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darkest dungeon sentence starters, part iii

below, you will find 40 lines from the red hook game darkest dungeon. spoiler free, i suppose. trigger warning for mentions of death / poison / medical treatment / diseases. 

1. ❝ everything is blue in this world. ❞ 2. ❝ dancing and fighting --- there is no difference. ❞ 3. ❝ hope, it seems, is not for sale. ❞ 4. ❝ why fight the push of blind ambition? ❞ 5. ❝ i've seen nothing i'm not prepared for. ❞ 6. ❝ fear wears of in time. much like mild poison. ❞ 7. ❝ if they filch one penny from me, i'll burn them alive. ❞ 8. ❝ silence! i'm praying for your worthless soul. ❞ 9. ❝ we're all falling apart. ❞ 10. ❝ i'm here for adventure. when does it start? ❞ 11. ❝ i still haven't decided if you are worthy of my company. ❞ 12. ❝ the reward shall be mine to claim. ❞ 13. ❝ the poison still lingers in my veins. ❞ 14. ❝ inhale this. it should make you feel much better. ❞ 15. ❝ a stiff drink is all i need. ❞ 16. ❝ give me the thrill of fortune and the risk of the ruin. ❞ 17. ❝ i fear no demon for the greatest monster lies within. ❞ 18. ❝ i'm too young to have my name etched in a stone. ❞ 19. ❝ life is a gamble, after all. ❞ 20. ❝ how many adventurers does it take to die in a pit? ❞ 21. ❝ once, our estate was the envy of this land. ❞ 22. ❝ everything has a weakness. ❞ 23. ❝ i must master my fear. ❞ 24. ❝ do not damage the head! i need it for my rituals! ❞ 25. ❝ hold fast to your convictions. ❞ 26. ❝ let's tempt fortune, shall we? ❞ 27. ❝ whoever packed all this food, i could kiss you. ❞ 28. ❝ called your bluff, friend. ❞ 29. ❝ no one may kill that which defies death. ❞ 30. ❝ i know just where you're weakest. ❞ 31. ❝ you wound me, and i'll be impressed. ❞ 32. ❝ why did i trade her for this life? ❞ 33. ❝ to vanquish evil and discover what's been forgotten by history, glorious. ❞ 34. ❝ being prepared is often about knowing where to look. ❞ 35. ❝ she loved me. ❞ 36. ❝ what a sudden and strange interest in my well-being. ❞ 37. ❝ yes, in a moment, in a moment ... maybe. ❞ 38. ❝ i am too old for this. ❞ 39. ❝i don't take bribes. never have. ❞ 40. ❝ it is a sad day, when i am your best hope.❞

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darkest dungeon sentence starters

below, you will find 40 lines from the red hook game darkest dungeon. spoiler free, i suppose. trigger warning for mentions of medical treatment / diseases.

❝ behold! the unquenchable fire of the stars! ❞

❝ they will come for us soon. it's inevitable. ❞

❝ i don't need your pity. nor anyone's. ❞

❝ it's a bad hand. that's all there is to it. ❞

❝ bloody gamble, from the start! ❞

❝ wait, what's in that syringe? ❞

❝ driving out corruption is an endless battle, but one that must be fought. ❞

❝ this could be the chance i've always deserved. ❞

❝ well, this place is ... underwhelming. ❞

❝ eureka! bubonic plague and lavender together! ❞

❝ make it two legs! i'm hungry. ❞

❝ scrape out this wound and save it in this jar for me. ❞

❝ excuse me - where's the apothecary? i've run out of mold. ❞

❝ when you say dangerous, how dangerous do you mean? ❞

❝ sometimes, a tree is just a tree. ❞

❝ she searches where others will not go and sees what others do not see. ❞

❝ our family name, once so well-regarded, is now barely whispered among decent folk. ❞

❝ let me share with you the terrible wonders i have come to know. ❞

❝ the timing of the chants is imperative! ❞

❝ stories will be told of our battles. ❞

❝ we dug for months, years, an eternity. and we were rewarded with madness. ❞

❝ i lived all my years in that ancient, rumour-shadowed manor. ❞

❝ consciousness failed me. ❞

❝ i beg you: return home. ❞

❝ in that gaping abyss, we will find our redemption. ❞

❝ keep to the side path, the hamlet is just ahead. ❞

❝ welcome home, such as it is. ❞

❝ right where it hurts! ❞

❝ i never miss. ❞

❝ finally something to smile about. ❞

❝ didn't see that coming, did you? ❞

❝ a moment of valour shines brightest against a backdrop of despair. ❞

❝ i live upon the razor's edge. ❞

❝ the spirits command me to do this. ❞

❝ gold greases palms, builds empires and instigates murder. ❞

❝ i ... borrowed ... this while we were in town. ❞

❝ i know just where you’re the weakest. ❞

❝ each attempt brought invariably brought only failure ... and disappointment. ❞

❝ song is proven to raise morale. so a one and a two and a... ❞ 

❝ hope, it seems, is not for sale. ❞

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darkest dungeon sentence starters

lines taken from the redhook game. no spoilers, i guess. aside from the fact that ruin has come to our family

1. "there can be no bravery without madness."

2. "there is much to be found in forgotten places."

3. "in time, you will know the tragic extent of my failings."

4. "measured now in gold, later in blood."

5. "the match is struck, a blazing star is born."

6. "i began to tire of ... conventional extravagance."

7. "slowy, gently ... this is how a life is taken."

8. "he'll be laughing still ... at the end."

9. "the fiends must be driven back."

10. "what better place to begin than the seat of our noble line."

11. "in radiance may we find victory."

12. "wealth beyond measure, awarded to the brave and the foolhardy alike."

13. "be wary. triumph and pride precitipates a dizzying fall."

14. "great is the weapon that cuts on its own."

15. "a fortune, waiting to be spent."

16. "remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer."

17. "to those with a keen eye, gold gleams like a dagger's point."

18. "great heroes can be found even here, in the mud and the rain."

19. "make no mistake, you'll face even greater threats."

20. "the glory days? hmpf."

21. "packs laden with loot are often low on supplies."

22. "confidence surges as the enemy crumbles."

23. "the wounds of war can be healed but never hidden."

24. "she has paid dearly for her freedom."

