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this is a list of lines from songs by the american singer-songwriter julien baker, intended for use as roleplay sentence prompts.  feel free to change pronouns, details, etc. to better fit your muses’ situations if you wish.  enjoy!

❝  wish i could write songs about anything other than death.  ❞

❝  you're gonna run when you find out who i am.  ❞

❝  i know i'm a pile of filthy wreckage you will wish you'd never touched.  ❞

❝  it's not easy when what you think of me is important.  and i know it shouldn't be so damn important, but it is to me.  ❞

❝  i know i shouldn't act this way in public.  ❞

❝  give me everything good and i'll throw it away.  ❞

❝  there's more whiskey than blood in my veins.  ❞

❝  i'm sorry for asking, but please, come take me home.  ❞

❝  i've kissed enough bathroom sinks to make up for the lovers that never loved me.  ❞

❝  i'm staying in tonight, i won't stop you from leaving.  ❞

❝  i know that i'm not what you wanted, am i?  ❞

❝  you don't have to remind me so much how i disappoint you.  ❞

❝  maybe it's all gonna turn out all right.  ❞

❝  but there's a comfort in failure.  ❞

❝  i know you were trying to help but you're only making it worse.  ❞

❝  tell me you loved me.  ❞

❝  is it real or a dream, which is worse?  ❞

❝  lord, lord, lord, is there some way to make it stop?  ❞

❝  i was just wondering if there's any way that you made a mistake.  ❞

❝  if it makes me feel better, how bad could it be?  ❞

❝  i'm not fooled when you tell me that you're glad i came.  ❞

❝  i know i should be being optimistic but i'm doubtful i can change.  ❞

❝  i know there is nowhere i can hide from your humiliating grace.  ❞

❝  i know it's a bad time, but there's no one left for me to call.  ❞

❝  damn it, we are gonna figure something out.  ❞

❝  i just don't want to be alone.  ❞

❝  when is it too many times to tell you that i think of you every night?  ❞

❝  i could be cruel.  ❞

❝  i could make you hate me.  ❞

❝  it's not that i think i'm good, i know that i'm evil.  i guess i was trying to even it out.  ❞

❝  isn't that what you want?  for me to be miserable like you?  ❞

❝  well, brother, you're about to get your wish.  ❞

❝  i can't be fixed, so help me.  ❞

❝  i'm better off learning how to be living with demons i've mistaken for saints.  ❞

❝  i take it all back, i changed my mind.  ❞

❝  knock me out again.  ❞

❝  how far do you think i can go beneath before you won't follow me there?  ❞

❝  i want to let you break my heart.  ❞

this is a list of 100 quotes from the 1860-1861 novel great expectations by charles dickens to be used as roleplay starters. feel free to change pronouns and the like!

❛ ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. ❜

❛ i think the romans must have aggravated one another very much with their noses. perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. ❜

❛ he tried to murder me. i should have been a dead man if you had not come up. ❜

❛ i sometimes have sick fancies. ❜

❛ i am yellow skin and bone. ❜

❛ come here! you may kiss me, if you like. ❜

❛ what could i become with these surroundings? ❜

❛ it is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. ❜

❛ i was your first teacher, though; wasn't i? ❜

❛ you know best, _____; but don't you think you are happier as you are? ❜

❛ i am not at all happy as i am. i am disgusted with my calling and my life. ❜

❛ i have unusual business to transact with you. ❜

❛ i want to know no more than i know. ❜

❛ of course you'll go wrong somehow, but that's no fault of mine. ❜

❛ i was new here once. ❜

❛ you may get cheated, robbed, and murdered, in london. but there are plenty of people anywhere, who'll do that for you. ❜

❛ well! it's all over now, i hope, and it will be magnanimous in you if you'll forgive me for having knocked you about so. ❜

❛ i want to see the man who'll rob me. ❜

❛ the office is one thing, and private life is another. ❜

❛ you know what i am, don't you? ❜

❛ i'm wrong in these clothes. ❜

❛ i knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that i loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. ❜

