Findings:
- For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
- She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- She wore a bit more makeup than he generally liked
- Spinning shapes like a song out of order. In the dark she can see fireflies.
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- The House on the Island Where She Was Born
- Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
- Sex with my sister was always really, really good
- If I was beautiful like you
- The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
- she was waylaid by an octopus
- She was too beautiful to be human
- She was so pleased to learn that she was right
- What really matters is what you like, not what you are like
- She had fingernails that shined like justice
- They walk around her like she is in danger of breaking
- When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
- She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
- She said I dreamed like dead men
- The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- I was tired. It was late. She was Russian.
- She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- She didn't know what outside was anymore.
- little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
- She was cilantro, jalapeño, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- She doesn't look like Mother anymore
- she gave herself that holocaust haircut. cinnamon colored clippings cover the motel bedspread like sprinkles.
- she made them, like fire, expansible over all space
- I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
- She must be what cocaine is like
- She just stares at us like we're crazy
- she likes to dance on the edge. it's all she's known and she won't change now
- She felt like the word 'shatter'
- did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
- I was hit by a train that doesn't really exist
- She could run a spiel like nobody's business. She could sell the world and make you wish for more.
- Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
- I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
- The flowers smiled, but she was gone
- She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
- it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
- She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- She was free
- She is and was
- She knew what she was doing
- She was cilantro, jalepeno, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- She Was 18, It Was Summer
- She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
- She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
- He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
- She wears her failed relationships like a shield
- What if architecture was like web design?
- She is like an onion
- Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
- Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
- She is like a kaleidoscope, a strange attractor, a superstition
- Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
- She Came and Went Like Wind (A Selkie Story)
- She tasted like whiskey and blood and cemetery dirt.
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- She had incongruity for breakfast because she felt like it
- the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
- Is there any part of you that really wants this? Or is the pursuit like breathing to you?
- like nothing ever was
- Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
- Five minutes after falling off the cliff, I realized how high it really was
- It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
- If she really wanted to fit in, she'd get a smaller dog.
- "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
- Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
- Was the Black Death really just Anthrax?
- I don't like her because she won't like me
- She dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field
- She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms
- She always was devious in her beauty
- She was the seed of a strange tomorrow
- She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
- piano outside in the snow. and she was spinning
- I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
- Existentialism is that girlfriend who cheated on you. Postmodernism is who she was with.
- The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
- Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
- A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
- She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
- She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
- The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
- Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
- She was so tall, and I was so in love
- He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
- she was just the dry smell of gasoline
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- Besides the part where she was the only one
- She was so quiet that nobody heard her
- What the hell was she thinking?
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- Would you like to penetrate her shell, insinuating yourself among the pages of the books she is reading?
- The name of the town isn't really relevant, it's like many towns in America
- Napster was like the lamp with the wrong pricetag
- She ties regrets around her fingers like forget-me-knots
- You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
- Looks like 1984 was only n years off
- What I really would like to do is put Everything into a drawer
- I would have liked thunder when she left
- What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?
- You like me, you really like me!
- How do I know if I really like coffee?
- The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
- It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
- I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
- Like a really good sex
- I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
- She had eyes like the Blue Screen of Death
- she can't remember what it's like to be found
- She tastes like gingerbread, too.
- With him it was always like
- He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
- That week with her was like drinking bubbles
- She couldn't imagine that he liked dancing
- She told me I looked like a Henry, and this is how she would know me
- Feeling like you're moving when you're really sitting still
- seizing on a Nugget of Truth and wielding it like it was a club
- My skin felt like I was falling
- She Liked Horses, and Flowers That Smell Pink
- She hit me like thunder, and I had to lie down until I could breathe again
- That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
- I really miss the woman who told me that people don't like me
- She writes like the wind moves
- She doesn't like you
- Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
- She is lobbing rainbows at me from across the room and I am swallowing them like fear.
- Adam really was the first man
- Is she really going out with him?
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- Why is she really here?
- the horrible gift was really quite right
- Why Socrates was really executed
- She doesn't really want a nice guy
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
- Sex with my accountant was always really, really efficient
- It was really hot, in a Silent Hill kind of way
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- What life after death will really be like
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- She was never mine. I always shared her.
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- She was very beautiful. Y'know?
- She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
- When she was bad
- To a girl who thought she was moving away
- She was steady
- She was locked in time
- I would really like to beat the crap out of someone
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