#sentence starters
QUOTE STARTERS VOL.I EDGAR ALLAN POE
- ❛ We loved with a love that was more than love. ❜
- ❛ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ❜
- ❛ The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ❜
- ❛ There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. ❜
- ❛ Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ❜
- ❛ Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. ❜
- ❛ And all I loved, I loved alone. ❜
- ❛ Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute. ❜
- ❛ The best things in life make you sweaty. ❜
- ❛ There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. ❜
- ❛ Anything is better than this agony. ❜
- ❛ You fancy me mad. ❜
- ❛ I hear all things in the heaven and in the earth. ❜
- ❛ Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? ❜
- ❛ Leave my loneliness unbroken! ❜
- ❛ A more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrills every fibre of my frame. ❜
- ❛ The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. ❜
- ❛ Let my heart be still a moment. ❜
- ❛ You call it hope — It is but agony of desire. ❜
- ❛ Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? ❜
- ❛ To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! ❜
- ❛ The beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage. ❜
- ❛ Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive. ❜
- ❛ I have been happy, though in a dream. ❜
- ❛ Nevermore. ❜
- ❛ The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life. ❜
- ❛ I am convinced that every thing is going wrong. ❜
- ❛ The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. ❜
- ❛ And if I died, at least I will have died for you! ❜
- ❛ It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.6 THE BURIAL AT THEBES SEAMUS HEANEY PT.1
- ❛ Hurt and humiliation — But this, I can not take. ❜
- ❛ The walls in there have ears. ❜
- ❛ This is for your ears only. ❜
- ❛ What is it? You have me scared. ❜
- ❛ Whoever isn’t for us, is against us. ❜
- ❛ You are just a body; to be dumped, disposed of like a carcass, left out for the birds to feed on. ❜
- ❛ The dead will have to forgive me. ❜
- ❛ From now on and no matter how your mind may I change, I will not accept your help. ❜
- ❛ If death comes, so be it. There will be glory in it. ❜
- ❛ Live, then; and live with your choice. ❜
- ❛ I am doing what has to be done. ❜
- ❛ Nothing is going to stop the ones that love you from keeping on loving you. ❜
- ❛ Worst is the man who has all the good advice, and then because his nerve fails, fails to act in accordance with it, as a leader should. ❜
- ❛ Only a loony would walk himself into this. ❜
- ❛ Why do you need such fences and defences? ❜
- ❛ Enough. Do not anger me. ❜
- ❛ The gods, you think, will side with the likes of him? ❜
- ❛ Watch it. You are over stepping. ❜
- ❛ I warn you. You should keep a civil tongue. ❜
- ❛ There is no such thing as an oath the can not be broken. ❜
- ❛ Every now and then, the things you’d hardly let yourself imagine, actually happen. ❜
- ❛ And you stand over this? This is the truth? ❜
- ❛ The bigger the resistance, the bigger the collapse. ❜
- ❛ Iron that’s forged the hardest, snaps the quickest. ❜
- ❛ Even the wildest horses come to heel when they are reined & bitted right. ❜
- ❛ That’s how guilt affects some people. They break and everything comes out. ❜
- ❛ Will it be enough for you? To see me executed? ❜
- ❛ So you know something no one else knows? ❜
- ❛ They know it too. They are just too afraid to say it. ❜
- ❛ If you die, how will I keep on living? ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.43 THE WAVES VIRGINIA WOOLF
- ❛ There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me’. ❜
- ❛ How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. ❜
- ❛ Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body. ❜
- ❛ I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. ❜
- ❛ For this moment, this one moment, we are together. ❜
- ❛ Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. ❜
- ❛ I am as neat as a cat in my habits. ❜
- ❛ Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me. ❜
- ❛ I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here in this room. ❜
- ❛ We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe
that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie
asleep. ❜ - ❛ These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom. ❜
- ❛ Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing. ❜
- ❛ The moment is all; the moment is enough. ❜
- ❛ I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given. ❜
- ❛ I am not one and simple, but complex and many. ❜
- ❛ And if you are dead, I shall weep. ❜
- ❛ But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful. ❜
- ❛ But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love. ❜
- ❛ I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams. ❜
- ❛ Life is a dream surely. ❜
- ❛ I think sometimes I am not a woman, but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. ❜
- ❛ Oh, I am in love with life! ❜
- ❛ I have been knotted; I have been torn apart. ❜
- ❛ There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death. ❜
- ❛ I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am. ❜
- ❛ I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me. ❜
- ❛ I am above the earth now. I am no longer upright, to be knocked against and damaged. ❜
- ❛ I see it all. I feel it all. ❜
- ❛ Death is woven in with the violets. Death and again death. ❜
- ❛ We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember. ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.14 BLADE RUNNER HAMPTON FANCHER & DAVID PEOPLES
- ❛ Wake up. Time to die. ❜
- ❛ It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does? ❜
- ❛ I can’t rely on my memories. ❜
- ❛ I want more life. ❜
- ❛ I don’t know how long we’ll have together. Who does? ❜
- ❛ I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. ❜
- ❛ Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? ❜
- ❛ Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren’t you the “good” one? Show me what you’re made of. ❜
- ❛ I’ve done questionable things. – Extraordinary things. ❜
- ❛ Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled round their shores. ❜
- ❛ If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes! ❜
- ❛ There’s a part of me in you. ❜
