Musings and Memes

A sideblog for memes and musing posts to avoid clogging up my RP blogs

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Drifting like proper castaways Didn’t need a war but it’s here I’d say So smile big until it’s thrown us clear We might be on, be on to something here

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Drive off the map into the realm of the stars Didn’t need a war, but now this one is ours Smile along until the coast is clear Like anything that you will learn to fear

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Rifftrax Sentence Starters

“______, didn’t I dispatch you to hell earlier?”

“ ______, shut up forever.” 

"Alright. That does it. I officially have no idea what we're looking at, why we're here, or even who I am anymore."

“And I pray that I never have to emote any more than I just did. I'm exhausted.”

“And if you're ready, _____, may I offer you a wide-awake nightmare?

“Aw man, I thought we could trust the slimy loser.”

“Being a creepy evil creep is a reward in and of itself.”

“Bland? I mean, honey? Can I make you some bland milk? I mean, warm bland? I mean, warm milk?”

“Careful, they might miss at you.”

“Die! Die in a fire! Live again and then die!”

“Did you guys just see that or has my brain fully melted?”

“Do you think you can do me the teensiest favor and just kill me now?”

“Feels like an NPR audio essay is about to break out.”

“Forgive me, Father. I killed like eight guys today.”

“Fuck you. Pay me."

“Having knowledge about things is not really my specialty.”

“He died as he lived: looking dumb as Hell.”

“He has all the fighting skills of a sock monkey."

“Hell is other people and stuff.”

“I’m condescending for no reason, got it?” 

“I've tried nothing—And it's not working!"

“I can’t answer your question because that would acknowledge you exist.”

“I can’t live with myself knowing there’s something out there I haven’t murdered.”

“I don’t want to oversell it, but it will fill you with sadness.” 

"I find words difficult because I can't punch them."

“I have a two part question. One, will I ever feel joy again? Two, what did I do to deserve this?”

“I hope you like really tough burnt meat and shitty scotch.”

"I love it when a plan sort of slowly congeals together."

“I thrive on your ignorance.” 

“I tripped and fell up five flights of stairs and landed here.”

“Is your torture basement even up to code?”

“It’s not what you said; it’s that you exist.”

“It irritates me too that I can defy logic, time, and physics."

"It is pleasant to be happy because it increases our amount of gladness."

“Let's carpe diem and mumble and mope like we've never mumbled and moped before!”

“Mind if I dial up the gay?”

"Never have I cared so little about so few for so long."

“Nothing calms a kid more than a poster of a deranged clown.”

“My philosophy is to see how many Pop-Tarts I can eat in two minutes.” 

“No, don’t, ____, please! Seriously! I will kill all your enemies! Please!”

"No good story ever starts with ‘so there I was, pouring gasoline all over the dead girl’s body.’”

"Oh good. Something else for the Gallery of Things That Should Not Be."

“Oh, thoughtless sociopath, you’re my best friend.”

“Okay, so I’ll take that ominous cryptic answer as a firm yes.”

“Our hero— again, fighting like a sociopathic four year-old.”

"Please don't ruin this moment by surviving!"

“Rush in blindly! A plan can only hinder us!"

"Screaming? Laughter? At this point, what's the difference?"

“So where do you think you’re gonna dump my body?” 

"So…You give up here often?" 

“Society as we know it would disintegrate if people knew the truth about whatnot.”

“Thank you, most boring sounding person in the world.”

“That’s a very friendly murder threat.”

“That sounded a lot more menacing and less gay in my head.” 

“This is my bullshit lecture!” 

“Wait a minute, I thought you said ‘pass the time,’ not ‘destroy all hope in the universe.’” 

"We are reconciled now through the cleansing power of violence."

“Well, that was neither fun nor interesting, but at least it gave us no new information.” 

“Well, time to pretend I know stuff.”

"Well, whoopty-shit."

"Welp... Forgone conclusion ain't gonna forgone conclude itself."

“Who can resist an asshole?”

“Women, right? Always like, ‘This seems fatally stupid!’ Blah, blah, blah.’”

“Yeah, I do feel my own mind drifting through thoughts of Socrates—in that I want to drink hemlock and die.”

"You're a lying liar who lies! You lie!"

“You're not allergic to severe acid burns, are you?”

“You taste like libertarianism and cigars.”

“Your evil is reassuring.” 

“Your violent, misogynistic criminal vibe lets me know I can trust you.” 

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In the tarpit sea Memories wear thick coats The kind that pull you down But in refusin' to drown You're choked into the shape Of a sailor

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The world will kill your spirit As you’re lying in the dirt Forget your tomorrows You won’t feel the hurt

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You’ve got a strange look in your eyes   Nothing to get and no need to lie     And when the dust come howl at your door       You’re not afraid, it’s just the role

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MST3K Prompts

“_____, can one repent if one hasn’t yet pented?”

“____, I'm going to start slapping you now and I may never stop.”

“_____, I’m gonna grab a stepladder so you can jump up my butt!”

“_____ told me you smell like apples… true?”

“Always get a contract when working with a dark, omnipotent power.”

“Are you out of your stupid rotted skull, you dumb man?”

“Being human isn’t about killing, in cold blood, those who are helpless—though I have in fact done that. I probably shouldn’t have.”

“Beseech this!”

“Could you state it in the form of a desperate cry to God to save you from an unholy death, please?”

“Crush someone with an emotional word or an enigmatic look!”

“Don’t just do something! Stand there!”

“Don’t worry, ____ can help us!  He’s kinda smart, and his arms work and everything!”

“EVIL! YOU ARE EVIL! EVIL!”

“For the sake of this demonstration, I took the liberty of removing _____’s liver.”

“Give me liberty or kill me!”

“Heck of a lot of glancing going on around here.”

“Hey, _____.  Just making a deal with this devil.”

“I’d be relieved if I knew what was happening.”

“I’m actually traveling through time at the rate of one hour per hour.”

“I’m filled with hate. I dunno if that helps.”

"I'm just playing god and it's going pretty well."

“I’m pleasant, but I have issues.”

“I’m sorry. I really don’t feel that threatened.”

“I am so heterosexual!”

“I am pretty hot, aren’t I?”

“I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid, and I went ahead anyway.”

“I couldn’t help noticing you weren’t having sex with me.”

“I haven’t finished killing you yet.”

“I hope we’ve touched you with a little bit of our evilness.”

“I like you. I think I’ll kill you first.”

“I sort of think, therefore I sort of am.”

“I think Oscar Wilde only wished he was this gay, you know?”

“I wanna decide who lives and who dies.”

“I will prevail. I’m a survivor like Cher.”

“If I cared one iota, it'd be devastating. If I cared."

“If I may quote my colleague, ______… KILL HIM!”

“If they kill me, they’re probably enemies.”

“In addition to my huge greatness, I'm quite a guy.”

“In spite of all this, I’m left cold and empty.”

“Is it true? Do you suck?”

“Is the first stage of grief pure unbridled joy?”

“Is this true love or just a kidnapping?”

“It’s illegal to rule the world if you’re not board-certified.”

“It's just a simple matter of ‘What the hell is going on?’”

