• “Feel like another round?”
• “You were great last night…”
• “Wow, you look even better in the daylight.”
• “My clothes look better on you than they do on me.”
• “I had no idea you were into that stuff…I’m glad I found out.”
• “We didn’t even get to use the toys last night.”
• “You should play with my hair some more…”
• “I don’t remember ever having this many hickeys. But I don’t mind.”
• “That was a workout.”
• “I don’t know your name. But you can share it with me, so I know what to scream this time.”
• “The fun doesn’t have to end.”
• “I think I can convince you to stay…”
• “Don’t pretend like you’re asleep. Should I find a way to wake you up?~”
• “We could order pizza and just stay like this all day.”
• “I love your bedhead.”

• “Oh no…what did we do?”
• “Hi! You need to leave.”
• “I’m sorry…who are you?”
• “Ugh…I drank so much.”
• “I can’t believe I did this again.” / “I can’t believe we did this again.”
• “Where are your clothes?”
• “…I’m sore in such weird places.”
• “Hey, sorry! I’m gonna go. Right now.”
• “You didn’t seem like you were having such a bad time last night.”
• “Someone’s coming. Is that your mom/partner/spouse/etc.?”
• “I think this was a mistake.”
• “*trying to sneak out while half-dressed*”
• “Your foot is in my face.”
• “Did we use protection?”
• “*sees ___ and screams*”

• ‘ did you get any sleep last night? ’
• ‘ you need rest. ’
• ‘ you talk in your sleep. ’
• ‘ it’s four in the morning. why are you still up? ’
• ‘ i’ll be right here when you wake up. ’
• ‘ every time i close my eyes, i see it. over and over again. ’
• ‘ wake up! it’s only a dream! ’ 
• ‘ i have tea. will that help you sleep? ’ 
• ‘ i’m so tired… but i have to stay awake. ’
• ‘ it was just a dream? ’
• ‘ you need a nap. ’
• ‘ time for bed. no ifs, ands, or buts. ’
• ‘ it was just a dream. ’
• ‘ don’t worry. i’ll keep the monsters away tonight. ’
• ‘ if you don’t get some sleep soon, you’ll make yourself sick. ’
• ‘ you haven’t slept in days. do you want to talk about it? ’
• ‘ i had a bad dream. is it okay if i sleep in here? ’
• ‘ i’ll go to bed when i’m ready, so fuck off. ’
• ‘ i’m. not. sleepy. ’
• ‘ you’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep. ’
• ‘ could you stay with me – just until i fall asleep? ’
• ‘ there’s no one else here. it was all a bad dream. ’
• ‘ you’re spilling milk all over the table. ’ 
• ‘ c’mon, lazybones. you’ve slept enough. ’

pronouns can be freely changed to fit the situation !

• baby, i’m new wave.
• is it bad enough , is it bad enough to call it off ?
• let’s turn up the heat.
• we gotta get back up.
• one minute you need me and the next we’re stuck.
• is it bad enough , is it bad enough to call it off ?
• what you need, what’s the use ?
• hold me now.
• i can’t help but want you too.
• don’t say you don’t miss me that much.
• don’t say i don’t still make you blush.
• cause my ears are burning … my ears are burning up !
• sometimes you can’t yell loud enough.
• sometimes a whisper’s just too much.
• too hot to handle gotta like it rough
• too much of a scandal when the going gets tough.
• just an innuendo, only gets obscene.
• i just want a crescendo &. a killer queen.

• you got me freaking out.
• i guess we’re even now.
• baby why you leaving now ?
• you should see me now.
• been knocking on the wood.
• &. lately i’ve been looking good.
• baby, i just wish you could.
• come by the neighborhood.
• have you heard the news ?
• love like mine, met with mixed reviews.
• don’t you want to kiss me someday too ?
• should be a party , let’s dance.
• i got to say this , right here now.
• tomorrow is a day away.
• don’t let go tonight by tomorrow this will be yesterday.
• it’s just a day away.
• don’t know where you went.
• i see i looked up what it meant  &. now it’s making sense.
• so yeah my timing sucks.
• i’m just so good at fucking up but i’m fixing to change my luck.
• turns out enough’s enough.

