SENTENCE MEME ⟶ BONE - Yrsa Daley-Ward / page 65 - 138
always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.
‘if i’m entirely honest, and you say i must be, i want to stay with you all afternoon, evening, night and tomorrow.’
‘truth is a beauty, whether pretty or not.’
‘love doesn’t always mean you should stay.’
‘sometimes the truth has to punch you, twice.’
‘see, no one warns you about yourself.’
‘the person who hurts you the most in the end will be you. almost every time, you.’
‘you’d better learn to forgive yourself.’
‘it’s a skill you’re going to need until you die.’
‘love is not a safe word. but it’s the safe things that kill you in the end.’
‘you lose too much to fear.’
‘you might choke on all that you do not say.’
‘can we talk about when it should be no, but you say yes?’
‘there are parts of you that want the sadness. find them out. ask them why.’
‘make it. if you don’t, it will be a tragedy.’
‘one day i will tell you what i’ve been. it will scare you.’
‘you are your mother’s daughter. always meaning well and falling short.’
‘everyone says you have her face and it’s a face that’ll open doors. even locked doors. especially locked doors.’
‘i was thinking calmly about stepping off the side of the mountain.’
‘maybe you are not for me.’
‘maybe human nature is just too fickle to understand.’
‘who wears a reindeer jersey and red shorts in may?’
‘drive into the sea with me, just once and it’s done.’
‘hey, one day this will be home.’
‘i still have days when i want to exit the system quicker than you can say don’t you dare give up now.’
‘the roof is screwed on too tight at times and the walls of our house can pinch a little but, my god, they are always warm.’
‘what an odd, romantic time it is, if you remember not to panic.’
‘how many times has money almost driven you mad?’
‘my god, how you are loved.’
‘my god, how you are missed.’
‘the worst thing about somebody who betrays you, somebody who turns out to be a completely different person to whom you first thought, is the love that you still feel in your heart for them.’
‘we just don’t see eye to eye any more, that’s all.’
‘he wouldn’t stop eating cashew nuts in bed.’
‘don’t tell anyone i said that.’
‘don’t tell me what to do.’
‘names are not important here but feelings are.’
‘do the feelings ever leave? or do you just learn to wrap them up into something to wear?’
‘at least i’m not fourteen any more.’
‘god has cut me out jagged, loose, wild.’
‘some girls do, and i’m one of them.’
‘i worry about the conversation we haven’t had yet.’
‘who can live like this?’
‘all i’ve known how to do so far is leave.’
‘you are a million different reasons ot stop.’
‘i don’t sleep as much as i thought i needed to.’
‘i’m frightened i might be happy.’
‘you are one of life’s anomalies.’
‘i’m beginning to feel a lot like i’ll wait for you against my better judgement.’
‘core loneliness is a terrible thing.’
‘i suppose we all have each other, but only up to a certain point.’
‘i suppose we all die stubbornly and separately, in the end.’
‘i’m beginning to miss you terribly, by the way.’
‘i hope you have your pick of a few good men and none of them know how to cheat.’
‘everyone else will cal lit a waste of time.’
‘i’ll never understand you, but my god, how i want you.’
‘even your breathing excites me.’
‘we all know the dangers that lie ahead.’
‘every time i travel i meet myself a little more.’
‘i’d fuck them up. you know i’d fuck them up.’
‘keep suffering because it’s your god-given right.’
‘brawl with your being. fight the bad fight.’
‘i cannot find the god you serve and i have been known to stay out all night, searching.’
‘if you’re afraid to write it, that’s a good sign.’
‘i suppose you know you’re writing the truth when you’re terrified.’
‘it’s never too late to be wise. see how your spirit has been fermenting.’
‘i wish i had asked even one question but it is too late now.’
‘seize that loneliness. it has always been yours.’
‘today is the first day of the rest of it. of course there will be other first days, but none exactly like this.’
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