ve had too many killings.  ❞ ❝  remember.  they died fighting among themselves.  ❞ ❝  somebody has to run the place.  every town has a boss.  ❞ ❝  close up this place  &  come with me.  ❞ ❝  it’s not smart to go wandering so far from home.  ❞ ❝  i want to warn you that those murderers will make a corpse out of you one day.  ❞ ❝  i hear you’re hiring on men.  well i might just be available.  ❞ ❝  this is all very ,  very touching.  ❞ ❝  i gotta tell you before you hire me ,  i don’t work cheap.  ❞ ❝  you mean you don’t admire peace ?  ❞ ❝  you’re too smart to be just a hired fighter.  ❞ ❝  leave here immediately.  i will forget about what you owe me.  ❞ ❝  you just keep your eyes open  &  your wits about you.  ❞ ❝  i get the wrong idea only when it suits me.  ❞ ❝  a man’s life in these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information.  ❞ ❝  i knew someone like you once.  there was no one there to help.  ❞ ❝  that won’t break my heart.   ❞ ❝  you’d like to prove me wrong ,  wouldn’t you ?  ❞ ❝  at most ,  you will only succeed in being killed.  ❞ ❝  that was a fine idea that you had.  what was it again ?  ❞ ❝  are you changing your profession ?  if you want to go on living you’d better.  ❞ ❝  they want nothing more than to live in peace.  ❞ ❝  down by the river.  have a look at some corpses down there.  ❞ ❝  i am alive ,  &  i want to remain with the living ,  understand ?  &  when i’m dead i’ll want to remain with the dead  &   i would be unhappy if somebody living forces me to remain with the living.  ❞ ❝  dead men can’t talk.  ❞ ❝  the way they killed the men at the house ,  there must be a lot of them.  ❞ ❝  no matter what they do to him ,  he won’t say a word ,  even if it means his life.   ❞ ❝  never saw a town as dead as this one.  ❞ ❝  are you sure that nobody has seen us ?❞ ❝  by the way ,  you’ll have to mark this up.  ❞ ❝  when you want to kill a man you must shoot for his heart.  ❞

Your real life sirenita has arrived👄

The Captain @/phoenixduelist and the Gunslinger.

What kind of love are you?

Love as a Flaw

Cowering, your love hides in the dark. In shadows and under cover of night, your love runs from corner to corner, afraid to linger, afraid to be caught. Afraid, afraid, afraid of everything. When you fall in love, it is with alarm bells ringing. Your love is a mistake, a flaw in the code, a purchase you don’t remember making and desperately want to return. You didn’t ask for this. You didn’t want this. It’s a problem–– your problem ––and you would do anything to pass it off, burn it away, scoop it out of you with bare hands, or carved out with hooked knives before it can destroy you. Get it out, just get it out now. You don’t care who you hurt in the process, only that you can’t afford to be hurt first. Being loved by you is to be loved by a figment of the imagination. It is to be loved in halves, or not at all.