E.M. Forster
- Maurice
People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be-flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design-but as he strolled about the courts at night and saw through the windows some men singing and others arguing and others at their books, there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own.
motswolo
- The Cadence of Part Time Poets
"He'll read ya like a book, that one." Tonya smirked. "I think I'd like to be read. Bet if you're a good enough story someone'll remember you. They might even fall in love, just a little bit."
Chappell Roan
- Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl
You know what they say: never waste a Friday night on a first date. But there I was, in my heels with my hair straight. And so, I took him to this bar. This man wouldn't dance. He didn't ask a single question and he was wearing these fugly jeans. It doesn't matter, though. He doesn't have what it takes to be with a girl like me. Not overdramatic, I know what I want. We're leaving the planet and you can't come.
Micheal Cunningham
- White Angel
Here is Carlton several months before his death, in an hour so alive with snow that earth and sky are identically white. He labors among the markers and I run after, stung by snow, following the light of his red knitted cap.
Prongs
- the lady who works in the library
There's an old lady with gray hair and brown roots. She has a funny looking yard. There's no grass, instead only strange plants and flowers filling the area. She's collected colorful lawn decorations over the years; a plastic rainbow pinwheel that spins with the wind, an old faded pink flamingo with metal legs and claims of good luck, a string of colorful Christmas lights lining her porch year round. Things like that.
aeridionis
- in lieu of beaujolais
Our mess, which is my mess and yours, which is this thing we've made, together, which is you and me and the gossamer fine haze that lies roughly between the two.
greenvlvtcouch
- A Black Mass Over Highway Ninety
If he were to leave, it would rip me in half. I don't know what I would do with myself. All the pieces of me only he knows about. I don't even know things about myself that he does, and then what would happen to those things?
Taylor Swift
- Champagne Problems
One for the money, two for the show. I never was ready so I watched you go. Sometimes you just don't know the answer until someone's on their knees and asks you.
lady_grey
- No Bright Line
He had that look again. That look that said, "you might just be the stupidest thing I've ever seen." That look that said, "if you saw yourself the way I see you, you'd never have another moment of peace."
bob dylan
- make you feel my love
There's no doubt in my mind where you belong. I'd go hungry. I'd go black and blue. I'd go crawling down the avenue. No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do to make you feel my love.
EASHA
- Dying Is a Beautiful Thing to Do
I could waste all of my time in between the lines. I'm the kind of girl you write songs about. Mystery you can't get out your head before you sleep at night, once in a lifetime. You're taking pictures you can't bear to lose. Be the artist to my muse.
The Dead Milkmen
- Don't Deny Your Inner Child
I must try to get along with everyone, no matter how stupid they might be, or how asinine their opinions are. I must learn to love everyone, even people who are so obviously inferior to me that they make my flesh crawl. I will get to know these people and I will cook them a ravioli dinner from a can I found in Mexico City.
The Dead Milkmen
- Don't Deny Your Inner Child
Tomorrow I will begin bathing. This is the start of a six part plan which will take me into the next century. In the coming years, I will stop eating with my hands. I will let the dog out of the closet for some fresh air. I will put away the rubber mask, the cub-scout uniform, and yes, finally, even the cauliflower.
The Smiths
- What Difference Does It Make?
So, what difference does it make? It makes none, but now you have gone. And you must be looking very old tonight. The devil will find work for idle hands to do. I stole and I lied, why? Because you asked me to, but now you make me feel so ashamed.
Johnny Cash
- I Walk the Line
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine. I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep the ends out for the tie that binds. Because you're mine, I walk the line.
Amy Winehouse
- Valerie
Since I've come on home, well, my body's been a mess. And I miss your ginger hair and the way you like to dress. Won't you come on over? Stop making a fool out of me. Why don't you come on over, Valerie?
Edgar Allen Poe
But our love it was stronger by far than the love of those who were older than we, of many far wiser than we. And neither the angels in Heaven above nor the demons down under the sea can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Noah kahan
- New Perspective
This town's for the record now. The intersection got a Target and they're calling it downtown. You and all of your new perspective now. Wish I could shut it in a closet and drag you back down. Gave me your word and now I can't pronounce it. No thing so sure that I can't learn to doubt it.
Meredith Brooks
- Bitch
I'm a bitch, I'm a lover. I'm a child, I'm a mother. I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream. I'm nothing in between. You know you wouldn't want it any other way.
The Smiths
- The Queen is Dead
Pass the pub that wrecks your body and the church who'll snatch your money. The Queen is dead, boys. It's so lonely on a limb. Life is very long when you're lonely.