• “Once in awhile, she don’t want to call you.”
• “Speaking on the telephone.”
• “And once in your life, she won’t want to know you.”
• “You look around, the one you’ve found is gone.”
• And that’s all the time it takes for a heart to turn to stone.”
• “The sweeter the wine, the harder to make the break.”
• “You hear something about someone you’d thought you’d known.”
• So baby, don’t cry like there’s no tomorrow.”
• “After the night, there’s a brand new day.” 
• “There’ll be no pain.”
• “No more sorrow.”
• “So wash your face.”
• “Phone my place, it’ll be okay.”
• “That’s all the time that it takes for a heart to beat again.”
• “So give me a sign.”
• “The one you’ve found is back again.” 

• “From the day he was born, he was trouble.” 
• “He was a thorn in his mother’s side.”
• “She tried in vain.”
• “He never caused her nothing but shame.” 
• “He left home the day she died.”
• “From the day she was gone, all he wanted was…”
• “He was a low down cheap little punk.”
• “Taking everyone for a ride.”
• “You knew he was a no good kid.”
• “When he threatened your life with a switchblade knife.”
• “What a guy.”
• “Makes you cry.”
• “And I did.”
• “Everybody shoved him.”
• “I very nearly loved him.”
• “I said hey listen to me.”
• “Stay sane inside insanity.”
• “But he locked the door and threw away the key.”
• “But he must’ve been drawn into something.”
• “I’m out of my head.”
• “Oh hurry, or I may be dead.”
• “They mustn’t carry out their evil deeds.” 
• “Makes you cry, and I did.” 

• “How could you!”
• “This way!”
• “Shut up!”
• “I’ll tell you once, I won’t tell you twice.”
• “You’d better wise up, [name]”
• “Your apple pie don’t taste too nice.”
• “I’ve laid the seed, it should be all you need.”
• “You’re as sensual as a pencil.”
• “When we made it, did you hear a bell right?”
• “You got a block, well take my advice.”
• “My feet! I can’t move my feet!”
• “My wheels!”
• “My God, I can’t move my wheels.”
• “Its as if we’re glued to the spot!” 
• “You are!”
• “So quake with fear, you tiny fools.”
• “Oh, we’re trapped!”
• “It’s something you’ll get used to.”
• “A mental mind-fuck can be nice.”
• “You won’t find Earth people quite the easy mark you imagine.”
• “You mean?”
• “It’s something we ourselves have been working on for quite some time.”
• “It seems our friend here has found a means of perfecting it.”
• “A device capable of…”
• “You mean, he’s gonna send us to another planet?”
• “Build your thighs up.”
• “Stop!” 

• ‘ my head hurts. ’
• ‘ you’ve been asleep for two days. ’
• ‘ i think it’s broken. ’
• ‘ don’t mess with your iv. ’
• ‘ will you carry me? ’
• ‘ shh, it’s okay. get everything out. ’
• ‘ someone needs a nap. ’
• ‘ i threw up. ’
• ‘ it’s just a scratch. ’ 
• ‘ hey, accidents happen. ’
• ‘ you’ll feel better after your bath. ’
• ‘ i’m just glad to have you home safe. ’
• ‘ you ate too fast. i told you to take it easy. ’
• ‘ here’s some ice. ’
• ‘ i’ll come check on you in a little while. ’
• ‘ stay in bed. ’
• ‘ could you rub my back? ’
• ‘ i’m not even that tired. ’
• ‘ you need stitches. ’
• ‘ i brought you another blanket. ’
• ‘ let’s clean up those cuts and get you to bed. ’
• ‘ i think you caught some kind of flu. ’
• ‘ how many fingers am i holding up? ’
• ‘ i’m a little dizzy. ’
• ‘ congratulations. you have pneumonia. ’
• ‘ time for your medicine. ’
• ‘ i’m going to set your shoulder on the count of three. one, two, three – ’
• ‘ better take a look at that burn. ’
• ‘ you have to stay awake. can you do that for me? ’ 
• ‘ i found the tissues. ’
• ‘ that was a bad fall. need any help? ’