25. "she deserves better than this place."

26. "the thrill of the hunt, the promise of payment."

27. "the path is clear. we only require the strength to follow it."

28. "to fight the abyss, one must know it."

29. "let us burn out this evil."

30. "ruin has come to our family."

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JASON MRAZ’S KNOW // SENTENCE STARTERS

LET'S SEE WHAT THE NIGHT CAN DO

"Let's drive down to the river at midnight and dance in the dust of our headlights."

"Let's score some good seats for the sunrise."

"Let's get dressed up in clothes we don't mind getting messed up."

"We don't need the map, we'll just drive."

"I wanna get lost with you."

"I wanna see what it's like to spend the whole night with you, just you."

"And we'll stand in the Canyon alone, singing our favourite songs, and wait for the words to return in the echo."

"Let's see what the night can do."

HAVE IT ALL

"May you have the confidence to always do your best."

"May you take no effort in your being generous, sharing what you can, nothing more, nothing less."

"May you know the meaning of the word happiness."

"May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows."

"May the road less paved be the road that you follow."

"Well, here's to the hearts that you're gonna break."

"Here's to the lives that you're gonna change."

"Here's to the fact that I'll be sad without you."

"May your educated guesses always be correct."

"I want you to have it all, all you can imagine, all, no matter what your path is."

MORE THAN FRIENDS

"It feels like we've been friends forever and we always see eye to eye."

"The more time we spend together, the more I wanna say what's on my mind."

"Take it easy."

"It ain't easy to say."

"I wanna be more than friends."

"I wanna tell everyone you're taken and take your hand until the end."

"At the risk of sounding foolish, I don't wanna fool around no more."

"If we're gonna do this, then let's do this."

"You can fix my broken heart if it's all yours."

"I'm giving you my heart, don't break it."

"Either way, I know we'll make it."

UNLONELY

"It could be love."

"Once you get to know me, I could be your one and only."

"I could make you unlonely."

"We could take it slowly, we could keep it low key."

"I've been chasing summer around, searching for the sunshine and looking for a good time."

"A whole lotta love can make the clouds go away."

"Maybe the time for us is now."

"When the table's set for two and there's nobody with you, let me be your someone else."

"I give you my word although I'm making words up."

"But I don't give a fuck."

"I'm fresh from the farm where critics can't bother me."

"Living is tricky as it is so that ain't stopping me."

"And honestly, you ruined me with your beautiful smile."

SLEEPING TO DREAM

"I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you."

"I'm feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town."

"I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes."

"I close my eyes ... what a wonderful sight."

"I'm sleeping to dream about you."

"And I'm so damn tired of having to live without you."

"But I don't mind."

"I hit the light and I thought you might be there."

MAKING IT UP

"I may go through this life, never knowing who I am or why I'm here or why I'm doing what I'm doing."

"And they were making it up, making it all up."

"What else can we do? It's the only way to get through."

"Life's so hard but life's alright 'cause I'm here with you tonight."

"Some people think the world revolves around them."

"Some people like to pile things up around them and surround themselves with a beautiful lie."

"There's more to this life that what you see."

"And it's true what they say - that life is but a dream."

MIGHT AS WELL DANCE

"I can't stop thinking about you and dreaming of your smile."

"You're keeping me from sleeping."

"We got nothing to lose, might as well hold hands."

"We're already fools so we might as well dance."

"Put your loving arms around me once more and we'll go crashing into folks on the dance floor."

"We got nothing to lose, might as well take off our pants."

"Soon the song will be over, we'll have to say goodnight."

"I've got the sweetest crush on you."

"Baby, let's go."

"We've good nothing to prove, might as well take off our pants."

LOVE IS STILL THE ANSWER

"The question is: why are we here?"

"This beautiful life, what is it for?"

"There's only one answer that matters, even if your heart has been shattered."

"Whatever you want, whatever you're after: love is still the answer."

"We all made mistakes, no, we're not perfect yet."

"The question that sits on everyone's lips is why should we pick ourselves up and start over again."

"The question I'll ask at the end of my days is what did I give and will I take."

"Even if your heart and dreams have been shattered..."

"What the world needs now is love."

"All you need is love." 

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the bleachers: strange desire

Wild Heart

"As I sat with the echoes of lies that I told, I felt young."

"Never change my crooked heart."

"I'm only waiting another year for the dream far away."

"To come home, to be brave."

"Well everything has changed and now it's only you that matters."

"I will find a new way to your wild heart."

"No one will ever read the letters of the lies that I told."

"Why did they have to go and do us like that?"

"We'll be there."

"To think everything must die for anyone to matter..."

"Now everything has changed and I can't tell what matters."

Rollercoaster

"It was summer when I saw your face."

"And God I never thought we'd take it that far."

"Some killer queen you are."

"And now I'm running and I can't stop anywhere I go."

"I think about it everyday and night I can't let go."

"Man, I'm never the same."

"So come a little closer, there is something I can tell."

"You are such a roller coaster."

"I don't say no when you don't say no."

"You let your clothes fall to the floor."

"Come a little closer."

"Why don't you come a little closer?"

Shadow

"Some girls really just wanna hurt you."

"And there's some boys that laugh when they break your heart."

"But how love dies is a place that I'm not going."

"And we could try, cause if you're feeling small, I'll love your shadow."

"There are those girls that are waiting by the phone on the weekend."

"Like those boys that are home with the broken hearts."

"But the heart wants fear so we're looking for a villain."

"I know that they have hurt you."

"I know the love you gave feels cheap and used."

"I know it's getting harder and I know the lights have all gone dark on you."

"Still I will love your shadow when the love you gave feels cheap and used."

"Yes I will love your shadow when the lights have all gone dark on you."

"And we could try..."

I Wanna Get Better

"I follow just to find you.”

“I've trained myself to give up on the past.”

"I was losing my mind because the love that I gave wasted on a nice face."

"So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars."

"Hey, I wanna get better!"

"I didn’t know I was lonely 'til I saw your face."

"I didn't know I was broken 'til I wanted to change."

"I chase that feeling of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was."

"Now I'm a stranger."

"Even if its gonna kill me."

"I woke up this morning early, before my family."

"She was trying to show me how a life can move from the darkness."

"She said to get better."

