Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "you wish it had happened right then, but you also reveled in the thrill of the wait"

• i didn't write this, but i wish i had
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• he touched me then, but I forgot to feel
• Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• if I had known then what I know now
• All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
• I wish I had my own orchestra
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• That's a valid point, but right now we're focusing on...
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• And then wings sprouted from the space between my shoulders where my wings had once been
• I am a mathematician, but I am also an artist
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• I Wish I Had Duck Feet
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• echoes of her glisten in your eyes; i also tear but without linger
• I think I fell in love with her right then and right there
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• We're flawed because we want so much more. We're ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• The prophecy is made up, but it's also true.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• 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.
• beauty is invented, but it is also personified, and I know this because I have met her
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
• I need my heel to heal, but I also need to walk
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• 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?
• The South had the right to secede from the Union
• I wish I had the magic words that could take pain away
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs
• What the hell ever happened to our rights?
• I wish I had been told what Schrödinger really meant
• I almost had to wait
• But where the bones had landed, things began to grow
• I thought I had some great insight into human nature, but I didn't
• God Sees The Truth, but Waits
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• We had no bait but our tongues
• It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• She might not need me. But then again she might.
• I wish I cared about the things you cared about but I don't.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
• I want silence, but wait for the phone to ring
• Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• 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
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• What I Didn't Learn in Church Last Sunday (and wish I had)
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• You've Always Had a Hidden Agenda, but people were busy with other things
• This is a story I wish I had been able to write. Hope you like it.
• I wish I had something worth hiding
• I Had No Right
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
• If you had any balls, you'd say 'Oh, my God, what is that thing?' then scream and cut your mic.
• I Wish All U.S. Americans Had Maps
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• boss i wish you had told me
• The LAWG Waffle Jam, wait, er, no that's right.
• If you're not sure whether or not you've been had, then you've already been had.
• He tells me that I could have his heart and I want to take it right then, slip it into my pocket and run
• and then, one morning, I realised I had been an adult for a while
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• If you had swerved a little to the right, you'd have missed it
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• Honesty is the best policy, but wait a while
• But seriously, a tragic thing happened down the street
• Not atheist, but what then?
• I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
• TWO HUB MEN DIE IN BLAST; New York also destroyed
• The urge to destroy is also a creative urge
• The Sun Also Rises
• Three people who are spies and a horse who will also be a spy
• Please tell me everything, this means you, I am hungry and also
• Not only does smoking kill you, it also prevents Alzheimer's disease
• Among the virtues of mirrors is also that of revealing hidden and distant things
• After searching for my mother's name for twenty years, I realized I also did not know my father's
• As the portals also death
• A recursively enumerable set whose complement is also recursively enumerable is recursive
• Or do we like time's children come also at last to the silent shadowlands?
• also (user)
• Also starring a telephone as "The Telephone"
• Also, when I am angry, my eyes flash fire, whether I growl or not.
• If I tell you, ye will not believe: And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
• Also I liked the kissing
• also: younger than the sun
• Ways to Die That Also Feed Your Girlfriend
• William Shatner's Mother Dressed As A Nazi Police Officer Prostitute Who Moonlights as a Storm Trooper and is also a Transvestite Cow
• Look, she is also mostly confident front.
• Those also serve who stay behind and fill in the Gaps
• Nearby locations are also reporting rain
• Also, I don't think it's weird that we all love one another so much.
• Books Hazelnut Read Because You Should Also (category)
• because I am lazy and enjoy staring blankly into space (which is also the space where novels come from)
• E2 is unfriendly to new noders (and also is a secret plot to drain their blood to support the aged)
• There is no god but God
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• I want to watch pornography, but my pornograph is broken
• Every Which Way but Loose
• separate but equal
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
• Butt hinge
• Butt joint
• Butt shaft
• Butt weld
• Water butt
• We have nothing to fear but fear itself
• But I got a B- in penmanship
• But thanks for playing
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
• butt log
• I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• But my computer really IS possessed
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• Butt crack of dawn
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Amazon Gift WIsh List ♥ (registry)
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• BQN: But, one for all?
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Sexist jokes
• Yard Butt
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• Not really by the rules, but...
• No, but I'll have a beer
• Free but worthless shares
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• I know you are, but what am I?
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• It never rains but it pours
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
• I am but a moth before your flame

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