❛ so you kiss my hand as if i were a queen, eh? ❜

❛ what was fit company for you once, would be quite unfit company for you now. ❜

❛ you must know that i have no heart. ❜

❛ i have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, i have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat i should cease to be. but you know what i mean. i have no softness there, no---sympathy---sentiment---nonsense. ❜

❛ i'll tell you what real love is. it is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter---as i did! ❜

❛ this may lead to miserable things. ❜

❛ how did you think he looked? --- i dressed him. ❜

❛ i believe it was settled you should meet me? ❜

❛ i should hardly have thought this was your beat. ❜

❛ did your client commit the robbery? ❜

❛ we have no choice, you and i, but to obey our instructions. we are not free to follow our own devices, you and i. ❜

❛ you speak of yourself as if you are someone else. ❜

❛ you silly boy, how can you talk such nonsense? ❜

❛ my dear _____, we are getting on badly. ❜

❛ i always thought this was business, this was the way to confront the thing, this was the way to take the foe by the throat. ❜

❛ what a fellow of resource you are! really your business powers are very remarkable. ❜

❛ i think you might have written to me about these sad matters. ❜

❛ i am not angry, but i am hurt. ❜

❛ i don't ask you what you owe, because you don't know; and if you did know, you wouldn't tell me; you would say less. ❜

❛ choose your bridge, _____, and take a walk upon your bridge, and pitch your money into the thames over the centre arch of the bridge, and you know the end of it. serve a friend with it, and you may know the end of it too but it's a less pleasant and profitable end. ❜

❛ you stock and stone! you cold, cold heart! ❜

❛ what? do you reproach me for being cold? you? ❜

❛ you should know i am what you have made me. ❜

❛ why should i call you mad, i of all people? ❜

❛ who taught me to be proud? who praised me when i learnt my lesson? ❜

❛ who taught me to be hard? who praised me when i learnt my lesson? ❜

❛ i have never shown any weakness that i can charge myself with. ❜

❛ i must be taken as i have been made. the success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. ❜

❛ moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. can the candle help it? ❜

❛ do you want me then, to deceive and entrap you? ❜

❛ i am glad to believe you have repented and recovered yourself. ❜

❛ i was sent for life. it's death to come back. ❜

❛ what precautions can be taken against your being recognised and seized? ❜

❛ don't tell me anything. i don't want to know anything; i am not curious. ❜

❛ take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. there's no better rule. ❜

❛ i have been bred to no calling, and i am fit for nothing. ❜

❛ to judge from appearances, you're out of luck. ❜

❛ luck changes. perhaps yours is going to change. ❜

❛ i am as unhappy as you can ever have meant me to be. ❜

❛ who am i, who am i, for god's sake, that i should be kind! ❜

❛ you made your own snares. i never made them. ❜

❛ _____, you know i love you. you know that i have loved you long and dearly. ❜

❛ it seems that there are sentiments, fancies---i don't know how to call them---which i am not able to comprehend. when you say you love me, i know what you mean, as a form of words; but nothing more. you address nothing in my breast, you touch nothing there. ❜

❛ it is in my nature. it is in the nature formed within me. ❜

❛ say no more. we shall never understand each other. ❜

❛ you will get me out of your thoughts in a week. ❜

❛ you are part of my existence, part of myself. ❜

❛ under existing circumstances, there is no place like a great city when you are once in it. don't break cover too soon. lie close. ❜

❛ i know that what is said between you and me goes no further. ❜

❛ i don't like to leave you here, though i cannot doubt your being safer here than near me. ❜

❛ as we are going in the same direction, _____, we may walk together. ❜

❛ but perhaps you can never believe, now, that there is anything human in my heart? ❜

❛ there have been sore mistakes; and my life has been a blind and thankless one; and i want forgiveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you. ❜

❛ what have i done! what have i done! ❜

❛ believe this: when she first came to me, i meant to save her from misery like my own. at first i meant no more. ❜

❛ if you knew all my story, you would have some compassion for me and a better understanding of me. ❜

❛ you don't think your breathing is affected, my dear boy? you seem to breathe quickly. ❜

