Bates Motel sentence starters
“I’m pretty sure the last time we spoke, you told me to ‘drop dead, bitch.’ Sorry I took it personally.”
“You don’t get it, do you? She’s ruined you.”
“She’s not a bad person, she’s just not perfect!”
“I’m just saying that there are different ways to produce an economy.”
“This is all a little peculiar.”
“Can I give you some advice? You gotta cut that shit out.”
“You had every right to defend yourself.”
“I didn’t defend myself! I killed the crap out of him!”
“You don’t just walk away from your parents.”
“Once you get past the blood and guts of it all, it’s really quite beautiful work.”
“Are you trying to say that you have something on me? Is that it?”
“I’m pretty used to things not turning out the way I expect and making the best of it.”
“I want someone to know the truth about me in this world, and I’d like that to be you, if you’re okay with that.”
“You’re the person that I’m closest to in this world.”
“There are ax murderers and whores stuffed under every rug.”
“Life’s a cesspool you claw and scratch and fight to swim out of, but you never get to the top!”
“You do errands for your mom. Well, aren’t you a dying breed?”
“He’s a lame-ass poser. Thinks he’s a character out of Scarface.”
“Such a pretty little kid. Such a trusting girl, and I couldn’t protect her.”
“Oh yeah. You’re that guy with the God complex.”
“You think you know what life is, that it’s something you just stay on top of with your soft words and your nice summer jacket?”
“You sit there in your little playhouses with your cocktails, and you judge the rest of us.”
“How can you ask me to live with this?”
“I will die if you leave.”
“Don’t you ever get tired of being so stoic?”
“Trust me, you can only do that for so long before you start sounding like Scrooge McDuck.”
“You know that’s the only memory I have of her where she sounded happy?”
“Once you start touching somebody’s body, the rest of it just kind of melts away.”
“It’s so funny how people leave their things. There’s such an energy in it, like the person’s still present somehow in the animation.”
“I’m not sure I’d refer to it using the term ‘magical.’”
“People who have had crappy upbringings can sense it in other people.”
“I see a kindness and a sensitivity in your face, and also hurt.”
“If someone’s always looking at you like you’ve done something wrong, talking to you like you’ve done something wrong, treating you like you’ve done something wrong, I mean, you start to believe that you’ve done something wrong!”
“Chaos seems to swirl around you, and I’m not sure why.”
“I’m not lying. I’m not revealing the whole truth.”
“She the one who won’t talk to me. She’s the one being irrational.”
“We were so close, her and me. We were all we had.”
“She was my whole world, my whole life.”
“I mean, I loved her. You can’t help who you love.”
“Parents do not have needs.”
“We all whitewash our parents’ sins, because on some level, because we have to.”
“I miss how close we used to be.”
“How dare you come into my house and say such an ugly thing to me.”
“Why do crazy people keep gravitating towards me?”
“Sometimes you hear and see things that aren’t there.”
“I came here to start over. We are starting over!”
“I’m just trying to help you, kiddo.”
“We have to be together. We’re supposed to be together.”
“It wasn’t anything more than what it looked like.”
“I love you more than my own life.”
“I don’t ever want to live in a world without you.”