- ❛ The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly. ❜
- ❛ I’m surprised you didn’t come here sooner. ❜
- ❛ Okay, bad joke, I’m sorry… No, really, I made a bad joke. ❜
- ❛ I’d quit because I’d had a belly full of killing. But then I’d rather be a killer than a victim. ❜
- ❛ All I could do is sit there and watch him die. ❜
- ❛ I watched him die all night. It was a long, slow thing… and he fought it all the way. He never whimpered, and he never quit. He took all the time he had, as though he loved life very much. Every second of it… even the pain. Then, he was dead. ❜
- ❛ Talk about beauty and the beast — she’s both. ❜
- ❛ The only way you can hurt me is to kill me. ❜
- ❛ I’m not in the business. I am the business. ❜
- ❛ It’s not an easy thing to meet your maker. ❜
- ❛ We’re stupid, and we’ll die. ❜
- ❛ Death? Well, I’m afraid that’s a little out of my jurisdiction. ❜
- ❛ Gosh, you’ve… really got some nice toys here. ❜
- ❛ Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch. ❜
- ❛ I’ve had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being
so charming. ❜ - ❛ Shakes? Me too. I get them bad. It’s part of the business. ❜
- ❛ Milk and cookies kept you awake? ❜
- ❛ You’d better get it up, or I’m gonna have to kill you! ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.13 THE FOUNTAIN DARREN ARONOFSKY
- ❛ All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pulled me through time. ❜
- ❛ These times are dark, but every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light. ❜
- ❛ There’s no hope for us here. There is only death. ❜
- ❛ Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul. ❜
- ❛ What do you want? Leave me, leave me alone! Please, please. ❜
- ❛ Death is a disease, it’s like any other. And there’s a cure. A cure - and I will find it. ❜
- ❛ Will you stay with me tonight? ❜
- ❛ I’m sorry, for you there is only death. But our destiny is life! ❜
- ❛ Together we will live forever. ❜
- ❛ Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do. ❜
- ❛ I don’t know! I’m trying! I don’t know how! ❜
- ❛ Death as an act of creation. ❜
- ❛ Perhaps it is a trap.Then what do we do? ❜
- ❛ What if you could live forever? ❜
- ❛ I’m not afraid anymore. ❜
- ❛ You’ll make it. I won’t let you die. You’re strong enough. ❜
- ❛ It seems we struggle for a lifetime to become whole. Few of us ever do. ❜
- ❛ Most of us end up going out the same way we came in – kicking and screaming. Most of us don’t have the strength – or the conviction. Most of us don’t want to face our fears. ❜
- ❛ If we do nothing, he dies. ❜
- ❛ You’re reckless and you’re losing perspective. ❜
- ❛ I feel different. Every moment. Each one. ❜
- ❛ You won’t believe me. You’ve got to see for yourself. ❜
- ❛ Queen of nothing but her sins. ❜
- ❛ Soon they will be powerless against me. ❜
- ❛ Your queen seeks immortality on Earth - a false paradise. ❜
- ❛ All life must be judged. ❜
- ❛ The shame is too much. I’ve failed. ❜
- ❛ I, for one, am not ready to die yet. Are you? ❜
- ❛ This bravery of yours, it may save us yet. ❜
- ❛ There’s hope. There’s real hope. ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.12 APOSTLE GARETH EVANS
- ❛ I fear our Lord no longer hears my prayer. ❜
- ❛ The world thinks you’re dead. And then, till I found you, I thought the same. ❜
- ❛ These people…they’re blasphemers…a disease. ❜
- ❛ Only She decides whether to give or take. We do not intervene. ❜
- ❛ I have promised you a life of riches without the icy sting of suffering, greed, and injustice. And yet here you are…and there you suffer. ❜
- ❛ No one will ever stop me taking care of you. ❜
- ❛ I was of a mind I could put my faith in you. ❜
- ❛ Look her in the eye and lie to me again. ❜
- ❛ She will gift us another pure harvest. Have faith. ❜
- ❛ Do not judge yourself as sinners. Here you’ll be freed. ❜
- ❛ If the knife of that bastard cuts just one of us, we all bleed together. ❜
- ❛ If your blood has been shed in my name, I shed mine for you. ❜
- ❛ A few drops of this should see you through the night. ❜
- ❛ I’ll come by tomorrow to change your bandages. ❜
- ❛ Make good on the debt that you owe and forgiveness shall be yours. ❜
- ❛ The sands of time are sinking! ❜
- ❛ I’ll see to it that no one harms you. I promise. ❜
- ❛ Your eyes…they’ve seen things. Who are you? ❜
- ❛ Take the hunting rifle, get down there and flush him out. ❜
- ❛ I once held fast a belief in the divine. Like you, I knelt before a deity. ❜
- ❛ But then I survived. Only my body, and barely that. ❜
- ❛ Your God is pain, is suffering, is betrayal. ❜
- ❛ Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. ❜
- ❛ Perhaps her strength is fading. Or something has angered her. ❜
- ❛ I’ll be at shore to greet you at sunrise. ❜
- ❛ Faith? We have a god in chains poisoning us from the inside out. ❜
- ❛ You put a god between your enemy and the people. ❜
- ❛ That thing…It will kill you. I won’t stand for it. ❜
- ❛ Ask yourselves who will see us through these dark days? Who will see to it that this land sustains us? Who will drive a spear through the hearts
of those that oppose our god? ❜ - ❛ False prophet, hiding behind a false god! ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.42 ALIAS GRACE MARGARET ATWOOD
- ❛ If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. ❜
- ❛ When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass. ❜
- ❛ Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word; - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. ❜
- ❛ Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess,murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor. ❜
- ❛ If the world treats you well, you come to believe you are deserving of it. ❜
- ❛ If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go. ❜
- ❛ It’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength. ❜
- ❛ There is no fool like an educated fool. ❜
- ❛ There are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. ❜
- ❛ I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. ❜
- ❛ Underneath it all is another feeling, a feeling of being wide-eyed awake and watchful. ❜
- ❛ And underneath all that is another feeling still, a feeling like being torn open; not like a body of flesh, it is not painful as such, but like a peach; and not even torn open, but ripe and splitting open of its own accord. ❜