❛ look at me. ❜

❛ touch me. ❜

❛ mind! i admit nothing. ❜

❛ i know what you did, and how you did it. ❜

❛ for whose sake would you reveal the secret? ❜

❛ how dare you? you're not in a fit state to come here, if you can't come here without spluttering like a bad pen. ❜

❛ i'll let you go. i'll let you go to the moon, i'll let you go to the stars. all in good time. ❜

❛ ah! the burnt child dreads the fire! ❜

❛ i think i know the delights of freedom. ❜

❛ if all goes well, you will be perfectly free and safe again, within a few hours. ❜

❛ i will never stir from your side when i am suffered to be near you. please god, i will be as true to you, as you have been to me! ❜

❛ i am very much afraid i must go, _____, when you most need me. ❜

❛ i shall always need you, because i shall always love you. ❜

❛ in short, my dear boy, will you come to me? ❜

❛ look angry at me, _____. strike me, _____. tell me of my ingratitude. don't be so good to me! ❜

❛ in heaven's name, what does it matter to you where i am going? ❜

❛ tell me, as an old, old friend. have you quite forgotten her? ❜

❛ i am greatly changed. i wonder you know me. ❜

❛ you have always held your place in my heart. ❜

❛ to me, parting is a painful thing. ❜

❝ I will not fight you. ❞ 

❝ I'm not a politician. ❞ 

❝ Don’t look at my face. ❞ 

❝ It might turn the oxygen off. ❞

❝ Under my underwear, I'm naked. ❞

❝ I was still in my infancy as a god. ❞

❝ What a cosy picture we're painting. ❞

❝ Of course I’ve been to McDonald’s. ❞

❝ I'm not a god, I'm not making a planet. ❞

❝ I never really bounced back from there. ❞

❝ This is my special travel dressing gown. ❞

❝ I'd go to IKEA to get out of trimming a tree. ❞

❝ Due to my contract, I never leave the desk. ❞ 

❝ This is why I don’t like people looking at my face. ❞

❝ I like pens, and I like to know where my pens are. ❞

❝ If there was a chameleon in here, it would stand out. ❞

❝ Sorry, it was a system?! It didn't happen by accident?!? ❞

❝ I deeply hate those moments of being physically noticed. ❞

❝ Basically, my entire image has been destroyed by this show. ❞

❝ What's that? Is that the beginning of the great eternal darkness? ❞

❝ What was it that alerted you to the fact that I had grown a beard? ❞

❝ When you're given a present, do you often ask for an explanation? ❞ 

❝ You can't not fiddle, can you? 'Cause it's there, you've got to play with it. ❞

❝ What I needed to be told is, 'You know what, most days you won't die, it's fine.' ❞

❝ As a child, I used to play board games against a bucket with a face painted on it. ❞

❝ Why did you throw it off the top?! You're there, security's there, it's a horrible thing to do! ❞

❝ You're saying that I look like a man who's gone to the depths of tedium and not come back. ❞

❝ What can I say, my father saw me talking to a bucket and decided to accept that side of my nature. ❞ 

❝ To be honest, _____, I don't know why you come into so many encounters with me expecting arousal. ❞

❝ Basically, you'd wear a hat like this when you're, you know, on the way from the cab to the scene of the murder. ❞

❝ It's how you spot spies, isn't it? People who are just trying to blend in so much, they blended in so much they're noticeable. ❞

❝ When people say, 'Oh, can I borrow your pen,' what I want to say is, ABSOLUTELY NOT. GET YOUR OWN PEN, THIS IS MINE. ❞ 

❝ On a wall in my flat, there is a mysterious red switch. I have no idea what it does because I have never pressed it and refuse to do so. ❞

❝ One of the codes I live my life by is that my appearance should be in no way noteworthy but then again not so unnoteworthy as to be in itself noteworthy. ❞

❝ As part of a scheme I'm working on to try and seem---normal would be an exaggeration but, you know, at least acceptable in broader society---I try not to say that, I try to seem casual. ❞