"And I crash my car cause I wanna get carried away."

Wake Me

"Right from the start I knew you'd set a fire in me."

"I'd rather be sad with you than anywhere away from you."

"I can't believe I captured your heart."

"Then I'd rather be sad with you than with any other girls but you."

"If you're lonely, wake me."

Reckless Love

"I could use a bad disguise to guard me on the darkest nights."

"I keep finding my way to the harshest words."

"I got a strange, strange vision of a reckless love."

"They call it reckless love."

"So give me a chance to remember what I've given up to defend you."

"I would burn my dreams away just to stand in the thankless shadows of your reckless love."

"Get out, stand back."

"If you don't let go, you're gonna break me and you."

Take Me Away

"I'll let you take it."

"You pushed me farther than I've been."

"I know you're sorry."

"I've broke my silence in an angry yell."

"And now you're hungry and you want to take me away."

"I felt like a fool."

"I understand that you had never seen me coming."

"I'll be in the shadows above."

"I'm waiting to find out."

"Love will wake us." 

"Love won't break us."

"Love will take you."

"I can find a way out of myself again."

Like A River Runs

"I woke up thinking you were still here."

"My hands shaking with regret."

"I've held this dream for such a long time and I wanna get up."

"I saw you standing on the corner."

"I saw you standing on your own."

"And I get the feeling that it's all a dream."

"When I fall asleep, I can see your face."

"What I lost in you, I will not replace."

"And I could run away, I could let them down, but I will remember your light."

"Your light follows me in darkness."

"I'm trying hard but I can't win."

"I've played the victim for a long long time and I wanna grow up."

"The summer's gone and I'm alone."

"And I know you're gone but still I will remember your light."

"If you see me in the darkness, I hope you know I'm not alone."

"I carry you with every breath I take."

You're Still A Mystery

"Thought I wanted to forget my past, tried to leave the pieces of a broken man."

"What it cost I ain't ever getting back."

"I wanna remember."

"Man I was feeling like I never was young, I followed a dream and a strange desire."

"You picked me up in the dead of the night and gave me a chance to move on inside of your mystery."

"Maybe I don't need to understand why your love is such mystery."

"I want to give you something better than I've been."

"Man I was feeling like I never was young, no nothing simple 'bout the simple days I mourn."

"If what I lost ain't ever coming back then I can find a way to move inside of your mystery."

"Someday I'm gonna make this right."

I'm Ready To Move On / Wild Heart Reprise

"Snow is falling all the time."

"I'm ready to move on."

"Was that grave there for you?"

Who I Want You To Love

"I'm tired of chasing my dreams, they're always twisting."

"I always scream."

"I will love what you want me to love."

"I will bleed when you want me to bleed."

"But I don't want to know too much of anything because it all hurts me."

"Come on, don't push me down that road."

"I'm always twisting."

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mika: origin of love

origin of love

"Love is a drug."

"Your guilty heart, don't let it break you."

"And if you pray well no one's gonna save you."

"You are the sun and the light."

"You are the freedom I fight."

"God will do nothing to stop it."

"You're the origin of love."

"Now that's a reason for love then."

"Let's push their stories aside."

"Some love's a pill and some love is a candy cane."

"It tastes so sweet but leaves you feeling sick with pain."

lola

"Love me last, don't love me maybe."

"What's the point in singing silly love songs?"

"Who do they think they are to tell us?"

"Make me sad and make me jealous."

"Don't believe a word 'cause they are so wrong."

"Lies and mystery, they don't bring out the best in me."

"Keep jumping from one lover to another."

"Thank you for the time you've taken."

"Make the same mistake over and over."

"Oh why pretend to be so jaded."

"It's so easy just to hate it."

"Why do we even bother when there's only one way out?"

"And I'm not gonna fall in love this time."

"Love makes you laugh, it makes you cry"

"The oldest game in history, repeating."

"I've made up my mind."

"And, baby, it's just another love song."

stardust

"I could be staring at somebody new, but stuck in my head is a picture of you."

"You were the thunder, I was the rain."

"I wanna know if I see you again."

"I said I love you, you said goodbye."

"Everything changes in the blink of an eye."

"It's been a while, I still carry the flame."

"I could put a little sunshine in your life."

"I feel like a fool cause you're not even there."

"I'm writing a song and you don't even care."

"I'll pick up my heart that you left on the floor."

"All the little things we leave behind."

"But even any other thing I do is a little bit of me and a little bit of you."

make you happy

"All I wanna do is make you happy."

"Baby, you ain't tryin'.”

"If I said I'm upbeat, I'd be lying."

"Show me what you're hiding."

"If this is love then watch me die on you."

"Maybe you can't hear me, but I feel like screaming when you're near me."

"Save me from your theories."

"At the very least just let me cry on you."

"I can't be far from the truth."

"If we can't get it together, you know we'll never ever ever fix a heart."

"Can't you see the love around you?"

"You know you're crazy not to take it."

"Whatchu gonna do? I am not over you."

"Whatchu gonna do?"

"I am not over you."

underwater

"It's enough to lose my head, disappear and not be seen again."

"When I fall to my feet, wearin' my heart on my sleeve, all I see just don't make sense."

"All I see just don't make sense."

"You are the port of my call."

"Now I know you're amazing."

"'Cause all I need is the love you breathe."

"Put your lips on me and I can live underwater."

"We could live underwater."

"With your love I can breathe underwater."

"We could live underwater; with your love we could breathe."

"We could breathe underwater."

overrated

"Words get broken."

"Cut me open."

"Love, confound me."

"Breathe out, breathe in."

"I'm a fool addicted, to the touch of you, to your poison kisses."

"What you got to lose?"

"What do you think this is?"

"Nothing left to prove."

"And we know that love is overrated in this goddamn world."

"Stars are magic and life is tragic."

"I'm just asking..."

"But your arrow missed, couldn't kill me with it."

"All I asked of you was to free my pain so you couldn't do this to me again."

kids

"For them it's just another day."

"There won't be a me and you if we keep on fighting like we do."

"Baby, don't you walk away."

"Just another California day."

"You shout with nothing to say and fight till you get your way."

"It hurts but what can I do?"

"You're throwing all my love away."

"What do they know about nothing now?"

