THE LAST FIVE YEARS // SENTENCE PROMPTS (PART 2)
“Will you share your life with me for the next ten minutes?”
“We could watch the waves. We could watch the sky. Or just sit and wait.”
“Just holding you might compel me to ask you for more.”
“There are so many lives I wanna share with you. I will never be complete until I do.”
“I am not always on time. Please don’t expect that from me.”
“I will make it eventually.”
“I don’t know why people run.”
“I don’t know why things fall through.”
“I don’t know how anybody survives in this life without someone like you.”
“I want to die knowing I had a long full life in your arms.”
“Will you share your life with me?”
“Will you share your life with me for the next ten lifetimes?”
“Will you share your life with me until there’s no one left who has ever known us apart?”
“There are so many dreams I need to see.”
“There are so many years I need to be with you.”
A MIRACLE WOULD HAPPEN / WHEN YOU COME HOME TO ME
“Everyone tells you that the minute you get married everyone suddenly finds you attractive.”
“You cannot touch them. In fact, you can’t even look at them. Close your eyes!”
“It’s fine, it’s fine, it’s fine.”
“I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine!”
“It’s not a problem, it’s a challenge.”
“It’s a challenge to resist temptation.”
“I’m the center of attention.”
“They know, they always know.”
“I wasn’t encouraging this.”
“I try to show I wasn’t encouraging this, which of course I was.”
“I shouldn’t care what they think since I can’t fuck them anyway.”
“When you come home to me, I’ll wear a sweeter smile.”
“Hope that for a while you’ll stay.”
“Your hand will touch my face and vanish any trace of grey.”
“Soon our love will rise anew. Even greater than the joy I felt just missing you.”
“I’ll be so proud to call you mine.”
“I swear I’ll be there soon.”
“Don’t give up on me yet.”
“Don’t lose faith. Don’t get down. Don’t despair. I’ll be there.”
“In a perfect world, a miracle would happen.”
“It’d be me and you, riding it together.”
“We’re gonna make it through and nothing else’ll matter.”
“We’re fine, we’re fine, we’re fine.”
“I’m up every morning at 6.”
“I’m an attractive person.”
“I am a talented person.”
“Why is this pianist playing so loud?”
“Should I sing louder? I’ll sing louder.”
“Maybe I should stop and start over? I’m gonna stop and start over.”
“Don’t stare at my resume.”
“I made up half of my resume.”
“Look at me, stop looking at that, look at me!”
“Don’t look at my shoes, I hate these stupid shoes.”
“Why did I pick this career?”
“I’m obviously such a horrible, annoying distraction.”
“Why am I working so hard?”
“Jesus Christ, I suck, I suck, I suck!”
IF I DIDN’T BELIEVE IN YOU
“While you’ve made it clear that you’re not going, I will be going, and that’s done.”
“What’s it really about?”
“Can we please for a minute stop blaming and say how we feel?”
“Did you think this would all be much easier than it’s turned out to be?”
“If I didn’t believe in you, we’d never have gotten this far.”
“If I wasn’t certain that you’d come through somehow, the fact of the matter is I wouldn’t be standing here now.”
“If I didn’t believe in you we wouldn’t be having this fight.”
“If I didn’t believe in you, I would storm out the door and say you’re right.”
“It never took much convincing to make me believe in you.”
“Don’t we get to be happy?”
“At some point don’t we get to relax without some new tsuris to push me yet further from you?”
“If I’m cheering on your side, why can’t you support mine?”
“Why do I have to feel I’ve committed some felony doing what I always swore I would do?”
“I don’t want you to hurt. I don’t want you to sink.”
“You know what I think? I think you’ll be fine. Just hang on and you’ll see.”
“I think you’ll be fine. But don’t make me wait till you do to be happy with you.”
“No one can give you courage, no one can thicken your skin.”
“I will not fail so you can be comfortable. I will not lose because you can’t win.”
“If I didn’t believe in you, I couldn’t have stood before all of our friends and said ‘This is the life I choose. This is the thing I can’t bear to lose.’”
“Trip us or trap us but we refuse to fall.”
“If I didn’t believe in you, I wouldn’t have loved you at all.”
I CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT
“I thought about what I wanted.”
“I can do better than that.”
“What have I got to lose?”
“I guess they were cute and I guess they were sweet and I guess they were good in bed.”
“You don’t have to change a thing, just stay with me.”
“I want you, and you, and nothing but you. Miles and piles of you.”
“Finally I’ll have something worthwhile to think of each morning.”
“No substitution will do.”
“I don’t need any lifetime commitments, I don’t need to get hitched tonight.”
“I don’t want you to throw up your walls and your defenses.”
“I don’t mean to put on any pressure but I know when a thing is right.”
“Take a look at how far I’ve gone.”
“I will never go back, never look back anymore.”
“It feels like my life has led me right to your side and will keep me there from now on.”
“Think about what could be.”
“Think about how I love you.”
“Say you’ll move in with me.”
“Think of what’s great about me and you.”
“Think of the bullshit we’ve both been through.”
“Think of what’s past because we can do better than that.”
“We can do better than that.”
“Good morning. You look like an angel.”
“I don’t remember when we fell asleep.”
“Look at us lying here, dreaming, pretending.”
“I made a promise and I took a vow.”
“I wrote a story and we changed the ending.”
“Hold on, facts are facts. Just relax, lay low.”
“I’m swearing to them I never was with you, and praying I’ll hold you again.”
“Clip these wings, things get out of hand.”
“Alright, it’s over, it’s done.”
“No one will understand.”
“And then I start making the conscious, deliberate mistakes.”
“All that I ask for is one little corner. One private room at the back of my heart.”
“I grip and you grip and faster we’re sliding; sliding and spilling and what can I do?”
“I grip and they grip and faster we’re sliding; sliding and spilling and what can I do?”
“I promise I won’t lie to you.”
“Hold on, don’t cry yet. I won’t let you go.”
“Since I have to be in love with someone, since I need to be in love with someone, maybe I could be in love with someone like you.”
GOODBYE UNTIL TOMORROW / I COULD NEVER RESCUE YOU
“Don’t kiss me goodbye again.”
“You want the last word, you want me to laugh, but leave it for now.”
“All you can say, all you can feel was wrapped up inside that one perfect kiss. Leave it at that.”
“Goodbye until tomorrow.”
“Goodbye until the next time you call.”
“Goodbye till I recall how to breathe.”
“I will be waiting for you.”
“I stand on a precipice, I struggle to keep my balance.”
“I open myself one stitch at a time.”
“Finally something takes me away.”
“Goodbye until the rest of my life.”
“I went downtown and closed the bank account.”
“It’s not about another shrink, it’s not about another compromise.”
“I’m not the only one who’s hurting here.”
“I don’t know what the hell is left to do.”
“You never saw how far the crack had opened, you never knew I had run out of rope.”
“I could never rescue you.”
“I could never rescue you no matter how I tried.”
“All I could do was love you hard and let you go.”
“All I could do was love you, god, I loved you so.”
“So we could fight, or we could wait, or I could go.”
“Goodbye until I crawl to your door.”
“You never noticed how the wind had changed.”
“I didn’t see a way we both could win.”
“Goodbye until I’m done thanking god.”