• ❝ i had started to crack. ❞ 
• ❝ you had to be an angel. ❞ 
• ❝ i’m so high, i’m so high. ❞ 
• ❝ i can see an angel. ❞
• ❝ love became an act of defiance. ❞ 
• ❝ always down to hide with you. ❞ 
• ❝ i started to starve myself. ❞ 
• ❝ i thought that love was a kind of emptiness. ❞ 
• ❝ i didn’t have to call it loneliness. ❞ 
• ❝ we all have a hunger. ❞ 
• ❝ they’re gonna crucify me. ❞ 
• ❝ how could anything bad ever happen to you? ❞ 
• ❝ you make a fool of death with your beauty. ❞ 
• ❝ i thought that love was in the drugs. ❞ 
• ❝ the more i took, the more it took away and i could never get enough. ❞
• ❝ oh, you look so free! ❞ 
• ❝ don’t let it get you down. ❞ 
• ❝ you’re the best thing i’ve seen. ❞ 
• ❝ for a moment, i forget to worry ❞ 
• ❝ i thought it doesn’t get better than this. ❞ 
• ❝ there can be nothing better than this. ❞ 
• ❝ the world is at your fingertips. ❞ 
• ❝ everything i ever did was just another way to scream your name. ❞ 
• ❝ we’re just children wanting children of our own. ❞ 
• ❝ i want a space to watch things grow. ❞ 
• ❝ did i dream to big? ❞ 
• ❝ do i have to let it go? ❞ 
• ❝ oh god, what do i know?  ❞ 
• ❝ there’s a special kind of sadness that seems to come with spring. ❞ 
• ❝ you need a big god. ❞ 
• ❝ you keep me up at night. ❞ 
• ❝ you know i still like you the most. ❞ 
• ❝ you can never know the places that i’d go. ❞ 
• ❝ you’ll always be my favorite ghost. ❞ 
• ❝ sometimes i think it’s getting better, and then it gets much worse. ❞ 
• ❝ is it just part of the process? ❞ 
• ❝ jesus christ, it hurts. ❞ 
• ❝ shower your affection. let it rain on me. ❞ 
• ❝ are you still awake? ❞ 
• ❝ a good friend told me you’ve been staying out so late. ❞ 
• ❝ be careful, my darling. ❞ 
• ❝ be careful what it takes. ❞ 
• ❝ from what i’ve seen so far, the good ones always seem to break. ❞ 
• ❝ i was kissing strangers, i was causing such a scene.   ❞ 
• ❝ i’ve been flying for too long. ❞ 
• ❝ i want you so badly. ❞ 
• ❝ you could be one. ❞ 
• ❝ hold me down. ❞ 
• ❝ i’m so tired now. ❞ 
• ❝ i can tell that i’m in trouble. ❞ 
• ❝ i feel like i’m about to fall. ❞ 
• ❝ i can hear the sirens. ❞ 
• ❝ i thought i was flying. ❞ 
• ❝ maybe i’m dying tonight. ❞ 
• ❝ i’m sorry i ruined your birthday. ❞ 
• ❝ i guess i could go back to university, try and make my mother proud. ❞ 
• ❝ i don’t think it would be too long before i was drunk again. ❞ 
• ❝ this is the only thing i’ve ever had any faith in. ❞ 
• ❝ you are so loved. ❞ 
• ❝ you were the one i treated the worst, only because you loved me the most. ❞ 
• ❝ we haven’t spoken in a long time. ❞ 
• ❝ i don’t know who I was back then. ❞ 
• ❝ i hope i would never treat anyone like that again. ❞ 
• ❝ tell me what i can do. i’ll make it up to you. ❞ 
• ❝ you’ve always been my north star. ❞ 
• ❝ i have to tell you something: i’m still afraid of the dark. ❞ 
• ❝ you make this cold world beautiful. ❞ 
• ❝ i believe her. ❞ 
• ❝ you’re a ‘real man’. ❞ 
• ❝ you only take as much as you can grab with two hands. ❞ 
• ❝ how’s that working out for you, honey? ❞ 
• ❝ do you feel loved? ❞ 
• ❝ i drink too much coffee and think of you often. ❞ 
• ❝ are you afraid? ‘cause i’m terrified. ❞ 
• ❝ you remind me that it’s such a wonderful thing to love. ❞ 
• ❝ i believe in you. ❞ 
• ❝ in our hearts, we know the truth. ❞ 
• ❝ it’s just too much. ❞ 
• ❝ i cannot get you close enough. ❞ 
• ❝ you can always find me here. ❞ 
• ❝ lord, don’t let me break this. ❞ 
• ❝ we have no need to fight. ❞ 
• ❝ it hurts in ways i can’t describe. ❞ 
• ❝ we’re sorry, we thought you didn’t care. ❞ 
• ❝ how does it feel now that you’ve scratched that itch? ❞ 
• ❝ hubris is a bitch. ❞ 
• ❝ the streets, they still run with blood. ❞ 
• ❝ give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly. ❞ 
• ❝ i feel nervous in a way that can’t be named. ❞ 
• ❝ we were a family pulled from the flood. ❞ 
• ❝ i’ve always been in love with you. could you tell it from the moment that i met you? ❞ 
• ❝ you said it didn’t hurt at all. ❞ 
• ❝ he/she/they told me that he loved me, and then ghosted me again. ❞ 
• ❝ was it so far to fall? ❞ 
• ❝ it’s hard to write about being happy. ❞ 
• ❝ i find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject. ❞ 
• ❝ there would be no grand choirs to sing about two people sitting doing nothing. ❞ 
• ❝ i must confess: i did it all for myself. ❞ 
• ❝ i gathered you here to hide from some vast unnameable fear. ❞ 
• ❝ the loneliness never left me. ❞ 
• ❝ if tomorrow it’s all over, at least we had it for a moment. ❞ 
• ❝ oh, darling, things seem so unstable. ❞ 
• ❝ this will be entirely forgotten. ❞ 

