notthatgreen:

margaret atwood sentence starters.

• ❛ i used to say i’d know you anywhere, but it’s getting harder. ❜ 
  
• ❛ search instead for the others, the ones left over. ❜ 
• ❛ it was not what he had in mind. ❜
  
• ❛ i exist in two places, here and where you are. ❜
  
• ❛ love is choosing. ❜
  
• ❛ all people are driven to the point of eating their own gods. ❜ 
• ❛ screw poetry, it’s you i want. ❜
  
• ❛ leave me alone, this is my winter. i will stay here if i choose. ❜ 
• ❛ you are as innocent as a bathtub full of bullets. ❜ 
• ❛ what use is moonlight? ❜
  
• ❛ only we could call it a wound. ❜
• ❛ only we can regret the perishing of the burned place. ❜
  
• ❛ and now it’s in you, secrecy. ❜ 
• ❛ i wish to show you the darkness you are so afraid of. ❜
  
• ❛ when the appearances of things have left you, you will still have this darkness. ❜
  
• ❛ memorize it. you will know it again in your own time. ❜
  
• ❛ this darkness is a place you can enter and be as safe in as anywhere. ❜
  
• ❛ it’s a wonder either of us believed a word the other said. ❜
  
• ❛ i feel like the word shatter. ❜
  
• ❛ the two of us were - by our own admission - proficient and shameless liars of long standing. ❜
  
• ❛ knowing that the work is mine, how can i love you? ❜
  
• ❛ a truth should exist, it should not be used like this. ❜
  
• ❛ i stand in the presence of the destroyed god. ❜
  
• ❛ as for the sun, there are as many suns as there are words for sun. ❜
  
• ❛ if i love you, is that a fact or a weapon? ❜
  
• ❛ i would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. ❜
  
• ❛ what are you supposed to do with all this loss? ❜
  
• ❛ life goes more smoothly without a heart. ❜
  
• ❛ knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you. ❜
  
• ❛ where do you draw the line between love and greed? ❜
  
• ❛ you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened. ❜
  
• ❛ can’t you be both? ❜
  
• ❛ now that i’m dead i know everything. ❜
  
• ❛ whoever said that light was life and darkness nothing? ❜
  
• ❛ welcome back, my darling. ❜
  
• ❛ in exile, survival is the first necessity. ❜
  
• ❛ i will not come when you call. ❜
  
• ❛ we must resist, we must refuse to disappear. ❜
  
• ❛ we touch as though attacking. ❜
  
• ❛ we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other. ❜
  
• ❛ if you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. ❜
  
• ❛ to put a hand on another is to touch death. ❜
  
• ❛ you collapse my house of cards merely by breathing. ❜
  
• ❛ there’s no love here. maybe it’s the boredom. ❜
  
• ❛ i know you’re there, even when i can’t see you. ❜
  
• ❛ i began to forget myself in the middle of sentences. ❜
  
• ❛ we are hard on each other and call it honestly. ❜
  
• ❛ our choices turn them criminal. ❜
  
• ❛ the beauty is an illusion, and also a warning. ❜
  
• ❛ farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. ❜
  
• ❛ solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. ❜
  
• ❛ whether they are dead or not is a moot point. ❜
  
• ❛ that, or a bleary hopeless love. ❜
  
• ❛ speaking of which, its the smiling tires me out the most. ❜
  
• ❛ not that anyone here but you would understand. ❜
  
• ❛ is it suffering or goodness that makes them holy or can anyone tell the difference? ❜