“It’s not a ‘vague threat,’ _____. I’m going to kill you.”

“Just remember, _____ , if push came to shove, I could take you!”

“Keep in mind, I’m intensely stupid.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a failure.”

“Live fast, die young; leave a fat, bloated, ugly corpse.”

“Love should be musty and hurtful.”

“Mother Theresa called. She hates you.”

“Now, this is only for conversation, but if you were gonna eat a human body, where would you start?”

“Never let this happen to you. Don’t make the mistake these people made. Don’t die.”

“Remind me to kill you later.”

“Say, have you ever considered a fantasy where you're happy and successful?”

“She’s trying to sleep her way to the bottom.”

“Sometimes I too am able to peer over the ledge of sanity and gaze on the boundless beauty of psychosis, and boy, is it dark!”

“Son, you’ve killed again, haven’t you?”

“So, _______, do you like your kneecaps?”

“Stop looking into my soul!”

“There’s about a one in four chance we’re gonna come out of this alive.”

“There’s already a feeling of incompetence in the air.”

“There are no small laws, just small criminals.”

“There goes a deeply mediocre man.”

“This guy’s gonna die of nonchalance.”

“This isn't charming at all! It's creepy!”

“This watery manifestation of a vengeful, wrathful God could not've come at a worse time.”

“We’re doomed, but we’re with you.”

“We are gathered here today… to DIE!”  

“We are knee-deep in a Freudian quagmire here.”

“We can fix things; we just don’t want to!”

“Well, I’d tuck you in, but you’re dead.”

“Well, it’s nice and all, but I want something sleazy.”

“Well, my love deprivation experiment is going well.”

“Well, thanks for not killing me! Right neighborly of you!”

“Well, that’s what I am, then! A gullible freak!”

“What a day! My panic made me methodically kill eleven people and a cat!”

“What is it about the gates of hell that compels people to wander into ‘em?”

“Who the hell are you to decide who lives and who dies?”

“Will you stop being evil over my shoulder?”

“Wow, that’s really sick and twisted.”

“Y’know, I admire your freewheeling style. It really opened up the possibilities.”

“Ya know, if we PRETEND we know whats going on, this is actually kind of exciting.”

“Yeah, it's a pity we can't kill you and get away with it!”

“Yep, all goodness in the world just died. How about that?”

“Yep, I’m hot. That’s me, pretty much.”

“You’re a bad person and nobody likes you.”

“You’re all evil and I hope you all have snacks!”

“You have my word of honor that the story I have been telling is the truth... Okay, mixed with a little fiction... Alright, I'm lying my butt off…”

“You have reached an all-new high of stupidity and evil.”

“Your life is in danger and you may die at any moment! Thank you!”

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Hey, don't be afraid Don't try to run away Because pain can be your friend

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Forgive, forgive, forgive I know the way you live The shadow that you throw

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It takes lust and strength To turn to you and say I want you and I need you But I haven't got the fattest chance in hell

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There's memories I'd pay to remove I'd cut them out myself if that were possible The kind you cry yourself blind about The kind that choke you out

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So look alive, it's much cheaper     The dead have expensive taste

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A.C. Newman Starter Sentences

“After that, well, I think you're on your own.”

“All I really wanted was to go downtown.”

“And I loved you.”

“And I will deserve the blank stare.”

“And I will die with my foot in my mouth.”

“And if we don't get what we want, well, you don't know what we'll do.”

“And it is the devil you know that will slam the door harder.”

“And now I give you my days.”

“And what I want to know is: will it happen to me?”

“Are we judged here by the things we say or is it just the noise we make?”

“But based on what you want, the facts will change.”

“But, lady, would you call it art?”

“But who of us here wants to look back?”

“But you wanted to wait.”

“Can't take them out with baby artillery.”

“Cocktails on me.”

“Come to me, please.”

“Didn't you ever wonder maybe if you were under your own spell?

“Don't you know there is a war on here?”

“Done it to death, haven't you?”

“Drink to me, babe, then.”

“Game on!”

“Go back to your own kind.”

“Go with the same cruel sense of humor that you came with.”

“Forget yourself; he's somewhere else.”

“Here is it: the entrance I'd have expected.”

“Hoping that I have some good advice. Something you could win with, something true.”

“I'll crash on your floor.”

“I'm still waiting for the right words.”

“I'm the best argument for our side.”

“I've never been close, but I've never been far away.”

“I didn't mean to live that many lies.”

“I hope you know I love you.”

“I know the part of the forest where you shouldn't go.”

“I like the way things are.”

“I should be sleeping in your bed.”

“I took it in silence.”

“I took it to heart.”

“I want to explain.”

“It's a problem we can live with.”

“It's not my way, true, to show a best side for you.”

“It's not war; it's more like a warning.”

“Make of that what you will.”

“Most of us prize-fighters will fall.”

“Never looked into your eyes this long.”

“No more pushing words around.”

“No one wants to weigh things down.”

“Nobody saw you coming, including me.”

“Oh, you couldn't know unless you've been there before.”

“Once again, you're a godsend.”

“Our aim is dead on and true.”

“Our time in hell has served us fine.”

“So, of course, almost no one knew.”

“So why all the history now?”

“So why wouldn't we fall for you?”

“Some have to fight.”

“Someday these will be familiar streets.”

"Thank you for your interest, young man."

“The revolution has been left to chance.”

“There'd be payback with interest in due time.”

“There are maybe ten or twelve things I could teach you.”

“There's too many prophets here.”

“We'll meet at five for this.”

“We'll never walk alone.”

“We're lucky, lucky 'cause we don't like to lose.”

“We're offended, shocked our plan would fail.”

"We've followed you with interest for some time."

“We both know what the scores don't show.”

“We came to tear it into pieces, understand?”

“We did not come to raise the bar.”

“We had to throw ourselves into it.”

“We love her to pieces.”

“We pull through through the boring choices rich kids choose.”

“We should be dead.”

“We should have asked for privacy.”

“What is it: too much to lose or too little left to live for?”

“Who's gonna save your soul from yesterday?”

“Who would you like it to be?”

“Yes, and it was absolutely crucial.”

“Yes, but remember this: It's always been a long shot or worse.”

“You'll be amazed at the way you learn to hide this stuff away.”

“You're all done counting what you've made.”

“You're asking for the book to be thrown down.”

“You don't need those glasses.”

“You don't think that I tried for you?”

“You get what you want and you don't know what to do.”

“You hurt me when I hurt you.”

“You just look so good in them.”

“You learn to wean yourself off of it.”

“You want to change sides.”

“You worked like a charm. Why'd you think you were broken?”

“You were too shy to lie to.”

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Neko Case Sentence Starters

“'Cause I just can't shake this feeling that I'm nothing in your eyes.”

“'Cause I still love you, even if I don't see you again.”

“'Cause my mood to burn bridges is not unlike my mood to dig ditches.”

“A woman's heart is the watermark of which I measure everything.”

“And I'm not vain enough to think that I'd have been good for you if I'd stayed.”

“And I'm still in love with you.”

“And it's ruthless that it comes as no surprise.”

“And that’s no way to tell you how much I could love you.”

“And the truth is that it comes as no surprise.”