• “Suddenly you look like a stranger.”
• “You were my everything.”
• “We know I could have done it better.”
• “We were so good together, still had to let go.”
• “You shot me down.”
• “Baby, look at me just one more time.”
• “Tell me that you don’t regret it.”
• “Really thought we were fine, then you shot me down.”
• “Take me back to the night we met.”
• “I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you.”
• “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you.”
• “It feels like I’m startin’ all over again.”
• “The last three years were just pretend.”
• “You were the one I loved, the one thing that I tried to hold onto.”
• “Goodbye to you.”
• “It hurts to want everything and nothin’ at the same time.”
• “I want you but I’m not givin’ in this time.”
• “This is real life and you’ve been living fictional.”
• “I don’t wanna hurt your heart, my dear, but if I gotta cut you, know I will.”
• “I’ve given you damn near every chance to make it possible.”
• “I thought I saw the devil this morning looking in the mirror.”
• “I never meant to make you bleed.”
• “I’ll be a better man today.”
• “I’ll be good and I’ll love the world like I should.”
• “My past has tasted bitter for years now.”
• “The blood on my hands scares me to death.”
• “Maybe I’m waking up today.”
• “I’ll be good for all of the times I never could.”
• “I miss your calls, but not your face.”
• “I wanna tell you everything about it, but I don’t know if I should.”
• “You hate the way I always say I’ll call you tomorrow.”
• “Don’t hurt if you don’t know.”
• “You could just go on your own, but you hold on, can’t let me go.”
• “I figured out you bring me down.”
• “Better with you not around.”
• “There’s no way you don’t know how I feel.”
• “Talked about you so long, now it’s almost real.”
• “You are never not on mind.”
• “I wanna be around you all the time.”
• “I promised I’d be there but you don’t make it easy.”
• “Loving you is too hard.”
• “All I do’s not enough.”
• “Sure I could stay but there’s a place I’d rather be.”
• “I was never gonna change your world.”
• “It ended long ago so please just let me go.”
• “Baby, come around ‘cause I need you.”
• “How can I dream about another?”
• “I miss you, I love you.”
• “We just got to let it be.”
• “I’m making such a mess of my feelings.”
• “I believe we’re the ones who had it all.”
• “I’m making a new home.”
• “All in my head cause it’s killing me 'cause we’re at the end.”
• “I wanna be your endgame.”
• “You and me, we got big reputations.”
• “You hold me down and I protect you with my life.”
• “I don’t wanna miss you like the other girls do.”
• “I don’t wanna hurt you.”
• “I know what they all say, but I ain’t tryna play.”
• “I bury hatchets but I keep maps of where I put 'em.”
• “I swear I don’t love the drama, it loves me.”
• “Why did you leave me here to burn?”
• “I’m way too young to be this hurt.”
• “Why don’t you care?”
• “I was there when no one was, now you’re gone.”
• “I have questions for you.”
• “Tell me who you think you are.”
• “You’ve got some nerve tryin’ to tear my faith apart.”
• “Why would you try and play me for a fool?”
• “I should have never, ever, ever trusted you.”
• “Why weren’t you, who you swore that you would be?”
• “I’ve got questions haunting me.”
• “Your voice, it was the most familiar sound, but it sounds so dangerous to me now.”
• “Do you care?”
• “I know it’s not the same, but I feel it anyway.”
• “I’ve waited way too long.”
• “Yeah, I know you’ve changed.”
• “You have a different face to me.”
• “I know you’ve changed, you don’t feel the same.”
• “You say it’s all alright but you’re not who’s up at night.”

