I like the way you feel in my arms.
I will love you every day that you stay, and even if you don't.
No, you're not perfect. You don't need to be.
"and the winner of the 150 million dollar Powerball lottery..."
I'm sorry. I couldn't let you walk away, with the possibility that I might never see you again. Now, I know that this is odd and random and I'm probably making a fool out of myself, but I don't care. You fucking blow my mind.
"If you want to wear your Batman costume when we're out in public, that's okay with me"
Thinking of you makes my knees weak, my heart flutter, my hands shake. I will love you forever.
I do.
I changed my mind. Back on with your head!
You got the job.
Perfection is hard to come by. Maybe you're not perfect to anyone else, but to me, you are. I know the real you; I saw past your faults like you saw past mine. Don't ever leave me; I just want you here in my arms.
I learned how to count!
This is wrong... but I like it.
Quit yer bitchin and get back to work.
don't worry, i'm here.
"Hi, my name is Ed McMahon, and this giant check is for you!"
"We see now that we were so wrong, and it was never your fault, and we're sorry"
Every morning he says: You are so beautiful!
So do you like your eggs Scrambled, or completely nude?
Everything will be just fine.
1. i like the ambience in your mind.
2. hey - you taste like chicken!
Damn, my parents are horrible, I don't know why I thought you could just endure them forever.
You know, I think I *do* want to use the potty now.
You are my human credential.
Stay.
"I may be rancid butter, but at least I'm on your side of the bread..."
Take me now
I know you want to work out, but I like your ass just the way it is. Please don't change it too much.
(Whatta man.)
Let's go.
Don't worry, baby.
You know, like in the Beach Boy's song?
Re: Don't worry, baby.
Good one.
I was thinking of "God only knows what I'd be without you" myself.
You're all I've ever wanted.
I prefer life's little nuggets to come in the form of haiku or maybe even spelled out by the smoke of one of those old-timey airplanes during an atkin's diet-induced hallucination.
the truth is you could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath i'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt.
Oh, but my favorite (thanks, R. Kelly, for finding a way to say what I never could):
All I really want is to love you, babe;
Make your body feel like heaven, babe.
I just wanna satisfy ya, babe;
That's all I want, that's all I want.
I just wanna give ya somethin', babe;
Just wanna keep it comin', babe.
I just wanna make you happy, babe;
That's all I want, that's all I want.
All this time, I never stopped either.
You're there in my heart
With the Good and the True,
I'll be right here
Waiting for you.
Plus, everything in Bob Dylan's song "Love Minus Zero, No Limit."
"I have waited my entire life for someone like you and I am not about to let you go now..."
"I would die for you."
I've figured out who you really are and I still like you.
I believe in you, with all my heart, body and soul.
I know this won't actually change anything, but you aren't crazy, and all of that with the two of us did happen, and sometimes when I'm in the shower I stop and I think about you and I have to put my hand on the wall.
to me, you are perfect.
Come home, kid.
You should have been born a hard-ass, then you wouldn't have to be so damn depressed everytime I fuck up.
I missed you so much
"i'll love you for at least another 30 months"
Darling, you look wonderful tonight.
Fuck my face.
I waited but you never came
it's you.
1. Wow - you don't dance like a white girl at ALL.
2. I think it's adorable that you named your breasts after the two old geezer muppets in the balcony of the show.
3. You're right - there is absolutely no good reason to put milk in your coffee when we have a full bottle of Bailey's right here.
4. I don't want to have children any time soon, but I would like it if we could practice, oh, at least twice a day.
Let's go right now and never look back.
I think you are amazing.
Why can't I feel anything from anyone other than you.
I don't think I have a sentence, SB. I think there are just lots of little things I like to hear. I'm a sucker for a long-distance "I miss you" or "I just wanted to hear the sound of your voice." "I adore you" makes me melt into a girl-puddle. But I think I like the way someone looks at you when they're in love with you better than any words.
All that said, I'd totally fall for the Lloyd Dobler trick. If someone stood outside my window holding a boombox over his head playing any semi-romantic song, I'd probably be dragging his ass to the courthouse right then and there.
Four words, 'Good night sweet girl'
"Please be the grandmother of my grandchildren."
1. Maybe I can help you forget.
2. I look in your eyes, and all I can think of is how perfect you are.
3. Oh, by the way, did I mention you're great? Because you are.
You don't have to be who I want you to be. You are perfect the way you are. I'll stop trying to change you to suit myself.
