RP PROMPTS.

‘ Tell me where all of this is going. ’

‘ Somewhere, a young man is dying. ’

‘ Now the sky's given up her child and the dead grass of the back lawn. I hope she takes the water in my body when I'm gone. ’

‘ The accumulation of all your high school insecurities, all your lost love and aspiration. ’

‘ You give yourself to the night when you can't sleep. ’ 

‘ There's an unseasonable weight in the air. ’

‘ Hasn't rained here in a long time. ’

‘ Some days it feels like we're dreaming, moving like shadows in a trance.’

‘ Everyone's ignoring the smoke. ’

‘ You hold onto your values like they're gonna save you.’

‘ Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. ’

‘ Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. ’

‘ The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. ’

‘ It is too much. There is too much world. ’

‘ I am not my own friend. Time cuts me in two. ’

‘ Endurance comes only from enduring. ’

‘ Love means to look at yourself the way one looks at distant things. ’

‘ Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need. ’

‘ But there is nothing in me, just fear, nothing but the running of dark waves. ’

‘ I was driven because I wanted to be like others. I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me. ’

‘ What can be done, if our sight lacks absolute power to devour objects ecstatically, in an instant? ’

‘ They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds, to feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. ’

‘ Vendors cover the trestles with rose-pink fish; armfuls of dark grapes heaped on peach-down. ’

‘ A thing is brought forth which we didn’t know we had in us, so we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out and stood in the light, lashing his tail. ’

‘ Tell me where you're going with that knife in your hand. ’

‘ See, I don't trust your smile. ’

‘ When I die, bury me with crossed arms underneath the tree up in the back yard. ’

‘ I’m gonna die. So are you. ’

‘ To you, this is as crazy as it gets. ’

‘ We ain't tough … we just deal with whatever comes up. ’

‘ You can waste your time tossing blades of grass at the wind. Or you could swing fists. ’

‘ I can see you want so clearly to kiss her. ’

‘ Our work is never done. ’

‘ That's the way that I live. ’

‘ Tell me what you're thinking. What have you got planned?’ 

‘ Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. ’

‘ Mankind has only one science … it’s the science of discontent. ’

‘ What do you despise? By this are you truly known. ’

‘ Hope clouds observation. ’

‘ Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. ’

‘ The most persistent principles of the universe are accident and error. ’

‘ It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire. ’

‘ Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and it has power. ’

‘ This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. ’

‘ Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. ’

‘ Mercy is the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There is no mercy where there can be no stopping. ’

‘ Morning of jasmine, earth-clot, bed of bone. ’

‘ The moon digs its way out of the dirt. ’

‘ She’s nice, the woman you don’t love. ’

‘ A heart grows and grows less like a heart. ’

‘ Fate and faith will strum your cords, your spinal rope fraying. ’

‘ Who’s calling my name from the window, now? ’

‘ I remember the killed enemy. I remember my good friends. ’

‘ On the light switch, her floury fingerprints. ’

‘ Without such fear, who will we be? ’

‘ But there was no one there. Only dust and a shitload of romance. ’

‘ Only swamp algae and the death smell of moss, the slime the invisible webs that trapped ghosts in lukewarm water, the dead who would not dissolve. ’

‘ Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. ’

‘ The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation. ’

‘ English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures--its cruelty is its vitality. ’

‘ It is these people really, small-time hypocrites, who may in special cases be capable of monstrous acts if given the chance. ’

‘ Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to divine will. ’

‘ And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. ’

‘ I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it. ’

‘ Just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn’t been touched yet. ’

‘ Now you listen to me. You will not badger or harass me. You will leave me to think the way I want to think, here. ’

‘ I have to heal any way I can.’

‘ You will not terrify me. I've had enough fear for my whole life. You will not add to my fear. ’

‘ Everything intelligent is so boring. ’

‘ There are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. ’

‘ Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. ’

‘ What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is a goddess. ’

‘ Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. ’

‘ Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand. ’

‘ There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. ’

‘ They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. ’

‘ If you love me as you say you do, make it so that I am at peace. ’

‘ But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. ’

‘ Something magical has happened to me  :  like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened. ’

‘ Just before our love got lost you said  :  I am as constant as a northern star. ’

‘ Constantly in the darkness? Where's that at? ’

‘ If you want me, I’ll be in the bar. ’

‘ I drew a map of Canada with your face sketched on it twice. ’

‘ You're in my blood like holy wine, you taste so bitter and so sweet. ’

‘ I am a lonely painter, I live in a box of paints. ’

‘ I'm frightened by the devil and I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid. ’

‘ Love is touching souls. ’

‘ Part of you pours out of me. ’

‘ I met a woman, she had a mouth like yours. She knew your life. She knew your devils and your deeds. ’

‘ Go to him, stay with him if you can, but be prepared to bleed. ’