Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I wish I could remember being sixteen and reading this for the first time. I wish I could figure out if I was confused or not, if I just blindly accepted it all or thought it was weird."

• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• Just as it could not imprison itself with laws, impoverish itself with money or misguide itself with leaders, so it would not misrepresent itself with signs.
• Screaming Bullet of Compact Imported Death, or: How I Found Out My Mazda Protege Could Go 130mph
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• We've got all this beauty and just enough time to figure out how to destroy it.
• I just submit to one or two days of horror for going out and playing at being a normal functioning person
• Sometimes I wish I could just not care
• Could you spare some change or maybe just a smile?
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• Is this what I have been seeking? Or is it an echo, a remnant, a sign that I was wrong?
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• I wish I could open his eyes
• I wish I could cry
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• For to lose I could accept but to surrender I just wept
• It was all I could do not to cry
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter V
• wish i could show a little soul
• She could run a spiel like nobody's business. She could sell the world and make you wish for more.
• I wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VII
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• Trying to catch one clear promise out of the jittery confused language the night was whispering
• I wish I could invent shit
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter IX
• I wish I had the magic words that could take pain away
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• I could do without it, if I knew what it was
• New Mexico, or was that Oklahoma?
• She could not live with or without him
• I wish I could bottle you
• The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
• i know you're out there; i just wish you were here with me
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter IV
• Was it Love, or Obsession?
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
• I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• An infallible way to discern whether a decade, in pop culture terms, was win or fail
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• Man, I could do some amazing things if I just had the time resources and inclination
• I wish I could sleep on my back
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• I'm not a geek, and I wish I were
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• It was the least I could do
• Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was
• I wish I could speak in code
• Last time I checked, Buddha was not just some lameass winamp skin for Jesus
• I am someone and I wish so much I could help you
• I wish I could burn like god
• It was a pauper's laugh. It was what I could afford.
• I used to wish I could dream in black and white
• I wish I could tutor art. Maybe next term.
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
• Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• The first time I knew I was different
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VI
• If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter III
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
• Are we listening, or are we just being silent?
• Sure wish I could rise above it
• No Time, No Room, No Thought, or Writing Can
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• It doesn't matter whether Hitler was an Atheist or a Christian
• I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
• OR WAS IT
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VIII
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• I wish I could upload my brain into Everything
• I wish I was carrying cigarettes
• The elephant that wished he could fly
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• The braille on the door was not symbollic of my own blind search for an answer. Or maybe it was.
• Was that real, or did I dream it?
• She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
• I Wish My Brother George Was Here
• I wish I was a half of a two
• I wish I was in New Orleans
• I wish I was a fish
• I wish I was dead
• I Fell Out of School, and All I Found Was This Necklace
• more sure of all I thought was true
• I wish you could have met me before I became food
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• A remembrance day I wish I could forget
• Are you searching to be inspired? Or are you searching to be amused, be content, be happy? What could you have been?
• As an Atheist, I sometimes wish I were Jewish
• we're just trying to figure out what it all means
• I remember when all this was trees
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• some say he was never here at all
• Anyone could know just by watching her silent moves
• Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone renounced violence forever?
• Is it better to try to improve yourself, or to accept yourself as you are?
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
• an invitation to be everything you never thought you could be
• The Epistemological Inquiry, or, Existence, at all
• The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
• we are all just books reading each other
• as time goes to infinity, all truths come out
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• As I am. As I am. All or not at all.
• The Tornado, or, how we almost all got killed.
• Could you pick yourself out of a lineup?
• If we could build things out of concepts, I'd have pants made of lust
• I could tell by all of her dead house plants
• I never thought a picture could cause so much pain
• If only I'd thought of the right words, I could have held on to your heart
• Wondered what the point of all of that was
• A day in the life of an Alzheimer's wife or how it all started with a missing spatula
• I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• Laugh now, because tomorrow I will be ten stories tall and I could just step on you if I want
• all it cost him was a Penny
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
• He was hard in all the wrong places
• Are all good modern works of literature satire, dystopia or both?
• Long day, all I wanted was a cup of tea
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• Reconstructing Literature or what to do with all of these penises
• Wouldn't it be nice if I could remember her
• Wouldn't it be nice if I could remember her as a firework
• I could hear her thoughts
• That's just my opinion, I could be wrong
• To love and lose or not at all?
• And All That Could Have Been
• She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
• All you ever did was let it happen
• The time a thug punched my friend in the face because he could
• We could take our time
• If I could just watch myself burn
• How many lives could have been saved had we just said "Please" more often?
• Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
• All good men are either gay or married
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• Oh, that it were so simple. That I could just utter those words.

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