ALICE: MADNESS RETURNS sentence starters
a collection of quotes from the 2011 game Alice: Madness Returns.
When you're not on edge, you're taking up too much space.
Threats, promises and good intentions don't amount to action.
Every picture tells a story. Sometimes we don't like the ending. Sometimes we don't understand it.
Delusions, too, die hard with memory.
Only the savage regard the endurance of pain as the measure of worth.
Forgetting pain is convenient, remembering it: agonizing.
A new law reigns here, it's very rough justice all around.
We're at risk here. You, be on your guard.
A secret is only a secret when it is unspoken to another.
Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.
Only the insane equate pain with success.
Only fools believe that suffering is just wages for being different.
Every adventure requires a first step. Trite, but true, even here.
The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die.
Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do - some... don't ever want to.
A reflection sometimes exposes more reality than the object it echoes.
Another day, a different dream perhaps.
Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?
I know I'm guilty of something, but punishment hardly ever suits the victims of a crime.
You've used me and abused me, but you will not destroy me!
It's not a dream. It's a...memory. And it makes me sick!
This is good for me. I'm not insane! I didn't kill my family. I am fine. I'm not mad. I am innocent, I mean, not guilty!
I've not come back here looking for a fight.
I want to forget! Who would choose to be alone, imprisoned by their broken memories?
I know their pain. I would assist. But is sanity required for the job?
My head's exploded and there's a steam hammer in my chest!
My memories make me vomit.
Forgetting's just forgetting, except when it's not. Then they call it something else. I'd like to forget what you did. I've tried, but I can't.
A good guest does not overstay, a perfect guest stays home!
Who benefits from your madness?
There is no method in this madness!
Authority must be obeyed, or it must be overthrown!
You shouldn't ask questions you know the answer to, it's not polite.
I may survive here, but you're finished!
You don't know your own mind!
Memory is a curse more often than a blessing.
The cost of forgetting is high.
The past must be paid for.
"Flight or Fight" implies a permanent choice. But "flight" often just means putting the fight off to another day.
Oh, there's an infinite amount of hope, but not for us!
Failure as your epitaph? I'd hoped you were more courageous!
I believe I know that way and I'd rather not travel further along it.
Might revenge be just another name for justice?
Gaols and insane asylums have too much in common. Seems more than a pity.
All children deserve help. None are so lost that they may be abandoned.
If the living can be spoken ill of, why not the dead?
Ignorance is bliss, when it's not fatal.
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
Few maxims have caused greater harm than "children should be seen, not heard".
If a job's worth doing, no further justification is required.
Only the victorious insist that discretion is part of valor.