- ❛ The small details of life often hide a great significance. ❜
- ❛ Guilt comes to you not from the things you’ve done, but from the things that others have done to you. ❜
- ❛ I wonder, how can I be all of these different things at once? ❜
- ❛ It is always a mistake to curse back openly at those who are stronger than you unless there is a fence between. ❜
- ❛ Some call this “Eve’s curse,” but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam. ❜
- ❛ I don’t know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again. ❜
- ❛ I would never blame a human creature for feeling lonely. ❜
- ❛ If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one. ❜
- ❛ It’s as if I never existed, because no trace of me remains, I have left no marks. And that way I cannot be followed. It is almost the same as being innocent. ❜
- ❛ Today you wear your habitual expression of strained anxiety; you smell of violets. ❜
- ❛ Of course you have always been an idealist, and filled with your optimistic dreams; but reality must at some time obtrude. ❜
- ❛ I wonder what would become of me, and comfort myself that in a hundred years I will be dead and at peace. ❜
- ❛ For it is not always the one that strikes the blow that is the actual murderer. ❜
- ❛ There is a “do this” or “do that” with God, but not any “because”. ❜
- ❛ If you have a need and they find it out, they will use it against you. The best way is to stop from wanting anything. ❜
- ❛ They say, why don’t you ever smile or laugh, we never see you smiling, and I say I suppose I have gotten out of the way of it, my face won’t bend in that direction any more. ❜
- ❛ I was shut up inside that doll of myself, and my true voice could not get out. ❜
- ❛ I see what you’re after. You are a collector. You think all you have to do is give me an apple, and then you can collect me. ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.41 ORYX AND CRAKE MARGARET ATWOOD
- ❛ If you want to be an asshole, it’s a free country. Millions before you have made the same life choice. ❜
- ❛ Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo. ❜
- ❛ Nature is to zoos as God is to churches. ❜
- ❛ After everything that’s happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? ❜
- ❛ There’s something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive. ❜
- ❛ These things sneak up on me for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It’s probably a vitamin deficiency. ❜
- ❛ Toast cannot be explained by any rational means. Toast is me. I am toast. ❜
- ❛ You can’t buy it, but it has a price. Everything has a price. ❜
- ❛ As a species were doomed by hope, then? You could call it hope. That, or desperation. ❜
- ❛ I am not my childhood. ❜
- ❛ Human beings hope they can stick their souls into someone else and live on forever. ❜
- ❛ “I’ll make you mine”, lovers said in old books. They never said, “I’ll make you me.” ❜
- ❛ How much is too much, how far is too far? ❜
- ❛ Expectation isn’t the same as desire. ❜
- ❛ Why not cut to the chase? ❜
- ❛ Maybe there aren’t any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. ❜
- ❛ I thought you didn’t believe in God. ❜
- ❛ I need at least the illusion of being understood. ❜
- ❛ What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much. ❜
- ❛ You are only looking at the dirt under your feet. It’s not good for you. ❜
- ❛ I like to keep only the bright side of myself turned towards you. ❜
- ❛ Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition. ❜
- ❛ So many crucial events take place behind people’s backs, when they aren’t in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. ❜
- ❛ Would you kill someone you loved to spare them pain? ❜
- ❛ When the water’s moving faster than the boat, you can’t control a thing. ❜
- ❛ Don’t be so fucking sentimental. ❜
- ❛ Wrong, as usual. ❜
- ❛ Why do you want to talk about ugly things? ❜
- ❛ I understand why serial killers send helpful clues to the police. ❜
- ❛ Take your time, leave mine alone. ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.40 DARK PLACES GILLIAN FLYNN
- ❛ I was not a lovable child, and I’ve grown into a deeply unlovable adult. ❜
- ❛ The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. ❜
- ❛ I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark. ❜
- ❛ I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don’t even ripple. ❜
- ❛ I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. ❜
- ❛ I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen. But the meanness usually wins out. ❜
- ❛ I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn’t have loosened. A stitch come undone. ❜
- ❛ Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. ❜
- ❛ Coffee goes great with sudden death. ❜
- ❛ I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite. ❜
- ❛ “Smile, it can’t be that bad!” Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad. ❜
- ❛ Everything bad in the world already did happen. ❜
- ❛ You’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? ❜
- ❛ Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. ❜
- ❛ Homesick for a place I’ve never been. ❜
- ❛ Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. ❜
- ❛ It is always consoling to think of suicide. It’s what gets one through many a bad night. ❜
- ❛ Do you understand this is serious? ❜
- ❛ Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with. ❜
- ❛ How could you kill something you cared enough to name? ❜
- ❛ Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs. ❜
- ❛ We have the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. ❜
- ❛ I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. ❜
- ❛ The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue. ❜
- ❛ Nothing to it but to do it. ❜
- ❛ There are a lot of people who deserve a lesson, deserve to really understand, that nothing comes easy, that most things are going to go sour. ❜
- ❛ If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas. ❜
- ❛ Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. ❜
- ❛ What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer? ❜
- ❛ That mean old bitch across the street bit it. ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.39 GIRL, INTERRUPTED SUSANNA KAYSEN
- ❛ Survival is a talent. ❜
- ❛ Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. ❜