"Take your kid gloves off."

"This is love not war."

"Give our peace a chance."

"Make it worth fighting for."

love you when i'm drunk

"I had a dream last night."

"I slept with someone else."

"Does that mean that I cheated on you?"

"It was amazing and I couldn’t stop myself."

"Could it be that I really want you?"

"What if the things we feel count more than what we do?"

"Guess what, lover? I’m leaving."

"I don’t want to be that guy, look you in the face and lie."

"But someone has to say it first even if the words may hurt."

"I only love you."

"I only love you when I’m drunk."

"Don’t get me wrong - last night, I didn’t change my mind."

"It was the drink."

"And when I kissed you, it was such a big mistake."

"That’s the chance that I take."

"And if I can’t control, all of the things I do ... I guess I better be leaving."

"And I may be a little bit drunk, but I know what I’ve got to do."

"When I get a little more sober, I know I’ll be over you."

step with me

"Is this happening to me?"

"Have I lost all my defenses?"

"Should I wait around and see what it's like to lose my senses?"

"Now I know what happiness is."

"Come a little closer."

"Rest upon my shoulder."

"I'm calling you baby."

"We can get married."

"Now come along and step with me."

"Sun is shining up ahead, in thirty years we'll still be happy."

"Don't know why but all your words sound just like a melody."

"From the pieces that I've heard, I could build a symphony."

popular song

"You were the popular one, the popular chick."

"It is what it is, now I'm popular-ish."

"I could have been a mess but I never went wrong."

"But you were always popular."

"Popular, I know about popular."

"It's not about who you are or your fancy car."

"You're only ever who you were."

"And all that you have to do is be true to you."

"That's all you ever need to know."

"So catch up 'cause you got an awful long way to go."

"Always on the lookout for someone to hate."

"You tried to make me feel bad with the things you do."

"It ain't so funny when the joke's on you."

"Ooh, the joke's on you."

"How come you look so cool?"

emily

"You could try a little harder."

"But you're gonna end up like your father."

"You can't leave your life to chance."

"Get a boy and learn to dance."

"Get a girl and learn to dance."

"Be a girl like any other."

"Be a boy like any other."

"Cause it doesn't even matter."

"It's your life and you can't live it twice."

"One day you'll understand and then you'll take my hand."

"I love you, and I know you do too."

"Shut up listen to me, dance with me."

"You got so much in your life."

"Me, I got no one's advice."

"Don't you know you got it easy?"

"Did you really think you had me?"

"That's enough, do as you're told."

"Acting like you're eight years old, I give up. It's not worth trying."

"One day I will end up dead."

"That's the only thing I've said that will ever get her smiling."

"Lock yourself up in your room so the world can never reach ya."

"You got me falling on my knees, got me praying to Saint Peter."

"See the price I have to pay. I would give my life away if I knew that I could reach ya."

"Why you make this hard to me, it's not the way it's meant to be."

"I don't never wanna hate ya."

heroes

"They're fighting someone else's war."

"They'll have so many stories to tell in exchange for a hero's farewell."

"I wish I could, I wish I could make you return."

"You'll be fighting for our heaven with hell."

"And you know heroes aren't meant to survive ... so much harder to love when alive."

"Walk with the devil in your head, you would think you were better off dead."

"You don't understand why no one else can see what you see."

"I wish there was a way to give you a hand to hold."

"You don't have to die in your glory, to die to never grow old."

"Your blood on me and my blood on you."

"But to make you bleed ... the only thing I wouldn't do."

"Where can you go?"

"We fight and we earn but we never learn."

"And through it all, the hero falls."

celebrate

"Right about now it's time for everybody to stand up and have fun."

"I want the whole world to celebrate, let's go."

"Once I get up I feel better then I pull myself together."

"I remember those two letters: It will be OK."

"Everyone says now or never, I say only if it's better."

"Be a night like this forever."

"I want the whole world to celebrate."

"I wanna come home, to the only place I know, where the trees I planted grow."

"I wanna come home."

"Will we know better?"

"I'll be just fine when I see you at the finish line."

"Doesn't matter if I take my time, I'm coming home."

"I'm not mad at you at all."

"I wanna come home and celebrate."

tah dah

"It's getting harder and harder to bear."

"You've got me acting like a clown in a collar."

"You got me spending all the time I can spare."

"You got me wasting every dime, every dollar."

"When I stumble and fall, does it hurt you at all?"

"Will it twist like a knife for the rest of your life?"

"You think that love's a joke, but there ain't too much to laugh at."

"And it's all for show."

"Or should I just go when you're begging for attention?"

"Once the crowd goes home and there's no one left to listen..."

"Tah Dah!"

"You've got me jumping through a circle of fire"

"You've got me juggling everything that I care for."

"It's what all the cuts and the bruises are there for."

"I've got the freedom to love."

"I've got the freedom to live."

"Well now enough is enough, I'm not a trick up your sleeve."

"I'm not a part of your show."

"One day your curtain will close."

"I've got to let you know."

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lorde melodrama lyric starters