❝ Is this a holiday? ❞

❝ You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! ❞

❝ Tell me, _____, can you see your face? ❞

❝ What is it that you would impart to me? ❞

❝ I love the name of honour more than I fear death. ❞

❝ Men at some time are masters of their fates. ❞

❝ The fault, _____, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. ❞

❝ What you have said, I will consider. ❞

❝ You pulled me by the cloak. Would you speak with me? ❞

❝ It was Greek to me. ❞

❝ Will you dine with me tomorrow? ❞

❝ Why are you breathless? ❞

❝ This disturbed sky is not to walk in. ❞

❝ I will set this foot of mine as far as who goes farthest. ❞

❝ What a fearful night is this! ❞

❝ I cannot by the progress of the stars give guess how near to day. ❞

❝ I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly. ❞

❝ It is the bright day that brings forth the adder. ❞

❝ The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. ❞

❝ Get you to bed again. It is not day. ❞

❝ Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream. ❞

❝ I think we are too bold upon your rest. ❞

❝ I have been up this hour, awake all night. ❞

❝ It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep. ❞

❝ Dear _____, make me acquainted with your cause of grief. ❞

❝ I am not well in health, and that is all. ❞

❝ You have some sick offense within your mind. ❞

❝ Is it excepted I should know no secrets that appertain to you? ❞

❝ You are my true and honourable wife, as dear to me as are the ruddy drops that visit my sad heart. ❞

❝ Tell me your counsels; I will not disclose them. ❞

❝ Now bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible. ❞

❝ You shall not stir out of your house today. ❞

❝ What can be avoided whose end is purposed by the mighty gods? ❞

❝ When beggars die there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. ❞

❝ Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. ❞

❝ Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. ❞

❝ The gods do this in shame of cowardice. ❞

❝ Your wisdom is consumed in confidence. ❞

❝ How foolish do your fears seem now, _____! ❞

❝ I fear our purpose is discovered. ❞

❝ Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead! ❞

❝ But what compact mean you to have with us? ❞

❝ You know not what you do. ❞

❝ Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! ❞

❝ Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war. ❞

❝ Passion, I see, is catching. ❞

❝ Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. ❞

❝ The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. ❞

❝ Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. ❞

❝ Poor soul, his eyes are red as fire with weeping. ❞

❝ Will you be patient? Will you stay awhile? ❞

❝ If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. ❞

❝ Fortune is merry and in this mood will give us anything. ❞

❝ Wisely I say, I am a bachelor. ❞

❝ Must I give way and room to your rash choler? ❞

❝ Fret till your proud heart break. ❞

❝ Do not presume too much upon my love. I may do that I shall be sorry for. ❞

❝ You have done that you should be sorry for. ❞

❝ A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. ❞

❝ I do not like your faults. ❞

❝ Nothing but death shall stay me. ❞

❝ I did not think you could have been so angry. ❞

❝ I am sick of many griefs. ❞

❝ Of your philosophy you make no use if you give place to accidental evils. ❞

❝ There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. ❞

❝ We must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures. ❞

❝ The deep of night is crept upon our talk. ❞

❝ This was an ill beginning of the night. ❞

❝ Look, _____, here's the book I sought for so. I put it in the pocket of my gown. ❞

❝ Bear with me, _____, I am much forgetful. ❞

❝ This is a sleepy tune. ❞

❝ Why do you cross me in this exigent? ❞

❝ I do not cross you, but I will do so. ❞

❝ If you dare fight today, come to the field; if not, when you have stomachs. ❞

❝ The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. ❞

❝ This is my birthday. ❞

❝ If we do lose this battle, then is this the very last time we shall speak together. ❞

❝ What are you then determined to do? ❞

❝ If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; if not, why then this parting was well made. ❞

❝ Oh, that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come! ❞

❝ Time is come round, and where I did begin, there shall I end; my life is run his compass. ❞

❝ I owe more tears to this dead man than you shall see me pay. ❞

❝ We shall try fortune in a second fight. ❞

❝ I had rather have such men my friends than enemies. ❞

❝ I'll rather kill myself. ❞

❝ I know my hour is come. ❞

❝ Our enemies have beat us to the pit. ❞

these quotes are from the closed doors by pauline albanese, a play about the story of hades and persephone, and they have been compiled for the purpose of being roleplay sentence prompts. feel free to make minor edits, change pronouns, etc if necessary! (content warning: mentions of kidnapping, alcohol, death.)