- ❛ Who has the courage to burn themselves? ❜
- ❛ Is insanity just a matter of dropping the act? ❜
- ❛ Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? ❜
- ❛ You need to be well fed, clothed, and housed to have time for this much self-pity. ❜
- ❛ When I am supposed to be awake, I am asleep; when I am supposed to speak, I am silent. When a pleasure offers itself to me, I avoid it. ❜
- ❛ There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don’t feel the same. ❜
- ❛ In a strange way we are free. We’ve reached the end of the line. We have nothing more to lose. ❜
- ❛ The world won’t stop because we aren’t in it anymore. ❜
- ❛ I can’t answer the real question. All I can tell you is, it’s easy. ❜
- ❛ I am lighter, airier than I’ve been in years. ❜
- ❛ I am not dead, yet something in me definitely is. ❜
- ❛ You meant that as an insult but I am taking it as a compliment. ❜
- ❛ What life can recover from that? ❜
- ❛ It’s a fairly accurate portrait of me. It’s accurate but it isn’t profound. ❜
- ❛ Pull yourself together! There’s nothing wrong with you. ❜
- ❛ It’s quiet. It’s like― I don’t know. It’s like falling off a cliff. ❜
- ❛ Once you start parsing a face, it’s a peculiar item: squishy, pointy, with lots of air vents and wet spots. ❜
- ❛ I lost him. I did it on purpose. ❜
- ❛ It’s a mean world. There’s nobody to take care of you out there. ❜
- ❛ Reality is getting too dense. ❜
- ❛ I’m ambivalent. In fact that’s my new favourite word. ❜
- ❛ I can’t come up with reassuring answers to the terrible questions you raise. ❜
- ❛ A spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather. ❜
- ❛ Twenty-five chocolate chip cookies would be the perfect dinner. ❜
- ❛ A thought is a hard thing to control. ❜
- ❛ Life demands skills I don’t have. ❜
- ❛ Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful. Most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them. ❜
- ❛ It never stops, even at night, it’s my lullaby. ❜
GAME STARTERS VOL.5 FAR CRY : V
- ❛ I know you’ve heard stories about me. That I’m a liar. A manipulator. That I poison people’s minds. Well, let me tell you a different story. — A true story. ❜
- ❛ I saw it, a white horse. And hell followed with him. ❜
- ❛ We are creeping towards the edge. There will be a reckoning. ❜
- ❛ We will not let their greed, or their immorality, or their depravity hurt us anymore. There will be no more suffering. ❜
- ❛ Sometimes the best thing to do is to walk away. ❜
- ❛ No one is coming to save you. ❜
- ❛ You’re all alone. You’re weak. And we know what happens to the weak. ❜
- ❛ You’re all I have left, now. You’re my family. ❜
- ❛ When you look upon the world and see the same things that I do, don’t your eyes fill with horror? ❜
- ❛ I thought your sin was wrath. I was wrong. You would let the entire world burn before you swallowed your pride. ❜
- ❛ I’m making you this offer one last time. ❜
- ❛ I should kill you for what you’ve done. ❜
- ❛ You know what that shit means? It means we’re all fucked. ❜
- ❛ The phone lines have been cut. There’s no signals getting in or out of this place. ❜
- ❛ The smartest thing for me to do would just be to hand you over. ❜
- ❛ Get out of those clothes. We need to burn them. ❜
- ❛ There’s some fresh clothes there. When you’ve changed, come and see me. We’ll see if we can un-fuck this situation. ❜
- ❛ She’ll poison your mind if you give her a chance. ❜
- ❛ My whole life just flashed before my eyes. I give it 2 stars. ❜
- ❛ I hope you drive better than you shoot. ❜
- ❛ You know the best way to take care of your shit? Don’t own shit in the first place. ❜
- ❛ Whats the point of nice days when stupid people are allowed to enjoy them too? ❜
- ❛ I was wrong. I was blind, but now I see. ❜
- ❛ Let them burn. This is their punishment. ❜
- ❛ Despite all that you have done, you are not beyond salvation. ❜
- ❛ This is the world? This is the home we built for our children? ❜
- ❛ Feared by many. Misunderstood by all. ❜
- ❛ They’ve come for me. They’ve come to take me away from you. ❜
- ❛ Some folks find god, I found killing. Gotta get my kill quota up. ❜
- ❛ Something is coming. You can feel it, can’t you? ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.38 CAT’S EYE MARGARET ATWOOD
- ❛ Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. ❜
- ❛ This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes. ❜
- ❛ I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it, something that’s drowning me. ❜
- ❛ Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. ❜
- ❛ Hatred is easier. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love. ❜
- ❛ Potential has a shelf life. ❜
- ❛ Don’t move. Stay like that, let me have that. ❜
- ❛ I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over. ❜
- ❛ Never pray for justice, because you might get some. ❜
- ❛ It disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. ❜
- ❛ We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. ❜
- ❛ This is what I miss, not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. ❜
- ❛ I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly. ❜
- ❛ You are amazing. Amazing and agonising and almost lethal. ❜
- ❛ In my dreams of this city I am always lost. ❜
- ❛ I don’t know where these feelings have come from, I don’t know what I’ve done. ❜
- ❛ I am not the centre of your story, you are. ❜
- ❛ I’m mad because you’re an asshole. ❜
- ❛ It’s enormously pleasing to me, walking away. It’s like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. ❜
- ❛ There is never only one of anyone. ❜
- ❛ I can’t do this without feeling I’m acting. ❜
- ❛ I am prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence. ❜
- ❛ I’m losing my appetite for strangers. ❜
- ❛ You wear your cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. You want it all. ❜
- ❛ Knowing too much about other people weakens you. You are forced to understand their reasons for doing things. ❜
- ❛ I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now. ❜
- ❛ Echoes of light, shining out of the midst of nothing. It’s old light, and there’s not much of it. But it’s enough to see by. ❜
- ❛ Whoever cares the most will lose. ❜
- ❛ Young women need unfairness, it’s one of their few defences. ❜
- ❛ Time has gone on without you. ❜
send one in for a Halloween starter!
