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Dorian Gray ([personal profile] brushoff) wrote2015-12-03 11:23 am

jams + quotes



all art is quite useless


"Prince Charming, a name I hadn't heard in a great many years, the significance of which only I would understand.
But then, that was probably all the best."
Prince Charming - Adam & the Ants
( don't you ever, don't you ever / stop being dandy showing me you're handsome )


MAGOG: Even in such degenerate company, your depravity really is quite exceptional. Is there a depth to which you haven't sunk, a natural law which hasn't been violated by your flesh?
Eighth Wonder - Lemon Demon
( eighth wonder of the world / you'll never see / what in the name of God I can be )


"I've been close to oh so many people over the years.
I've even died for some of them."
Who Wants to Live Forever? - Queen
( there's no chance for us / it's all decided for us / this world has only one sweet moment set aside for us )


TOBY: You told me I was the most beautiful man I've ever seen.
DORIAN: And I've looked in a mirror!
Handsome - The Vaccines
( I'm awful as they come, oh what a pity / so I thank the Lord above that I am pretty )


SPENCER: Dorian, you're scaring me.
DORIAN: Not half as much as I scare myself.
Tristan - Patrick Wolf
( yeah I am trouble / and I am troubled too / my name is Tristan and I am alive )


"Usually people flocked around me."
Fame - Mree
( don't you know who I am? / remember my name )


SIMON: Same old Dorian, still raising hell I see.
DORIAN: I try.
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - David Bowie
( and I've been putting out the fire with gasoline )


"It was nice while it lasted, we both had fun, now it's time to move on, that's how life is."
Nicotine - Panic! at the Disco
( so I say damn your kiss and the awful things you do / yeah you're worse than nicotine )


"The fourth gift would have given him a soul.
But well, he didn't need that so much."
Ugly Heart - G.R.L.
( but it's such a pity / a boy so pretty / with such an ugly heart )


"I've never given a damn about convention."
Shameless - Pet Shop Boys
( tell me you love me / admit it, you're really impressed )


"So yes, when I said that most of the people there knew me, what I meant was nobody knew me at all. No one does.
And I suspect that no one ever will."
Chandelier - Sia
( can't feel anything, when will I learn / I push it down, push it down )


"And even when the break is gone, you remember the pain, you carry that always. That's what it's like for me when I die. It fades from the surface, but it stays inside."
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
( and if I only could / I'd make a deal with God / and I'd get him to swap our places )


LUKE: You can't leave me in here, you're not like me.
You're better than that!
DORIAN: And I am. I'm showing you mercy.
You'll only ever have to drown once.
Bury a Friend - Billie Eilish
( why aren't you scared of me? why do you care for me? / when we all fall asleep, where do we go? )


"I was good at being a pop star."
Eve, Psyche, & the Bluebeard's Wife - LE SSERAFIM
( I wish for what's forbidden )


"The thing is, Mr. Miles, the dead can really hold a grudge.
Trust me, I know."
Blank Space - Taylor Swift
( so it's gonna be forever / or it's gonna go down in flames )


"No, that's what I love about you Rosina, you're so innocent, so...unspoiled."
Love Me Dead - Ludo
( you're hideous and sexy )


"Saturday the eighteenth, gas. Sunday the nineteenth, suffocation. Sorry, I got a bit behind. Monday, a blow to the back of the head when I was taking out the bins, Wednesday, drowned,
Friday, stabbed—again."
Dumb Ways to Die
( so many dumb ways to die )


DORIAN: Aging is the curse, Dora. Just look at you. You're repulsive, withered, decrepit, whereas I—
ISADORA: Are a phantom, Dorian.
Gin & Jag - Pet Shop Boys
( don't stare at the setting sun / say youth is wasted on the young )


"I knew most of the people there, even behind their masks. And those I didn't? They weren't worth knowing."
This Charming Man - The Smiths
( this man said 'it's gruesome / that someone so handsome should care' )


ISADORA: Seeing you tonight, you're just the same, smug, selfish boy you always were. You don't deny it?
DORIAN: I wouldn't dream of it.
Sober - Lorde
( ain't a pill that can touch our rush / but what will we do when we're sober? )


"I have no loved ones."
Love Song For A Vampire - Annie Lennox
( come unto these arms again / and set this spirit free )

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