little women (2019) sentence starters.
“ not a first attempt, i take it. “
“ people want to be amused, not preached at. “
“ what do they write, your trouble-making family? “
“ you can do nothing if you go back. “
“ who will you dance with, ____? “
“ i already feel ridiculous. i don’t want to look it. “
“ i can’t get over my disappointment in being a girl. “
“ ____, would you like to dance with me? “
“ you can laugh if you want to. it’s funny, i know. “
“ oh, ____, you’ll kill yourself for fashion one of these days. “
“ i would love to read what you’re writing, if you’ll trust me. “
“ do you want to know what i honestly think of you? i despise you. “
“ with every chance of being good, happy and useful, you are lazy, faulty and miserable. “
“ well, selfish people do like to talk about themselves. “
“ you think i’m beautiful? “
“ yes, you like that, you old vanity. “
“ with all these good things to enjoy, you find nothing to do but dawdle. “
“ i’ll be good for you, ____. i’ll be good. “
“ aren’t you ashamed of a hand like that? looks like it’s never done a day of work in its life. “
“ i feel sorry for you. i really do. i just wish you’d bear it better. “
“ i’d be respected if i couldn’t be loved. “
“ has no one ever talked to you like this before? “
“ why be ashamed of what you want? “
“ we can’t do much, but we can make our little sacrifices and do it gladly. “
“ i detest rude, unladylike girls. “
“ i know you don’t care what i think, but you don’t want ____ to find you like this, do you? “
“ i don’t see how you can write such splendid things. you’re a regular shakespeare. “
“ ____, you look tired. were you up again all night writing? “
“ boys scare me, and that big old house scares me. “
“ don’t say such despicable things! “
“ i like strong words that mean something. “
“ i intend to make my own way in the world. “
“ you don’t know what ____ loves. “
“ well, it’s possible to be right and foolish. “
“ i can’t afford to lose this position. “
“ i’m not scared of anyone. “
“ you have always had a talent for getting out of the hard parts of life. “
“ don’t be a baby and whine about it. “
“ i think you’d hate to poke in where you’re not wanted. “
“ i told you i’d make you pay, and i did! “
“ i really did want to hurt you. “
“ don’t let the sun go down on your anger. “
“ you don’t deserve my forgiveness. “
“ i will hate you! i will hate you forever! “
“ if ____ had died, it would’ve been my fault. “
“ what is wrong with me? “
“ i’ve made so many resolutions, and i’ve written sad notes, and i’ve cried over my sins… but it just doesn’t seem to help. “
“ when i get in a passion, i get so savage. i could hurt anyone and i’d enjoy. “
“ you remind me of myself. “
“ i’m angry nearly every day of my life. “
“ i am not patient by nature. but after all this time, i’m learning to not let it get the better of me. “
“ i hope you’ll do a great deal better than me. “
“ there are some natures too noble to curb and too lofty to bend. “
“ i said hi to the horses. they’re very nice. “
“ let me have my fun tonight. i’ll be desperately good for the rest of my life. “
“ i try to be contented, but it is hard. “
“ i don’t want to see you. “
“ ____, don’t be mad at me. “
“ why give up? you have so much talent and energy. “
“ talent isn’t genius. and no amount of energy can make it so. “
“ i want to be great or nothing. “
“ i’m of middling talent. “
“ i’ve always known i’m going to marry rich. why should i be ashamed of that? “
“ i believe we have some power over who we love. it isn’t something that just happens to a person. “
“ i think the poets might disagree. “
“ i’m not a poet, i’m just a woman. “
“ don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition, because it is. it may not be for you, but it most certainly is for me. “
“ you look beautiful. you are beautiful. “
“ i love to listen to you read, ____, but i love it better when you read stories you’ve written. “
“ i’m very sick and you must do what i say. “
“ i’ll only plague ____ if i go, so i might as well stay and plague you longer. “
“ i have been second to ____ my whole life in everything. “
“ i will not be the person you settle for just because you can’t have ____. i won’t. i won’t do it. “
“ i won’t do this. not when i’ve spent my entire life loving you. “
“ we barely have enough to feed ourselves. “
“ don’t say that. don’t say that. “
“ i’ve had a very long time to think about this and… i’m not afraid. it’s like the tide going out. it goes out slowly, but it can’t be stopped. “
“ i’ll stop this. i stopped it before. “
“ we… we can’t stop god’s will. “
“ god hasn’t met my will yet. what i will shall be done. “
“ you are your family’s hope now. “
“ please fight. don’t go quietly. fight. please, please, just fight to the end and be loud, and don’t just quietly go away, ____. “
“ thank god you’re home. thank god for you. “
“ we can leave. we can leave right now. “
“ i can make a life for us. “
“ let’s just run away together. “
“ you will get bored of ____ in two years, and we will be interesting forever. “
“ just because my dreams are different than yours doesn’t mean they’re unimportant. “
“ i want a home. and a family. and i’m willing to work and struggle. “
“ i just hate that you’re leaving me. don’t leave. “
“ i’d rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. “
“ i can’t believe childhood is over. “
“ it was going to end one way or another. “
“ i may not always be right, but i’m never wrong. “
“ i’m just not good, so i’m angry and restless. “
“ you don’t have to stay here, ____. “
“ i have loved you ever since i’ve known you. i couldn’t help it. “
“ i tried to show you and you wouldn’t let me. but i must make you hear now and give me an answer, because i can’t go on like this! “
“ i figured you’d love me, ____. and i realize i’m not half good enough. “
“ you’re a great deal too good for me. “
“ i don’t see why i can’t love you as you want me to. i don’t know why. “
“ i can’t change how i feel. “
“ it would be a lie to say i do when i don’t. “
“ i can’t love anyone else, ____. i only love you. “
“ let’s be happy together, ____! “
“ i can’t say yes truly, so i’m not going to say it at all. “
“ you’ll see that i’m right eventually and you’ll thank me for it. “
“ look at me! i’m homely, and i’m awkward, and i’m odd. and you’d be ashamed of me. “
“ ____, i don’t believe i’ll ever marry. i’m happy as i am, and i love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up. “
“ i think you’ll find someone and love them. and you will live and die for them. because that’s your way, and you will. “
“ you’re much too lonely here, ____. “
“ i ruined our friendship with my temper, just as i ruin everything. “
“ if i was a girl in a book, this would all be so easy. just give up the world happily. “
“ i care more to be loved. i want to be loved. “
“ wanting to be loved is not the same as loving. “
“ i’m so sick of people saying that love is all that a woman is fit for, i’m so sick of it. “
“ i don’t despise you, ____. “
“ i just didn’t love you as i should. “
“ the worst fate is to live my life without you in it. “
“ i want to say one thing and then put it away forever. i’ve always loved you. “
“ i think it was meant this way. “
“ could we still be friends though, ____, please? “
“ life is too short to be angry at one’s sister. “
“ i started something, but i don’t think it’s very good. “
“ maybe it doesn’t seem important because people don’t write about it. “
“ writing doesn’t confer importance. it reflects it. “
“ when did you become so wise? “
“ i don’t want you leave. i want you to stay. “
“ i would never leave if you wish me to stay. “
“ i have nothing to give you, ____. “
