Weren't you supposed to be responsible? (Weren't you supposed to be safe?) - James and falling from self-made thrones, freeverse

Sometimes he wishes they were dead.

He wasn't dead. Not yet. He had a last job to do. And in the end, it wasn't them who broke him. He managed that all by himself. - Cinna in Capitol custody

and you are but a porcelain doll covered in cracks. one day you will shatter into a million little pieces (and isn't that what you've been waiting for all along?) - lily potter and coping (or not)

"It is not a good story to tell. It doesn't have a happy ending." She frowned at that. "But everyone here is happy." - Remus, Tonks and an end that really is a beginning.

Alcohol and bitterness don't make for a good godfather. - Sirius and drowning

None of them is sure anymore what to believe. They are friends, brothers even. But, sometimes, that is not enough. - Lily, the Marauders and not following their hearts.

"I have come to say goodbye. I will be dead within a month." - Albus, Aberforth and how one says goodbye to something that won't be missed.

They all had that one gift that taught them their most important lesson. - Lily, the Marauders and Christmas

"We have to stop this." Sirius whispers, all the while wondering how he could ever contemplate such an impossible thing. If only it weren't so wrong. - SiriusLily and how denying the forbidden fruit doesn't make anything better. Minor JamesLily

"We could run away." Both of them know they can't. But with hope being in short supply these days, James decides to humour her. "Where to?" - James/Lily and being fed up with hiding

- EXTRA CH: Sirius. - They weren't invincible. They burned and fell and died. And in the end, they didn't change one damned thing. - The First Order. Because behind the names of the fallen war "heroes" were people with ideals and fears and dreams. They weren't meant to be forgotten.

Home is where the heart is, but you never had a heart, don't you know? - Sirius and the Maurauders, freeverse

"People change," Sirius said. And they wondered how much more their friendship could take. - The Marauders and growing up in a world that was so very different from what they had imagined it to be.

They learnt that nothing is unbreakable. And, suddenly, they can't look each other in the eye anymore. - Remus/Sirius

She could have said: "I'm no child anymore, Daddy." She had scars to show, the evidence of knowing death. But it didn't matter. He couldn't save her.

Before anything else, they had been friends. - Sirius/Remus

There would never be a happy ending for a rat. - Four worlds that never happened, and one that wasn't better at all.

Their future was golden, so what was there to fear?

She had lived a lie for twelve years, grieving for a son that didn't deserve her love. If only she could remember her baby boy like he had been, not like the monster he turned out to be.