- “ What are you going to be for Halloween? “
- “ Suggesting going into a graveyard in the middle of the night is exactly how countless horror movies start. “
- “ I am not going to remake no ‘children of the corn’ shit with you. Go into that corn maze on your own. “
- “ Look at how big that pumpkin is! “
- “ Lets go on a hay ride! “
- “ Do we really have to dress up in matching outfits? “
- “ Yes we have to dress up in matching outfits! “
- “ Dunking for apples is a basic part of the Halloween party experience. You gotta do it. “
- “ Run like Jason is chasing you!!! “
- “ What do you mean I’m too old for trick - or - treating? “
- “ Stop eating all the candy! “
- “ Don’t go to that house, they give out raisins. “
- “ Who gives out dental floss on Halloween? “
- “ I’m freezing my balls off out here! “
- “ I don’t know why they think this particular job needs to have a sexy version … “
- “ Damn I make this costume look good! “
- “ … That’s some pretty realistic makeup … are you sure you’re not hurt? “
- “ Let’s stay in and watch scary movies instead “
- “ I remember the haunted house being a lot more scary than this. “
- “ I don’t really like scary things … can we just do the fun cute things for Halloween instead? “
- “ Oh god there’s another clown… “
- “ We should go trick - or - treating in Colorado … I bet they hand out weed! “
- “ Put that Ouija Board down right now or so help me! “
- “ Trying to talk to spirits is about the last thing on my list of fun things to do tonight. “
- “ If you wake up haunted its not my fault. “
- “ That’s not funny! You scared me half to death! “
- “ The lesson of Halloween is that pretending to be something you’re not will lead to a sweet reward. “
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★ . sentence starter meme. a collection of starters taken from marvel comics’s uncanny x - men v3, issue #2. feel free to change pronouns and tenses as necessary.
- “ you’re next. ”
- “ the man i most admire in the entire world is ______. ”
- “ everybody loves the avengers. ”
- “ i don’t think i would handle it well. ”
- “ i think i would freak out. ”
- “ that seems pretty lazy. ”
- “ you are coming with us. ”
- “ i don’t think that’s going to happen. ”
- “ i don’t think “wow” sufficiently covers it. ”
- “ i’m trying not to look him right in the eye. ”
- “ i can’t stop looking him in the eye. ”
- “ now i can’t stop. ”
- “ why is he wearing armor? ”
- “ that makes no sense. ”
- “ you have a lot to answer for. ”
- “ i’d really like to hear this. ”
- “ take responsibility for the things that you’ve done! ”
- “ i did! i made a mistake and i fixed it. ”
- “ now it’s your turn to take responsibility. ”
- “ could you give us a minute? ”
- “ i want you to be ready. ”
- “ did he actually call a time-out? ”
- “ first of all, you couldn’t kill him. ”
- “ well, whatever you’re about to do, you can’t do it dressed like that. ”
- “ you know i respect you. ”
- “ can’t we just do this calmly? nicely? ”
- “ he wants to charge me with murder “nicely”? ”
- “ you act like we are running around looking for a fight! ”
- “ we’re trying to help our people. ”
- “ if you are a mutant in this world, you are guilty until proven innocent. ”
- “ they will do everything they can to knock you down. ”
- “ well, that’s just a big pile of shit. ”
- “ i am not going to have my people treated that way! ”
- “ shame on you for not seeing that! ”
- “ shame on you, _____. ”
- “ by doing nothing, you are as guilty as the worst one of them. ”
- “ there is a real problem on this planet and every new mutant that pops up shines a real spotlight on it. ”
- “ if you think for a second that i’m going to back down from helping my people… ”
- “ you have to understand we live in a world where people fear things they don’t understand. ”
- “ i don’t care what you think you know. ”
- “ my people need help and they need it all over the world. ”
- “ you can get the hell out of my way. ”
- “ no one is trying to kill you. ”
- “ you don’t bring a hulk for nothing. ”
- “ avengers…go to hell. ”
- “ go to hell. ”
- “ what did you just do?! ”
- “ well done, young one. you get to pick dinner. ”
- “ she did that? ”
- “ that is impressive. ”
- “ you see what they are capable of?! ”
- “ these are the best of the best. ”