Total availability, with no reservations, no strings attached. Iexist totally for you.
At first, it was, "You make me write poetry on the shower wall, with soap."
How come so many of these sentences have to do with love forever? Why do we require romantic love to make us happy?
The hell with that. I revise my sentence! I declare that my happy life sentence is, "Let's go look at some limestone, and after, let's go skinny dipping." (I'm a geologist, and I'm in love with sediment.)
You were right.
I think the part that said "said to them by the right person" inspired all the fuzzy romantic sentences. My favorite is "it's you" but it would be 70% better said in another language. Like French. Or German, maybe.
sophie, honey.
"How come so many of these sentences have to do with love forever? Why do we require romantic love to make us happy?"
honey.
you know.
everbody knows.
everbody gets hungry, and everbody gets thirsty, too.
but you eat some bbq, and you drink a coke, and you forget all about it.
love, or the lack of it is the one thing that sits on your shoulder all the time.
i know people who are horrible in love, and they hate their job. they're still happy.
i know people that are in love and love their job. God knows they're irritating.
everbody is born with a hole in the middle of their chest.
for some people it's a sucking wound, for others,
it only hurts when they hit it wrong.
but it's always there, and when you breathe deep, it pulls your t-shirt in.
work and religion helps.
but for a man, until that girl lays her body across it.
and for a woman, till that man lays his hands on it.
it's like being drunk all the time.
all the colors are rosy, when things go wrong, it's funny, and
waffle house food tastes good.
and who wouldn't want that all the time?
to have your love on a balcony somewhere, reading
excessively sedimental poetry.
Come here, I need to kiss you.
too many perfect answers already...I think I'll go the Lloyd Dobbler route too, although "I will never ever, stop loving you" comes a close second.
... thank you. For, you know, everything.
Yeah, I think that'd make everything perfect ...
"It's just a heat rash."
"I think we would both be happier apart."
follow your bliss.
we know, and we don't care.
I promise never to use any of the preceding, cheesy lines on you.
Is it wrong to say that a lot of these freak me out a little? I did like "You were right." though... that was was perfect.
"Now that I've met you, I will divorce Iman IMMEDIATELY."
You're DELUX, son
"but for a man, until that girl lays her body across it. and for a woman, till that man lays his hands on it. it's like being drunk all the time."
Unless, you're, you know, gay.
I love everything about you, even the things you hate. I love the way your hair flips out on the right side, but not the left. I love the way your dimples look when you smile, and the way your nose scrunches up when you're thinking hard. I love the way your nail polish always chips and the way you always try to hide your hands from me, so I don't notice.
I do notice, and i love that.
I love the way you laugh and how even though you think it can sometimes be annoying, it never stops sounding beautiful to me. I love the way you say my name when you're mad at me. I love the way you slouch at your desk and how you're always dropping things. I love your tallness. I love your shoulders. I love your freckles and your brown hair.
I love that you are easily the best thing that's ever happened to me. I love you just the way you are.
No, that's a good thing.
(I feel the need to back this up with an explanation. Though it really isn't exactly what was asked for, this has been said to me in the beginning of the two most significant relationship experiences I've had. The sentence was typically a result of me apologizing for something that I at first thought was awkward, but was countered with said sentence.) Yeah, that was cryptic, but it is what it is.
well done, good and faithful servant.
I don't think I know that sentence, Sarah. But I know it exists, and that's enough for me.
I will know it when I hear it, I have no doubt.
"What are you doing in my panties; nevermind; want a beer?"
who left the cap off the Aunt Jemima?
"Am I wrong?"
"Cry in the night if it helps.. but more than ever, I simply love you more than I love life it's self"
- Elton John
"You don't have to say anything. I understand."
BUT (and it's a large but) a couple other things need to accompany those lines. 1. A look confirming that the person really *does* understand and 2. The person really has to mean that I can shut up and not go on with whatever I was going to say (and that they will actually just be chill with whatever/wherever the conversation was going).
Of course, if anyone ever said that to me *AND* meant it I would probably drop dead on the spot - my mind wouldn't know how to handle that kind of pure joy.
"I want to be able to wake up next to you every morning from now until forever"
This is an excercise in the obvious and inane. The sentence and person/people who said it are lying. I am slightly appalled that this many people think so little will give so much. On the other hand it is hopeful.
