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Of course, Sarah’s was not complete without quoting Taylor Swift, a line from the classic “Lover.
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K.L. Walther (The Summer of Broken Rules: A Happily Ever After Beach Read)
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I want to be defined by the things that I love. Not the things I hate, not the things I'm afraid of, not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night. I, I just think you are what you love.
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Taylor Swift (LOVER (DELUXE ALBUM VERSION 1))
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You gotta step into the daylight and let it go.
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Taylor Swift
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All the king's horses, all the king's men
Couldn't put me together again
'Cause all of my enemies started out friends
Help me hold onto you
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Taylor Swift
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And I know I make the same mistakes every time. Bridges burn, I never learn. At least I did one thing right. I’m laughing with my lover, making forts under covers, trust him like a brother. - Call It What You Want
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Taylor Swift
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My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are talked about, the kind of things we say are, ‘Why is it mischievous, fun and sexy if a guy has a string of lovers that he’s cast aside; loved and left? Yet if a woman dates three or four people in an eight-year period she is a serial dater and it gives some 12-year-old the idea to call her a ‘slut’ on the internet?’ It’s not the same for boys, it just isn’t and that’s a fact.
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Taylor Swift
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THE SOUNDTRACK OF WES AND LIZ Someone Like You | Van Morrison Paper Rings | Taylor Swift Lovers | Anna of the North ocean eyes | Billie Eilish Bad Liar | Selena Gomez Public Service Announcement (Interlude) | Jay-Z Up All Night | Mac Miller How Would You Feel (Paean) | Ed Sheeran Hello Operator | The White Stripes Paradise | Bazzi Sabotage | Beastie Boys Feelin’ Alright | Joe Cocker Someone Like You | Adele Monkey Wrench | Foo Fighters Bella Luna | Jason Mraz Forrest Gump | Frank Ocean Electric (feat. Khalid) | Alina Baraz Kiss | Tom Jones Enter Sandman | Metallica Death with Dignity | Sufjan Stevens We Are Young | fun. feat. Janelle Monáe New Year’s Day | Taylor Swift River | Joni Mitchell
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Lynn Painter (Better Than the Movies)
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In Summation
A poem by Taylor Swift
At this hearing
I stand before my fellow members of the Tortured Poets Department
With a summary of my findings
A debrief, a detailed rewinding
For the purpose of warning
For the sake of reminding
As you might all unfortunately recall
I had been struck with a case of a restricted humanity
Which explains my plea here today of temporary i n s a n i t y
You see, the pendulum swings
Oh, the chaos it brings
Leads the caged beast to do the most curious things
Lovers spend years denying what’s ill fated
Resentment rotting away
galaxies we created
Stars placed and glued
meticulously by hand
next to the ceiling fan
Tried wishing on comets.
Tried dimming the shine.
Tried to orbit his planet.
Some stars never align.
And in one conversation, I tore down the whole sky
Spring sprung forth with dazzling freedom hues
Then a crash from the skylight bursting through
Something old, someone hallowed, who told me he could be brand new
And so I was out of the oven
and into the microwave
Out of the slammer and into a tidal wave
How gallant to save the empress from her gilded tower
Swinging a sword he could barely lift
But loneliness struck at that fateful hour
Low hanging fruit on his wine stained lips
He never even scratched the surface of me.
None of them did.
“In summation, it was not a love affair!”
I screamed while bringing my fists to my coffee ringed desk
It was a mutual manic phase.
It was self harm.
It was house and then cardiac arrest.
A smirk creeps onto this poet’s face
Because it’s the worst men that I write best.
And so I enter into evidence
My tarnished coat of arms
My muses, acquired like bruises
My talismans and charms
The tick, tick, tick of love bombs
My veins of pitch black ink
All’s fair in love and poetry
Sincerely,
The Chairman
of The Tortured Poets Department
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Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift had probably slept with more people than she had, and good for her.
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Emma Straub (Modern Lovers)
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My romantic decisions and life have been so fascinating that I feel like a character straight out of one of Taylor Swift’s hit songs.
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Anna Rajmon (ELIS: Irish call girl)
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I wanna be defined by the things that I love,
Not the things I hate
Not the things I'm afraid of,
Not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night
I just think that
You are what you love.
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Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift - Lover Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist)
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What, did you meet Taylor Swift?
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Sophie Lark (Savage Lover (Brutal Birthright, #3))
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Lover” by Taylor Swift, and we sway side to side.
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T.L. Swan (The Italian)
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You seeing somebody?” Seb shakes his head. “I don’t have to ask you that question,” he says. “Actually,” I say, “I am.” “No shit?” Seb looks over at me, a bit of the old smile on his face. “What, did you meet Taylor Swift?
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Sophie Lark (Savage Lover (Brutal Birthright, #3))
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you need to calm down
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Taylor Swift (LOVER (DELUXE ALBUM VERSION 1))
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Avril Lavigne—“Push” Taylor Swift—“Sparks Fly” Jessie Murph—“How Could You” Beyoncé—“If I Were a Boy” Ellie Goulding—“Under the Sheets” (Baby Monster Mix) Lana Del Rey—“Ride Monologue” Lady Gaga—“Shallow” Lauren Daigle—“Rescue” Adele—“Hello” Taylor Swift—“Cardigan” Pink—“Try” Taylor Swift—“This Love” Jessie J—“Flashlight” Colbie Caillat—“I Never Told You” Kellie Pickler—“Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You” Heather Janssen—“Checkers” Taylor Swift—“Lover” No Doubt—“Underneath It All” Taylor Swift—“All Too Well” Daughter—“Medicine” Picture This—“With or Without You” Olivia O’Brien—“Complicated” CHVRCHES—“My Enemy” Taylor Swift—“I Knew You Were Trouble
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Chloe Walsh (Saving 6 (Boys of Tommen, #3))
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and that January was probably buried wherever they put the old Taylor Swift
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Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
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Taylor’s work is full of party favors for the literature lover.
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Rachel Feder (Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets)