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Best Quotes From 'If We Were Villains'
"You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."
"You can't quantify humanity. You can't measure it - not the way you mean to. People are passionate and flawed and fallible. They make mistakes. Their memories fade. Their eyes deceive them."
"I don't know, it's like I look at you and the sonnets make sense. The good ones, anyway."
"Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?" The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can't help but suppress a smile. "I blame him for all of it."
'She says, “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.'
'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.'
'Below was the motto: Per aspera ad astra. I'd heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns to the stars.'
"We cracked up. [...] But we didn't really shatter until we were all back together again."
'The clock on the mantel struck twelve, and we stirred, one by one, like seven statues coming to life.'
'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.'
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#its me im girls#this utterly devastated me at 1:30 pm in the middle of the break room#he's out there okay i refuse to believe otherwise#if we were villains#iwwv#iwwv spoilers#oliver marks#james farrow#m.l. rio#spoilers
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Do you know how frustrating it is to watch a man who is VERY gay for his best friend dance around his feelings for a whole book only to realize them to late, have a sad but beautiful gay moment with him for like five pages (at most), have to leave him, lose him, and get a mysterious letter from him and find out he may be alive only for the book to leave you with the ambiguous ending?
#I wanted to grab Oliver by the neck and shake him#how does he not realize he likes James#especially after James came to his house and the whole morning scene#UGH gay people#jk#oliver marks#james farrow#if we were villains#iwwv#iwwv spoilers
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If We Were Villains
Foreshadowing, or something akin to that
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My friend made some memes and I thought maybe you guys will appreciate them as much as I do.
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If We Were Villains memes
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It's Halloween so we need some Dark Academia today~
If it was a poll about who is more likeable or good, Oliver would have won 100%
To make it more fair, I said Iconic.
Who would you choose?
The one who joined the wrong friend group and fell down the stairs of darkness.
Or the one who gave up everything for the love of his life?
(Ps: obviously Richard has the advantage here because he is batshit insane but I guess that's what Dark Academia is about. Although my boy Oliver deserves EVERYTHING in this world. I could have made this about who is more likeable as I said but that would make Richard lose by a landslide)
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do you ever just think about oliver and james and Richard and alexander and filippa and wren and meredith having the best third year filled with laughter and comedy and the complete contrast it had with fourth year because I do
and i become very sad
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Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.
If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio
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can’t stop thinking about how oliver marks went to jail for james, to protect him only to have james farrow absolutely lose his mind over it and die.
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m l rio really said "you can justify anything if you do it poetically enough" and thought it justified making me lose my mind over a bunch of emo theatre kids huh
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hi guys james’ body was never found and filippa has covered for him once before ☺️☺️☺️ therefore i believe he is still alive and oliver actually finds him and they live happily ever after
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Notes I've written the margins of If We Were Villains
(SPOILERS)
"Mer gentle parenting Richard"
"Okay I see you fully just revealing the killer on page eight."
"This is talking about Mr. Oliver 'I'm not talented' Marks"
"No one will be seated during the 'eclectic teacher gives impassioned speech' portion of the dark academia novel."
"Richard terrorized the fairies haha"
"Just because a pretty girl exists does not mean she is flirting with you Oliver.
"No, actually. Don't do that."
"Because he likes men--?"
"yay death-sposition."
"I am so certain he's just making shit up."
"Wren is an ADULT WOMAN why are you describing her like this?"
"no one will be seated during the 'main character almost freezes to death' portion of the dark academia novel"
"I feel sick"
"power of friendship I guess?"
"Bacchanals are not cool and fun people die."
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"His body was never found."
I chose being in state of delusion. Oliver and James grew old together.
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apologies to francis but if ur bitch is a domestic abuser he’s not UR bitch he’s just A bitch
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