’Lines that have made me cry at one point’ starters!
Feel free to change any names/pronouns!
“I found love where it wasn’t supposed to be.”
“I want to move on, I want to explore the light.”
“I want to know how to get through, through to something new. Something of my own.”
“You’re a good person, Peter. It’s such a weakness.”
“However you live there’s a part of you always standing by, mapping out a sky.”
“How do we feel in that photograph and how can we feel it again?”
“Maybe I’ve done enough.”
“Your golden child grew up.”
“For the first time, I see an image of my brokenness, utterly worthy of love.”
“I finally see myself through the eyes of no one else.”
“You’ve got a second chance. You could go home.”
“You’ve got a warm heart, you’ve got a beautiful brain, but it’s disintegrating.”
“I was just a kid who grew up strong enough to pick this armor up, and suddenly it fit.”
“I was little, I was weak, I was perfectly nieve, and I grew up too quick.”
“I won’t let you in, I swore never again.”
“I can’t afford, no, I refuse to be rejected.”
“But I can’t let you see all that I have to lose.”
“Here I am, pry me open. What do you want to know?”
“Everything was fine until you came around.”
“Man, you really brought me back down.”
“After all you put me through, don’t say it wasn’t true, that you were not the monster that I knew.”
“Another summer day is come and gone away in Paris and Rome, but, I want to go home.”
“I can’t call you a stranger, but I can’t call you.”
“You may hate me, but I can’t hate you.”
“The way she tells me I’m hers and she is mine, open hand or closed fist would be fine.”
“If you’re still breathing, you’re the lucky ones.”
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows.”
“I have never known anyone who actually believed that I was enough.”
“Smile, my boy, it’s sunrise.”
“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But, it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”
“S’that motive enough for ya?”
‘Isn’t it lovely how artists can capture us?’
‘You would have liked her. Honey, I’m wrong- you would have LOVED her.’
“You can’t trick me anymore.”
“But, for what it’s worth, Peter, I really am sorry.”
“You didn’t see that coming?”
“It’s been a long, long time.”
“What if all the things I’ve done we’re just attempts at earning love?”
“George misses Marie. George misses a lot. George is alone.”
“No, I don’t think I will.”
“So, you better run for cover when the pup grows-” *gunshot*
“I could look at him forever.”
“What if who I hoped to be was always me?”
“Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what’s on the other side?”
“Is a better home awaiting in the sky?”
“My love, are you sitting down?”
“It felt like my life, but a better version.”
“I held onto my life and who I was with you.”
“We could just kiss like real people do.”
“George would have liked to seen people out strolling on Sunday.”
“Chimerical. C-H-I-M-E-R-I-C-A-L. Highly unrealistic, widely fanciful.”
“I think dad is angry, ma, and I do not know what to do.”
“I think he takes out on me what he wants to take out on you.”
“How I wish you were home.”
“Nothing can make sense of all these things I’ve done.”
“No, I’d rather pretend I’m something better than these broken parts. Pretend I’m something better than this mess that I am.”
“Cause what if everyone saw? What if everyone knew? Would they like what they saw? Or would they hate it too?”
“I think I’m made of stone.”
“I should be feeling more.”
“You can still be what you want to.”
“Seeing all the parts but none of the whole.”
“And it burns inside his eyes.”
“And you catch him now and then.”
“So you want him even more.”
“But he’s never really there.”
“We do not belong together.”
“We do not belong together, and we should have belonged together.”
“I care about many things.”
“Who am I to say what any of this means?”
“I have been sleepwalking since I was fourteen.”
“I have been half myself for more than half my life.”
“Fall in love again, and again, and again.”
“Are you going to age with grace?”
“You taught me the courage of stars before you left.”
“Who cares what you are listening to, it’s who you’re listening with.”
“It’s sad but true how much I miss you. I miss you, Cecily Smith.”
“Life is not the things that we do, it’s who we’re doing them with.”
