Statements used for 'Telling Tales' and 'Sticker Project'

1. A dream of two doors
2. A shaft of sunlight, warm and golden, lit up the scene like I was a criminal.
3. And before you know, it’s all spoons and scissors.
4. Another aircraft down
5. Are departures easier to remember than arrivals?
6. Boiling an empty kettle
7. Did you want to unzip her and climb inside where it was safe?
8. Every day I fear that fear will find me soon.
9. His eyes behind mine
10. How can words>idea?
11. I ask you to repeat things you said, even though I heard every word the first time.
12. I come bearing stones: Flags and ribbons. Drown me gently.
13. I have some scissors and if you fall asleep I might cut your trousers into shorts.
14. I like to watch people at the moment they take a break from the book they’re reading in order to stare blankly at the ceiling.
15. I notice a lot of things and they all collect in my stomach. Sometimes I get constipated with observations.
16. I’d stand up after tunnelling through the long grasses to realise that I was now quite far away.
17. If you understood, I wouldn’t be the strong one.
18. In my dreams I keep running and falling.
19. It’s blindingly obvious!
20. Like she said, we all love a brute. My mother the misogynist.
21. Like things that are the same but different.
22. Meet me by the river and bring:
• Dirty fingernails
• Animal ravages
• Needless apologies
• Cigarettes
23. Nature has its own agenda.
24. Please send more people. And the ability to get things done. Thank you.
25. Silent ‘thankyou’s
26. Some things are too beautiful to even mention.
27. Somewhere between launderette blue and Shoreditch green
28. Spoil me.
29. Texas, King, Perfect Fried, Kentucky, Favourite. That’s what Hackney is to me.
30. That place no photograph could ever contain
31. They’re all just dots on a line.
32. Two dip wick trick
33. We’re just doing the best we can with the few boundaries we’ve got.
34. What will you do when it’s all done?
35. Who hasn’t seen a black binliner in the road and believed it to be someone’s dead pet?
36. Will you ever really be clean?
37. With cakes come knives.
38. You and your friends.
39. You might need to be patient.
40. You said my words with your mouth.

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