❝ You fucking bastards! Let me go! ❞

❝ Someone will come for me, I'm telling you, someone will come! ❞

❝ This must be a mistake. They've got the wrong girl. ❞

❝ I have to get out. I have to leave. I'm rotting away. ❞

❝ Is that it? Is that what you had in store for me, Fate? ❞

❝ I just want some water. ❞

❝ Bring me water or go away! ❞

❝ I brought wine. ❞

❝ I hate wine. ❞

❝ The water is bad here: bodies rot in it. ❞

❝ I demand to know why I'm being kept here! Why I'm sequestered! Tortured! ❞

❝ I want to leave immediately. Make yourself useful and pack my things. ❞

❝ I suggest you accept a drink. ❞

❝ You have to understand. This place is different from your home. ❞

❝ You cannot leave. You should get used to staying. ❞

❝ I know nothingness. ❞

❝ I have forgotten by now the image of the skies and the look of dusk. ❞

❝ Poetry comes from the guts and is spat out in a cry. ❞

❝ Poetry is morning dew and wind between my knuckles. ❞

❝ I don't want to stay a captive here. ❞

❝ I will give you my throne. ❞

❝ I will break through that damn door. ❞

❝ Get out. Do your dying out of my room. ❞

❝ Did you wait for me? ❞

❝ I don't understand what is happening inside me. ❞

❝ You cannot run now, can you? You have found your home. ❞

❝ Your darkness was your secret, and she whispers to mine. ❞

❝ It really is such a bore to come here. ❞

❝ There's always a dusty aftertaste to the wine, around here. ❞

❝ I did what I could, I've been dragging things out forever. ❞

❝ Oh come on, cut the crap, you idiot. ❞

❝ Let me guess, you held hands in a graveyard on your first date? ❞

❝ I don't have pity for the world. I don't have pity for you. ❞

❝ I shouldn't disobey him, I guess. ❞

❝ Won't they allow me rest, won't they allow me this sole respite? ❞

❝ They can come. I won't fight them. This is a fortress. ❞

❝ I don't owe anything to anyone. ❞

❝ I alone am almighty. ❞

❝ I am trying to help you. I am trying to answer your screams of pain. I understand. ❞

❝ I am holding your hand to make the journey to darkness easier for you. ❞

❝ Do not worry. It isn't Death. It is only metamorphosis. Everything will be okay. ❞

❝ They swore they would come for me, and then nothing. ❞

❝ Maybe they are coming soon. Maybe they have fallen. ❞

❝ The door isn't even locked. ❞

❝ I don't know what to think. ❞

❝ You have no right to love me as one loves the fantasy of an inaccessible world. ❞

❝ I cannot give you the world above, I cannot light up the shadows. ❞

❝ You are lying to yourself if you think I will vanquish your melancholy. ❞

❝ I have learned a long time ago not to lie to myself. ❞

❝ I am not longing for the world above, only for you. ❞

❝ I know that you are the one feeding on ideals, but you will survive disappointment. ❞

❝ I am here, and you are here, because I answered your cry, and I recognized my mind in yours, and my words in your head. And your words in my head. ❞

❝ I am revengeful, powerless, incapable. ❞

❝ I don't want to lie to you: I am giving you a burning crown, clawing walls, singing corpses. ❞

❝ They mustn't pass that door. ❞

❝ I will have to let you go. ❞

❝ I told you they would come for me. ❞

❝ Well, then, go. I don't know what came over me. ❞

❝ Do not ask me to beg. ❞

this a list of quotes from m.o. kng’s poetry compilation speech therapy, compiled for the purpose of being roleplay sentence prompts. feel free to make minor edits, change pronouns, etc if necessary!

