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“Ｉｔ’ｓ ｌｉｋｅ ａ ｂｏｏｋ. Ｊｕｓｔ ｂｅｃａｕｓｅ ｙｏｕ’ｒｅ ｍａｄ  ａｎｄ ｓｔｏｐ ｒｅａｄｉｎｇ,

Update: This is supposed to be a Read More, but doesn’t seem to work that way on mobile so I hella apologize for that bullshit p>When I was in 8th grade my best friend pointed me in the direction of someone on YouTube who made some pretty decent covers of songs I loved. One day he posted a 30 minute video, broken into two parts, titled “What Love is to Me.”

At 13 or 14 or whatever I had never been in love. I thought it was impossible to be until you’re, like, 23 (a lot has changed since then). However, the video struck a cord. My friend typed out the whole monologue, emailed it to me, and it has sit in a binder in my closet for the past 5 years. Two or three times a year I dig it out and reread the quotes I copied and pasted into a separate paper. I was going through all my old crap today so here are my favorite quotes. The quotes  I have read for the past 5 years, that have become increasingly more relatable and understandable as I have loved and lost multiple people in my life. Read if you please. 

I’ve been super into Rise Against recently, and their lyrics have some damn good writing prompt-y lines to them. Enjoy!

Hurt/Comfort:

“Passed out in the gutter, woke up in your arms”

“Warm yourself by the fire, son, the morning will come soon”

“Bled through the bandages again”

“There was no antidote”

“I don’t think I can fight this anymore”

“Come in out of the cold”

“Disease tore us apart”

“Her screams pierced the dark night”

“For you there’s still a chance”

“I followed you out in the storm”

“Don’t fall, I see lights in the distance, they’re not far away”

“We’re broken but still breathing, we are wounded but we are healing”

“Do you cry my name in the dark, as I do yours?”

“While the world sleeps we are awake”

“I won’t be left here”

“Don’t fall asleep, they’ll find us here”

“’Till we don’t have the strength to go on”

Angst:

 “Tonight I watched your fires burn out”

“We left bodies in the fields”

“Hell is not where we’re going, hell’s where we’ve been”

“How many others have stood where you stand today?”

“The air that we breathe becomes air that we choke”

“A puddle of the bravest tears”

“Do you think its safe to breathe?”

“I just want to save you while there’s still something left to save”

“We should have burned it to the ground”

“We hide from the mirrors- they might show our scars”

“I walk on wounds that seldom prove to slow me down”

“Reflections of an unfamiliar face”

“May you be in Heaven before the Devil knows you’re dead”

“Your paradise is something I’ve endured”

“When laws fail the people, they turn to the flame”

“I found love, I found life, as a thorn stuck in your side”

“When home becomes a strange place”

“Somewhere between happy and a total f*cking wreak”

“This is a war that was lost the day it began”

“Son, have you seen the world?”

Hope/Survival:

“And on that day they’ll tell you, that life hummed on with no clue”

“Help is on the way”

“You don’t have to do this, and I forgive you if you don’t”

“This isn’t giving up, this is letting go”

“There has always been room by the fire for you”

“The city lines are down, the kerosene’s run out”

“When faced with tragedy we come alive or come undone”

“When it all comes down, will you say you did everything you could?”

“I know where I’m going, we can make it”

“What I could not do I faked”

“This life chose me, I’m not lost in sin”

“Proud I stand, of who I am”

“To them these streets belong”

“You won’t know your worth, now, son, until you take a hit”

“But we stand here all together”

“When the roads disappeared, I followed the rivers”

“The path I carve from here on out will be my own”

“All that matters is the time we had”

“There’s laughter and oh, there is love, just past the edge of your fears”

“We pass the torch again, and hope that it stays lit”

“White needles buried in the red”

“I’ll tell you stories of a better time, in a place that we once knew”

“Standing no chance to win but, we’re not running”

“How we survive is what makes us who we are”

“This happens almost never, but it happened once to me”