SENTENCE MEME ⟶ REGINA SPEKTOR / Begin to Hope
always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.
‘i never loved nobody fully; always one foot on the ground.’
‘suppose i never ever met you. suppose we never fell in love.’
‘suppose i never ever let you kiss me so sweet, and so soft.’
‘i kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall.’
‘all my friends say that of course it’s gonna get better.’
‘by protecting my heart truly, i got lost in the sounds.’
‘if i kiss you where it’s sore, will you feel better?’
‘will you feel anything at all?’
‘blood ties are only blood.’
‘if you never say your name out loud to anyone, they can never ever call you by it.’
‘you’re getting sadder, and i don’t understand.’
‘you are my sweetest downfall.’
‘beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth.’
‘your hair was long when we first met.’
‘history books forgot about us and the bible didn’t mention us.’
‘they’re just old light. they’re just old light.’
‘we couldn’t bring the columns down.’
‘it feels a little worse than when we drove our hearse right through that screaming crowd.’
‘it got so warm that none of us could sleep.’
‘we listened to it twice, ‘cause the DJ was asleep.’
‘you’re young until you’re not.’
‘you love until you don’t.’
‘you try until you can’t.’
‘you laugh until you cry.’
‘you cry until you laugh.’
‘everyone must breathe until their dying breath.’
‘you take the things you like, and try to love the things you took.’
‘the day starts out so slow.’
‘darkness spreads over the snow like ancient bruises.’
‘i’m awake and i feel the ache.’
‘everything must come and go.’
‘i have dreams of orca whales and owls.’
‘you will never be my fool.’
‘a little bag of cocaine.’
‘you can’t break that which isn’t yours.’
‘i’m not my own; it’s not my choice.’
‘be afraid of the lame; they’ll inherit your legs.’
‘be afraid of the old; they’ll inherit your soul.’
‘be afraid of the cold; they’ll inherit your blood.’
‘après moi, le delugé. after me comes the flood.’
‘she’s twenty years of strangers looking into each other’s eyes.’
‘she’s twenty years of clean.’
‘she never truly hated anyone or anything.’
‘she says i’d prefer the moss, i’d prefer the mouth.’
‘this place is full of dirty old men.’
‘and the navigators with their mappy maps and moldy heads and pissing on sugarcubes.’
‘i got to get me out of here.’
‘hey, remember the time when i found a human tooth?’
‘hey, remember that time we decided to kiss anywhere except the mouth?’
‘hey, remember that time when my favourite colours were pink and green?’
‘hey, remember that month when i only ate boxes of tangerines?’
‘hey, remember that time when i would only read shakespeare?’
‘hey, remember that time i tried to save a pigeon with a broken wing?’
‘i had to bury pieces of his body in my building’s playground.’
‘i thought i was going to be sick.’
‘hey, remember that time when i was broke?’
‘hey, remember that time when you od’ed?’
‘hey, remember that other time when you od’ed for the second time?’
‘in the waiting room while waiting for news of you i hallucinated i could read your mind.’
‘i was on a lot of shit too but what i saw, man, i tell you. it was freaky.’
‘you were never ready for the lies.’
‘you don’t even have good credit.’
‘it’s hell down here, in the smoke filled-world.’
‘they don’t laugh at jokes; they laugh at tragedies.’
‘there ain’t nothing right, there ain’t nothing wrong.’
‘summer in the city means cleavage.’
‘i’ve been staying up and drinking in a late night establishment, telling strangers personal things.’
‘i did feel like coming but i also felt like crying.’
‘it doesn’t seem so worth it right now.’
‘at the sight of a beautiful woman they feel nothing but anger.’
‘there’s nothing like emptying a cartrige at the sun.’
‘we’re born alone and then we’re covered by mother’s kisses.’
‘the mind has already forgotten what the body still misses.’
‘i wouldn’t raise my child inside this city anyway.’
‘they grow up too savvy and they grow up too fast.’
‘they know about buying shit and they know about sex.’
‘they know about the numbers and they know about the words.’
‘they know about careers and about the real deals.’
‘they all grow up and become people’s people with people skills.’
‘in prague i knew i’d been a witch.’
‘it tastes like soap but it doesn’t really taste like soap.’
‘give me two shots of whiskey, and a beer chaser.’
‘come on bartender, won’t you be more tender?’
‘love will be the death of me.’
‘i ate all your peanuts.’
‘maybe if i sober up, i’ll stop pretending that love is forever.’
