Quotes / Destructive Romance

Will: I should be allowed to feel good about myself!

Terri: Who are we kidding, Will? This marriage works because you don't feel good about yourself!

— Glee

You chucked me out like I was trash,
For that you should be dead—
But, but, but,
Then it hit me like a flash,
What if high school went away instead?
Those assholes are the key
They're keeping you away from me
They made you blind, messed up your mind
But I can set you free!

— JD, Heathers, "Meant To Be Yours"

Have I ever told you my theory that Wuthering Heights is not romance but actually horror, about two emotional sadomasochists who lay waste to everyone around them, using them as pawns in their own personal war of attrition?

— Cleolinda Jones, Twilight II: Vampiric Boogaloo

"God, you’re like my own noose. I like it."

— The Dark Fic errare humanum est

"I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd- the way your mother warned you about, essentially."

— A Softer World

There will be no kisses tonight
There will be no holding hands tonight
Cause what is now wasn't there before
And should not be.

— "And I Remember Every Kiss", by Jens Lekman

And if you lie down with wolves, you learn to howl
You got me brainwashed
You got me so lost
You got me fucked up like you...

— "Wolves" by Dreamers

Shaw: Root, no offense... you're hot. You're good with a gun. Those are two qualities I greatly admire. But you and me together would be like a four alarm fire in an oil refinery.

Root: Sounds cozy.

— Person of Interest, "If-Then-Else"

And I don't want to fight this war
Bullets coming off our lips
But we stick to our guns and we love like battleships.

— "Battleships" by Daughtry

You will never define me
Fuck that, I don't need that
You will never complete me
Fuck that, I don't need that
You will never control me
Fuck that, I don't need that
You will never break me down...

— "Stronger" by Emphatic

And flowers might wilt when we walk past
And self-help might help when it makes us laugh
Only finding questions in answers
You and I are just walking disasters

— "Walking Disasters" by The Wombats

Yikes. They are really bad for each other.

— Garnet, describing Lapis and Jasper's relationship in Steven Universe

Adam: What do you think?

Blake: Can we be healthy?

Big Daddy Bane: Hell no! Y'all fucked up. But. Y'all too fucked up for anyone else. You're going to be the couple that people whisper about at parties. "Does he hit her? Is she cheating on him?" But y'all gonna to stay together, cause no one else can handle your crazy asses.

Blake: So...we can make it work?

Bane Define work.

Blake: We can tolerate each other till we have an explosive, possibly violent, fight, then amazing make up sex.

Bane: Yeah, that's about y'alls speed.

— A Monster's Marriage

Padmé: I have told you why I'm doing this and still you refuse to accept it. You could have killed him, Anakin.

Anakin: I know.

Padmé: This marriage is not a marriage, Anakin, if there isn't any trust. We said at the beginning this could be a terrible mistake.

Anakin: What exactly are you saying?

Padmé: That other people who are married have everything that we don't, everything that we won't! We live in secret, Anakin. Like it or not, our relationship is built on lies and deception. No relationship can survive that.

Anakin: I know I went too far, i-it's just...it's just something inside me snapped.

Padmé: I don't know who's in there sometimes. I just know I'm not happy anymore. I don't feel safe.

— Star Wars: The Clone Wars, "The Rise of Clovis"

"If you hate coming home so much," said Chester, "why don't you just break up with her?"

He'd tried once. There were still scorch marks on the ceiling, and he'd had to buy a new television after she'd melted the old one. She hadn't hurt him. She never would, though she could've killed him easily enough. In her own way, she loved him, and he cared for her too. They just weren't a good couple.

—Monster

"Our love is a forest fire, and we are the little things that live in the trees."

— A Softer World, "876"

"Jimmy, I have had the time of my life with you. But we are bad for everyone around us. Other people suffer because of us. Apart, we're okay, but... together? We're poison."

— Kim Wexler, Better Call Saul, "Fun and Games"

Ryan North: I saw those cartoons. The two of you will never convince me that Elmer Fudd wasn't a good man. There is a kindness in him. He even loves Bugs Bunny.
Chip Zdarsky: Ryan... love isn't the same thing as kindness.

— Porky Pig vs. Ryan North: A True Enough Story

Dionne, and her boyfriend Murray are in this dramatic relationship. I think they’ve seen that Ike and Tina Turner movie just too many times.

— Cher Horowitz, Clueless (1995)

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