russian doll season 1 sentence starters.
“ fun is for suckers, ____. “
“ staring down the barrel of my own mortality beats fun. “
“ do ladies have midlife crises? “
“ however old you feel, ____, you definitely sound twenty-two. “
“ it’s my bad attitude that keeps me young. “
“ nothing in this world is easy. “
“ the universe is trying to fuck with me, and i refuse to engage. “
“ you can eat anything, take anything do anything. it’s impossible to destroy you, you’ll never die! “
“ ____, if it’s any consolation, i promise that you will get divorced someday. “
“ i would tell you but i think explaining it might give us both an aneurysm. “
“ you know, your friends can’t help you if you don’t let them. “
“ i need you to help me. you’re not helping me. you’re not helping me at all, you’re sabotaging me. “
“ it’s a long story involving multiple deaths. “
“ embracing the abyss is the only way to go forward. “
“ buildings aren’t haunted. people are. “
“ angels are all around us. “
“ no, i did not kill somebody. if i killed somebody, i’d play it cool, move to mexico, start a band. “
“ i think we have something really, really good and it’s worth pursuing. “
“ no, ____, we are not getting back together. especially not when your best argument is a warm body. “
“ i wouldn’t tell me anything, if i were you, because i’m not the kind of person that you tell secrets to. “
“ i think i finally found out a little something about how this world works. “
“ didn’t you get the news? we’re about to die. “
“ it doesn’t matter. i die all the time. “
“ you seem nervous. almost as if it’s occurring to you in this moment, maybe, possibly that this is going to be harder than you thought. “
“ you just blew up your whole life and you are serial-killer calm about it. “
“ do you think it’s possible to correct your life? “
“ i find myself in this position of finally being able to do things the right way. “
“ it happened. and it kept happening. and it got harder and harder for me to tell you anything. “
“ there was never going to be a right time for me to tell you anything. “
“ i can do it by myself. i can. “
“ no one can do anything by themselves. “
“ there is no way out of this situation. “
“ i can tell that you’re really bent out of shape about this ____ character, but we literally just met so none of this is on me. “
“ from what i gather, we are in this together. “
“ why do you think this is happening to us? “
“ i’m pretty sure that this is purgatorial punishment for being a bad person. “
“ this isn’t going to be very fun if you keep rejecting my theories. “
“ have i ever done anything, you know, memorably bad to you? “
“ i love that you’re a cunt, it makes me feel morally superior. “
“ you’re basically a child that the universe tasked me with babysitting. would you say that’s a fair assessment? “
“ if you were going to die today, would you be ready for it? “
“ holding two incompatible ideas in your head at the same time and accepting both of them… that’s the best of being human. “
“ listen, i know you think i’m a moral narcissist, but there are good guys and bad guys. and i am definitely a good guy. “
“ ____ chose you, and you don’t love him/her. you’re not faithful. “
“ nobody chooses me. i’m the hole where a choice should be. “
“ i’ve got to be honest with you. if i was inventing hell, it would look like this. “
“ i don’t want to be attached to anyone. “
“ i want to just at least maintain the illusion of free will. “
“ we are very unreliable narrators of our own stories. “
“ there’s so much i want to do and you just want to stay exactly the same. “
“ i prefer casual acquaintances over closer relations, and strangers above everybody else. “
“ how do you know that you’re real? “
“ we need each other. i need you. you need me. “
“ i do not want to do this alone. “
“ i love you so much. i cannot be the reason that you stop existing. i would never forgive myself. “
“ don’t ever let them tear us apart, okay? “
“ that might be the last thing you ever say to me. “
“ thank you for changing my life. lives are hard to change. “
“ no matter how much we think we’re fooling people, our bodies… they can’t keep lying the way our minds can. “
“ i thought if i worked hard enough, if i kept putting the time in, and if i kept my head down, did everything right, i… this aching, gnawing feeling of being an absolute failure would go away. “
“ you were this… tiny seed buried in the darkness fighting your way to the light. you wanted to live. it’s the most beautiful thing in the world. do you still have that in you? “
“ i look at you, chasing down death at every corner and… where is that gorgeous piece of you pushing to be a part of this world? “
“ this is the day we get free. “
“ ____, you seriously don’t remember me? “
“ i need you to remember me. i need you to. “
“ i told you i know you. “
“ i can’t promise that you’ll be happy. absolutely not. but i can promise that you will not be alone. “