- "Elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze, a trail for the devil to erase."
- "So can you understand why I want a daughter when I'm still young?
I wanna hold her hand and show her some beauty before this damage is done."
- "When was it an option to put your lips upon my lips?
And how did this happen? And why are you laughing? And how do I get back together again?"
- "If I had a chance, I'd take it. If I had a heart, I'd break it open."
- "on the night you left, i came over and we peeled the freckles from our shoulders. our brand new coats were so flushed and pink, and i knew your heart i couldn't win. 'cause the season's change was a conduit
♒☀♒ and we'd left our love in our summer skin."
- "It's too bad, mon ami. We'd make a pretty good team if we weren't trying to kill each other."
- "I know this kind of guy. He breaks things."
- "Anna, drive faster." The catch: it has to be used in narration, not dialogue.
- "Smelled the truth in her hair, felt the world at my feet,
but we were just two kids in a beat-up car. I'm still driving home from the things I've done."
- "Anything that ever burned had a spark."
- So, why did you do it?
- Because they told me not to.
- Because she didn’t stop me.
- Because he was a nobody.
- Because he didn’t love me.
- Because I didn’t want to.
- "I did it because I needed to, because I wanted to, but most of all, I did it because you told me that I couldn't."
- "Someday, you will ache like I ache."
- "She said she cried at least once a day, not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short."
- "What makes you think you're my only lover?"
- He lent forward, a grin spreading over his lips and his eyes glinting mischievously. "Let's play a game."
- "the thought 'we cant do it, we're in a public place' crossed my mind, and then I realized he's succeeding if he's trying to domesticate me. "
- "She was like a hurricane, really. She was an angry person, but when she let you in enough, you'd see the good; like the calm in the eye of a storm.
If you abused that trust, she'd destroy everything in her path."
- "Better make yourself at home; you're here to stay. You won't bother me if you let me bother you. All the doors are locked, all the windows shut. Keep in mind, I watch you. Never leave my sight, never leave me." Stockholm syndrome.
- "The brightest stars in the sky are the souls of those who loved you the most."
- "If we have this conversation, it's going to end badly for you. Consider that a fair warning."
- Take one of the given everyday items/places and write about how a person would view these things if the item was important in the relationship after the relationship ended. ie: a certain shirt would remind a girl about how much her ex liked it.
Focus on the emotion they would feel as they saw it, and how they would react to using it/seeing it everyday afterwards. If you're feeling risque, flash back and forth to show how the couple were when they were together, and how they used the item. - A coffee pot. - A bench in the park. - A movie. - A subway car / a certain seat in the subway car. - A local coffee shop.
- “The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.” - David Russell
- "We're going to be okay... You know that, right?" Incest.
- Capricious: Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable.
- "I'm always in the way. Maybe it's on purpose, so tell me where to go."
- "People should fall in love with their eyes closed." -Andy Warhol.
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- ✔ Dreams; little girl, child molestation, monstermetaphor.
- She lost her virginity on a picnic rug by the lake.
- "That’s the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.” - Chuck Palahniuk
- "You know what else children don’t know?”
- You come home and check your phone messages. You get to your third message and freeze. Begin from there.
- Write a story that subtly revolves around a number.
- One day my imaginary friend said to me: “You do realize I am the real one and I’m imagining you, right?”
- "Every imaginary friend is a person, and somewhere they're imagining you."
- During the story, a character discovers someone has written a book about them.
- "She stabbed a man dressed as a clock. She told me she wanted to kill time. "
- Write a story in which one character knows they're in a story, and breaks the fourth wall on a regular basis, but the rest just think said character is crazy.
- He cries because he doesn't know how people can just fall out of love without even noticing. // He laughs because he doesn't know how people can just fall in love without even noticing.
- "We should make a verbal agreement to only kiss each other."
- "Don't make this easy, I want you to mean it."
- 'Cause we were barely seventeen and we were barely dressed.'
- "She was made out of words."
- "Always be curious. Because curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." -Alexander Skarsgard.
- "Life is short and you are hot." — Billy Shipton
- “Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”
- from Diary, from Chuck Palahnuik.
- "I thought that when I came back, you'd be whole and I'd be broken."
- "Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love."
"I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse."
" It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way a gun is power."
- Chuck Palahniuk