Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Seeing it going down in my nightmares was bad enough. Seeing it come back up was worse, because then I know they were true."

• 2016 was bad enough. Is it only going to get worse?
• just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• I was watching through the window, you were going through the dances.
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• it was true then
• I was into them after they were hip
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• Were you really expecting to only learn true things when you signed up for this class?
• we didn't know then that we were making memories
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• Seriously, though, who the hell did I think I was going to become?
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
• I think I was a pterodactyl and you were the tiniest rodent
• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
• For cold caves know; The moon's seeing the mad and dead
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
• She didn't know what outside was anymore.
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• I don't think the sun was up
• more sure of all I thought was true
• The mites go up and the tights come down
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• The monkey children were everywhere back then. Their fedoras littered the roads.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• and the moment we said we're not giving up is the moment we knew we'd never stop
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• That Was Then, This is Now
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• I only leave the door open because I know that no one would dare to come in.
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• It was not death, for I stood up
• Because, perhaps she was cold
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• If you EVER come across an empty floor, just know that I'm gonna fuck you up.
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• I thought that what I was taught was true.
• Thumbs Up going down
• Son, do you know how fast you were going?
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• Life sucks, then you die, then you come back
• No one older than twenty-five was stupid enough to take a job here.
• I don't think we're old enough to know if we're alcoholics at our age
• If I was beautiful, I'd know it
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
• We did not know it was a war
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• Back when grunge was still cool
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• When she was bad
• The strangeness of seeing another car on a late night back road
• The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• The night your father was stabbed in the back room of a convenience store. No mercy.
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• I woke up and thought it was Saturday
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
• I woke up and was an instant scribbling fiend. crazy, my poor feverish brain
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• At that time I was taken up with alchemy
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• They hate us because we're wonderful
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• November 4, 1995
• Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• I was shot through the heart, and you were to blame.
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• This was the way bodies were meant to behave
• It was better before they came
• I was told you were very pretty
• in the end it was better that we were apart
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• you were an angel and i was an angel
• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• I was going to marry Marty
• Once was enough
• The "WE'RE GOING DOWN THE PUB!" Anglo-Swiss Post-nuptial London Meetup
• This was not my going away party
• As I Was Going to St Ives
• The World Was Wide Enough
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• You know it is going to be a strange day when you wake up dead
• Back when our blood was still warm
• Someday my life will be interesting, and I will come back and tell you about it then
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• That gum you like is going to come back in style
• the birds seem to know what we're up to out here.
• Trompe
• She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• After a six-month diet of blues and greys I was back to white. I was an empty plate.
• She was coming out as he was going in.
• looking back, seeing far, landing right where we are
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
• I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• The one thing Superman was bad at
• The hole in the ground for bodily waste when camping
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• causing another person bad feelings and seeing the result isn't fun
• I married him because he was not mean
• The Revolution was Postponed Because of Rain
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• If it was still then-
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• It was the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• Would you tell me if it was true?
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence

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