• ❝ i had started to crack. ❞ 
• ❝ you had to be an angel. ❞ 
• ❝ i’m so high, i’m so high. ❞ 
• ❝ i can see an angel. ❞
• ❝ love became an act of defiance. ❞ 
• ❝ always down to hide with you. ❞ 
• ❝ i started to starve myself. ❞ 
• ❝ i thought that love was a kind of emptiness. ❞ 
• ❝ i didn’t have to call it loneliness. ❞ 
• ❝ we all have a hunger. ❞ 
• ❝ they’re gonna crucify me. ❞ 
• ❝ how could anything bad ever happen to you? ❞ 
• ❝ you make a fool of death with your beauty. ❞ 
• ❝ i thought that love was in the drugs. ❞ 
• ❝ the more i took, the more it took away and i could never get enough. ❞
• ❝ oh, you look so free! ❞ 
• ❝ don’t let it get you down. ❞ 
• ❝ you’re the best thing i’ve seen. ❞ 
• ❝ for a moment, i forget to worry ❞ 
• ❝ i thought it doesn’t get better than this. ❞ 
• ❝ there can be nothing better than this. ❞ 
• ❝ the world is at your fingertips. ❞ 
• ❝ everything i ever did was just another way to scream your name. ❞ 
• ❝ we’re just children wanting children of our own. ❞ 
• ❝ i want a space to watch things grow. ❞ 
• ❝ did i dream to big? ❞ 
• ❝ do i have to let it go? ❞ 
• ❝ oh god, what do i know?  ❞ 
• ❝ there’s a special kind of sadness that seems to come with spring. ❞ 
• ❝ you need a big god. ❞ 
• ❝ you keep me up at night. ❞ 
• ❝ you know i still like you the most. ❞ 
• ❝ you can never know the places that i’d go. ❞ 
• ❝ you’ll always be my favorite ghost. ❞ 
• ❝ sometimes i think it’s getting better, and then it gets much worse. ❞ 
• ❝ is it just part of the process? ❞ 
• ❝ jesus christ, it hurts. ❞ 
• ❝ shower your affection. let it rain on me. ❞ 
• ❝ are you still awake? ❞ 
• ❝ a good friend told me you’ve been staying out so late. ❞ 
• ❝ be careful, my darling. ❞ 
• ❝ be careful what it takes. ❞ 
• ❝ from what i’ve seen so far, the good ones always seem to break. ❞ 
• ❝ i was kissing strangers, i was causing such a scene.   ❞ 
• ❝ i’ve been flying for too long. ❞ 
• ❝ i want you so badly. ❞ 
• ❝ you could be one. ❞ 
• ❝ hold me down. ❞ 
• ❝ i’m so tired now. ❞ 
• ❝ i can tell that i’m in trouble. ❞ 
• ❝ i feel like i’m about to fall. ❞ 
• ❝ i can hear the sirens. ❞ 
• ❝ i thought i was flying. ❞ 
• ❝ maybe i’m dying tonight. ❞ 
• ❝ i’m sorry i ruined your birthday. ❞ 
• ❝ i guess i could go back to university, try and make my mother proud. ❞ 
• ❝ i don’t think it would be too long before i was drunk again. ❞ 
• ❝ this is the only thing i’ve ever had any faith in. ❞ 
• ❝ you are so loved. ❞ 
• ❝ you were the one i treated the worst, only because you loved me the most. ❞ 
• ❝ we haven’t spoken in a long time. ❞ 
• ❝ i don’t know who I was back then. ❞ 
• ❝ i hope i would never treat anyone like that again. ❞ 
• ❝ tell me what i can do. i’ll make it up to you. ❞ 
• ❝ you’ve always been my north star. ❞ 
• ❝ i have to tell you something: i’m still afraid of the dark. ❞ 
• ❝ you make this cold world beautiful. ❞ 
• ❝ i believe her. ❞ 
• ❝ you’re a ‘real man’. ❞ 
• ❝ you only take as much as you can grab with two hands. ❞ 
• ❝ how’s that working out for you, honey? ❞ 
• ❝ do you feel loved? ❞ 
• ❝ i drink too much coffee and think of you often. ❞ 
• ❝ are you afraid? ‘cause i’m terrified. ❞ 
• ❝ you remind me that it’s such a wonderful thing to love. ❞ 
• ❝ i believe in you. ❞ 
• ❝ in our hearts, we know the truth. ❞ 
• ❝ it’s just too much. ❞ 
• ❝ i cannot get you close enough. ❞ 
• ❝ you can always find me here. ❞ 
• ❝ lord, don’t let me break this. ❞ 
• ❝ we have no need to fight. ❞ 
• ❝ it hurts in ways i can’t describe. ❞ 
• ❝ we’re sorry, we thought you didn’t care. ❞ 
• ❝ how does it feel now that you’ve scratched that itch? ❞ 
• ❝ hubris is a bitch. ❞ 
• ❝ the streets, they still run with blood. ❞ 
• ❝ give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly. ❞ 
• ❝ i feel nervous in a way that can’t be named. ❞ 
• ❝ we were a family pulled from the flood. ❞ 
• ❝ i’ve always been in love with you. could you tell it from the moment that i met you? ❞ 
• ❝ you said it didn’t hurt at all. ❞ 
• ❝ he/she/they told me that he loved me, and then ghosted me again. ❞ 
• ❝ was it so far to fall? ❞ 
• ❝ it’s hard to write about being happy. ❞ 
• ❝ i find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject. ❞ 
• ❝ there would be no grand choirs to sing about two people sitting doing nothing. ❞ 
• ❝ i must confess: i did it all for myself. ❞ 
• ❝ i gathered you here to hide from some vast unnameable fear. ❞ 
• ❝ the loneliness never left me. ❞ 
• ❝ if tomorrow it’s all over, at least we had it for a moment. ❞ 
• ❝ oh, darling, things seem so unstable. ❞ 
• ❝ this will be entirely forgotten. ❞ 