Green Light

❛ I do my make-up in somebody else's car. ❜

❛ We order different drinks at the same bars. ❜

❛ I know about what you did and I wanna scream the truth. ❜

❛ I know about what you did. ❜

❛ I wanna scream the truth. ❜

❛ She thinks you love the beach? ❜

❛ You're such a damn liar. ❜

❛ Hope they bite you. ❜

❛ Thought you said that you would always be in love. ❜

❛ Did it frighten you? ❜

❛ Did it frighten you how we kissed when we danced on the light up floor? ❜

❛ But I hear sounds in my mind. ❜

❛ But, honey, I'll be seein' you 'ever I go. ❜

❛ But, honey, I'll be seein' you down every road. ❜

❛ 'Cause, honey, I'll come get my things, but I can't let go. ❜

❛ I wish I could get my things and just let go. ❜

❛ Sometimes I wake up in a different bedroom. ❜

❛ All those rumors, they have big teeth. ❜

Sober

❛ Oh, God, I'm clean out of air in my lungs. ❜

❛ It's all gone. ❜

❛ It's time we danced with the truth. ❜

❛ Move alone with the truth. ❜

❛ I'm acting like I don't see every ribbon you used to tie yourself to me❛ ❜

❛ My hips have missed your hips. ❜

❛ Will you sway with me? Go astray with me? ❜

❛ We're King and Queen of the weekend. ❜

❛ Ain't a pill that could touch our rush. ❜

❛ But what will we do when we're sober? ❜

❛ We pretend that we just don't care. ❜

❛ We pretend that we just don't care, but we care. ❜

❛ I know you're feeling it too. ❜

❛ Can we keep up with the ruse? ❜

❛ I know this story by heart. ❜

❛ We know that it's over. ❜

❛ In the morning, you'll be dancing with all the heartache. ❜

Homemade Dynamite

❛ Don't know you super well. ❜ 

❛ I think that you might be the same as me. ❜

❛ Don't know you super well but I think that you might be the same as me. ❜

❛ Let's let things come out of the woodwork. ❜

❛ I'll give you my best side. ❜

❛ I'll tell you all my best lies. ❜

❛ I'll give you my best side, tell you all my best lies. ❜

❛ Yeah, awesome right? ❜

❛ You know I think you're awesome, right? ❜

❛ Our rules, our dreams, we're blind. ❜

❛ Our friends, our drinks, we get inspired. ❜

❛ I guess we're partying. ❜

The Louvre

❛ Our days and nights are perfumed with obsession. ❜

❛ Half of my wardrobe is on your bedroom floor. ❜

❛ Use our eyes. ❜

❛ I overthink your punctuation use. ❜

❛ Not my fault, just a thing that my mind does. ❜

❛ Can you hear the violence? ❜

❛ Our thing progresses. ❜

❛ I call and you come through. ❜

❛ I blow all my friendships to sit in hell with you. ❜

❛ But we're the greatest. ❜

❛ They'll hang us in the Louvre. Down the back, but who cares - still the Louvre. ❜

❛ Okay I know that you are not my type. ❜

Liability

❛ He doesn't wanna know me. ❜

❛ He says he made the big mistake of dancing in my storm. ❜

❛ He says it was poison. ❜

❛ So I guess I'll go home. ❜

❛ So I guess I'll go home into the arms of the girl that I love. ❜

❛ The only love I haven't screwed up. ❜

❛ She's so hard to please. ❜

❛ She's a forest fire. ❜

❛ She's so hard to please but she's a forest fire. ❜

❛ I do my best to meet her demands. ❜

❛ We play at romance, we slow dance. ❜

❛ They say, "You're a little much for me. You're a liability." ❜

❛ You're a little too much for me.❜

❛ You're a liability. ❜

❛ I understand, I'm a liability. ❜

❛ Get you wild, make you leave. ❜

❛ I'm a little much for everyone. ❜

❛ The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy 'til all of the tricks don't work anymore. ❜

❛ I know that it's exciting running through the night, but every perfect summer's eating me alive until you're gone. ❜

❛ I'm better on my own. ❜

Hard Feelings / Loveless

❛ Please could you be tender. ❜

❛ Let's give it a minute before we admit that we're through. ❜

❛ Guess this is the winter. ❜

❛ It's late and this song is for you. ❜

❛ Cause I remember the rush, when forever was us. ❜

❛ I light all the candles, cut flowers for all my rooms. ❜

❛ I care for myself the way I used to care about you. ❜

❛ These days, we kiss and we keep busy. ❜

❛ Why even try to get right? ❜

❛ When you've outgrown a lover, the whole world knows but you. ❜

❛ It's time to let go of this endless summer afternoon. ❜

❛ God I wish I believed you when you told me this was my home. ❜

❛ But I still remember everything, how we'd drift buying groceries, how you'd dance for me... ❜

❛ I'll start letting go of little things. ❜

❛ What is this tape? ❜

❛ This is my favorite tape. ❜

❛ Bet you wanna rip my heart out. ❜

❛ Look out, lovers. ❜

❛ Bet you wanna rip my heart out. ❜

❛ Well guess what? I like that. ❜

❛ I'm gonna mess your life up. ❜

❛ Gonna wanna tape my mouth shut. ❜

Sober II (Melodrama)

❛ You asked if I was feeling it. ❜

❛ I know you won't remember in the morning. ❜

❛ But who am I? ❜

❛ How fast the evening passes. ❜

❛ We told you this was melodrama. ❜

❛ And the terror, and the horror, then we wonder why we bother. ❜

❛ All the glamour, and the trauma and the fucking melodrama. ❜

❛ They'll talk about us, all the lovers, how we kissed and killed each other. ❜

❛ They'll talk about us, and discover how we kissed and killed each other. ❜

❛ You wanted something that we offered. ❜

Writer In The Dark

❛ Break the news - you're walking out. ❜

❛ Break the news - you're walking out to be a good man for someone else. ❜

❛ Sorry I was never good like you.❜

❛ I did my best to exist just for you. ❜

❛ I bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark. ❜

❛ Now she's gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart. ❜

❛ I am my mother's child, I'll love you 'til my breathing stops. ❜

❛ I still feel you, now and then. ❜

❛ When you see me, will you say I've changed? ❜

❛ I ride the subway, read the signs. ❜

❛ I let the seasons change my mind. ❜

❛ I love it here since I've stopped needing you. ❜

❛ I am my mother's child. ❜

❛  I'll love you 'til my breathing stops. ❜

❛ But in our darkest hours, I stumbled on a secret power. ❜

❛ I'll find a way to be without you, babe. ❜

Supercut

❛ All the magic we gave off. ❜

❛ All the love we had and lost. ❜

❛ All the magic we gave off, all the love we had and lost. ❜

❛ And in my head the visions never stop. ❜

❛ We keep trying to talk about us. ❜

❛ I'm someone you maybe might love. ❜

❛ When you call, I'll forgive and not fight. ❜

❛ I'll be your quiet afternoon crush. ❜

❛ In my head, I do everything right. ❜

Liability (Reprise)

❛ I'm a liability. ❜

❛ Whatcha gonna do? ❜

❛ All of the dreams that get harder- ❜

❛ All of the things that I offer you... ❜

❛ Maybe all this is the party. ❜

❛ Maybe we just do it violently. ❜

❛ But you're not what you thought you were. ❜

Perfect Places

❛ Every night, I live and die. ❜

❛ I feel the party to my bones. ❜

❛ I hate the headlines and the weather. ❜

❛ I'm 19 and I'm on fire. ❜

❛ But when we're dancing, I'm alright. ❜

❛ Are you lost enough? ❜

❛ Have another drink, get lost in us. ❜

❛ This is how we get notorious. ❜

❛ Meet somebody, take 'em home. ❜

❛ Let's kiss and then take off our clothes. ❜

❛ It's just another graceless night. ❜

❛ We are young and we're ashamed. ❜

❛ All of our heroes are fading. ❜

❛ Now I can't stand to be alone. ❜

❛ Let's go to perfect places. ❜

❛ What the fuck are perfect places anyway? ❜

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ed sheeran ÷ lyric starters

as usual, pronouns etc can be adjusted and lines can be mixed as needed. 

tw for death, drug / alcohol mention. 