“And there’s always someone to say it’s easy for me.”

“And you'll be in my arms again.”

“Are you tired of things going right?”

“Broken necks will line the ditch ‘til you stop it! Stop it! Stop this madness!”

“Bullies are not born. They're pressed into a form.”

“But I'm grateful that you love me.”

“But I couldn't conjure tears.”

“But it's still pretty bad luck.”

“But don't you ever shut up. Please, kid, have your say.”

“But my thoughts are with you.”

“But that rage kept following me.”

“But you'll not be my master. You're barely my guest.”

“But you come back for me.”

“Can it be a comfort between us?”

“Did someone make a fool of me before I could show ‘em how it’s done?”

“Do you wish you could stop everything and take back your love?”

“Don't cross me on neither a day.”

“Don’t feel sorry for yourself.”

“Don’t forget me; please don’t forget me.”

“Don't let 'em break your hearts, too.”

“Don’t let ‘em tell you you’re nothing.”

“Don’t make mistakes or be human. They savor your every false move.”

“Don't you hurry. Don't you worry.”

“Don't you tell me I didn't warn you.”

“Don't you try and stop me.”

“Every dial tone, every truck stop, every heartbreak, I love you more.”

“For that, I would trade you my empire for ashes.”

“Get the fuck away from me!”

“Go on, go on and scream and cry.”

“God damn the miles that take me away from you.”

“Haunt your own vampire dreams!"

“How's hope feeling today?”

“How can people not know what beauty this is?”

“How can you forget all the love we had between us?”

“I'll put my hands on the truth, by God.”

“I'll reveal myself when I'm ready.”

“I'm a Friday night girl bracing for Sunday to come.”

“I'm afraid, but it's not your fault.”

“I'm an agent of the natural world.”

“I’m an animal; you’re an animal too.”

“I'm free to covet all I please.”

“I'm going to ruin everything.”

“I’m gonna go where my urge leads no more.”

“I'm here to tell you a lie.”

“I'm holding out for that teenage feeling.”

“I'm in league with the the gangs, and the guns, and the crime.”

“I’m not the man you think I am.”

“I'm not your identity crisis.”

“I’m sorry to tread on your patience.”

“I'm still not so sure that that's what I wanna be.”

“I'm too much for people.”

“I'm wrapped in the depths of these deeds that have made me.”

“I've got so many things I could tell you, if my stubborn mouth doesn't let me down.”

“I've loved you so long.”

“I’ve taken it for granted my whole life, since the day I was born.”

“I am fighting to be wild.”

“I can't comprehend the ways that I miss you.”

“I can’t give up acting tough.”

“I can't make you wait 'cause I long to be forgiven.”

“I can say that I’ve lived here in honor and danger.”

“I can’t stay here to hold your hand.”

“I didn’t know what a brute I was.”

“I do my best, but I’m made of mistakes.”

“I fucked every man I wanted to be.”

“I have waited with a glacier’s patience.”

“I know it’s unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.”

“I left them motherless, fatherless.”

“I love girls in white leather jackets.”

“I love you better when you're wild. Suits you better if I say so.”

“I love your long shadows and your gunpowder eyes.”

“I miss how you'd sigh yourself to sleep.”

“I never wondered what made him that way.”

“I owe much to the nameless.”

“I own every bell that tolls for me.”

“I revenge myself all over myself.”

“I still taste them in my teeth.”

“I thought you were golden.”

“I want the pharaohs, but there’s only men.”

“I wanted so badly not to be me.”

“I was drop dead sad and crazy sometimes.”

“I was so stupid then.”

“If I say that black is blue, it's blue.”

“If you knew what I know, you wouldn't go to see her.”

“In the current of your life, I was an eyelash in the shipping lanes.”

“In the end I was the mean girl or somebody’s in-between girl.”

“It's not as bad as I thought it would be.”

“It’s not for you to know, but for you to weep and wonder.”

“It's the gift that keeps on getting.”

“It always has to come this.”

“It will end again in bullets fired.”

“Just because you don’t believe it doesn’t mean I didn’t mean it.”

“Let’s not waste our time thinking how that ain’t fair.”

“Life is not a constant thing.”

“Look for me. I’ll be around.”

“Maybe I should go home alone tonight.”

“Morality won't get you through the mazes.”

“My heart could break for a one-legged seagull and still afford nothing to you.”

“Nobody knows where you’re going, but they sure know where you’ve been.”

“Nobody said that love was gonna be kind.”

“Not that we would ever get away with it.”

“Nothing quite so poison as a promise.”

“Oh, look what thoughts can do.”

“Please don’t let him die.”

“Relation now means nothing, having chosen so defined.”

“She's not afraid to die.”

“So I died and went to work.”

“So if you want moral advice, I suggest you tuck it all away.”

“So sorry for the trouble, the times we've been afraid of each other.”

“Sometimes where there’s smoke, there’s just a smoke machine.”

“Surely there's a real woman coming to erase me.”

“The most tender place in my heart is for strangers.”

“The next time you say forever, I’ll punch you in your face.”

“There's a wisdom that's woe.”

“There's memories I'd pay to remove.”

“There's nothing you can do to me.”

“There's nothing you can say to me.”

“There's such deadly wolves 'round town tonight.”

“There was no hollow promise that life would reward you.”

“There was nothing to put me in love with the good life.”

“They'll use you for centuries to come.”

“They’re all so happy now that I’ve done wrong.”

“They're the ones who have to clean this mess.”

“They made me think there was something coming, really something worth waiting for.”

“They thank God their lives are much better than mine.”

“They won’t believe you when you tell them.”

“This tornado loves you.”

“This is nothing new, no television crew.”

“Those who walk without sin are so hungry.”

“Tired of trying to make everyone happy?”

“Vengeance built me hastily.”

“We'll get something to eat, like we talked about.”

“We'll see you when you're ready.”

“We're two self-fulfilling prophecies.”

“We can only laugh at these regrets.”

“We were warriors!”

“Welcome home, faithful one.”

“Welcome to this dirty business.”

“Well, I just want to say that it happened.”

“Well, instinct is dirty and morality's clean.”

“Well, you play so surprised at what you have found.”

“Were they telling me to run?”

“What's crazy is the way you think that's style.”

“What can I tell you now?”

“Why don’t you ever shut up?”

“Yes, there are things I’m still so afraid of.”

“Yes, there are things that I'm still quite sure of.”

“You'll deal with me directly.”

“You'll have to deal with me.”

“You're free to covet all you like.”

“You're made from something different than I know.”

“You’re miles from where anyone will find you.”

“You're the one that I still miss.”

“You're the top predator now.”

“You're too cool to see me cry.”

“You've made it all so very dangerous. I can't stay away.”

“You are a silent movie.”

“You can only trust yourself and sometimes that is still too much to want.”

“You can never travel back the way you've come.”

“You never came to bed. You just left me there awake.”

“You say I’m lucky to be here.”

“You took everything young from me.”

“You wanted it so badly that you believed them at the time.”

“You were a good man before you knew it.”

“Your life was much more to me.”

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Thank You Scientist Sentence Starters

“All I can say, you know that it’s you who means all the world to me.”