• “I think I’m in love with you.”
• “Cause you’re, like, the coolest person I’ve ever met, and you don’t even have to try, you know…”
• “I’m already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?”
• “I’m just like losing my faith with humanity.”
• “I just wonder if like, two people can ever stay together for good.”
• “Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass.”
• “Wow, your shorts are like, especially gold today.”
• “I’m at suicide risk.”
• “No, it’s Morgan Freeman. Do you have any bones that need collecting?”
• “It’s probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?”
• “How did you even generate enough pee for three pregnancy tests?”
• “I still have your underwear.”
• “I still have your virginity.”
• “I always think you’re cute. I think you’re beautiful.”
• “I could sell you some of my Adderall if you want.”
• “I never realize how much I like being home unless I’ve been somewhere really different for a while.”
• “So what’s the prognosis, Fertile Myrtle? Minus or plus?”
• “That ain’t no Etch-A-Sketch. This is one doodle that can’t be un-did, Homeskillet.”
• “Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream…”
• “…and the receptianist tried to get me to take these condoms that looked like grape suckers and was just babbling away about her freaking boyfriend’s pie balls!”
• “Oh, gruesome. I wonder if the baby’s claws could scratch your vag on the way out?”
• “You seem to be getting pregnanter these days.”
• “You should’ve gone to China, you know, ‘cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.”
• “You’s a dick! I love it!”
• “So… Let’s talk about how we’re going to do this thing.”
• “I named my guitar 'Roosevelt’-not Ted, Franklin. You know, the hot one, with polio.”
• “Yeah, I came as soon as I got that ultrasound goo off my pelvis.”
• “This is the most magnificent discarded living room set I’ve ever seen.”
• “Uhhh, I hate it when adults use the term 'sexually active.’ What does it even mean? Am I gonna like deactivate some day or is it a permanent state of being?”
• “Wow, someone’s been actually doing her geometry homework for once!”
• “I think the last one was defective. The plus sign looked more like a division sign so I remain unconvinced.”
• “Silencio, old man!”
• “Wow, I actually feel like less of a fat dork now.”
• “I’m not crying, I’m just allergic to fine home furnishing.”
• “Yeah, I’m a legend. You know, they call me the cautionary whale.”
• “Hi, I’m calling to procure a hasty abortion…”
• “You should try talking to it. 'Cause, like, supposedly they can hear you even though it’s all, like, ten-thousand leagues under the sea.”
• “Why does everyone think yellow is gender neutral? I never knew a guy with a yellow room.”
• “It started with a chair.”
• “'93. I’m telling you that was the best time for rock and roll.”
• “So, I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to that weird CD you made me.”
• “Shut your freakin’ gob!”
• “I could so go for like a huge cookie right now, with like, a lamb kabob simultaneously.”
• “Yum, this pretzel tastes like a freaking DONUT!”
• “Can we make out now?”
• “Can I use the facilities? Because being pregnant makes me pee like Seabiscuit!”
• “Would you like a free condom? They’re boysenberry.”
• “I’m gonna stop wearing underwear. Raise my sperm count.”
• “Oh and you know what? I bought another Sonic Youth album and it sucked… it’s just noise.”