- “ even they won’t fight for us or let us fight for ourselves. ”
- “ no one else is going to do it for us, we have to fight for ourselves. ”
- “ if you need help, we will be there to help you. ”
- ” we will fight for you too. ”
- “ the fight is coming to you. ”
- “ how do you think you’ll do? ”
- “ are they going to be stuck like that forever? ”
- “ i’m sure they’ll be fine once we leave. ”
- “ you’re leaving again? ”
- “ i don’t know where you are. ”
- “ see how easy that will be? ”
- “ did i do something wrong? ”
- “ did I do this to you? ”
- “ that’s not what i mean. ”
- “ maybe if i went to church. ”
- “ don’t say stuff like that. ”
- “ she’s very talented. ”
- “ you’re a lucky woman. ”
- “ don’t sell my stuff. ”
- “ you held it together like pros. ”
- “ what was that?! ”
- “ don’t be so impressed, kid. ”
- “ they wanted to arrest you or take you down. ”
- “ they knew we were coming. ”
- “ no giant mutant-killing robots this time, so there’s that. ”
- “ they don’t stake out. they’re the response team. ”
- “ we didn’t even know we were going until we decided to go. ”
- “ someone told them we were coming. ”
- “ let’s have this conversation outside. ”
- “ i’m about to lose it. ”
- “ how could you? ”
- “ what is happening? ”
- “ i’m not sure, but i think the old guy set us up. ”
- “ we were victims. ”
- “ they are the united states government and i don’t believe them. ”
- “ i want to know exactly who is to blame and where they are. ”
- “ of course they would never trust me. ”
- “ i had to give them something. ”
- “ when were you going to fill us in on this little side project of yours? ”
- “ this is so much better than netflix. ”
- “ this is unacceptable. ”
- “ i think it’s best that you leave. ”
- “ if I told you before now, you would’ve blown my cover. ”
- “ now they know they can trust me. ”
- “ we have to do things as a team. ”
- “ you keep referring to yourself as our leader but i don’t remember voting. ”
- “ we have to do things they don’t expect. ”
- “ we have to surprise even ourselves. ”
- “ i think, all things considered, this went very well. ”
- “ i have no idea how i did that. ”
- “ what do i do here? ”
- “ we’re going to be famous. ”
- “ seems like a wasted opportunity. ”
- “ we should be doing something with it. ”
- “ we can clog all the toilets and switch their underwear drawers. ”
- “ you’re leaving us here by ourselves? ”
- “ where are you going? ”
- “ to me, my x-men. ”
( ★ .˚ - . [ PT. 1 ]
★ . sentence starter meme. a collection of starters taken from marvel comics’s x - men v4, issue #1. feel free to change pronouns and tenses as necessary.
- “ i must be on the next plane to jfk. ”
- “ we have trouble. ”
- “ i don’t have time to explain. ”
- “ are you sure about this? this is no small thing… ”
- “ if she needs help, i’d rather get to her sooner than later. ”
- “ we do this clean and fast. ”
- “ you have to let go of my hand. ”
- “ what are you doing here? ”
- “ what are you doing with a baby? ”
- “ this is private property! ”
- “ you don’t recognize that guy? ”
- “ i surrender, utterly and completely. ”
- “ can we talk? ”
- “ time is somewhat of the essence.”
- “ i’m being followed. ”
- “ i’m pretty sure he was on the plane, too. ”
- “ it’s really scaring me. ”
- “ i just want to be home. ”
- “ babies hate me! ”
- “ i’m not as underslept and grossed out by poop as i was. ”
- “ you carry him in a backpack? ”
- “ it’s him! the guy following me! ”
- “ we’re trapped?! ”
- “ it’s the metro north, not a tank. ”
- “ welp, bad news, guys… ”
- “ some sort of electrical malfunction, i think. ”
- “ oh yeah, incoming train, awesome. ”
- “ get clear! ”
- “ she’s the muscle? ”
- “ she’s the gun pointed right at your head. ”
- “ i’ll remind you again. i did surrender. ”
- “ it’s possible she has no limits. ”
- “ call us if you need anything. ”
- “ this will come to pass. ”
- “ i am inadequate to the task of stopping her. ”
- “ this is quite literally a life or death situation. for everyone. ”
- “ as amazingly absurd as all that sounded, he’s telling the truth. ”
- “ SECURE THE INFANT! ”
- “ it’ll kill us all. ”
- “ i’ve returned. ”
( ★ .˚ - . [ PT. 1 ]
★ . sentence starter meme. a collection of starters taken from marvel comics’s uncanny x - men v3, issue #1. feel free to change pronouns and tenses as necessary.