Oh, yeah, I'm appalled too. But if someone ever said, "Hey, baby, I just bought a yacht" to me, I might reconsider. Hee.
I love you...wholly...completely...and forever.
I just want to curl up in all that you are.
let us sit in the rain and count beautiful things until the world turns to dust
Yes
{alas couldnt be witty or well written}
wow. i thought i was really romantic, but if someone told me they wanted to "curl up in me forever" i think i'd pass out from shock. i really just think hearing my mom say "pumpkin!" down the phone line in that cute accent of hers makes my whole life brighter, and that'll last much longer than any vapid easy-listening love affair.
bitter? no.
"Bless you," after a sneeze. (Reference to Matt Dillon in Singles....)
Actually, it's really a reference to Bridget Fonda about Matt Dillon if you want to get technical.
Why do half these sentences sound like they might lead up to a restraining order?
I'm still waiting on "take me to your leader, puny earthling."
"I will never, ever purposely kill you."
Yes, I actually said this to my (now) wife. You have to say stuff like that to see if the person you're with is really the right person. If they don't look at you weird, or run away, you've found the right one. Any of this other stuff above is the type of romantic BS that will have one of the two of you saying years down the road "Why don't you say things like that to me anymore?" Why? Because it's meaningless romantic BS and it was an easy way to say something that sounds perfect - to score points, or maybe just to score. Here's a clue for everyone who just can't seem to keep a great relationship: cut out the BS. This romantic crap is the "easy way." Should you really be taking the easy way when it comes to love? No. Prove you love someone. The old adage always works and is always true - "show, don't tell."
Tom, they're calling that "lewd and lascivious conduct" now.
As I board the transatlantic flight: Here's your magic wallet that's never empty - have a great trip!
My balls hurt.
Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath.
And what's yours, Sarah B.?
"Does it smell funny in here?"
you are now free to live the life of your wildest dreams...and nothing less should be expected or accepted.
mine would be, "i constantly think about you."
not in a scary way, though. ^_^
...and all... I want, is you.
Go.
Good lord.
Ah well. It is the internet.
The right place and time for me would have been when I was thirteen, on a street corner in Ballard in Seattle. The right sentence would have been:
"Hey, wait for the light."
Had someone said that to me I would still have all my teeth and me and Gordy would still be friends, which I think would have worked out better for both of us. And going through high school missing one of my front teeth because I was on state dental care and they didn't do "cosmetic replacements" was significantly more traumatizing than I ever would have believed such a relatively minor thing could be.
Alternatively, "Watch out for that lawn dart," could have saved me a great deal of physical discomfort and not a little bit of social humiliation.
I L-O-V-E-D your nailpolish. only now i realize how red is the new black. oh! and i totally wanna meet the little ones.
come on baby light my fire!
for the one who requested in french: c'est vous!
or...
voulez vous coucher avec moi?
hey...we haven't talked since third grade, have we? ...i love you.
1. wow. simply wow.
2. too many of these are wayyy more than just one sentence.
3. i thought it was a well known fact that elton john does not write his lyrics.
4. the right answer to the "one sentence" question is so obviously "my shoes hurt". my husband got me with that one.
i can think of many sentences, but basically, tell me i'm cute, and mean it, and i'm yours.
you make me happy.
love interests, family, friends, little children-type people -- hearing it from any of them pretty much keeps me right all the time.
That will suffice for now, thank you.
"There are a million things about you that make me smile..." *sigh*
Mine isn't a sentence, it's one word, and there's no way in hell I'm going to write it here.
cheesily enough:
"I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you wake.'"
blind melon, i think? whoever, good stuff. simple and sweet. tho the sorry for getting blood on your shirt one above is a now a close second!
you have the best stuff on your website!
I had this sentence that would change your life, but I forgot it. Sorry.
I was completely wrong and I will do anything to make it up to you.
or
Here is 1 billion dollars to spend however you wish.
Are we talking a swooning-take my breath away-fall off my barstool sentence? Because if we are I'm just a little too old and a little too cynical for that sort of thing. However, if we're talking a light a spark-peak my curiosity-make me laugh sentence, I would love a guy that came up to me, looked me in the eye, then serious as a heart attack whispered in my ear, "It was a dark and stormy night..." Then I would fall off my barstool.
rosebud?
