The Dark Knight (Sentence Starters)
“Never start with the head, the victim gets all... fuzzy.”
“You are truly incorruptible, aren’t you?”
“If it’s so simple, why haven’t you done it already?”
“You don’t want to die, but you don’t know how to take a life. Give it to me.”
“All you care about is money.”
“Whenever you stitch yourself up you do make a bloody mess.”
“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”
“Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.”
“Oh, excuse me, I wanna drive.”
“Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can’t savor all the little emotions.”
“This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m gonna give it to them.”
“Yeah, three buttons is a little ‘90′s, ____.”
“In their last moments, people show you who they really are.”
“I knew the risks when I took this job.”
“Then why was it me who was the only one who lost everything?”
“You don’t want to hurt the boy, ____.”
“Upset the established order and everything becomes chaos.”
“Then why do you want to kill me?”
“You won’t kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness.”
“____, you can’t ask me to wait for that.”
“Some people aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
“Criminals aren’t complicated, ____. Just have to figure out what he’s after.”
“Madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little...push.”
“You wanted me? Here I am.”
“Ah, you made it! I’m so thrilled.”
“It’s not about what I want, it’s about what’s fair!”
“You’re the one pointing the gun, ____. So point it at the people responsible.”
“This is where she died.”
“I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself.”
“Does it depress you, ____? To know just how alone you really are? Does it make you feel responsible?”
“He wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall.”
“They knew we were coming.”
“Give it to me, and I’ll do what you should’ve done ten minutes ago.”
“With respect, ____, perhaps this is a man that you don’t fully understand, either.”
“You crossed the line first.”
“I think you and I are destined to do this forever.”
“Listen, ____, I swear to god I didn’t know what they were gonna do to you.”
“Look at what your drugs did to my customers.”
“Buyer beware. I told you my compound would take you places, I never said they’d be places you wanted to go.”
“Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair.”
“I know, I was here. Trying to save her.”
“Give it to me, you can tell them I took it by force.”
“I don’t, I don’t want to kill you! What would I do without you?”
“I wanted to see what you’d do. And you didn’t disappoint.”
“If you don’t like what I have to offer, you can buy from someone else.”
“You wouldn’t dare try to justify yourself if you knew what I lost!”
“I trusted him to do the right thing... saving my ass.”
“I was meant to inspire good, not... madness.”
“Oh, you wanna play. Come on!”
“That’s funny, ‘cause I don’t know what’s gonna happen to you either.”
“I trust you don’t have me followed on my day off.”
“No, no. You can’t, you’re not.”
“It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message.”
“Give me one reason why I shouldn’t have my boy here pull your head off.”
“These men would kill you and take it anyway.”
“You’ll hunt me. You’ll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that’s what needs to happen.”
“You look tired, ____. You’ll be alright without me?”
“Have you ever had to talk to the person you love most, to tell them it’s going to be alright, when you know it’s not?”
“You’ll be in a padded cell forever.”
“Don’t talk like one of them: you’re not. Even if you’d like to be.”
“Does ____ know about you and his little bunny?”
“You spat in the faces of ____’s worst criminals. Didn’t you think there might be some casualties? Things were always going to get worse before they got better.”
“You don’t have to thank me.”
“You’re about to know what that feels like, ____, then you can look me in the eye and tell me you’re sorry.”
“Don’t let me find you out here again.”
“A little fight in you. I like that.”
“Any psychotic ex-boyfriends I should be aware of?”
“Could you please just give me a minute?”
“We really should stop this fighting, otherwise we’ll miss the fireworks.”
“They’re trying to kill me!”
“Because she trusts you. Just like ____ did.”
“____ is in there with them! We have to save ____! I have to save ____!”
“Did it ever wonder what it would be like to listen to her die?”
“You didn’t know what they were gonna do? What exactly did you think they were gonna do?!”
“Friends? Have you met this guy?”
“What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone’s as ugly as you? You’re alone!”
“____, put the gun down. Please. Please, ____, please.”
“What happened to ____ wasn’t chance. We decided to act. We three!”
“You brought this craziness on us! You did! You brought this on us.”