- “ he just showed up out of nowhere? ”
- “ is he in there? ”
- “ have you taken the necessary precautions? ”
- “ i don’t like this… ”
- “ this guy ever do anything like this before? ”
- “ you have no dog in this fight, as the saying goes. ”
- “ i don’t think anybody wants that. ”
- “ what do you want from me exactly? ”
- “ i want you to listen to what i have to say and decide for yourself if it’s true. ”
- “ i come bearing gifts. ”
- “ you said you checked him! ”
- “ i’m not here to hurt you. ”
- “ i think you know that my intel on this is solid. ”
- “ people on the street love him. ”
- “ you’re not telling us anything we don’t know. ”
- “ that seems to have gotten your attention. ”
- “ one minute he’s human, the next, mutant. ”
- “ i didn’t do anything! ”
- “ just keep walking. ”
- “ and you have the right to get your damn hands off him. ”
- “ that means back away from the mutant, guys. ”
- “ we need backup, now! ”
- “ how — how did you find me? ”
- “ i’m here to help you. ”
- “ we should leave. ”
- “ you don’t feel that? ”
- “ wh–what is happening to me? ”
- “ we’re being hunted. ”
- “ you’re the one talking trash on the tv. ”
- “ you dared them to come after us. ”
- “ this is too much for them. ”
- “ i’ve kinda got my hands full. ”
- “ you need me here. ”
- “ do we go? do we stay? what’s the plan?! ”
- “ those days are behind me. ”
- “ i’ll just have to be more precise. ”
- “ what i’m describing to you is what you call a lucky shot. ”
- “ he has no control over them. ”
- “ that felt good. ”
- “ wait, you’re — you’re taking me somewhere? ”
- “ that didn’t scare the holy bejeebus out of you? ”
- “ there’s no place for you here anymore. ”
- “ it’s cool, kid. we’re going somewhere safe. ”
- “ that’s your plan? ”
- “ no one’s trying to kill anybody. ”
- “ sentinels don’t grow on trees. ”
- “ he’s a broken man. ”
- “ i’m forced to live the rest of my life a pale reflection of my former self. ”
- “ it won’t take much and it won’t take long. ”
- “ i’m here to help you make this happen. ”
- “ the quiet is going to drive me insane. ”
- “ now it’s all gone. ”
- “ don’t dance with fire and you won’t get burned. ”
- “ i want to blame her for everything. ”
- “ i have no one to blame but myself. ”
- “ i betrayed him. ”
- “ i deserve this. ”
- “ how much did you hear? ”
- “ maybe it’s good news. ”
- “ we have to start from scratch. ”
- “ no one will help us. ”
- “ ee’ll help each other. ”
- “ what do you want to know? ”
- “ that actually seems like an honest answer. ”
- “ i think you hate yourself so much that you can’t imagine anyone not hating you. ”
- “ we tried everything else. ”
- “ are you going to stay? ”
- “ everybody’s waiting inside. ”
- “ are you guys back together? ”
- “ thank the dark lords. ”
- “ she scares the hell out of me. ”
- “ she’s been through a lot. ”
- “ we’ve all been through a lot. ”
- “ i liked being there because it was safe. ”
- “ you know it’s for the best. ”
- “ where did those things come from? ”
- “ they track us and they attack us. ”
- “ i’m kind of freaking out. ”
- “ it’s okay to be a little freaked out. ”
- “ how come none of the others are freaking out? ”
- “ show them. show them everything. ”
- “ this is the best news our people have had in years. ”
- “ you’re part of something bigger than yourself. ”
- “ feels pretty good, right? ”
- “ the future is in your hands. ”
- “ will i ever see them again? ”
- “ you’re not being held hostage. ”
- “ hell yes! this is awesome. ”
- “ just close your eyes and concentrate. ”
- “ words mean something. ”
- “ change is terrifying. i should know. ”
- “ what i wouldn’t give to live a normal life. ”
- “ none of us will ever have normal. ”
- “ she’s the smart one. ”
- “ please don’t call me that, it will stick. ”
- “ when are things going to calm down? ”
- “ the authorities will be looking for you. ”
- “ if we can help, we will. ”
- “ whoa! how do you do that? ”
- “ is she joking? ”
- “ i’ve never heard her joke. ”
- “ you won’t have much time. ”
- “ no, boy…i would BREAK you. ”
- “ keep an eye out. ”
- “ i thought you were dead! ”
- “ we were able to help her. ”
- “ we’re not ready. ”
- “ we’re nowhere near ready for this. ”
miscellaneous starters pulled directly from the wild and mostly unexplainable happenings within our group chat . feel free to change pronouns and tenses as necessary .
- “ how rude to blow smoke in your girlfriend’s face! it’s SUPPOSED to go up her ass! ”
- “ i love being petty in video games. ”
- “ you’re gonna get rabies! ”
- “ I HAD RABIES! ”
- “ i don’t spell on sundays. ”
- “ why are you so fast you ugly bitch?! ”
- “ that was a messy game, my boobs are sweaty. ”
- “ no one told me how to fix my eyeball! ”
- “ you little baby back bitch! ”
- “ wooow. the desperation; it reeks! ”
- “ you off-brand bitch! ”
- “ stop typing mean things about me. ”
- “ why is my face wet? did i drool on myself without realizing it? ”
- “ my ass was clenched so hard that entire time. ”
- “ baby kangaroos just look like starving aliens. ”
- “ my boobs are sweating again. ”
- “ he wants his booty cheeks to POP. ”
- “ it’s making my boob crack sweat just looking at it. ”
- “ i’m trying to go outside but i can’t find my shoe. ”
- “ listen, my brain misfired. ”
- “ you just smacked our lord and savior, michael myers. ”
- “ we look like every teen horror movie ever. ”
- “ how do i get this in my mouth?! ”
- “ are you okay or did you finally drown? ”
- “ my fucking tits are sweating i’m so scared. ”
- “ if ____ crawls any further up her own asshole, she’ll come out her mouth and start the process over again. ”
- “ i love participating in bullying. ”
- “ ____ DOES NOT EAT DIRT! ”
- “ i just hate ten year old boys. ”
- “ i’m a slut for organized, color-coded data. ”
miscellaneous starters pulled from the things we’ve said while liveblogging our video game playthroughs . feel free to change pronouns and tenses as necessary .