"What part of 'one sentence' don't you understand?"
I would like to kiss you now.
"Why didn't you just tell me?"
I had a dream that the one I fancied told me this. He kissed me and after that, everything fell into place.
well, rab, couldn't "it was a dark and stormy night" be that breathless, barstooless, sparked, peak-ed sentence? it ain't what you say, anyway, it's who and how. hell, once a girl makes up her mind you can read the phone book to her.
you COULD read the phone book, but there you go giving somebody something to work with. you could do worse than snoopy as a ghostwriter.
"it was a dark and stormy night, sugar, and don't you want to clumber over into the backseat and find out what happens next?"
like i said, it ain't the what at all.
the who and how, honey.
the wrong man can say the right thing, like glass on a diamond. you'd never know it from the internet, but i got a tongue so silver i can play the bells of saint mary on my teeth.
when the spirit moves, i can turn a phrase so tight, i can make divots in a hardwood floor.
like my brother says, "honey, i'm mr. right, mr. right now, and mister, can i buy you a drank?, to you." when the time, and the man is right, he can say things to you , you'll be ashamed to repeat to your friends.
"You are sexy"
"I know I haven't called you for a month but I want to kiss you on New Year's"
First was real, second is (very) wishful thinking
Sarah Mae
I found you
Just my name...Angela...moaned right into my mouth as he slowly kisses my lips.Yeah,it makes everything right in my world.
"It's a cookbook!!!"
I am here to grant you three wishes.
By the way, mom died last week.
"It's OK; you're done...you can rest now."
Hell, Redclay, I'd PAY to hear you play the Bells of St Mary on your teeth.
That'll do pig, that'll do.
From an excursion last night:
Me: "I just fall down all time."
Him: "Sometimes we fall for the klumsy ones..."
"You're everything that I thought I would never find."
Here's a visa, a plane ticket, and some cash - get your ass to New Zealand and live the life you've been dreaming of. P.S. You're allowed to take your cat with you.
you make me feel like dancing, i want to dance the night away!
"Let's read it together." (then I lie in bed totally in love as he even does the cute little Brittish school children voices)
i like the way our voices are, when we sing together.
Thanks for sharing, all. Some people shared about 10 sentences more than necessary, but perhaps my request was too vague.
"How is it that no one has snatched you up for themselves?"
I've heard it once before, but hopefully whoever it is next time will retain that sense of wonder longer than three months.
I cleaned the house *and* made you dinner.
Hey Baby, don't sweat that rash.
Stay.
"honey.
you know.
everbody knows.
everbody gets hungry, and everbody gets thirsty, too.
but you eat some bbq, and you drink a coke, and you forget all about it.
love, or the lack of it is the one thing that sits on your shoulder all the time.
i know people who are horrible in love, and they hate their job. they're still happy.
i know people that are in love and love their job. God knows they're irritating.
everbody is born with a hole in the middle of their chest.
for some people it's a sucking wound, for others,
it only hurts when they hit it wrong.
but it's always there, and when you breathe deep, it pulls your t-shirt in.
work and religion helps.
but for a man, until that girl lays her body across it.
and for a woman, till that man lays his hands on it.
it's like being drunk all the time.
all the colors are rosy, when things go wrong, it's funny, and
waffle house food tastes good.
and who wouldn't want that all the time?
to have your love on a balcony somewhere, reading
excessively sedimental poetry.
posted by red clay on December 28, 2003 at 06:30 PM"
Wow.
"So what was it like to win a Grammy, a Tony, and an Oscar all in one year?"
"Not Guilty."
"this is it."
I can't hold back the way I feel about you anymore.
sorry bout that , ms. b.
i use to hide pens and pencils when i was drinkin.
i'll just audit this class from here on in.
"Yes ma'am, these numbers are all correct, and you can pick up your 75 million dollar lottery winnings at this address."
I'm realizing that I've heard some of these sentences, and not believed them. hmm.
as for the one that came to mind just now...
::as he looks me in the eye, crinkling his nose at first because he's a little nervous::
"Okay, I'm tired of being full of shit, I want you, and I will stay with you as long as you want me, leave when you let me, and come back as soon as tears begin to fall again."
of course, that's very person and place specific.