“All I’m saying is your charade has opened up my eyes.”

“And all I know is defined by my happiness.”

“And all the time I’ve wondered what the hell was wrong with me.”

“And come on, tell me what do you want from me?”

“And I won’t be your burden ever.”

“And no more am I your fantasy.”

“And pardon me, I’m on my way back to Earth in search for solid ground.”

“And you said I could take it or leave it.”

“But I can’t find a reason to be here.”

“But I don’t know what to say.”

“Darling, I didn’t come all this way just to give in.”

“Darling, I didn’t come all this way just to sell you something.”

“Devastation feels so natural.”

“Didn’t I wear you down?”

“Do what you have to; make it right.”

“Do what you want, and don’t let them see you run.”

“Do you know how I can stop the bleeding?”

“Don’t drag me down with you.”

“Don’t hesitate. You’ve come too far to end here at the start.”

“Don’t hide behind the fear of not knowing what makes you human.”

“Don’t speak; I know all of your motives.”

“Don’t surrender though you’re so close to the bottom.”

“Don’t think you’d notice if I was ever gone.”

“Don’t waste your time.”

“Fear can tell you where to go.”

“Give all you can before you go.”

“Go on, take what’s left of me.”

“Hell if I could understand the losing man, with a winning hand.”

“I am not a creature of circumstances, because I have the power of self-direction.”

“I can’t bear it, but I’m not waiting.”

“I don’t know how I should begin this conversation.”

“I don’t think that it’ll be alright.”

“I don’t want to waste another day.”

“I feel like I lack the the words to say.”

“I guess there’s nothing to say.”

“I kinda like the way you try to question conscience.”

“I ruin everything every time I try to speak.”

“I will make this worth your time.”

“I wish you could understand my mind.”

“I won’t let you down, but I’m about to burn your bridges.”

“I’d rather die alone than to live my life with another.”

“I’ll fill you in on what you missed.”

“I’ll raise you up before we fall.”

“I’m hearing all your words with black and white meaning.”

“I’m only gonna bring you down further than you’ve ever been.”

“I’ve been dreaming here for far too long.”

“It began as just another perfect lie.”

“It’s hard to sleep when keeping one eye open.”

“Just tell me what was your crime.”

“Let all you think can’t be give way to possibility.”

“Life is a game until it hits you in the face.”

“Moving along, singing a song, is all that I can do.”

“Nobody made me who I am. I made me by myself.”

“Nowadays the world you know is gone.”

“Oh God, I know that it’s overrated.”

“Pick yourself up off the ground.”

“So tell me why you’re running away.”

“So tell me, would he be just like me? Just a part of your suffering?”

“Something’s got a hold on me so damn tightly I can’t breathe.”

“Sorry I can’t be all that you want.”

“Stop living your only life in fear of not knowing what’s to come.”

“Surely I am the architect of my own future.”

“Tell me I’m not faking this time.”

“Tell me why you care at all.”

“The long road has been unkind.”

“There’s no sorrow in places where your heart has a say.”

“We’re all alone here.”

“We’re players in this game, not pawns.”

“Whatever you do to me, just hold on.”

“When I say that you can count on me it’s true, but it seems to me that I can’t count on you.”

“When I tell you you’re the one, you run like hell.”

“When it’s gone we’ll fake it.”

“Wherever I go, I won’t be alone.”

“Without a place to rest your head, you got nowhere to go.”

“Wouldn’t you like to feel alive?”

“You can be sure it’s over.”

“You don’t have to be here if you don’t want to be.”

“You find the worst in the best things.”

“You got nowhere to go; you’re back’s against the wall.”

“You know I would hate to say ‘told you so.’”

“You raise me up, up to heights I never knew.”

“You’re all so quick to think it’s too good to be true.”

“You’re giving in to every fear, and I know what it’s doing.”

“Your sinking ship is big enough for two.”

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Grimscribe Aesthetic Meme

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 The Last Feast of Harlequin

A place behind the clownish mask / an enthusiastic urgency / sunny fields and farms / steeply roofed houses / a weird distortion of perspective / an album of old snapshots / a pointed hat jauntily askew / a billboard displaying a group of grinning vegetables / a neutral, bureaucratic voice / blue-green ink / a brilliant and profound circus of learning / a quotation from Poe’s “The Conqueror Worm” / a feeling of frigid numbness / dull, earth-colored scenery / the snowfalls of late autumn / black, ragged clumps of abandoned nests / the thin light of a winter afternoon / poles raveled with evergreen / holly wreaths / green lights / green streamers / peacock green floodlights / an eerie emerald haze / chthonic divinities / miniature candy canes / colored lights that bloom out of flower-shaped sockets / a chilling brilliance of manner and expression / sea-green lights / the face of an adept clown / a heart bathed in green / another coldness within the cold / warmly wrapped bodies and green-scarved necks / worried and guilt ridden glances / a wormy mass / the black void of winter / the brightness of an artificial spring / a great green rainbow / green gleaming streets / the dark immensity of a winter night / an effect of stricken horror and despair / an inhuman likeness more proper to something under the earth than above it / a festival within a festival / depressingly pallid clowns / the particular kind of hatred of resulting from some powerful and irrational memory / optimistic greenery in a period of gray dormancy / a kind of obnoxious intelligence / freezing atop an icy throne / commitment to a meaningful mania / bodiless invisibility / seeing without being seen / a sea of zigging and zagging celebrants / the darkness of narrow country roads / innocent normalcy / icy wind / trembling with cold / lanterns that beam with dazzling and frosty light / cadaverous clowns / the apex of darkness / a long snowy robe / moody malignancy / pure unlived lives / all the many shapes of death and dissolution / a dirge for existence / a sea of thin, bloodless faces / icy beauty / a moment of frozen trance / the death known to those whom the gods have first made mad / the welcoming glow of green / slow and silent and entrancing / a velvety white abyss / the paradise of the unborn

The Spectacles in the Drawer

A double-handled dagger with a single blade of polished stone / tall cabinets / ceiling-high shelves / tantalizing arcana / glistening fog / a tedious clarity / a cyclone of strange patterns and colors / spasms of sardonic hilarity / a pale-blue blade / stiff, crackling pages / a seeker of recondite knowledge / undying hope / a gutful of shame and regret / a small and silvery knife / a razor-sharp letter opener / a pair of old-fashioned wire-rimmed spectacles / everything that fascinates / the wish to look away / an infinite and overwhelming scene / the dazzling diffusion of all known universes / landscapes without end / landscapes that are themselves alive / a life unknown to mortal eyes / form and motion / design and dimension / cilia wriggling / mammoth shapes lurching in outline / an obscure oceanic niche / a mere fragment of all that there is to see and to know / labyrinthine astronomies / constant transformations of both appearance and essence / a witness to the most cryptic phenomena that exist or could ever exist / the ultimate thing waiting to be born / still greater visions / a cataclysm which will be both the beginning and the end / unbearable anticipation / ecstasy and dread / the ultimate source of all manifestation / the absolute and the wholly unknown / a revolution of all matter and energy / the visions remaining active inside you, deep in your blood / to be dazzled in the worst way / the total substance of things / an occultist auction / a disreputable quarter of a foreign city / a student of the Gnostics / artificial eyes / a malicious aim to undermine / a child’s awkward embrace / rusty scales / cockeyed bookcases / broken toys / standing ashtrays / desolate bazaars / the charm of disenchantment / a tilting mirror / a climate of dull horror / sinister whispers that make no sense yet seem filled with meaning / sensations of infinite expansiveness and ineffable meaning / astronomical emotions / a mutilated carcass / something of terrible rawness / a torn and flayed thing / microscopic precision / twitching and quivering like a gory heart / hellish giggling / a haunting, lifelong memory / unfathomable depths of feeling / to suffer over and over / a way to kill a dream / the sheltering shadows of one’s home / sobering shadows / a cold and stagnant peace / esoteric ecstasy / vulgar pain / a broad expanse of empty field / a mosaic of mirrors / a shocking galaxy / redundant reflections / dark stars on a silvery firmament / to see with countless eyes / a body ripped raw / a gallery of glass and gore

