“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
―
M.L. Rio,
If We Were Villains
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Were you in love with him?''Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“There is no comfort like complicity.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Which of us could say we were more sinned against than sinning? We were so easily manipulated - confusion made a masterpiece of us.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“The things about Shakespeare is, he's so eloquent...he speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“I never asked where he went, worried he wouldn’t ask me to follow.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“You were real to me. Sometimes I thought you were the only real thing.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Secrets carry weight, like lead.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“James laughed brokenly, and I felt something deep between my lungs crack clean in two.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Hatred is the sincerest form of flattery.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Were you in love with him?''Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“There is no comfort like complicity.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Which of us could say we were more sinned against than sinning? We were so easily manipulated - confusion made a masterpiece of us.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“The things about Shakespeare is, he's so eloquent...he speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“I never asked where he went, worried he wouldn’t ask me to follow.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“You were real to me. Sometimes I thought you were the only real thing.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Secrets carry weight, like lead.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“James laughed brokenly, and I felt something deep between my lungs crack clean in two.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
“Hatred is the sincerest form of flattery.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