❝ the darkness here has a smell. ❞

❝ here is everything i have to give you. ❞

❝ look, healing isn't a line of stitches from fucked-up to okay, and it needs to happen on your own time. ❞

❝ but they want an argument, i'll give them one. ❞

❝ when will this be good enough for you? ❞

❝ when will we stop chasing all these arguments with no resolution? ❞

❝ it's funny, that i've been too busy to open a good book when the world gives me so much to read. ❞

❝ maybe that's what closet love tastes like on the tongue. a feeling you'd break glass for even if it could kill you. ❞

❝ music has been my first and longest romance. ❞

❝ we've been occupied with paying rent, electricity, dues. ❞

❝ i wonder who will take me when it is my turn. ❞

❝ maybe to like somebody is a radical little thing. ❞

❝ my skull feels like a big throbbing earth. when did it get so dense. ❞

❝ i don't know where i got this weight or how to carry it; don't know why my words feel dry and prickly and just too much. ❞

❝ they didn't end the war. they brought it back home. ❞

❝ i've never had a choice, have i? ❞

❝ around my neck i feel a noose tightening. ❞

❝ but somebody's eyes are there. somebody is watching. who? ❞

❝ i am not so much woke as constantly waking. ❞

❝ the joke's on you 'cause there isn't anything to see here. ❞

❝ all i have ever wanted is to roam this world free. to wander through my own home without feeling haunted. ❞

❝ i am not afraid of you. i am not afraid. ❞

❝ sometimes i worry that my lungs were not made for a voice to grow; that god cut my tongue out and left my throat dry. ❞

❝ intoxication helps with the anxiety but not the sobering realization that you don't know how to do this. ❞

❝ the conscience is a blood relative of the hunger. both will consume you if you let them. ❞

❝ this is what trauma does to a body. ❞

❝ i have lost loved ones to the violence. ❞

❝ we are strong. we are strong. we are strong. ❞

❝ cover your bruises. ❞

❝ cover your shame. ❞

❝ cover your eyes; they give everything away. ❞

❝ i ask the world to show me where it's bleeding and it tells me everywhere. ❞

❝ do you think about everything a dead person leaves behind? ❞

❝ but i refuse to look at this throbbing world and declare it dead. ❞

❝ perhaps all you can do is salvage whatever you can and cut yourself free. ❞

❝ i think about my own heart, how it burns with an anger i can't ever remember having lived without. ❞

❝ i think of how much i want to strike a match to all of it. i think of how much i want all of it to burn alive. ❞

❝ i've always had a morbid fascination with wounds. ❞

❝ this is how i make sense of my pain. ❞

❝ i know i was born the wrong size for this world. ❞

❝ sometimes you lose something so something better will grow into its place. ❞

❝ i only wish i were physically capable of running on half the amount of sleep i do now. ❞

❝ this has to be one of the better iterations if i get to spend my life here with somebody like you. ❞

❝ sometimes i worry for how much you worry because a person like you deserves all of the happiness that you have set free into the world. ❞

❝ anybody who loves you will love your every rugged edge. ❞

❝ see, but the thing is it does cost you something to be kind. and still it's a price i believe is worth paying. ❞

❝ i'd rather be accountable than likable. ❞

❝ if it's not yours, ask before you touch. ❞

❝ it's funny, this business of faking innocence knowing that you're safe but also kind of not. ❞

❝ i can't escape the fumes my parents have left behind. ❞

❝ everybody here is waiting to leave. ❞

❝ i don't know how much longer i can stay here but sometimes when we talk i forget what time is. ❞

❝ sometimes family is a word i still don't know how to roll around my tongue, only know by the smell of sacrifice. ❞

❝ it is completely okay to walk into an english department luncheon, load your plate full of pizza and chips, then walk out. ❞

❝ basically, what i'm saying is, take the damn flowers. ❞

❝ there is heartbreak here, more than i care to recount. ❞

❝ big stupid crushes come easily to me. ❞

❝ am i going to be the son who breaks the chain? ❞

❝ anyway, these are too many thoughts for the internet at 1am, so good night now. ❞

❝ we were always the ones too anxious for the leading parts, weren't we? ❞

❝ power is a torch that sparkles and scorches. ❞

❝ i worry we have grown selfish in our shine. ❞

❝ let us be good before we are ever great. ❞

❝ i am looking lately for beauty in the shattered. ❞

❝ we snap but we don't break. ❞

❝ watch me troll ❞

❝ i've got the biggest balls ❞

❝ they deserve to die. if they die, they will learn to be less shitty at the game next time ❞