Flowers of the Abyss

The first rank scent of autumn / a glass of water / a thirsty walker of the woods / a pale flower amongst the dark summer trees / a ghostly flower of autumn / grayish planks / a pallid lily / a pulpy toadstool / a roof of rippling shingles shaped like scales from some great fish / sea-green and sparkling / attic gables with paned windows / the tip of a tear / hundreds of raindrops / light rain / an icy autumn storm / a fragrance damp and decayed / walking ahead of the clouds / the echo of hollow words / a long crooked arm / malodorous gardens of misshapen growths / an oval mirror in an ornate frame / cobwebbed corners / tilting books / something shapeless and nameless / something dampish and submerged / something swampy and abysmal / the pure cold of an autumn storm / a dusty green bottle / a sparkling glass / a world of frozen light / cool and limpid water / the hardness of a jewel / a small music box / stars of sound / twilight shadows and silence / infinitesimal flakes of light / barren decor of dead days / yellowish haze / silvery tones / a tenebrous expanse / unknown exploits / the madness of things / a vagabond of the universe / a drifter among spaces / a mess of hacked pieces / dark horizon meeting dark horizon / a universe of darkness / a convulsing tangle of shapes / the radiant entrails of hell / rain-softened soil / parted waters rushing to remerge / corrupt waters / sticky and pumping veins / slimy tendrils / aberrations of the abyss / a night-gowned figure / a crowd carrying lights / lamps and lanterns bobbing in darkness / clusters of flames / buried like a forgotten dream

Nethescurial

Delicate, crinkly script / greenish-black discoloration / dark waters / moonlit skies / earth mounds / mountain peaks / northern leaf and southern flower / each star and the voids between them / blood and bone / watchful winds / murky waters below / contorted rock formations / pointed pines and spruces of gigantic stature / sea-facing cliffs / stagnant fog / an omnipresent evil / a sleeping sense of doom awakened into full vigour / evil, beloved and menacing evil / sunshine and flowers / darkness and dead leaves / some shaping force of demonic temperament / wartlike hills / tumorous trees / oil lamps scattered about / a sacral glow / a degree of mutual ease / the verdigris of centuries / decomposing jade / pandemonism / cold gray waters / a mere mask for the foulest evil / an absolute evil whose reality is mitigated only by our blindness to it / the universe as a dream / the feverish nightmare of a demonic demiurge / an abstract monster of metaphysics / an altar of coarse stone / skinny shadows / to be actually bound in blackness / white-faced shadows / luminous smoke / glowing, ectoplasmic haze / something thick and oily and strangely colored / an ancient anonymity / spirits beyond all hope or consolation except in the evil to which they would abandon themselves / a ceremony of the chosen / an ancient, darkened mould / petrified lichen / wrought iron tracery / great overgrown gardens of writhing coral / a chaos of little carvings / a world of demonic faces and forms / oneiric visions / inkish waters / an infinitely extensive body of evil / the gods of the ordinary world / dream-induced illusions / visionary intrusions / a banquet of fear / what is squirming beneath every surface / penetrating the usual armor of objects / dark and greenish / garbled whisperings / an island of grass and trees in the middle of the city / globes of light balanced on slim metal poles / a glowing orb / set in the great blackness above  / trees swishing overhead / muddied green / walking some indefinite time along some indefinite route / strings of colored lights / a tall, illuminated booth / clownish creatures / expressionless faces and dead puppet eyes / slow, monotonous phrases mingling like the sequences of a fugue / the faces of the living and the dead / wind-blown trees / the greenish darkness of the night / mold-colored smoke / a squirming, creeping, smearing shape / a great deformed crab / the black oceans of infinity / the island of the moon / the cancerous totality of all creatures / oozing ichor / dying in a nightmare

The Dreaming in Nortown

A solitary perdition / a mind to remember the stages of their downfall / a mirror to multiply their abject glory / a memoir of dreams / peculiar powers of sympathy / a decaying and spacious apartment / an ill-mapped world of dreams / a slightly infernal aroma / an acrid combination of tobacco and autumn nights / a small red glow / a long threadbare overcoat / many pungent Octobers / the remote heights or depths of an artificial paradise / the stumbling words of a returning explorer / a stuporous and awed voice / midnight assemblies / in the grip of strange mystical ecstasies / long red hair / esoteric development / a general tenor of chaos / a quality which may or may not make for good company but which always offers promise of the extraordinary / a contrived noisiness / a strange catalogue of sounds / low moans emanating from the most shadowy chasms of dream / sudden intakes of breath / the suction of a startled gasp / abrupt snarls and snorts of a bestial timbre / expressions of unknown turmoil / the calm darkness of the night / staccato groans / the entire audible spectrum of nightmare-inspired terror / mingling overtones of awe and ecstasy / a willing submission to some unknown ordeal / the deeper registers of somnolence / the smell of a freshly lit cigar / the dun colors of dawn / a flood of eidetic horrors / fleeting scenes of nightmare / a reverberating slam / a note scrawled upon a slip of paper / a disproportionate anxiety / the imagined threat of a reprimand / the frayed end of a disciplinary whip / colors twisting in blackness / a tentacled abyss / bone-colored stars / a dream-distorted voice / a spiral notebook with a cover of mock marble / mystical masochism / feats of occult daredevilry / glimpsing the inferno with eyes of ice / a doomed determinism / the striving for horrific dominion over horror itself / wobbling glitter / a field of venomous colors / the glistening inner skin of deadliest nightshade / the entrancing fragrance of fear / the city’s lurid glamor / cryptic badges whose significance is known only to the initiated / comic colors from an electric spectrum / a chilly autumn evening / engraved brass / dingy neon / a black autumn sky / scattering sparks across the sidewalk / flea-market antiquities / calling feline-voiced / colorful chaos / neon signs streaming across the night / clothed in flashing colors / a many-hued phantasmagoria / a flickering and disorderly rainbow of dreams / a multitude of indecisive thoughts and impulses / a brick and neon landscape / a frigid and fragrant October night / darkness and a voice / a coarse scream / a pulsing opalescent aura / a delirious blend of images derived from nightmare/ an ominous sunrise over a dark horizon / a field of fear / a painfully lush iridescence / a burnt-out patch of earth / newspapers mutilated by time / two fresh cigars / a thin book-like box / a scene from some Boschian hell / a hideous series of transfigurations / the screaming mass of a damned soul / an abyss of nightmares / explorations in a hell of one’s own choosing