Eraser

❛ I was born inside a small town. ❜

❛ I lost that state of mind. ❜

❛ So blame it on the pain that blessed me with the life. ❜

❛ And when the world's against me, is when I really come alive. ❜

❛ And every day that Satan tempts me, I try to take it in my stride. ❜

❛ You know that I've got whisky with white lies, and smoke in my lungs. ❜

❛ I'm well aware of certain things that can destroy a man like me. ❜

❛ But with that said give me one more. ❜

❛ I need another one to take the sting away. ❜

❛ I am happy on my own so here I'll stay. ❜

❛ Save your loving arms for a rainy day. ❜

❛ And I'll find comfort in my pain eraser. ❜

❛ I used to think that nothing could be better than touring the world with my songs. ❜

❛ I chased the picture perfect life, I think they painted it wrong. ❜

❛ I'm well aware of certain things that will befall a man like me. ❜

Castle On The Hill

❛ When I was six years old I broke my leg. ❜

❛ I was younger then. ❜

❛ Take me back to when I found my heart and broke it here. ❜

❛ I made friends and lost them through the years. ❜

❛ I know I've grown, but I can't wait to go home. ❜

❛ I'm on my way. ❜

❛ And I miss the way you make me feel. ❜

❛ And it was real when we watched the sunset over the castle on the hill. ❜

❛ I had my first kiss on a Friday night. ❜

❛ I don't reckon that I did it right. ❜

❛ I was younger then so take me back to then. ❜

❛ Oh, how we've grown. ❜

❛ But I can't wait to go home. ❜

Dive

❛ Maybe I came on too strong. ❜

❛ Maybe I waited too long. ❜

❛ Maybe I played my cards wrong, oh just a little bit wrong. ❜

❛ Baby, I apologise for it. ❜

❛ I could fall or I could fly. ❜

❛ And I could live, I could die, hanging on the words you say. ❜

❛ I've been known to give my all. ❜

❛ So don't call me baby unless you mean it. ❜

❛ And don't tell me you need me if you don't believe it. ❜

❛ So let me know the truth before I dive right into you. ❜

❛ You're a mystery. ❜

❛ I have travelled the world, and there's no other girl like you, no one. ❜

❛ What's your history? ❜

❛ Do you have a tendency to lead some people on? ❜

❛ Do you have a tendency to lead some people on? Cause I heard you do. ❜

❛ Sitting back, looking at every mess that I made. ❜

Shape Of You

❛ The club isn't the best place to find a lover so the bar is where I go. ❜

❛ We're drinking fast and then we talk slow. ❜

❛ And trust me I'll give it a chance now. ❜

❛ Girl, you know I want your love. ❜

❛ Your love was handmade for somebody like me. ❜

❛ Come on now, follow my lead. ❜

❛ I may be crazy, don't mind me. ❜

❛ Boy, let's not talk too much. ❜

❛ Grab on my waist and put that body on me. ❜

❛ We push and pull like magnets do. ❜

❛ Although my heart is falling too, I'm in love with your body. ❜

❛ We talk for hours and hours about the sweet and the sour. ❜

❛ Your family is doing okay. ❜

❛ Every day, discovering something brand new. ❜

Perfect

❛ I found a love for me. ❜

❛ Darling, just dive right in and follow my lead. ❜

❛ Well, I found a girl, beautiful and sweet. ❜

❛ Oh, I never knew you were the someone waiting for me. ❜

❛ We were just kids when we fell in love. ❜

❛ I will not give you up this time. ❜

❛ Darling, you look perfect tonight. ❜

❛ I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know. ❜

❛ We are still kids but we're so in love, fighting against all odds. ❜

❛ I know we'll be alright this time. ❜

❛ I see my future in your eyes. ❜

❛ I have faith in what I see. ❜

❛ Now I know I have met an angel in person. ❜

❛ I don't deserve this. ❜

❛ You look perfect tonight. ❜

Galway Girl

❛ I kissed you on the neck and then I took you by the hand. ❜

❛ Baby, I just want to dance. ❜

❛ What does it mean, the ink on your arm? ❜

❛ You know she beat me at darts and then she beat me at pool. ❜

❛ And then you kissed me like there was nobody else in the room. ❜

❛ We've outstayed our welcome and it's closing time. ❜

❛ I was holding your hand, your hand was holding mine. ❜

❛ I swear I'm going to put you in a song that I write. ❜

Happier

❛ You look happier. ❜

❛ I saw that both your smiles were twice as wide as ours. ❜

❛ Ain't nobody hurt you like I hurt you. ❜

❛ Ain't nobody love you like I do. ❜

❛ And until then I'll smile to hide the truth. ❜

❛ Ain't nobody hurt you like I hurt you, but ain't nobody need you like I do. ❜

❛ I know that there's others that deserve you. ❜

❛ My darling, I am still in love with you. ❜

❛ I know that there's others that deserve you, but my darling, I am still in love with you. ❜

❛ But if he breaks your heart like lovers do... ❜

❛ Just know that I'll be waiting here for you. ❜

New Man

❛ I heard he spent five hundred pounds on jeans. ❜

❛ He goes to the gym at least six times a week and he wears boat shoes with no socks on his feet. ❜

