- #490: "I want to rob lumber mills and hospitals with you and just bewilder the hell out of people the way love should."
- #337: "At first I was angry you had fallen in love with someone else, but you seem so happy now. I didn't even know you were sad."
- #379: "I can be happy alone, sure. I can be happy without ice cream, too. If we're being hypothetical."
- #196: "On days like this I would just disappear if it weren't for you and your love like nails in my feet."
- #7: "There's a whole world down in the ocean filled with talking shrimp, and boys who call you back but my breath won't hold long enough."
- #319: "I think you are beautiful and I would like to kiss you. I can think up some clever lines, if you'd prefer. But I wanted to say that, first."
- #461: "I have found a way to watch video in your head. High definition, with instant replay. It is called having regrets."
- #106: "Maybe next year is the year, maybe last year."
- #18: "There's a whole world off this island. All it takes is one long swim to start over. Tell my mother I love her."
- #384: "The city sometimes feels like a movie set. Maybe this is the big scene. Maybe I can be an extra at least."
- #430: "Ah, love at first sight. When you see someone so beautiful that you forget they aren't there just for you."
- #87: "A weekend road trip for an abortion party which is just like a baby shower except the mother can drink."
- #392: "I don't know anything about death. Except I feel certain that I'll get to try again. Game over. Continue? I know that's not what happens in real life, but I know all sorts of things that I don't believe."
- #121: "Through your bedroom window you look so sad at night, and I imagine that I am what you need, but realize that's crazy."
- #310: "There are nights where I bump into strangers on empty streets, where I need you to take my hair in your fist, or a car to hit me. Anything."
- #242: "A friend will help you move. A best friend will help you move bodies. But if you have to move your best friend's body, you're on your own."
- #227: "Truth and beauty are wonderful words, but shrapnel is shrapnel, and at the end of the day I am alone with the things I have done."
- #364: "Life is essentially a chess game. You have to plan and calculate and I am so lonely."
- #469: "It was a sweet day when I realized legal and illegal had nothing to do with right and wrong."
- #26: "Yes, I believe in love. Yes, I'm a dreamer. But I'm not alone, there are more of us than you suspect, and we've got bombs, truth and beauty bombs."
- #421: "Judge if you want, we are all going to die. I intend to deserve it."
- #339: "We need more good crazy. It'd be nice to watch the news, and think, 'that's fucking insane', but feel a little jealous instead of just alone."
- #62: "When we die, we come back different, like, with greener eyes, or as some far off star."
- #415: "If you repeat a word again and again, it loses its meaning. Apparently this also works with heartbreak."
- #36: "A puddle in a basement grew and grew, and the whole town rushed to save fax machines and public records while I rolled up my pant legs."
- #340: "Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could go look it up and know what's there in someone else's words, or we could get wicked drunk and just go."
- #78: "They kicked me out of school because in health class I yelled out 'That's what the government did to my people'."
- #127: "I said a hundred times I would give my soul to have you back, but I didn't sign nothing."
- #233: "I am going to build a new boyfriend out of garbage and dirty feathers. No one else will touch him."
- #37: "I called my therapist yesterday, in a panic. I said 'what if the sky falls again?', and she said 'well, what if you fall in love?'"
- #311: "Thinking about the infinity of space makes me insane. I never want my kids to feel this small. So yeah, I let them eat whatever."
- #138: "Every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move."
- #44: "I'd like to read a story in the newspaper that ends with 'but she was just having a bad dream, really she's okay'."
- #428: "When Kurt Vonnegut suggested that you stop once in a while to say, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is', he was giving you the best mid-makeout move ever."
- #143: "Hey, it's me. I meant to take the kids and the cat to the park. But I guess we just kept driving. Anyway, you should change that message."
- #102: "Atomic war means no traffic in the mornings, no bills in the mail, I can stay in bed with you all day."
- #347: "My sister and I both hate antique shopping. But we love hating things together."
- #486: "I love you but I don't love you enough to give up falling in love."
- #51: "I don't know if your wings are real, but I've never seen you without them, and I follow you everywhere."
- #189: "Gandhi said 'be the change you want to see in the world.' Fuck that. Be the trouble you want to see in the world."
- #357: "She wasn't perfect but I loved her, you know? I would kill everyone here to bring her back. Anyway, good luck class of 2008."
- #234: "We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever."
- #318: "The world isn't going to end just because we've done everything wrong. Though, that would be easier."
- #136: "I built a machine to hear duck thoughts, a haunting chorus, 'now we will rise up, now we will kill them a-...WAIT! IS THAT POPCORN?!'"
- #58: "Everyone expects me to be jealous instead of relieved to have his hands off me."
- #342: "I had all kinds of plans in case of a zombie attack. I just figured I'd be on the other side."
- #294: "Relocation ships came down through permanent smog to save us from the exploding sun, but I won't live in another city with no windows. I'd rather die with the sun on my face."
- #400: "Before we met I was so scared of dying. But if the end comes today, this will have been enough."
oct 24 2009 ∞
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