❝ i had one shoot me in the back of the head once because they didn't think for some reason that it would kill me ❞

❝ can’t believe we lost that ❞

❝ they shot the hostage and two of their own teammates ❞

❝ the bomb goes up the hostage's ass ❞

❝ i wasn't even close to the hostage, i was 10 meters away ❞

❝ best terrorists ever ❞

❝ bye bye hostage, you were great while you were in one piece ❞

❝ now you are in multiple pieces ❞

❝ welcome to hell, fuck-os ❞

❝ we won but I'm fucking bitter now ❞

❝ i look great dying, though ❞

❝ i have the biggest penis, but someone has a bigger potato ❞

❝ straight gamer boys are gay af. they're so straight they're gay ❞

❝ noooo, the dog is taking my mouse ❞

❝ game's got great diversity for a complicated shooter ❞

❝ the other team keeps killing themselves ❞

❝ suck my large penis, lads ❞

❝ i love pussy. i'm gay af ❞

❝ i'mma hide in the hostage for 20 seconds ❞

❝ i still stared every enemy in the eye directly before dying ❞

❝ i'm gonna watch more Punisher after this ❞

sentence starters inspired by lyrics from random songs by the korean singer and songwriter IU (lee ji-eun), translated by me. not all of these are 100% accurate; this is why the title says ‘inspired.’ feel free to change pronouns, adjust words as necessary!

❝ i can't see a thing in this rain. ❞

❝ i know too well i need to get up and go. ❞

❝ i don't even have the energy to cry. ❞

❝ it seems i can't forget you. ❞

❝ the only thing i pray for is for you to come back. ❞

❝ how much further do i have to fall? ❞

❝ i hate this love. it doesn't make sense. ❞

❝ what would you say if you knew who i really wanted, i wonder. ❞

❝ this might cause a terrible scandal. ❞

❝ nothing happened between us. ❞

❝ you didn't see anything. you didn't hear anything. ❞

❝ i think i know myself a little now. ❞

❝ i still have much to say. ❞

❝ i know you like me. ❞

❝ i know you hate me. ❞

❝ i swear i won't let go this time. ❞

❝ i swear i'll find you. ❞

❝ i know your forgotten name. ❞

❝ it's not like me to do nothing but wait. ❞

❝ i laugh when i'm afraid. ❞

❝ should i talk about something else? ❞

❝ i couldn't sleep at all that night. ❞

❝ you would know if you've been watching me. ❞

❝ don't worry. it's not serious. ❞

❝ i want to deny it even now if i can. ❞

❝ why am i so pathetic? ❞

❝ hello, my protagonist. ❞

❝ oh, you were that strange little child. ❞

❝ nothing lasts forever; nothing really matters. ❞

❝ i can't even tire of you. ❞

❝ it hurts to look at you. ❞

❝ don't think you'll be able to go home early today. ❞

❝ shall i tell you an amusing story? it might be a sad story, too. ❞

❝ you will keep the secret, won't you? ❞

❝ once again, this is supposed to be a light-hearted story. don't mistake it for anything else. ❞

❝ why are you angry? why are you bitter? ❞

❝ believe me or don't; it's a ridiculous story. just forget about it. ❞

❝ what are your memories like? what colors are they? ❞

❝ did i seem as dear to you as you to me? ❞

❝ today is over, but i can't send it away. ❞

❝ don't wake me up. i'm going to sleep very deeply. ❞

❝ i think i'm tired. surely i've endured enough. ❞

❝ i'm already busy being tricked, and tricking, and believing, and imagining, and being disappointed. ❞

❝ i'm not curious about other people's faults. ❞

❝ if only i had known that there's no such thing as a good break-up. ❞

❝ how ridiculous i must have seemed. ❞

❝ i'm the only one who didn't know. ❞

❝ what's your schedule like on friday? ❞

❝ why are those people laughing? ❞

❝ i have never written a single line of lies, you see. ❞

❝ i am used to people looking at me like that. ❞

❝ i need something that's bad for me. ❞

❝ melt me all you want before we cool down. ❞

❝ tell me you love me. say something sweet and pretty. ❞

❝ i don't care where i go, as long as it's with you. ❞

from the play by william shakespeare written in approximately 1599, but meant to have starters (hopefully) suitable for both historical and modern muses. (or maybe the modern muses are deliberately quoting the play.) feel free to modernise it a bit if you prefer, change pronouns, lord/lady, and all that!

