& RICHARD SIKEN SENTENCE STARTERS *
“you saved my life.”
“i owe you everything.”
“i took the bullet for all the wrong reasons.”
“i’m always saving and you’re always owing”
“i’m tired of asking to settle the debt.”
“you say ‘i’ll give you anything’, but you never come through.”
“will you let me kiss your neck, baby?”
“i’m hungry and hollow and just want something to call my own.”
“i couldn’t make you love me and I’m tired of pulling your teeth.”
“if you love me, you don’t love me in a way i understand.”
“everyone needs a place. it shouldn't be inside of someone else.”
“your body told me in a dream it's never been afraid of anything.”
“i'd live on the moon probably except i think I'd miss the moonlight.”
“the dead went back to bed, allegedly.”
“why is it we believe we only have one soul?”
“i’ll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen.”
“we’ve read the back of the book, we know what’s going to happen.”
“someone is digging your grave right now.”
“the way you slam your body into mine reminds me i’m alive.”
“but monsters are always hungry, darling.”
“i had a dream about you.”
“all this, and love too, will ruin us.”
“i was on the phone with you, sweetheart.”
“there are many names in history but none of them are ours.”
“sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine.”
“you will be alone always and then you will die.”
“love always wakes the dragon.”
“i can tell already you think i'm the dragon.”
“i'm out here, slogging through the mud, breathing fire, and getting stabbed to death.”
“okay, so i'm the dragon. bid deal.”
“you still get to be the hero.”
“in this version you are not feeding yourself to a bad man.”
“love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love.”
“leave the gun on the table.”
“when I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.”
“i swallow your heart and you make me spit it out.”
“i swallow your heart and it crawls right out my mouth.”
“tell me you love this.”
“tell me you’re not miserable.”
“i want to tell you this story without having to confess anything.”
“your world doesn’t make sense.”
“no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won’t tell them.”
“you take things you love and tear them apart.”
“in these dreams, it’s always you.”
“you are a fever i’m learning to live with.”
“i just don’t want to die anymore.”
“you want to die for love, you always have.”
“when you paint an evil thing, do you invoke it, or take away its power?”
