RICHARD SIKEN SENTENCE STARTERS — majority of quotes pulled the poetry book crush. feel free to make alternations.
if you love me, you don’t love me in a way i understand.
there are so many things i’m not allowed to tell you.
you say ‘i’ll give you anything,’ but you never come through.
please, for just one night, will you lie down next to me?
you wanted happiness. i can’t blame you for that.
i owe you, i owe you everything.
tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.
you didn’t show up. i kept waiting.
why take more than we need? because we can.
i want to explain myself to myself in an understandable way.
people like to think war means something.
you are here, you are here, you’re still right here.
sorry about how i ruined everything by saying it out loud.
will you defend yourself?
let’s not talk about it, let’s just not talk.
how much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder?
i ran and i knew you wouldn’t catch me.
when you have nothing to say, set something on fire.
you still get to be the hero.
tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
i’m bleeding, i’m not just making conversation.
eventually something you love is going to be taken away.
you want a better story. who wouldn’t?
i hope it’s love. i’m trying really hard to make it love.
i will come back from the dead for you.
you are a fever i’m learning to live with.
do you want to go home now?
i’d rather quit. i’d rather be sad.
unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.
you take the things you love and tear them apart.
there is no way to make this story interesting.
i don’t think i can take this much longer.
sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine.
even when i look away i am still looking.
i think i need to do this alone.
someone has to leave first.
i swear, i end up feeling empty, like you’ve taken something out of me.
will you love me even more when i’m dead?
your world doesn’t make sense.
