"Beloved, it's time to move on..."

"I'm ready for a change. I grow weary of pretending I am fine the way I was."

"The scars I bear run deep and my memories are filled with a darkness I cannot describe without falling back into it."

"I wonder if your love will fill me up, in all the places where I am lacking or wanting. You are a cool, clear, pristine stream, and I wish to drink of you, to know the wisdom you would give, to know you inside and out."

"You are a gentle soul bearing an edge of deep resentment. Let me not be the harbinger of your personal path of ruin. I know you have walked it before, when Swan Song was not a blade of peaceful ends, but of vengeance in cold blood."

"I will not be your undoing. I will do my very best to be strong, even when I feel I will cave into the maddening, sickeningly euphoric depths of my own self-hatred."

"Take me with you, beloved... and let us not look back on the dark days we left behind."

-- Ryshassa