Findings:

• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• A date idea, but not for the first date
• It will only make our insides burn until we are nothing but ash.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• We once played this same game, but with only our words
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• I am a mathematician, but I am also an artist
• but the future is always tomorrow -- even now drowning in bytes
• Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• I am the only being whose doom...
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• That's a valid point, but right now we're focusing on...
• I know I am but summer to your heart,
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• You're not laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka up
• So runs my dream; but what am I?
• I am afraid to write tonight, but I must.
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
• I am holding you now
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• My skin will remember your skin, but I will no longer know. I will be a ghost forever
• Mass Murder and Mutilation! But first, the weather with Weather-Wise Wally Whimple.
• I am nothing but my sins
• now I am blue, forsaking brown.
• I am writing you at dawn, on a train headed west, a farewell letter to be mailed at the first transfer station, before I head off into parts unknown.
• I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
• My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• i know you are but what am i
• what she's building now, it isn't much, but it's hers
• I fell off the ferris wheel and now I am paralyzed and bitter
• Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
• 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 didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• We had no bait but our tongues
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• but these are only ripples
• but the only power i truly have is the strength to let it go
• 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.
• Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.
• I am many things, but I am not that strong
• Why I am going to pretend I am a girl online from now on
• I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
• Who am I now that you're gone?
• Am I the only one who thinks Ken Watanabe and Jimmy Smits look an awful lot alike?
• The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive.
• I am an adventurer not by choice, but by fate
• I am afraid to breathe or shut my eyes but I do both.
• as you get older, a lot falls away. but i am not here to tell you not to worry. i am here to give you tools.
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• I considered cutting my toenails, but they're my only natural defense
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• In caressing your follicles I am only vaguely reminded of the bitter harvest
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• Looking like a pirate is fun but only having one eye annoys me
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• Hot pursuit
• How to assassinate a third world despot with only a butt plug and a litre of raspberry coulis
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• You can now flame me, I am full of love
• I like electronic music, but I am not a raver.
• Reasons why I am ecstatic to be alive right now
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• 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.
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• I am now a college graduate
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• An army of slippers but only two feet
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• I swear I just came here for a sandwich, but do you remember me?
• Right now I am floating
• /but what was the question?
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• I am now a Fire Marshall
• When I am stronger than now
• I have been orbiting this planet for thirty-seven years, and am just now starting to experience reentry (document)
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• I only am escaped alone to tell thee: McVeigh, Denial, and the Death Penalty
• I am but higher
• Now I am become grey, the creator of worlds
• it doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am
• because I am only half of what you need
• I will make him promises, but not ones I am afraid to break
• Others, I am not the first
• I know you are, but what am I?
• I am stalking your girls now
• I will wait until your quiet makes me remember I am waiting.
• I am fine now
• I am that person I was watching
• I am but a moth before your flame
• I am now a dark walker
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
• and now i am free
• i carry a deep sadness of the past, perhaps always. but i am here for the present and the future. i am here for you.
• I Came Out Here To Have A Good Time And Honestly I Am Feeling So Attacked Right Now
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• Now that I have nothing resembling a desk, I am allowing myself a node to fantasize about one
• now that I am no longer
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• 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.
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
• He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
• Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
• I appreciate your concern for others, but I need to get all my ducks in a row first.
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Swim with the fishies, but remember you have wings
• We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• I want my trail to grow over and disappear, but now someone is reading it.
• Women are from Earth, but men only wander it
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• Am I the only one who walks alone under moonlight without fear?
• Some foods, I am convinced, are packaged only for families of 3 or more and bulimics
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• I am capable of poetic language, but not always of poetry
• Shit, why am I the only one here who can perform the Heimlich maneuver?
• A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• It's not happening here, but it is happening now.
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• You're voting this sucka down now, but I'm going to laugh
• We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission.
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• I am now a married woman

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