** evermore sentence starters.
“ i’m like the water when your ship rolled in that night. ”
“ you cut through like a knife. ”
“ i never would have known from the look on your face. ”
“ the more that you say, the less I know. ”
“ i’m begging for you to take my hand. ”
“ life was a willow and it bent right to your wind. ”
“ i could feel you sneakin’ in. ”
“ you are a mythical thing. ”
“ i come back stronger than a ‘90s trend. ”
“ wait for the signal and I’ll meet you after dark. ”
“ show me the places where the others gave you scars. ”
“ anywhere else is hollow. ”
“ you booked the night train for a reason. ”
“ bustling crowds or silent sleepers, not sure which is worse. ”
“ i dropped your hand while dancing. ”
“ your mom's ring is in your pocket, my picture is in your wallet. ”
“ your heart was glass and I dropped it. ”
“ you told your family for a reason. ”
“ you couldn’t keep it in. ”
“ no one’s celebrating. ”
“ your hometown skeptics called it champagne problems. ”
“ love slipped beyond your reaches. ”
“ this dorm was once a madhouse. ”
“ don’t think we’ll say that word again. ”
“ sometimes you just don’t know the answer. ”
“ she would’ve made such a lovely bride. ”
“ what a shame she’s fucked in the head. ”
“ she’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred. ”
“ eyes like sinking ships on waters, so inviting I almost jump in. ”
“ i don’t like that anyone would die to feel your touch. ”
“ everybody wonders what it would be like to love you. ”
“ i don’t like that falling feels like flying 'til the bones crush. ”
“ what must it be like to grow up that beautiful ? ”
“ i see me padding across your wooden floors. ”
“ it fades into the gray of my day-old tea. ”
“ my mind turns your life into folklore. ”
“ i can’t dare to dream about you anymore. ”
“ the coastal town we never found will never see a love as pure. ”
“ If I wanted to know who you were hanging with while I was gone, I would have asked you. ”
“ it’s the kind of cold, fogs up windshield glass. but I felt it when I passed you. ”
“ there’s an ache in you. ”
“ but if it’s all the same to you, it’s the same to me. ”
“ you could call me "babe” for the weekend. ”
“ the road not taken looks real good now. ”
“ the holidays linger like bad perfume. ”
“ you can run, but only so far. ”
“ remember how you watched me leave ? ”
“ now I’m missing your smile. ”
“ hear me out, we could just ride around. ”
“ i won’t ask you to wait if you don’t ask me to stay. ”
“ i wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I’m faking. ”
“ the heart I know I’m breakin’ is my own. ”
“ we could call it even, even though I’m leavin’. ”
“ i notice everything you do or don’t do. ”
“ you’re so much older and wiser. ”
“ if it’s all in my head tell me now. ”
“ tell me I’ve got it wrong somehow. ”
“ i know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it. ”
“ i greet you with a battle hero’s welcome. ”
“ i take your indiscretions all in good fun. ”
“ while you were out building other worlds, where was I? ”
“ where’s that man who’d throw blankets over my barbed wire? ”
“ i made you my temple, my mural, my sky. ”
“ i’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life. ”
“ always taking up too much space or time. ”
“ what would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins. ”
“ took this dagger in me and removed it. ”
“ it smells like infidelity. ”
“ that ain’t my merlot on his mouth. ”
“ i think I’m gonna call him out. ”
” i think he did it, but I just can’t prove it. “
“ i ain’t lettin’ up until the day I die. ”
“ his mistress moved in. ”
“ there ain’t no doubt. ”
“ somebody’s gotta catch him out. ”
“ i’ve cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene. ”
“ they think she did it, but they just can’t prove it. ”
“ i wasn’t lettin’ up until the day he died. ”