Warm Bodies sentence starters
100 starters
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content warning: cussing, sexual themes
âWhat am I doing with my life?â
âMy posture is terrible. I should stand up straighter. People would respect me more if I stood up straighter.â
âWhy canât I connect with people?â
âI shouldnât be so hard on myself. I mean, weâre all dead. This girl is dead. That guyâs dead. That guy in the corner is definitely dead.â
âI wish I could introduce myself, but I donât remember my name anymore.â
âI have a hard time piecing together how this whole apocalypse thing happened.â
âAt some point you just give up, I guess. You lose all hope. After that, thereâs no turning back.â
âOh, man, gross⌠Stop. Stop! Donât pick at it! Youâre making it worse!â
âI donât wanna be this way. Iâm lonely. Iâm lost. I mean, Iâm literally lost. Iâve never been in this part of [insert location] before.â
âTraveling in packs just kind of makes sense, especially when everyone and their grandmother is trying to shoot you in the head all the time.â
âThis could take a while.â
âNo one believes in a cure anymore, _____.â
âCorpses look human, they are not. They do not think. They do not bleed. Whether they were your mother or your best friend, they are beyond your help. They are uncaring, unfeeling, incapable of remorse.â
âYou have an obligation to return to us safely.â
âHey, _____, you gonna help us out or what?â
âWe canât just bail. We have orders.â
âTake some Prozac. Maybe thatâll cheer you up.â
âYouâre being paranoid, okay?â
âAim for their heads!â
âNow, Iâm not proud of this. In fact, Iâd appreciate it if youâd look away for a moment.â
âI donât like hurting people, but this is the world now.â
âIâm sorry, I just canât help it.â
âI donât wanna hurt you. I just wanna feel what you felt.â
â_____âŚ. I think I love you⌠Say something. Donât just say nothing.â
âI like that you remember that kind of stuff. If we donât, then it will just all be gone. Yâknow?â
âThe world is so messed up.â
â_____, where are you? Answer me!â
âI donât know what Iâm doing. Whatâs wrong with me?â
âWhy do I have to be so weird?â
âAlright. Maybe I couldâve thought this through a little more.â
â_____âs idea of saving humanity is to build a really big concrete box, put everyone in it, and then wait at the door with guns until we grow old and die.â
âWell, _____, without the wall, we would be eating brains now instead of rice.â
âHey. Itâs gonna be okay.â
âI need a different approach. Okay, here we go. Donât be creepy.â
âPlease leave me alone.â
âWhy me? Why did you save me?â
âWell, then youâre just gonna go and have to get me some food.â
âPlease? Iâd be very grateful for some food.â
âOh, no. Stop staring. Youâre acting weird again.â
âI canât remember the last time I had a beer.â
âThis date is not going well. I wanna die all over again.â
âI wanna go home, _____.â
âIâve never, ever heard a corpse talk before.â
âWhatâs with all the vinyl? Couldnât figure out how to work an iPod?â
âThere you go again. Shrugging. Stop shrugging, shrugger. Itâs a very noncommittal gesture.â
âThese are really cool records. Howâd you get all these?â
âItâs not like Iâm not sad that heâs gone. Because I am. But I think Iâve been preparing for it for a really long time.â
âMan, it must be nice to sleep. I wish I could.â
âYou said a few days. Itâs been a few days, _____.â
âJesus, Iâm freezing.â
âMaybe these houses have food.â
âOh, cool! Look what they have. I havenât seen one of these in forever.â
âItâs important to persevere memories, yâknow? Especially now that the worldâs on its way out.â
âEverything you see, you may be seeing for the last time.â
âIf he saw you, he wouldâve just shot you in the head, and youâd just be gone.â
âThese clothes are soaking still. Iâm gonna lay them out to dry.â
âYou know, we try to be better. Sometimes we kind of suck at it.â
âYouâre a good person, _____.â
âI mean, I⌠I guess I kinda knew that.â
âIf you guys could pick any job in the world, pretend that everything was totally different, what would you wanna do?â
âI think someday someoneâs gonna figure out this whole thing and exhume the whole world.â
âAre you actually dreaming right now?â
âWell, you can be whatever you want.â
âItâs hopeless. This is what I get for wanting more.â
âItâs easier not to feel. Then I wouldnât have to feel like this.â
â_____, are you sure nothing bit you?â
âDo I look infected to you, _____?â
âI thought I lost you.â
âIâm gonna forget about her, just like I forgot about everything else.â
âWe are changing, I think.â
âI have to explain whatâs happening before itâs too late. I have to⌠Oh, no.â
âIâve gotta tell you something. Itâs actually kinda weird. Please donât freak out.â
âLike, I wish the internet was still working so I could just look up whatever it is thatâs wrong with you.â
âIâm glad youâre back.â
âHave sweet dreams about your zombie.â
âYou canât just do that. Itâs dangerous.â
â_____, shut up! Iâm trying to sleep!â
âJesus, _____, are you crazy?â
âIf they see you, youâll get killed. Do you understand that?â
âAre you talking to yourself?â
âOkay, seriously, _____, what is going on out here?â
âI actually missed you.â
âCome on, we better get you inside.â
âYouâre safe here tonight, _____. After that, I donât know what weâre gonna do.â
âYou could be twenty-something, but you could also be a teenager. You know, you have one of those faces.â
âWhy did you come here, _____?â
â_____, no one here is ever gonna buy that.â
âWell, what other choice do we have, _____?â
âNo matter what, we stay together.â
âWhat is going on? What is all this?â
âThis is gonna sound really crazy, but I think the dead are coming back to life.â
âWhatâs happening is that every day there are more of them and less of us.â
âThing donât get better. Things get worse. People get bit, then they get infected, and then I shoot them in the head.â
âYouâre not gonna shoot me.â
âWe can fix all this. We can start over.â
âIt was scary at first, but every great thing starts out a little scary, doesnât it?â
âJust pick one. Whatever you want.â
âYou donât want your old life back?â