The Mystics of Muelenburg

Trees made of poster board / houses built of colored foam / mud and dust and ashes / a nightmare of nonsense / fantasy, that misty domain of pure meaning / dim and empty storage space / an ancient armchair / reposing far beneath crumbling rafters / surveying remote worlds / a burst of fireworks / buzzing like flies in the blackness / glow worms flitting in the blinding sun / to keep the sun in the sky / to keep the dead in the earth / a universal vice / a parasite of chaos / a maggot of vice / the prospect of absolute terror / men in the mouths of demons / withholding heaven’s light / the pointed shadows of peaked roofs and jutting gables / faded artifacts of a dead town / high castle turrets / grayness undisturbed / ashen twilight / the yellow light of lamps / sumptuous chambers / humble rooms / the lost luxury of shadows / an infinite vault of glowing dust / a deception by demons / old deities formerly driven from the earth / shadows streaming horribly / the twitching light of a thousand candles / prismatic jewels / a greyish whirlpool / indefinite twilight / the blackness which is the domain of death / necromantic learning / drunken dialogues / unparalleled credulity / fluidity, always fluidity / an ornamented void / the stars and moon / the legions of the dead

In the Shadow of Another World

Walking down streets at twilight / watered lawns / the edges of leaves / pale specters within a fog / the infinite sky itself / gently stirring trees / old silent houses / strange cities disguised as clouds / the depths of a vast, echoing abyss / a blurry little window with a crack in it / a tree-lined street / a pale sky at dusk / peaks and porches / worn wooden steps / dreams and vapor posing as solid matter / a fabulous overlap of properties / petrified flesh / gigantic bones from great beasts of old / chimneys and shingles / a shadow on the horizon / a thing of nightmarish beauty / impossible hopes / a kind of ceremonious desolation / translucent festivals / the faraway sounds of mad carnivals / an instinct for mystification / dubious spectacles / trumped-up histrionics / immaculate to the point of being suspect / a plush and well-tended mausoleum / where the dead are truly at rest / oppressive awareness of other times / secret conspiracies with departed spirits / the unnatural mood of twilight / sinister echoes / dark, polished floors / lofty, uncobwebbed ceilings / a malign presence in the cellar / an insane shadow in the attic / thaumaturgic curios / a hermetic chant of the heavens / no hint of hauntedness / an innocent ambiance / a spiritual wasteland / spiritually antiseptic surroundings / a twisting and tenuous stairway / shattered panes of glass / misshapen glyphs / the shadowy nuances of clouds / a twisted kaleidoscope of colors / the aura of stained-glass cathedral / some obscure desecration / prismatic lenses / that of the dead or the demonic / an eclipse of this world’s vision / a quivering translucence / iridescent sterility / the aftermath of a strange exorcism / neither hallowed nor unholy / a pristine laboratory / a science of nightmares / a small, lamplit library / night’s darkness / a voice that’s accustomed to speaking of miracles / mystical freakshows / a grave sincerity / dissonant overtones of fear / the shadows of another world / forms of specter or demon / the eyes of the flesh / a luminous hell / psychic survival / hopelessly dreaming / terror recollected in tranquility / mazy trauma / the sensations of the soul / a monstrous mystery / a theoretician of nightmares / crude and cryptic designs / a remote and shadowy stage / an adept of pasteboard visions / mucilage and gauze / pulling the strings of light and shadow / shadows gathering / a strange radiance / phosphorescent panes / superlunary light / some cosmic tapestry / a haunted world / the marriage of insanity and metaphysics / a spectral ontogeny / a pageant of nightmares / sunlit bazaars in exotic cities / transparent masks / insectoid countenances / moonlit streets in antique towns / a strange-eyed slithering / dim galleries of empty museums / a ghostly mold / the sullen hues of old paintings / sticky luxuriance / pulpy warmth / an uncanny flux of sounds / cadaverous generations / sculptures of human coral / bodies heaped and unwhole / limbs projecting without order / eyes scattered and searching the darkness / a monument to Terror / a maze of interconnecting doors / spectral monstrosities / the cover of masks / the concealment of stones / feverish properties and intentions / a framed phantasmagoria / grotesque transfigurations / a systemless cosmogony / the caprice of the immaterial / weirdly lucent rooms / chaotic fantasies / narrow, spiraling stairs / the gazing eye of some god / a pyrotechnic craze of colors /  a vibrating echo of vocal utterance / swirling sights / a vacuum and a void / doubtful strategies / unknown and extravagant possibilities / occult theories / arcane analyses / the irreducible certainty of nightmare / great shadows in the stars / an infinite catastrophe / protective sigils / the full glare of starlight / stars and shadows / privileged arcana / the enchantments of hell / cold sunlight / the visionary time of twilight

The Cocoons

A gloved hand twitching / a rather unapologetic tone / egg-shaped pills / a half-glass of water / a soft grinding noise / a quietly urgent voice /  blotched vapors /  a growl of exasperation / unpeopled avenues / a mass of shadows / a landscape without pattern or substance / the moon shining / a doubtful glance / a devastated plain / an open field heaped with debris / bits of glass and scraps of metal / lunar spaciousness / a skeletal structure with all markings of identity scraped off its bones / a densely tangled nest of houses / the dull light of the moon / a yellowish swatch of illumination / high wooden fences / a ruined turret grazed by moonlight / a minor mania / a cobwebbed corner / a blank battered wall / warped floor moldings / a watery light / the quivering light of candles / an old-fashioned film projector / the whirring of a projector / a visual record of a scientific experiment / dark wiry appendages /  a pair of slender snapping pincers / tiny translucent wings / glistening but useless / malicious eyes / a dubious look / candles flickering like fire-flies / a cold swamp of shadows / a collection of bones / dazed silence / a clockwork world / sunrise schedules / lunar routines / a pandemonium of forces / a phantasmagoria of possibilities / the shadow of a laugh /  a curious hedonism that can’t be controlled / the vagaries of omnipotence / breeder of indulgence / languorous exhaustion / a psychic matter / unheard of habits / languorous exhaustion / a clown’s oversized grin / bliss on the brink of apotheosis / a universal process of transfiguration / restless skittering / a pitiful delight / giddy pride / demoniac undercurrents / the grotesque ultimatums of creation