❛ But I heard he makes you happy so that's fine by me. ❜

❛ I'm just keeping it real. ❜

❛ Let me remind you of the days when you used to hold my hand. ❜

❛ I know you're missing all this kind of love. ❜

❛ I'm kind of jealous. ❜

❛ You were the type of girl that sat beside the water reading. ❜

❛ Ok you need to be alone. ❜ 

❛ And if you wanna talk about it you can call my phone. ❜

❛ I'm not trying to ruin your week, but you act so differently. ❜

❛ Please, remember you're still free, to make the choice and leave. ❜

❛ I don't wanna know about your new man. ❜

Hearts Don't Break Around Here

❛ She is the sweetest thing that I know. ❜

❛ You are the sweetest thing that I know. ❜

❛ She took my heart upon a one way trip, guess she went wandering off with it. ❜

❛ Unlike most women I know, you'll bring my heart back whole. ❜

❛ Oh we're in love aren't we? ❜

❛ I feel safe when you're holding me near. ❜

❛ You know hearts don't break around here. ❜

❛ I love the way that you conquer your fear. ❜

❛ She is the lighthouse in the night that will safely guide me home. ❜

❛ You're the lighthouse in the night that will safely guide me home. ❜

What Do I Know?

❛ Don't you get involved in politics, religions, other peoples' quarrels. ❜

❛ I'll paint the picture, let me set the scene. ❜

❛ And I'll pass on these things my family's given to me, just love and understanding, positivity. ❜

❛ Love could change the world in a moment, but what do I know? ❜

❛ Love can change the world in a moment. ❜

❛ But what do I know? ❜

❛ The revolution's coming, it's a minute away. ❜

❛ You know we are made up of love and hate, but both of them are balanced on a razor blade. ❜

❛ I know, I'm all for people following their dreams. ❜

❛ You know the future's in the hands of you and me. ❜

❛ So let's all get together, we can all be free. ❜

How Would You Feel (Paean)

❛ You are the one girl and you know that it's true. ❜

❛ I'm feeling younger every time that I'm alone with you. ❜

❛ We got questions we should not ask but... ❜

❛ How would you feel, if I told you I loved you? ❜

❛ It's just something that I want to do. ❜

❛ I'll be taking my time, spending my life falling deeper in love with you. ❜

❛ Tell me that you love me too. ❜

Supermarket Flowers

❛ Memories of a life that's been loved. ❜

❛ Don't you cry when you're down. ❜

❛ But there's a tear every time that I blink. ❜

❛ I'm in pieces. It's tearing me up but I know a heart that's broke is a heart that's been loved. ❜

❛ You are an angel in the shape of my _____. ❜

❛ I hope that I see the world as you did 'cause I know a life with love is a life that's been lived. ❜

Barcelona

❛ Well get up up on the dancefloor tonight. ❜

❛ I've got two left feet and a bottle of red wine. ❜

❛ I don't care what the DJ chooses. ❜

❛ We're going somewhere where the sun is shining bright. ❜

❛ Just close your eyes, and let's pretend we're dancing in the street. ❜

❛ Well get up up on the dancefloor, move, it's a Saturday night. ❜

❛ I fell in love with the sparkle in the moonlight reflected in your beautiful eyes. ❜

❛ I guess that is destiny doing it right. ❜

❛ Spin you around me again and again and again. ❜

❛ You're like something that God has sent me. ❜

❛ So let's pretend we're dancing in the street in Barcelona. ❜

Bibia Be Ye Ye

❛ I lost my shoes last night. ❜

❛ I don't know where I put my keys. ❜

❛ I bet my mother's proud of me from each scar upon my knuckle and each graze upon my knee. ❜

❛ I tell myself in every way I won't be doing this again. ❜

❛ I am only being honest with you, I get lonely and make mistakes from time to time. ❜

❛ I remember less and less, and mostly things that I regret. ❜

❛ My heart is breaking at the seams and I'm coming apart now. ❜

❛ And I am only being honest with you, I get lonely. ❜

❛ I make mistakes from time to time. ❜

Nancy Mulligan

❛ I was twenty four years old when I met the woman I would call my own. ❜

❛ And I asked her father but her daddy said, "No, you can't marry my daughter" ❜

❛ I'm gonna marry the woman I love. ❜

❛ Never had I seen such beauty before. ❜

❛ The moment that I saw her, ____ was my yellow rose. ❜

❛ You know, _____, I adore ya. ❜

❛ I never worried about the king and crown. ❜

❛ I found my heart upon the southern ground. ❜

Save Myself

❛ I gave all my oxygen to people that could breathe. ❜

❛ Oh, honestly? ❜

❛ They gave me the heartache and in return I gave a song ... it goes on and on. ❜

❛ Life can get you down so I just numb the way it feels. ❜

❛ I drown it with a drink and out of date prescription pills. ❜

❛ Human beings are destined to radiate or drain. ❜

❛ Only scars remain. ❜

❛ I'm here again, between the devil and the danger. ❜

❛ I guess it's just my nature. ❜

❛ So before I save someone else, I've got to save myself. ❜

❛ Before I blame someone else, I've got to save myself. ❜

❛ Before I love someone else, I've got to love myself. ❜

[queenlymusings]

you were my  sweetest  downfall                                      i loved you first.

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hamilton sentence starters: wait for it

1: »[...] writes me a letter every day.«

2: »[...] is mine.«

3: »Love doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints. It takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep loving anyway.«

4: »We laugh and we cry and we break and we make our mistakes.«

5: »And if there's a reason, then I'm willing to wait for it.«

6: »I'm willing to wait for it.«

7: »My mother was a genius.«

8: »My father commanded respect.«

9: »When they died they left no instructions, just a legacy to protect.«

10: »Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints.«

11: »It takes and it takes and it takes.«

12: »And we keep living anyway.«

13: »We rise and we fall and we break.«

14: »And if there’s a reason I’m still alive, when everyone who loves me has died...«

15: »I am the one thing in life I can control.«

16: »Wait for it.«

17: »I am inimitable.«

18: »I am an original.«

19: »I’m not falling behind or running late.«

20: »I'm not standing still -- I am lying in wait.«

21: »(...) has something to prove.«

22: »(...) has nothing to lose.«

23: »What is it like in his shoes?«

24: »(...) changes the game, (...) plays and (...) raises the stakes.«

25: »Life doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes.«

26: »Wait...«

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ALL ALONE, whether you like it or not!!

