TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) // SENTENCE STARTERS
feel free to change these to your liking !
it wasn’t a very big world, but neither was i.
why don’t you come down and have your breakfast now?
you tend to your own marbles.
he won’t let me have a gun.
you count your blessings and stop complaining, both of you.
you look right puny for your age.
there goes the meanest man who ever took a breath of life.
well, judging from his tracks, he’s about six and a half feet tall. he eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch. there’s a long, jagged scar running across his face. his teeth are yellow and rotten. his eyes popped. and he drools most of the time.
he’s liable to come out with his scissors and stab us all.
don’t you say “hey” to me, you ugly girl.
listen to me when i’m talking to you.
don’t your daddy teach you to respect old people?
sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another.
you look like a picture this afternoon.
i want you to stop tormenting those poor people and stay away from there.
i don’t think we better read anymore tonight, honey. it’s getting late.
can i sit with you for a while?
you’re up bright and early.
i want you back home right away.
do you want to poison yourself?
come on, i’ll tuck you in.
let’s see if you can read this.
what in the sam hill are you doing?
now, now. none of that crying.
you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
there are lots of ugly things in this world, son.
cut the fighting, you hear?
i don’t care what the reasons are. you need to keep your temper under control.
you aren’t old enough to understand some things yet.
if you shouldn’t be defending him, why are you doing it?
why don’t you have a seat? that chair’s mighty comfortable.
neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between.