• ❛ You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. ❜
• ❛ Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ❜
• ❛ I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. ❜
• ❛ People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. ❜
• ❛ The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. ❜
• ❛ _____ told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts. ❜
• ❛ I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks. ❜
• ❛ They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. ❜
• ❛ Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. ❜
• ❛ Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another. ❜
• ❛ People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. ❜
• ❛ With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. ❜
• ❛ You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ‘em get your goat. Try fightin’ with your head for a change. ❜
• ❛ When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. ❜
• ❛ It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you. ❜
• ❛ Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. ❜
• ❛ If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? ❜
• ❛ We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple. ❜
• ❛ I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. ❜
• ❛ You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t. ❜
• ❛ Pass the damn ham, please. ❜
• ❛ Things are always better in the morning. ❜
• ❛ There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one. ❜
• ❛ Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. ❜
• ❛ Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? ❜
• ❛ As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. ❜
• ❛ That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear? ❜
• ❛ There is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. ❜
• ❛ There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. ❜
• ❛ Things are never as bad as they seem. ❜
• ❛ There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, _____. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That’s never possible. ❜
• ❛ Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. ❜
• ❛ I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. ❜
• ❛ I’m little but I’m old. ❜
• ❛ _____ had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. ❜
• ❛ I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin’ after you. ❜
• ❛ People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them. ❜
• ❛ You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live. ❜
• ❛ Nothin’s real scary except in books. ❜
• ❛ One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can’t do anything about them. ❜
• ❛ I try to give 'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. ❜
• ❛ They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life. ❜
• ❛ I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to. ❜
• ❛ Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal. There is a tendency for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. ❜
• ❛ No, everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowin’. ❜
• ❛ Talking to _____ gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. ❜
• ❛ Finders were keepers unless title was proven. ❜
• ❛ Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases. ❜
• ❛ You can pet him, _____. He’s asleep… ❜
• ❛ When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge. ❜
• ❛ I just thought you’d like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin’ I can do it. ❜
• ❛ Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street. ❜
• ❛ Naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. ❜
• ❛ Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. ❜
• ❛ Let the dead bury the dead. ❜
• ❛ Where are your pants, son? ❜
• ❛ So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. ❜
• ❛ The apple does not fall far from the tree. ❜
• ❛ She was the bravest person I ever knew. ❜
• ❛ _____, if you don’t hush, I’ll knock you bowlegged. ❜
• ❛ Lawyers, I suppose were once children, too. ❜
• ❛ Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are. ❜
• ❛ You aren’t thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn’t it? ❜