( alone is something you'll be quite a lot )

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abba sentence starters: cassandra

1: »Down in the street, they're all singing and shouting.«

2: »Pity, (...), that no one believed you.«

3: »But then again you were lost from the start.«

4: »Now we must suffer and sell our secrets, bargain, playing smart, aching in our hearts.«

5: »Sorry, (...), I misunderstood.«

6: »Some of us wanted but none of us could listen to words of warning.«

7: »But on the darkest of nights, nobody knew how to fight.«

8: »Sorry, (...), I didn't believe.«

9: »You really had the power.«

10: »Until the final hour.«

11: »Now that your father and sister are gone, there is no reason for you to linger.«

12: »You're grieving deeply but still moving on.«

13: »You know the future is casting a shadow.«

14: »No one else sees it but you know your fate.«

15: »Though you're late, that ship is sure to wait.«

16: »I watched the ship leaving harbor at sunrise.«

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hamilton sentence starters: what'd i miss?

1. "Have it all, lose it all."

2. "You ready for more yet?"

3. "[name]’s coming home!"

4. "There is no more status quo."

5. "But the sun comes up, and the world still spins."

6. "My home sweet home, I wanna give you a kiss."

7. "I guess I basic’lly missed the late eighties..."

8. "I traveled the wide, wide world and came back to this…"

9. "I can’t believe that we are free."

10. "Ready to face whatever’s awaiting me."

11. "But who’s waitin’ for me when I step in the place?"

12. "What’s goin’ on?"

13. "Can you get us out of the mess we’re in?"

14. "Where have you been?"

15. "We have to win."

16. "What’d I miss?"

17. "Headfirst into a political abyss!"

18. "I guess I better think of something to say."

19. "I’m already on my way."

20. "Let’s get to the bottom of this…"

21. "I’ve come home to this?"

22. "Headfirst, into the abyss!"

23. "You’ve been off in Paris for so long!"

24. "So what did I miss?"

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the lumineers → sentence starters

Feel free to change pronouns and so on to make it fit better!

1. ❛ When we were younger we thought everyone was on our side. ❜

2. ❛ Be in my eyes. ❜

3. ❛ Be in my heart. ❜

4. ❛ I won't close my eyes. ❜

5. ❛ It takes a man to live, but it takes a woman to make him compromise. ❜

6. ❛ That's pretty cool, but classy girls don't kiss in bars, you fool. ❜

7. ❛ But it's alright, the hardest part is through. ❜

8. ❛ No one will believe me. ❜

9. ❛ Told me I'd seen a ghost. ❜

10. ❛ Everyone thinks I'm a liar, no one knows the truth. ❜

11. ❛ I need somebody, needed someone I could trust. ❜

12. ❛ I don't gamble, but if I did I would bet on us. ❜

13. ❛ You'll never sink when you are with me. ❜

14. ❛ Yes, there are times we live for somebody else. ❜

15. ❛ I've been trying to do it right. ❜

16. ❛ I don't think you're right for him. ❜

17. ❛ I belong with you, you belong with me. ❜

18. ❛ You're my sweetheart. ❜

19. ❛ Wash off my hands til it’s gone. ❜

20. ❛ Act like you’ve been here before. ❜

21. ❛ Smile less and dress up some more. ❜

22. ❛ And when she stood she stood tall, she’ll make a fool of you all. ❜

23. ❛ She ain’t got nothin left for you. ❜

24. ❛ It's better to feel pain, than nothing at all. ❜

25. ❛ The opposite of love's indifference. ❜

26. ❛ And I don't blame you, dear, for running like you did all these years. ❜

27. ❛ Keep your head up, my love. ❜

28. ❛ There's hell to pay, and hell to raise. ❜

29. ❛ Won't you stay? ❜

30. ❛ Don't hang your head, love should make you feel good. ❜

31. ❛ Make your mothers proud. ❜

32. ❛ Make your fathers proud. ❜

33. ❛ I'm gonna buy one for us when I get back. ❜

34. ❛ And I'll never leave you again. ❜

35. ❛ You're still my lady. ❜

36. ❛ I need you at home. ❜

37. ❛ Cause if you ain't behind my door, then I ain't got a home anymore. ❜

38. ❛ Lovers come, lovers go, lovers leave me alone. ❜

39. ❛ She'll come back to me. ❜

40. ❛ And all I tend to do is think of you. ❜

41. ❛ Or was it different, it must have been. ❜

42. ❛ And it's a shame that it ends this way, with nothing left to say. ❜

43. ❛ It's a shame. ❜

44. ❛ May you return to love one day. ❜

45. ❛ You get what you gave. ❜

[queenlymusings]

one. curse. let your anger be heard, shout it at the deaf skies, at stars that have mapped out this fate for you. ( and what a cruel fate it has been. ) cry. but if you want to  — there is no need to pretend anymore, to act according to someone else’s script. ( crying can be cathartic, however, so consider it. ) two. fight. yes, the battle has been lost and the war is on the verge, too, but if they pull you down, you refuse to make it easy for them. ( let them know that they create their own worst nightmare. ) fight even more. See, your fate condemns you to lose right here and right now, but it does not get to decide what will come after this fall. ( if you make it into the history books with this, don’t be a mere footnote. ) three. heal. your body is bruised and broken, your spirit in tatters and you gnaw on the bitter bones of your defeat, but give it time. ( there are no rules anymore, so take your time. it is your body. ) decide. it is your call now, you get to make the choice this time around, whether you want to walk away from this or if you want to go back. ( whatever you choose, let it be your choice. not someone’s else. ) four. stand. you cannot stay away, you realise, and so you dust your armour off, get your sword from the corner where you dropped it and grit your teeth. ( you know this will not be easy, because it has never been, but here you are.) consider. it is too late for doubts to cloud your judgement, too late to walk away and you never actually wanted to quit either, that was only your pain talking. ( you have nothing left to lose but everything and more to gain. ) five. fly. your past may have shackled you down before, but not now. you have changed, you are no longer who you used to be. ( and your wings have missed the skies so much. ) land. this is your rightful place to be, this is where you belong, and your own choices led you here, your own will carried you. ( and you find, the weight of your world is no longer difficult to carry. )

this is how to rise again

[queenlymusings]

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

Elizabeth Taylor