* LOVE & BE SILENT.

Just a few song lyric sentence starters in honour of Valentine’s Day. I couldn’t find my official “Sappy Love Songs” playlist so I just went off memory. Spread the love and the memes this holiday!

Can’t help falling in love

❝ shall I stay? ❞ ❝ wise men say, only fools rush in.  ❞ ❝ some things are meant to be .  ❞ ❝ take my hand.   ❞ ❝ take my whole life too.   ❞ ❝ I can’t help falling in love with you.   ❞

Falling in love in a coffee shop

❝ I think that I’m falling for you. ❞ ❝ I want to come too. ❞ ❝ No one understands me quite like you do. ❞ ❝ I never knew just what it was about this old coffee shop I love so much. ❞ ❝ It was you. ❞ 

A thousand years 

❝ How to be brave? ❞ ❝ How can I love when I’m afraid to fall? ❞  ❝ Darling, don’t be afraid I have loved you.  ❞ ❝ Every hour has come to this. ❞ ❝ Beauty in all she is. ❞ ❝ I will not let anything take away. ❞ 

Coffee and Cigarrettes

❝ Coffee and cigarettes are my only escape. ❞ ❝ So, won’t you sing with me? ❞ ❝ It’s cold outside, and I’m feeling kinda lonely. ❞ ❝ I’m looking up, but I’m feeling kind of down. ❞ ❝ Yeah, I have friends, but they have friends. ❞ ❝ They have parties, and I’m so awkward. ❞ ❝ So what do you say, just as friends, we see a movie This weekend, alright? ❞ ❝ Friday nights are always the same in this town. ❞ 

All about you 

❛ some people are so good at disappearing that you start to doubt your memories that they were ever there. ❜ 

❛ how do you say goodbye to someone who was never there? ❜

❛ i don’t want a world without pain, or loss. i just want them to mean something. ❜

❛ there are some people who believe a photo captures their soul. ❜

❛ if you love something let it go. ❜

❛ you were not the first, you will not be the last. ❜

❛ there are some secrets i will take to my grave, but i don’t want loving you to be one of them. ❜

❛ you can still back out before anyone gets hurt. ❜

❛ i said i’d love you forever, and really meant it at the time. i guess that’s my problem. ❜

❛ kindness won’t save anyone. ❜

❛ for a long time i thought i deserved better. but the truth is we both deserve better than this. ❜

❛ i wish there was a word that meant “goodbye” for someone who was already gone. ❜

❛ i never meant to hurt you. you have to believe me. ❜

❛ we’ll always have yesterday. ❜

❛ hope softens the rough edge of every promise. ❜

❛ love is stupid. happiness is admitting we aren’t better than stupid. ❜

❛ you can’t always want what you get. ❜

❛ i wish i had a dollar for every dollar’s worth of work i did. ❜

❛ we are empty inside and hollow. hoping something sweet will make its nest in us. ❜

❛ we’re too far from help. ❜

❛ monsters are even more scary when you see them afraid. ❜

❛ we carry our own loneliness with us. ❜ 

❛ fake happiness beats genuine misery. ❜

❛ they always trust me to be someone who i don’t even want to be. ❜

❛ i cannot see where i want to go, only that i want the going.❜

❛ you are never here. you are always almost there. ❜

Trigger warnings for: Suicide / suicide ideation, alcohol, self harm. || PART 2. Pronouns been changed to be neutral: grammar may differentiate from the poems in the book because of this. Change them to fit what you need to if you must.

OUR NUMBERED DAYS.

The best way to get to heaven is to take it with you.

Heaven isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

In many languages, the word for heaven is the same as the word for sky.

I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.

I will not cry though I will want to cry.

Though I will hate myself for not crying.

When my — dies, if I am still alive, I will slouch on my knees as though in prayer.

I will write one or two poems, then I will no longer think of her.

MSP PHI LGA ALB PHI MSP

How miraculous that we all keep our shit together.

I want to watch the horizon as it gets farther away.

How miraculous that I can go basically anywhere.

BALLAD OF THE BRUISED LUNG

Many things happen in your life that shouldn’t.

I love you but I can’t keep letting you show up where I am and remind me of what I said to you all those times.

I was drunk that one time.

You are like a comet: every so often you come around to fuck up my shit.

When you’re dumb enough for long enough, you’re gonna meet someone too smart to love you and they’re going to love you anyway, and it’s gonna go so poorly.

To say I hate you would imply a world in which I kissed more than your stomach.

Look, we’ve established that I’m a jerk.

JOEY

That’s not the kind of story I’m telling here.

I’m so lucky we all lived through what we were to become who we are.

OUR NUMBER DAYS PT. II

Home is wherever people know our stories.

The worst lie is to say good-bye.

Where are you going that I won’t follow?

I think it might be them, come to get me.

FUTURE TENSE

You will want to kill yourself but you won’t.

You no longer think of suicide as a house you will build one day.

You need to feel vulnerable in front of anyone else.

They filled something in you that’s still full, even though they’re gone.

OUR NUMBERED DAYS PT. III + IV.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

So maybe love is a form of crying.

I have been wondering mostly, if love and sanity are the same thing.

When I say I am in love I am also saying the world makes sense to me right now.

I know that love is not the same as knowing everything, but because they are gone, because about her there are unknowns that will now remain unknowable.

Though they couldn’t name it, their favorite color is bakelite seafoam green.

They loved me once, though it wasn’t for very long, though it was distracted, though it shouldn’t have happened– once, they loved me.

What has died:

The you in my head.

The me in my head.

The you and me I have made you and me in my head.

“I wish it could always be like this.”

“You’re always there for me.”

“The stars are the only thing that makes sense.”

“There’s more out there, you just have to be patient.”

“It doesn’t all have to be existential dread.” 

“You’re so much different when we’re alone.”

“I like it when the worlds quiet.” 

“There’s a place for us somewhere.”

“They’ll name constellations after you one day.”

“Your hearts beating so fast.”

“They don’t know what they want.”

“You don’t know what you want.”

“That’s what they’re supposed to say.”

“We really don’t know what we’re doing.”

“I miss the old you.”

“Nostalgias a trap.”

“Aliens are out there.”

“Did you hear that?”

“I really want pizza right now, think it’s open?” 

“What time is it?”

“But why would they abduct cows?”

“We’ll all be dead soon enough anyways.” 

“I wish we didn’t have to sleep.”

“What do you believe in?”

“What happens after we die?”

“Seems like a silly thing to say, don’t you think?” 

“And what’s your excuse?”

“You’ll get it together soon.”

“Sometimes I feel like I’ll never have it together.”

“It’d be better if people weren’t so afraid of their feelings.”

“You keep quiet and we both lose.”

“I wish I could save this forever.”

“When did you realize you were in love with me?”

“The rooms spinning.”

“I loved you long before you knew.”

“I’m not afraid of death, I think it’ll be peaceful.”

“The Universe is too big for that.”

“Do you think we’ve met in other lives?” 

“I’d come back to haunt you.” 

“Would you come back to haunt me?”

“What’s alternate universe you doing right now?”

“Tell me a secret.”

“Why haven’t you told anyone?” 

“I wish we knew each other sooner.”

“You’re a game changer.” 

“I’m a game changer.”

“Don’t ignore fate.” 

“Ignorance isn’t bliss.”

“What, is that a conspiracy theory?”