- “ why’d you let me come out here with no ammo?! ”
- “ what? why would i want this?! ”
- “ sirrrrr, i just want a donut! ”
- “ open your mouth!! ”
- “ bathe in poop! ”
- “ i don’t have the ammo for this! ”
- “ please don’t eat me. ”
- “ open wide!! ”
- “ sorry i have to check my map ten million times. ”
- “ you sound like a messy fart echoing in a toilet. ”
- “ they weren’t even looking at you, shut up! ”
- “ i said stay down! ”
- “ that was only two. i thought there were three? ”
- “ why am i always the most lost? ”
- “ friggidity frackity. ”
- “ look both ways before crossing the street. ”
- “ oh, i don’t trust it. ”
- “ my boob itches. it’s the fear. ”
- “ it’s a fear-detecting boob. ”
- “ why did it auto-save? WHY DID IT AUTO-SAVE?! ”
- “ ma’am, i’m gonna have to ask you to sit down. ”
- “ i know, ___, i have eyes. you’re such a nag. ”
- “ ew! he just smacked me in the face with his long, ugly fingers. ”
- “ can you give me something useful, please? ”
- “ IS THIS COMMUNISM? ”
- “ i need to kill one more little cat bitch. ”
- “ do i hurt him? ”
- “ throw me your burnt bread in the rain. ”
- “ i see a beautiful and aesthetically pleasing area. ”
- “ i can’t find a portal! ”
- “ WHY DIDN’T YOU WARN ME?! ”
- “ WHERE AM I? ”
- “ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ”
- “ I FELL INTO THE OCEAN! ”
- “ i’ve been waddling around in circles on my bird. ”
- “ HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS RUINED ASS CITY? ”
- “ anyways, time to make the long journey back to origami. ”
- “ these respawn times are trash. ”
- “ this bitch has a weird ass eel for a pet. i want one. ”
- “ IT’S MY SECOND DAY LET ME LIVE! ”
- “ bitch, i see no bat vendor. ”
- “ IT WAS YOUR SHOTTY DIRECTIONS THAT MADE ME LOST IN THE FIRST PLACE! ”
- “ i want ___ to plunder my booty. ”
a collection of starters taken from various world of warcraft song parodies . please feel free to change pronouns and tenses as necessary .
- “ he’ll use your dreams as a weapon. ”
- “ he has no strength if you show no fear. ”
- “ everything is a hunter weapon. ”
- “ i will always be horde. ”
- “ i’m not usually one for corpses but tonight you look so pretty. ”
- “ i’m throwing a bone, better hope they take it. ”
- “ at least i didn’t make theramore explode. ”
- “ baby, you’re just morally grey. ”
- “ what an explosion, what a mess. ”
- “ azeroth is our home, too. ”
- “ you’re in the mood for doom. ”
- “ i swear to end the legion even if it takes my life. ”
- “ look to the light, embrace its power. ”
- “ the light will guide your destiny. ”
- “ enemies reside within the palace walls. ”
- “ the stars above have judged us. ”
- “ we’re haunted by the echo of a dark betrayal. ”
- “ no outsider steps on the pavement. ”
- “ i feel so much rage. ”
- “ i’m a boss right now. ”
- “ it’s gotta hurt to look this hot. ”
- “ if they come for me, they’ll pay the price. ”
- “ come and roll the dice. ”
- “ how could you become so dark? ”
- “ i don’t know if i can forgive your crimes. ”
- “ every time I think of us, i cry inside. ”
- “ the druids were right all along. ”
- “ you cannot eat honour, you cannot drink glory. ”
- “ when the last one has fallen and your bodies are broken, elune cannot save you. ”
- “ stop that little night elf. ”
miscellaneous starters made from things that my mom has said . feel free to change pronouns and tenses as necessary .
- “ BIRD MURDERS?! ”
- “ yeah, slap that damn shit again. ”
- “ damn shit’s too loud. ”
- “ what did you expect? HE’S GAY! ”
- “ wow, that’s so rude. ”
- “ i don’t wanna see damn trump. ”
- “ you about to die but you still gonna vote? ”
- “ y'all are all kinds of f-ed up, aren’t you? ”
- “ could you make anymore noise?! ”
- “ what the hell kind of names are those? ”
- “ don’t be hating on the candy crush. ”
- “ shut up, ____, we can’t hear shit. ”
- “ i’m about to get rid of this rug now, it’s been on this crazy show. ”
- “ go get our applesauce before i lose my mind. ”
- “ i wonder what cher thinks. ”
- “ after she cut your hair? you ungrateful bastard. ”
- “ i hate people, places and things. ”
- “ you’re gonna make me type the whole thing? you little bitch. ”
- “ you done messed all the way up. ”
- “ i don’t want to sit on this couch with these ugly men. ”
- “ i need to knock the cinnamon out of my titties. nasty. ”
- “ he’s too tall to be gay. ”
- “ we don’t wanna see your titties flop out on the floor. ”
- “ oh well, at least he got some before he died. ”
- “ there ain’t no food, get outside. ”
- “ she ain’t got the sense god gave a billy goat. ”
- “ he thinks he looks tough but he doesn’t. ”
- “ he looks like a gay coloring book. ”
- “ what the hillbilly hell? ”
- “ what is this? i don’t want this ugly shit. ”