The Night School

A high, full moon shining among the spreading clouds / shadows singing with the clouds / a slowly flowing mass of mottled shapes / a kind of unclean outpouring / the black sewers of space / the wall of night /  smoke, dense and dirty, rising up to the sky / the spastic flames of a small fire / a slender gentleman / a dark suit / broken bones / the process of degeneration / the mulchy rot of autumn or early spring / yellowish light / dark scabby bricks / ruined factories / ravaged mausoleums / abandoned orphanages / a blossom of the cemetery or the cesspool / guttering candles / blurred remnants of past lessons / cloacal forces / time as a flow of sewage / drowning in the pools of night / a thousand molting autumns / the melting soil of spring / a pair of yellowish eyes / undiluted darkness / a darkness far greater than the night itself / consolidated darkness / the science of a spectral pathology / a philosophy of absolute disease / the metaphysics of things sinking into a common disintegration or rising together / dark rottenness /  filthy smoke from some smoldering source of expansive corruption / the scent of corruption / the nostalgic perfume of autumn decay / the feculent muskiness of a spring thaw / smoky blackness / the offal of worlds in decline / the dark compost of those about to be born / the primeval impurity In which all things are founded / native putridity / pieces of paper with strange symbols on them / the very face of a plague—pustulant, scabbed, and stinking terribly / a black fog / many voices crying and calling from total blackness / tightly packed earth in a grave / the disease of the night / bright flames / the noise of a fire and the wind / a full moon / shining bright and blurry / a luminous mold / the great sewers of night

The Glamour

A fine aura of fantasy / both blurred and brightened / a starless evening / diamonds of plate glass / old buildings of dark brick / the display window of a toy store / a chaotic tableau of preposterous excitation / mechanized monkeys / fated antics / tiny cymbals / the destined pirouettes of a music-box ballerina / a newly sprung jack-in-the-box / strangely picturesque / dreamily illuminated / sculptured frosting / a winter landscape of swirling, drifting whiteness / snowy rosettes / layers of icy glitter / a glacial kingdom / a brilliant arctic scene / a vitality of enterprise / a glossy light / the placidly enigmatic expressions of a different time / faded lighting / an old photograph / the kind of acute anticipation that a child might experience at a carnival / a possessing impulse without object / wretchedly aglow / a long, narrow corridor with a single light set far into its depths / a strange shade of purple, like that of a freshly exposed heart / a purple lamp / arterial light / a deep pink / a richly blooded brain / a beating heart / wispy shrouds / sparse hairs sticking to the scalp of an old corpse / purple-tinted glass / the darkness of a theater / a swarm of filaments / an elaborate chandelier / a sickly, liverish shade / an operating room where a torso lies open on the table / a palette of pinks and reds and purples / diseased viscera imitating all of the shades of sunset / headstones in a graveyard / endless filthy alleys / long desolate corridors in an old asylum / the dripping passages of a sewer / a dust-blinded window / a dark unvisited cellar / a mirror gone rheumy with age / facets of murky crystal / cobwebs / long pale threads / hazy purple light / the slow curling of thin smoke / a great rectangular web / the ever-mutating images of clouds / a surge of dark elation / a sudden chill announcing bad weather / a vibrant presence / an expression of avid malignance / inner webbings / swirling fibers / wild shocks of twisting hair / a portrait of atrocity / lust for sites and ceremonies of mayhem / writhing cobwebs / reaching tendrils / graveyards and alleyways / a joyous hysteria / a pale purple / sinister and seamy regions / spectral ambiance / all pervasive purple coloration / the labyrinth of a living anatomy / palest pink / a purple light / putrid chambers and cloisters / an infernal land / fleshy, gelatinous integuments / translucent tissue / the theater of a mad surgery / hair-thin sutures / unseen hands designing unnatural shapes and systems / weaving a nest in which possession would take place / the weaver and web-maker / an old puppet-master / setting a helpless creature with new strings / through eyes unknown / purple shadows / a type of degraded rapture / a seizure of debauched panic / webs of hair / great evil / an appeal for deliverance / eyes that would see what should not be seen / stray threads pulled from a sleeve or pocket / a paralytic silence / eyes gazing fierce and malignant / a purple glow / two shafts of the purest purple light / an old woman with glowing eyes

Father Sevich’s Visit

A manner at first vaguely troublesome and afterward rather attractive / the arrival of a priest / the very echoes of the air / mellow afternoon sunlight / dark wooden floors / pale contortions of ancient wall paper / invisible games / abstract dread and a bizarre sort of indebtedness / a thick maze of propositions / a well-made bed / a relentless failure / cloistral tunnels / vaulted penetralia / a single column-clutching hand / the necessary features of fear / a maddening task / a series of completely irrelevant expressions / misty-eyed wonder / cretinous bafflement / smiling in an almost amiable way at one one’s impending doom / the trap of expectation / a sleepy whisper / the sound of soft conversation / the world of good manners and polite talk / a look of incompleteness / some unfinished effigy in a toy maker’s workshop / something vital to expression / the purple-robed mysteries of priesthood / animated eyes / withered things reeking of medicine and prayer / a painfully delicate subject / varnished wood / salvation through suffering / sacred horrors / the divine destiny toward which the paths of anguish have always led / volumes of blessed agony / an attitude of prayerful pleading / torturing demons / a single squatted devil / bristling lashes that sprout like weeds / an explosion of miniature grotesquerie / a brief and calculated absence / a modest fund of moral energy / a macabre icon / profane lessons / a countenance of true terror / a ridiculously empty slate / an off-stage atrocity / a cycle of mute, incredible lore / anthropomorphic mist / an eerie lividity / unconscious hours of darkness / a chronicle of truly unspeakable things / the light of every constellation in the visible universe / the oppressive mysteries of the autumn season / thick orange crayons / black cats / black paper / a hopeless urge for innovation / a tiny white collar / dripping with fever / hat and cloak and walking stick / narrow, nocturnal streets / a fairy-tale vision / serpentine lanes / the distorted glow of street lamps / the thinnest blade of moon / a narrow niche / an unpaved lane / a small courtyard surrounded by high walls / the stars above / jaundiced lamplight / a stairway of cut stone / the earth and absolute blackness / tiny lights glimmering like stars / clouds of shadows / some golden metal / a caricature of serenity / a hand as white as the whitest glove / chaotic rays / underworld starlight / a certain expression of rarefied scorn or disgust / indignant shadows / black, ankle-high shoes / the natural nightlight of the moon / an infernal aura or an angelic halo / a planet revolving its unspeakable tonnage in the blackness of space / a small bottle of holy water / secret denial and privilege / a smile of deep contentment

Miss Plarr

Misty, drizzling days / sharp, urgent rappings at the front door / a world of darkening mist / mist-covered locks / listening with intense expectancy / the world’s chaos of faces / a seething luxuriance / dark battlements of clouds / a mute and sullen twilight / a stone-gray sky / those days all shackled in gloom / a fugue of noise / the livid radiance of moonlight / the wild shape of some night-blossom / some strange and cruel kingdom / an intimate dungeon cell reserved for the most exclusive captivity / constant, noisy marauding / sedentary or stealthy rituals / an abyss of unspoken reproaches and suspicions / some ancient seagoing vessel / an old oil lamp / a series of quite fascinating lectures / a kind of brutality and an air of exile / deliriums of earth and sky / fog-bound islands in polar seas / shadowed realms littered with dead cities / peaks lacerated by unceasing winds / a bluish slime / the proper way to behave / the great mists of spring / murky sheets of ice / a world of shadows bound in place / the sound of something that stings the air / the hissing of rainy afternoons / immense blades sweeping over vast spaces / expansive wings cutting through cold winds / long whips lashing in darkness / intangible sympathies / a dark mesh of nightmares / a foul nest in which one’s own suspicions are swarming / links to a strictly mundane order / a briskness that seems to be an effort / a heavy spring dampness / lost to the world of wholesome practicalities / a hypnotic and fateful determination / a child’s weakness for prospects of misadventure / a fog-smothered landscape / a pale, floating web / an immense and awful kingdom / a patternless conglomerate of crystals / a misty graveyard / angular and many-faced monuments / the mountainous and murky thunderheads of a rainy season / the very essence of a storm / a matter of suspicion and conjecture / atrocious potential / fogs and mists and gray heaping skies / a conspicuous stridency / a dour mystique / a gray mist / skies of hissing rain

