absoluterpmemetrash:

Hunchback of Notre Dame Starters

taken from the musical adaption. feel free to change pronouns as necessary.

• We are blessed to find our sanctuary.
  
• Let me take you back. I’ll bring you home.
  
• If you have truly discovered charity at this late date, there is someone you can help.
  
• A baby? Yours?
  
• It’s God’s judgment on you! 
  
• The wicked shall not go unpunished!
  
• He has nobody else. Take him, if you can find it in your heart.
  
• Oh, Lord, you’ve sent me a test. 
  
• This child is my cross to bear. 
  
• I may not have saved my brother, but I will save this… thing.
  
• What makes a monster and what makes a man?
  
• The world is cruel. The world is wicked.
  
• It’s I alone whom you can trust in this whole city.
  
• I am your only friend.
  
• How can I protect you, boy, unless you always stay in here?
  
• These are crimes for which the world shows little pity.
  
• You’re my one defender.
  
• Out there, they’ll revile you as a monster.
  
• I am a monster.
  
• All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day not above them, but part of them.
  
• Give me one day out there, all I ask is one.
  
• What I’d give, what I’d dare, just to live one day out there!
  
• Every day they shout and scold and go about their lives, heedless of the gift it is to be them.
  
• If I were in their skin, I’d treasure every instant.
  
• No one sees I’m here now.
  
• Once a year we throw a party here in town.
  
• Every man’s a king and every king’s a clown.
  
• It’s the day the devil in us gets released.
  
• Give me your girls of pleasure.
  
• I have born the brunt of a soldier’s test.
  
• Whoever pays the most I call ‘My Liege.’
  
• And whatever I do I’ll make sure this is true: I will never go back again.
  
• Darling, to be blunt you are with the best.
  
• Like other true knights I’ve got ambition.
  
• For a few nights fun is my mission.
  
• Care to share a day of rest and recreation?
  
• I’m grateful for the opportunity to serve you, my Lord.
  
• I see how you stare.
  
• Come see me dance.
  
• She dances like the devil himself.
  
• She dances like an angel.
  
• Before we get old, come feel the heat.
  
• Come taste the desire.
  
• Put your foulest features on display.
  
• Wouldn’t you like to be crowned King for a day?
  
• It’s a day we do the things that we deplore.
  
• See how I’ve sheltered you from having to go through this.
  
• You don’t belong with normal men.
  
• I don’t know if you can hear me or if you’re even there.
  
• Yes, I know I’m just an outcast. I shouldn’t speak to you
  
• I see your face and wonder, were you once an outcast too?
  
• God help the outcasts or nobody will.
  
• I ask for nothing. I can get by.
  
• Please help my people, the poor and downtrod.
  
• I thought we all were the children of God.
  
• When you look from high above everything seems pretty.
  
• Thanks for giving this moment to me.
  
• For all these years you’ve stayed alone and free from danger.
  
• Be brave and say something.
  
• Come keep me warm until morning.
  
• Hold me close while we’re dancing.
  
• I cannot bear to watch and yet I cannot turn away.
  
• So many times out there I’ve watched a happy pair of lovers walking in the night.
  
• I knew I’d never now that warm and loving glow, though I might wish with all my might.
  
• No face as hideous as my face was ever meant for Heaven’s Light.
  
• Suddenly an angel has smiled at me and touched my face without a trace of fright.
  
• I dare to dream that she might even care for me.
  
• I swear it must be Heaven’s light.
  
• Of my virtue I am justly proud.
  
• You know I’m so much purer than the common, vulgar, weak licentious crowd.
  
• I feel her. I see her. 
  
• This burning desire is turning me to sin.
  
• It’s not my fault! I’m not to blame!
  
• It’s not my fault if in God’s plan he made the devil so much stronger than a man!
  
• Let her taste the fires of Hell, or else let her be mine and mine alone.
  
• Choose me or your pyre.
  
• God have mercy on her.
  
• God have mercy on me.
  
• She will be mine or she will burn!
  
• Don’t let her flee and vanish in the night.
  
• Are you disobeying a direct order?
  
• I knew it. She’s bewitched you, too.
  
• I’ve heard the calling of the Lord.
  
• In the dark, I call your name.
  
• Why did I hear her words inside my head?
  
• You have to save her!
  
• Oh, what’s the matter? Are you afraid?
  
• Of course he’s afraid! And he should be!
  
• That’s what makes you a hero – doing what you’re afraid of.
  
• She gave it to you because she nows you’re smart.
  
• For her I will be strong.
  
• You’re very clever to have found our little hideaway.
  
• We have a method for spies and intruders not terribly different from bees in a hive.
  
• My apologies for your imminent demise. 
  
• It’s our lives or yours.
  
• Here we are, nearly strangers from two worlds that’ve rarely met.
  
• Somehow, you have made me someone new.
  
• I’m asking if you will let me come with you.
  
• I must be in a place of miracles.
  
• A miracle you’ve brought to me.
  
• All this time I’ve been certain that my life would be spent alone.
  
• It’s time I’ve learned no love will be returned to one who’s born to be alone.
  
• Now I know there’ll be no miracles for me.
  
• No more need for a heart of stone.
  
• Better to have a heart of stone.
  
• Though we’ll set out for lands unkown, they’re lands we’ll share.
  
• Will we find a haven once more?
  
• Could there be a country kinder to our race?
  
• Where’s my place of miracles?
  
• I used to believe, in the days I was naive, that I’d live to see a day of justice dawn.
  
• I’ll die while believing still.
  
• Someday we may yet live to live and let let live.
  
• Someday, life will be fairer.
  
• Someday these dreams will all be real.
  
• You must try to free yourself!
  
• Quiet! Go away!
  
• You’re the only one who can save her now.
  
• You know what happens when I try to help. I only make things worse.
  
• How do you know what I believe?
  
• What do you know of all the things I feel?
  
• Who is it that you see instead of seeing what I am for real?
  
• You’re a liar!
  
• Would that I were made of stone like you.
  
• You give such good advice, so why has not one single word you’ve said been any help at all?
  
• The more your dreams and fancies fill my head the farther that I fall.
  
• If I were senseless, I’d prefer it.
  
• I’ve wasted my faith believing in saints of plaster.
  
• His words were cold as stone, but they were true.
  
• Take all your lies and leave me alone.
  
• We’ll trouble you no longer.
  
• We’re only made of stone.
  
• We just thought that you were made of something stronger.
  
• Now I’m on my own, never again to wonder what’s out there.
  
• Think of what I’ve offered. What is your answer?
  
• Open the doors! Ram them through if you must!
  
• How mch oppression will you allow?
  
• Why not make someday come right now?
  
• Oh, saints and monster, show your power!
  
• You are home.
  
• In my eyes, you are beautiful, too.
  
• You’re such a good friend.
  
• Is she dead?
  
• Now we can finally go back to the way things were.
  
• Now that she’s gone the poison dies with her.
  
• We can go on as close as once we were.
  
• No sanctuary without her!
  
• I could have helped her. Even loved her.
  
• Love? What do you know of love?
  
• Who have you ever loved?
  
• I loved… I loved my brother.
  
• He was wicked, weak!
  
• No – you are the weak one.
  
• I told you – I am very strong!
  
• You don’t want to hurt me!
  
• The world is cruel. the world is ugly. But there are times and there are people when the world is not.
  
• At it’s cruelest, it’s still the only world we’ve got.
  
• Here is a riddle to guess if you can.