“Well maybe ____ will save you.”
“If you turn yourself in, they’re not gonna let us be together.”
“Goddammit! Will you stop pointing that gun at my family?”
“I’m sorry! For everything!”
“No! No, no, not me! Why are you coming for me? No!”
“Which one you going after?”
“I know you’re gonna enjoy this. I’m gonna have to try and enjoy it even more.”
“We got you, you son of a bitch.”
“No one wants to get their hands dirty. Fine, I’ll do it.”
“Even to a guy like me, that’s cold.”
“We must remember that vigilance is the price of safety.”
“What gives you the right? What’s the difference between you and me?”
“How do you know what he’s thinking?”
“And I thought my jokes were bad.”
“Oh, you. You just couldn’t let me go, could you?”
“Go home, _____. Go get some rest, you’re gonna need it.”
“You look nervous. Is it the scars?”
“They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out like a leper. You see, their morals, their code, it’s all a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble.”
“I know the truth: there’s no going back.”
“I couldn’t risk my family’s safety.”
“You’ve changed things. Forever.”
“You think you can steal from us and just walk away?”
“Please don’t hurt my son.”
“You’re a cop killer, you’re lucky to be feeling anything at all.”
“Can’t rely on anyone these days, you have to do everything yourself, don’t we?”
“It’s going to be alright, son.”
“Why should I hide who I am?”
“This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.”
“Nothing in his pocket but knives and lint.”
“Why don’t you hire them and take the weekend off?”
“They’re only as good as the world allows them to be.”
“You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go ‘according to plan.’ Even if the plan is horrifying!”
“You think I want to escape from this? There is no escape from this!”
“Know your limits, ____.”
“Why don’t you hire them and take the weekend off?”
“From one professional to another, if you’re trying to scare somebody, pick a better spot. From this height, the fall wouldn’t kill me.”
“____, you’re right. ____’s death was my fault.”
“Because you were the best of us!”
“That was a very brave thing you did.”
“You know, you remind me of my father. I hated my father.”
“And what happens on the day that you find out?”
“People are dying, ____, what would you have me do?”
“I’m sorry, I couldn’t risk your safety.”
“You know where I can find ____? I need to talk to him about something. Just something little. No?”
“____ can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice.”
“If I get him to you, can you get him to talk?”
“The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.”
“How about a magic trick?”
“Come on, I want you to do it, I want you to to it.”
“You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn’t fully understand.”
“Did you get mauled by a tiger?”
“To them you’re just a freak, like me.”
“You have all these rules, and you think they’ll save you.”
“Killing is making a choice.”
“Come on, hit me. Hit me!”
“I’m a man of simple taste. I enjoy dynamite... and gunpowder... and gasoline.”
“Where did you learn to count?”
“You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time! But you were wrong. The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance.”
“You’re a hard man to reach.”
“We all know how much you like to say ‘I told you so.’“
“Look, if I tell you, will you let me go?”
“I suppose they’ll lock me up as well, as your accomplice.”
“Hostile? I’ll show you hostile.”
“What difference does it make?”
“I can tell the difference between punks who need a little lesson in manners, and the freaks like you who just enjoy it.”
“I like this job, I like it!”
“You have nothing! Nothing to threaten me with! Nothing to do with all your strength.”
“Let’s not do that again.”
“He’ll squeal. I know the squealers when I see them.”
“Targeting me won’t get their money back.”
“When the chips are down, these ‘civilized people,’ they’ll eat each other.”
“Well, depending on the time, he may be in one spot... or several.”
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
“I don’t want there to be any hard feelings between us, ____.”
“And you’ve killed six of my friends.”
“Accomplice? I’m going to tell them the whole thing was your idea.”
“I’m gonna need a cup of coffee.”
“I let that murderous psychopath blow him half to hell.”
“I knew ____ wouldn’t go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.”
“He didn’t do anything wrong.”
“In their last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way, I know your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were cowards?”
“Do I really look like a guy with a plan?”
“How many of your friends have I killed?”
“I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just do things.”
“You wanna know how I got these scars?”
