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• You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
• She Will Have Her Way
• What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?
• She ties regrets around her fingers like forget-me-knots
• she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
• She wears her failed relationships like a shield
• Hot pursuit
• Not her voice, but the way her voice changes,
• For the first time in either of her lives, she is held gently
• They walk around her like she is in danger of breaking
• She Will Have Her Way: The Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn
• It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
• I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• She might not need me. But then again she might.
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• the way she wears her weary
• She does not rustle but her flesh has the moonlit shade of a silver birch
• I don't like her because she won't like me
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• She plugs her tears in the way you'd keep a dam from breaking
• Would you like to penetrate her shell, insinuating yourself among the pages of the books she is reading?
• She, the Last Leviathan. She, the Station Agent. Chin on her Palm, she Watches Every Departure.
• What it is like to go without and then, to not, even in a small way
• Susan Goldman, who has cervical cancer, is partly thankful as she braces herself but changes her mind as she's sprayed with burning jet fuel.
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
• I would have attempted to draw her if she had stayed that way.
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• Here's Me Inside Her But I Can Tell From Her Vagina She Doesn't Really Care
• The memory cuts through her like the blade she wields
• he touched me then, but I forgot to feel
• Sadly, I discovered I don’t like apples
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• She bruised her knee. This is how we met.
• first tar, then compress
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• Redemption is very much like vengeance. Redemption has more valor, and is more satisfying if you obtain it. But if you chase it blindly you can waste yourself completely.
• Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
• Speak of compassion first, then argue if you must
• She calls him Sugarcane. He calls her Hurricane.
• War is hell but men like it
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• i might look like a grown person, but i'm just a tiny confused scientist
• but her emails
• like you're blind but still can see
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
• her first time
• Michael Bolton
• It happened to everyone else; she swore it wouldn't to her
• When she woke up, her hands were still dreaming
• her eyes can't find you at first
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Michael Bolton singing the National Anthem in Game 4 of the 2003 American League Championship Series
• A date idea, but not for the first date
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• You want to reassure her, but you don't know where to start
• She Looks Good, but She Has an Ugly Heart
• Britney Spears
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Britney Spears rocks your socks right off
• Britney Spears to Speak at MIT
• Zephronias is unfriendly to new noders, like, sometimes but not always. Depends on several astronomical variables
• The Ruination of Britney Spears
• All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
• From Baghdad, with Britney Spears and Toby Keith, it's the Iraq War Halftime Show!
• Keep steadfast and earnest. You will try to trick yourself over and over again along the way. Keep going.
• First I'm gonna make it, and then I'm gonna break it 'til it falls apart
• She thought about giving him her heart
• The first time I saw her
• She opened her eyes and spoke in a very normal voice, just as if she were sane
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• Tied up tight, like a bride on her wedding night
• Her perception of how gorgeous she is will be evident in her lack of movement during sex
• She sat in virginal white, eyes closed, with only her face in rose
• I come home, she lifted up her wings. I guess that this must be the place.
• I think I fell in love with her right then and right there
• Fuck and please her like never before with the Stimulator!
• First the music, then the fire
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• I know that all the cannabis activists would like you to believe differently but
• Every Which Way but Loose
• She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• I note that she is pretty, but we are off into the city, my werewolf friend and I
• Can't imagine why, but I feel like dancing
• But can you still cry like a child?
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• But she heard it
• not like the shoe and not like the ring but just like the heart
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• I like the city, but the city doesn't like me
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Life is uncertain. Would you like dessert first?
• a wound is at first nothing, and then pain, and then blood
• When first my way to fair I took
• I fell in love with her first
• Robert Lionel Fanthorpe fills up the word count in a science fiction novel: she brushed her teeth
• Rosy Palm and her five daughters
• This is the first time she's texted me since the morning she left.
• I haven't seen her in a month. She is still beautiful.
• Alice without opening her eyes says You have to stop crying you are shaking the bed.
• She said, while hugging a bowl of turnips close to her bosom
• How to be the first one off the line at a 4-way stop sign
• She flies with her own wings
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• She found her bliss between the headphones, and pursed her lips.
• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
• The colors flow through her like a rainbow
• In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
• Her grief is still too young to behave itself, so she never lets it out
• she left her handwriting all over the calendar
• You can't stop thinking of her: this is how you explained it, a proof of your being in love.
• Sometimes the apathy she saw made her want to curl up and cry
• She is so beautiful, I gave up Nihilism for her
• November on her way to winter
• She asked me to copy my poem into her notebook
• you think you're special, and you are. but not in the way that you think.
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• But I Like You
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• Looking like a pirate is fun but only having one eye annoys me
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• Like hating water, but living in the lowlands
• You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• A language full of words she understands, but does not know the sound of, yet.
• She hated the screen porch, but she loved the heat
• I will have her forever but I can't touch her
• She Spoke in Nothing But Lies
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• A reddish glow is clearly visible all the way around the horizon, but the moon, alas, remains hidden
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• echoes of her glisten in your eyes; i also tear but without linger
• Hours pass, but she still counts the minutes
• he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• what she's building now, it isn't much, but it's hers
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
• you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
• I'm happy but you don't like me
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• beauty is invented, but it is also personified, and I know this because I have met her
• Mass Murder and Mutilation! But first, the weather with Weather-Wise Wally Whimple.
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• Not atheist, but what then?
• We might not like each other very much afterwards, but at least we'll understand each other.
• I used to like it, but it makes me sick to the stomach
• Telling Anna you love her the first time
• She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
• First compress it, then encrypt it
• All Those Tears But I Learned Something From Her
• the first kiss that felt like a first kiss
• She handed me my first sharpened pencil.
• as she suddenly realizes that the Heart that she has been praying to did not send somebody... but is, instead, here.
• There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess

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