SHE’S DRIVING ME CRAZY.

SHE’S DRIVING ME CRAZY.

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I miss the winter. Just so quiet and still… you can hear your own heart beat.

Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review.  This sentence meme comes from his short story collection This Is How You Lose Her.  

Considering the collection, there’s a lot of references to infidelity and toxic relationships.  

Feel free to change things around to better suit your characters!!!

• I’m not a bad guy. I know how that sounds—defensive, unscrupulous—but it’s true. I’m like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.
• You know how it is. A smelly bone like that, better off buried in the backyard of your life.
• The thing is, that particular bit of stupidity had been over for months.
• You have to listen to me, ____. Or you won’t understand.
• So you won’t forget me. 
• Why don’t you leave me alone?
• It’s because I love you.
• She’s sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.
• You give this to her no matter what happens.
• If this was another kind of story, I’d tell you about the sea. What it looks like after it’s been forced into the sky through a blowhole.
• What can I tell you? I thought we were on a positive vibe.
• What don’t you understand? I. Don’t. Want. To. Be. Here.
• I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
• I just wish you’d say you love me.
• Can you say you like me a lot?
• Can you leave me alone? You’re such a pestilence.
• Jealousy is the best way to jump-start a relationship.
• They only hit you when they care.
• The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence. 
• Our relationship wasn’t the sun, the moon, and the stars, but it wasn’t bullshit, either. 
• Where are the stars?
• We look good.
• You’re a real bitch, you know that.
• I didn’t want to come here. You made me.
• If you didn’t want to come, why didn’t you have the fucking guts to say so?
• This place is killing me.
• And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end.
• God, you don’t have to be a pussy about it.
• This can work. All we have to do is try.

• I wanted to warn her, tell her he was a monster, but she was already headed for him at the speed of light.
• In another universe I probably came out OK, but in this world I had a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.
• Remember the day we met?

• Yes, but what if it had been me? What would you have done?
• You have to learn to trust your men.
• In those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
• She has a mouth like unswept glass—when you least expect it she cuts you.
• How many get to this point? Only the ones who never swerve, who never make mistakes, who are never unlucky.
• Please, please, my love, tell me what it is. How long did it take before I stopped mattering?
• Why? Did you see anything wrong?
• You must not think on these things. Keep them out of your mind. You do not want to go crazy from them.
• Here there are calamities without end—but sometimes I can clearly see us in the future, and it is good.
• I already told you it’s over. What else do you want?
• You women never know how to leave things alone. You never know how to let go.
• You are on your way to another life. You won’t have time to miss me.
• Yes, I will. I’ll probably be over to visit you every day.
• You won’t have the time.
• I will if I make time. Are you trying to get rid of me?
• I guess it’s true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.
• This is what I know: people’s hopes go on forever.
• I would never go back. Not for anything. Not for anyone.

the breakfast club / starter sentences.

• ❛ We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all. ❜
• ❛ Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? ❜
• ❛ You ought to spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people. ❜
• ❛ I hate it. I hate having to go along with everything my friends say. ❜
• ❛ When you grow up, your heart dies. ❜
• ❛ Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place. ❜
• ❛ Don’t mess with the bull, young man. You’ll get the horns. ❜
• ❛ I don’t have to run away and live in the street. I can run away and I can go to the ocean, I can go to the country, I can go to the mountains. I could go to Israel, Africa, Afghanistan. ❜
• ❛ Being bad feels pretty good, huh? ❜
• ❛ Could you describe the ruckus, sir? ❜
• ❛ What do you need a fake I.D. for? ❜
• ❛ I’ll do anything sexual. I don’t need a million dollars to do it either. ❜
• ❛ Eat my shorts. ❜
• ❛ You know, you look a lot better without all that black shit under your eyes. ❜
• ❛ So it’s sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right? ❜
• ❛ ‘Cause I’m telling the truth, that makes me a bitch? ❜
• ❛ Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other. The bartender says, I guess you won’t be needing a drink. Naked lady says… ❜
• ❛ You do everything everyone tells you to do and that is a problem. ❜
• ❛ Do you think I’d speak for you? I don’t even know your language. ❜
• ❛ No, I don’t wear tights. I wear the required uniform. ❜
• ❛ You’re an idiot anyway. But if you say you get along with your parents, well, you’re a liar too. ❜
• ❛ I’m thinkin’ of tryin’ out for a scholarship. ❜
• ❛ Don’t you want to hear my excuse?❜
• ❛ Why do you have to insult everybody? ❜
• ❛ Now is this the first time or the last time you do this to me? ❜
• ❛ You’re kind of sexy when you’re angry. ❜
• ❛ If I lose my temper you’re totaled, man. ❜
• ❛ Why didn’t you want me to know that you are a virgin? ❜
• ❛ I don’t think either one of them gives a shit about me. It’s like they use me just to get back at each other. ❜
• ❛ Don’t you ever talk about my friends. You don’t know any of my friends. You don’t look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn’t condescend to speak to any of my friends. ❜
• ❛ It’s wrong to destroy literature. It’s such fun to read. ❜
• ❛ Vodka? When do you drink vodka? ❜
• ❛ How does one become a janitor? ❜
• ❛ By the way, that clock’s 20 minutes fast. ❜
• ❛ I want to congratulate you for being on time. ❜
• ❛ He’s just doing it to get a rise out of you. Just ignore him. ❜
• ❛ Sweets. You couldn’t ignore me if you tried. ❜
• ❛ That’s what I thought. You’re a gutless turd. ❜
• ❛ Keep your fuckin’ hands off me! I’d expect better manners from you, _____. ❜
• ❛ Just me. Just you and me. Two hits. Me hitting you. You hitting the floor. Anytime you’re ready, pal. ❜
• ❛ Oh, obscene finger gestures from such a pristine girl. ❜
• ❛ Are you a virgin? I’ll bet you a million dollars that you are. Let’s end the suspense! Is it gonna be… a white wedding? ❜
• ❛ Have you ever kissed a boy on the mouth? ❜
• ❛ Have you ever been felt up? Over the bra, under the blouse, shoes off… hoping to God your parents don’t walk in? ❜
• ❛ You ask me one more question and I’m beating the shit out of you. ❜
• ❛ What did you wanna be when you were young? ❜
• ❛ When I was a kid, I wanted to be John Lennon. ❜
• ❛ _____, you wanna see a picture of a guy with elephantitis of the nuts? It’s pretty tasty. ❜
• ❛ Now this is the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night. ❜
• ❛ The next time I have to come in here I’m crackin’ skulls. ❜
• ❛ Are you gonna be, like, a shopping bag lady? You know, like, sit in alleyways and, like, talk to buildings and wear men’s shoes and that kinda thing? ❜
• ❛ I’m a fucking idiot because I can’t make a lamp? ❜
• ❛ Yo wastoid, you’re not gonna blaze up in here. ❜
• ❛ My God, are we gonna be like our parents? ❜