"You're cute, can I keep you?"
and they stayed together for 3 years and are still going on strong....
i know it's been years, but no matter what i do, one else ever seems to measure up.
"let's go home."
"Let's go home".... good one.
Look! A giant bowl of Mac n Cheese!!!
. . .with you I feel like I've finally come home.
Your terds have magical powers and will grant you one wish each.
*picks something off the ground*
"i believe this is your wig...but can i try it on!?"
Soulful.
... and i qoute... "this feels right.. lets get married right now and let tomorrow take care of itself.."
Stay with me.
Come to bed.
Not only that, but we've got backstage passes too.
Care to dance?
Let's take a bath.
Seriously, I won you a lifetime giftcard for your favorite record store!
No, I won't laugh when you get all sad & weepy watching "Snoopy Come Home." I might even hold your hand.
Honey, I finally got the stereo in your truck fixed!
or
Your article on the '67 War was amazing, and we want to publish it!
Somedays redclay...you make me miss the scent of wet magnolias in springtime.
"Be careful in the rumpus room, the cheese is still wet."
'Your blog is pure genius and we would be happy to pay you a generous amount to continue writing it.'
...no one will inhabit me the way you do...
If we leave now, we can be there by Sunday. Get your things. Let's go.
I've been thinking 'bout you, yknow.
"Whatever you are giving is enough. I have never felt so loved in my entire life."
There can't be this many lonely people in the world.
God: "Come work for me."
Or
God: "YOU are my chosen one."
you're everything i ever wanted and a few things i didn't think i deserved.
Perfect contented silence.
i have had an apalling amount of these things said to me. and i'm not happy. intention is everything.
"are you okay?"
no one ever asks that, for real. i want someone to actually want to hear my answer.
i, too, have had a few of these gems doled out to me. they might be swoon-worthy at a glance, but imagine everything going wrong and having to play that sentence back in your head every day for the rest of your life.
you'd almost rather not have heard it at all.
it's not that romantic from the other side.
A friend and I once thought there was perhaps a spot on the body which would cause some magical transformation, such as either spontaneous combustion or instant nirvana or something, when poked by the right person (and said right person had to be saying "POKE" in a PeeWee Hermanesque voice while poking). The spot (we theorized) was not static, so it was necessary to POKE frequently and in varied locations.
We never found the spot, and he's in a different country and all now, so it's unlikely.
Maybe your sentence theory is more probable. It certainly seems more popular. "19 Hats, 10 teacups, an empty birdcage, and the art of longing."
Very very very very good site.
"Mine isn't a sentence, it's one word, and there's no way in hell I'm going to write it here."
First blog I've read where the blogger is dirtier than all the regulars put together. And that's what makes it my favorite.
Jake
No, that wasn't my sentence. I'm the one person on this board with a dirtier mind than SB, and you don't fuckin' want to read my sentence.
Jake
Please come back to me.
My one word isn't filthy at all.
I'm just extrapolating from the five gerunds thing... And I don't think you should be asking your beloved readership to do something you won't do yourself.
Jake
Judging from this outpouring, I don't think anyone's arm needed twisting. To a fault.
*Good morning, Beautiful.........*
That's for Heady ;)
wouldn't it just be less effort and more efficient to simply say "Yo, I'm gonna stalk you now. Yah, you."
When you are alone, it feels like the world is comprised of strangers brushing by. The emotion of loneliness is like the candle that is your soul being blown out by a cold wind. But a stranger can step from the faceless masses and embrace you, from that point forward everything else dissipates and your candle burns brighter than ever. You stepped from a crush of humanity and embraced my soul, my candle burns vibrantly, and I could ask for nothing more and have received nothing but the best.
thats ones for you Alli
You gonna finish yer steak?
"You're like biscuits & gravy on fine china."
(I married him)
3 simple words
"I'm so sorry"
Never too late.
I'll bring home the turkey if you'll bring home the bacon.
rather:
I'll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon.
I Love You
"I love you despite [whatever--but something positive, e.g. ...of your brain, ...of your looks]." I think it's from Kundera, or maybe Calvino, but this is what my girlfriend wooed me with. Still smitten! I like the idea that someone would love me for something besides a positive trait. Anyone can be loved for being smart, or good looking, but to be loved *despite* being smart or good looking --Â that's where it's at.
Please don't move, let me get my camera. I have never seen anything as beautiful as you are at this moment.