the following is a collection of sentence starters from the star wars legends novel, vector prime, written by r. a. salvatore.
i beg your indulgence — but i don’t believe that’s correct.
they should know to leave us alone.
we’ll be killed! we’re doomed!
perhaps we should find a place where you can rest.
by all reports, we should be rested before dealing with him.
if i had needed assistance, i would have called for it.
do you even understand that your stupidity likely escalated an already impossible situation?
we planned to avoid them. avoid! do you understand that word? avoid them and thus cause no further problems or hard feelings.
i did not know that (name) would prove so … intractable.
it was a stupid thing to do.
i still don’t understand how any of that concerns the jedi.
here, he’s just found a convenient receptacle for his wrath.
even when i tried to use the force to gain a better perspective on him, i drew … a blank. as if the force had nothing to do with him. no — more like he had nothing to do with the force.
early again? or is it that you’re still here from last night?
he’ll get bored with it soon enough.
come here, quick. i can’t believe you missed this!
a convenient excuse for our jedi hero to rush to the rescue.
quick to the trigger, they are.
are we to deny their help in those areas where they are best qualified?
and what are you going to do about it?
it’s hard to keep up with it all, and sometimes it feels like i’m fixing symptoms without ever getting to the real disease.
why would you want anything from them and their foolish arguing?
you learn to play along, (name). that’s the game called diplomacy.
and these are the people you want to please?
these are the people you seek to emulate with your own council?
you bring interference where it is not wanted.
perhaps we should retire to more private chambers.
there is only one truth. it is when one does not like to hear it that one concocts other, more palatable versions.
this is not a meeting. it is a lecture in a hallway.
you can’t believe what you’re saying.
have i somehow offended you?
your mere existence offends me!
speak your mind. your questions will only strengthen me.
barbaric! the inhumanity!
he is about as infuriating as any being i’ve ever met.
you’re a braver person than i.
i thought you’d have fixed it by now.
you’ve been hanging around me too long.
i’m sorry. you don’t have to tell me anything.
i’m sick of hearing all of this.
you’ll hear it until you learn the truth. that is my responsibility.
this isn’t about him. this is about you and me.
you’re sure he wasn’t just trying to help?
you’re hearing all the problems, and they seem like they’ll overwhelm you, but that only means you have to deal with them one at a time.
so what’s the problem now?
you’re sure you don’t want to come along?
you did well to quiet them.
i already said my good-byes.
do you think you could enlighten me?
you know the decision i face.
i don’t know how to tell you.
i’m afraid of your words, and the way you speak them.
i’m not even going to tell you that you’re wrong. but i will assure you that, as you grow older, you’ll come to see things a bit differently.
you call me that again and i’ll send you into an oil bath with an open flame.
feeling a bit trapped by the attention?
do you think that selfish?
forgive me. i am surprised to see you here, as many others are.
just to talk with you makes me suspect.
i’m not here to give you any trouble.
run. i’ve been slowing you down for the last hour.
you’re wasting time. and oxygen.
do you understand the honor i offer you now?
you’ve got a mean streak in you.
not many people dare to hug me.
why didn’t you tell me you’d be coming? i could have prepared something.
do you think it beneath us?
when innocent people are robbed of all their wealth, or taken captive, perhaps, and tortured, is it not the province of the jedi to come to their aid?
there is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.
he asked me to temper my choices, but not to stop.
i’m too old and too slow and too sore.
always appeal to his pride.
and how much of this stuff is illegal?
they seem to know us better than we know them.
it took you longer than i had anticipated.
did you believe that you had a chance?
i told you honestly that you were not worthy.
do you see the truth now?
do you understand the futility?
you will learn your place.
oh, you’re right. that’s much more effective.
i can’t even begin to tell if there’s any organization to this place.
i am the beginning of the end for your people.
i think you’ll be coming with me.
i couldn’t sense a thing. with either of them.
every second means someone else dies.
go with glory and victory. die as a warrior.
let me know when you’re getting too hot.
you turned and ran away while (name) stood his ground and died.
there was nothing else i could do.
it will be a glorious day.
that’s a living organism?
it’s alive. or at least it was, i think.
something very big and very bad is going on.
you do plan to come back out, don’t you?
where in the galaxy do they speak such a language?
i’m not done with you yet.
if you suffer a relapse down there, you’ll jeopardize the whole mission.
i’m going. and if i have to go alone, then so be it.
i thought they were all destroyed.
well, i had to build a few more. couldn’t lose the technology, after all.
why would they come back?
what’s taking them so long?
i don’t even know what we’re trying to do.
this should have, logically, happened a long, long time ago.
i’d built a bubble around us. we were all in it, you know? in it and safe. nothing could hurt us — could really hurt us.