The Shadow At the Bottom of the World

Some feverish intent / sheaves of cornstalks standing brownish and brittle in a newly harvested field / a sky of empty light / fiery leafage / something dark, something abysmal / small shadowy voices / sweet wine turning to vinegar / a hysteric brilliance / displays of thorn apple, sumac, and towering sunflowers / crooked roadside fences / a moonlit field / a bright round moon / nocturnal solitude / patched-up overalls / worn flannel / the withered leaves of cornstalks / moonlight spread across a dead field / a great idol in shabby disguise / a sacred avatar out of season / fidgeting bemusement / a leaden vault of clouds / pure sunlight / misty dreams of the past night / a vine-twisted stone wall / dormant vines / a strange network of dead veins / calculated grayness / radiant leaves / legions of local cicadas / a dark fungus / of the blackest earth / a rich loam / a bog of shadows / an abyss in the outline of a man / the feel of wind and water / a few shifting flames / flames of only the slightest warmth / black flames / the molten texture of spoiled fruit / a shriveled scarecrow / an armory of axes, shovels, and other implements / an eccentricity of the harvest / a viscous mire / innumerable insects laughing / sprouting blackness / a perverse reluctance / the great shadow of a moonless night / the dark rustling depths of the season / the glass globes of streetlamps / the dense leaves of elms and oaks and maples / blazing auras / the frigid aurora of dawn / frost-powdered earth / shadows and corn shocks / countless insects chattering unseen / the feverish life of the earth / the wrinkled grimace of decay / corrupted by vile impulses / a mound of soft dirt / the darkish grooves of ancient bark / the mottled complexion of old flesh / a multitude of crooked smiles / a freakish mask painted with russet, rashy colors / a virulent intensity / an autumn night when fields lay ragged in moonlight / moist and fertile shadows / a hollow-eyed howling malignity / the cold emptiness of space / the pale gaze of the moon / the depths of an extraordinary harvest / insecure hints and delvings / the luxuriant shadow of trees / the mocking plumage of a strange season / an array of whims and suspicions / scraps of lush color / gold and crimson hieroglyphs / deathless leaves / an ill-formed village / a hideous impersonation of a face / leprous masks / knotty shadows / a subterranean craze of roots and tendrils / an underworld riot of branching convolutions / gnarled ornamentations / autumnal decay / knives and axes and curving scythes / countless colored leaves / pronouncements of dire or delightful curiosity / a dull trance / a wild luminousness / a diamond-bright fever burning within / perennial strangeness / tenacious foliage / softly glowing against a black sky / an untimely nocturnal rainbow / a harvest of hues / peach gold / pumpkin orange / honey yellow / winy amber / apple red / plum violet / the pyrotechnics of a new autumn / a thousand glittering dreams / a rigid scarecrow / a patchwork of shadows / a quivering glow / a premature craving / an expertly whetted blade / a betrayal or deception on the part of creation itself / something buried deep within appearances / something that wears a mask to hide itself / holding a spatula like a weapon / moldering shadows / a dreamless sleep / a sudden rage of mortification / the remains of a dismantled scarecrow / an ashen autumn morning / the feeling of blood / a bottomless grave

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Gary Numan Sentence Starters Part 3

“And I’m not asking for your opinion.”

“And I won’t let my heart run away with me.”

“And so here we are. Same need and same mistake.”

“And so it comes to this: death or eternity?”

“And you could have changed my world.”

“Are you gonna break down and cry?”

“Bleed for me. I need hostility.”

“Don’t play if you can’t lose.”

“Dreams are cruel.”

“How did this ever get serious?”

“I’d steal from God, wouldn’t you?”

“I’ll believe in you when you come for me.”

“I’ll give you corrosion.”

“I’ll give you nothing but lies or nothing at all.”

“I’ll haunt you like someone haunts me.”

“I’ll keep you here alone forever.”

“I’ll make everyone pay.”

“I’ll make you believe in me.”

“I’ll whisper words to ease your shame.”

“I’m cold and corrupt.”

“I’m deep inside something, and I may never come back.”

“I’m just trying to survive.”

“I’m not asking for love or redemption.”

“I’m so scared I can’t breathe.”

“I’m sure you don’t care, but tread careful.”

“I’m your first big mistake.”

“I’ve done things God should’ve questioned, but I don’t care.”

“I’ve done things that left me hurt and ashamed.”

“I’ve got one more trick for you.”

“I’ve heard everything that makes you give up dreams.”

“I’ve known fear many times, but nothing like this.”

“I’ve said things that you believed in, but I don’t mean.”

“I broke your heart, and you stole mine.”

“I burned my dream, sold my heart. Nobody knew.”

“I can’t believe what I’m doing to you.”

“I collected scars like a man at war.”

“I dare you to judge me.”

“I don’t believe that honesty pays.”

“I don’t like this feeling.”

“I don’t look for love that I don’t need.”

“I don’t need devotion.”

“I don’t need heroes.”

“I don’t need saving.”

“I tried to look for you.”

“I was a puppet pulling my own strings.”

“I won’t ask for faith or forgiveness.”

“I won’t cry anymore.”

“I won’t let my dreams slip away from me.”

“If I surrender, will you come for me?”

“Isn’t life peculiar? Desire takes you there but not back.”

“It hurts, but I’m thinking clearly.”

“Kiss my arse. I’ve been everything I need.”

“Like a scar that won’t fade, I’ll be yours.”

“Love is a mountain but harder to climb.”

“Memories are only there to make you bleed.”

“Memories lie, but they’re all I can find.”

“My one chance is corruption.”

“Nothing in here but us.”

“Now you are my reason for living.”

“One more question: am I in danger?”

“Reasons fade as reasons can do.”

“So call me, and I’ll run to you.”

“So everybody wants peace?”

“So this is my nightmare and you’re my solution.”

“So this is the art of survival.”

“Some people disgust me.”

“Someone said forgive them. I don’t know if I can.”

“Sometimes I remember how to feel again.”

“Stay away from everything I’ve seen.”

“There is nowhere left to hide, no safety in old glories.”

“Time helps you forget.”

“Time to make me bleed.”

“Time to make me scream.”

“We are gathered here today to speak of things we have to do.”

“We generate a reason for living, and we generate a reason for not.”

“Who said I’d save anyone?”

“You’ll be the prize for my pain.”

“You’ll tear up your feelings, but the memory’s quite safe.”

“You’re breaking my rules, and I won’t let you go.”

”You’re my corruption.”

“You’ve got one more chance to leave.”

“You’ve got one more game to lose.”

“You will pray for me. Bow your head to me.”