• ❛ So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ❜
• ❛ I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ❜
• ❛ Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. ❜
• ❛ And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. ❜
• ❛ I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ❜
• ❛ Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. ❜
• ❛ You see I usually find myself among strangers, because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. ❜
• ❛ There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. ❜
• ❛ In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ❜
• ❛ Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. ❜
• ❛ Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. ❜
• ❛ Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!❜
• ❛ It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. ❜
• ❛ So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. ❜
• ❛ All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’ ❜
• ❛ I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ❜
• ❛ No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ❜
• ❛ It takes two to make an accident. ❜
• ❛ Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. ❜
• ❛ He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man. ❜
• ❛ There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind… ❜
• ❛ But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ❜
• ❛ I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! ❜
• ❛ I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ❜
• ❛ Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. ❜
• ❛ It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ❜
• ❛ The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. ❜
• ❛ I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. ❜
• ❛ So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight – watching over nothing. ❜
• ❛ Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. ❜
• ❛ The rich get richer and the poor get – children. ❜
• ❛ I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. ❜
• ❛ The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun. ❜
• ❛ Murder your darlings. ❜
• ❛ It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before. ❜
• ❛ Human sympathy has its limits. ❜
• ❛ A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. ❜
• ❛ I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. ❜
• ❛ I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. ❜
• ❛ I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. ❜
• ❛ That voice was a deathless song. ❜
• ❛ I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie. ❜
• ❛ All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back. ❜
• ❛ But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. ❜
• ❛ She was incurably dishonest. ❜
• ❛ What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? ❜
• ❛ Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on. ❜
• ❛ Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning. ❜
• ❛ I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ❜
• ❛ I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. ❜
• ❛ God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God! ❜
• ❛ He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive. ❜
• ❛ I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything. ❜