❝ I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it. ❞

❝ The spirit of my father grows strong in me—and I will no longer endure it. ❞

❝ I will not long be troubled with you. ❞

❝ I pray you leave me. ❞

❝ I hope I shall see an end of him, for my soul—yet I know not why—hates nothing more than he. ❞

❝ Well, I will forget the condition of my estate to rejoice in yours. ❞

❝ Let me see, what think you of falling in love? ❞

❝ I shall do my friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me. ❞

❝ Only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty. ❞

❝ The little strength I have, I would it were with you. ❞

❝ Wear this for me. ❞

❝ I do in friendship counsel you to leave this place. ❞

❝ If she be a traitor, why, so am I. ❞

❝ I cannot live out of her company. ❞

❝ Shall we be sundered? Shall we part, sweet girl? ❞

❝ Let my father seek another heir. ❞

❝ Do not seek to take your change upon you, to bear your griefs youself and leave me out. ❞

❝ Now go we in content, to liberty, and not to banishment. ❞

❝ Sweet are the uses of adversity. ❞

❝ Come, shall we go and kill us venison? ❞

❝ Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you? ❞

❝ For my part, I would rather bear with you than bear you. ❞

❝ When I was at home I was in a better place. ❞

❝ I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it. ❞

❝ I'll go sleep if I can: if I cannot, I'll rail against all the first-born of Egypt. ❞

❝ Here I lie down and measure out my grave. ❞

❝ I am ambitious for a motley coat. ❞

❝ This wide and universal theatre presents more woeful pageants than the scene wherein we play in. ❞

❝ All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. ❞

❝ I will not trouble you as yet to question you about your fortunes. ❞

❝ I never loved my brother in my life. ❞

❝ When I think, I must speak. ❞

❝ I do not like her name. ❞

❝ You are full of pretty answers. ❞

❝ The worst fault you have is to be in love. ❞

❝ Are you native of this place? ❞

❝ Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. ❞

❝ Love is merely a madness. ❞

❝ When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. ❞

❝ I am not a slut. ❞

❝ Never talk to me; I will weep. ❞

❝ Say that you love me not, but say not so in bitterness. ❞

❝ Who might be your mother that you insult, exult, and all at once over the wretched? ❞

❝ Down on your knees. ❞

❝ Sell when you can; you are not for all markets. ❞

❝ I pray you do not fall in love with me. ❞

❝ I am falser than vows made in wine. ❞

❝ Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? ❞

❝ He'll make a proper man. ❞

❝ Omittance is no quittance. ❞

❝ They say you are a melancholy fellow. ❞

❝ By my faith, you have good reason to be sad. ❞

❝ Your experience makes you sad. ❞

❝ Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in a holiday humour and like enough to consent. ❞

❝ Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. ❞

❝ Ask me what you will, I will grant it. ❞

❝ Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? ❞

❝ I'll go find a shadow and sigh till he come. ❞

❝ Pardon me, I am but as a guiltless messenger. ❞

❝ You a man? You lack a man's heart. ❞

❝ We that have good wits have much to answer for. ❞

❝ It is but so-so. ❞

❝ I have a pretty wit. ❞

❝ I do now remember a saying: 'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.' ❞

❝ How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ❞

❝ I can live no longer by thinking. ❞

❝ I hope it is no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the world. ❞

❝ I count it but time lost to hear such a foolish song. ❞

❝ I sometimes do believe and sometimes do not, as those that fear they hope and know they fear. ❞

from the play by william shakespeare written in approximately 1595, but meant to have sentences (hopefully) suitable for both historical and modern muses. (or maybe the modern muses are deliberately quoting the play.) feel free to modernise it a bit if you prefer, change pronouns, lord/lady, and all that! (part 1)

❝ What sport shall we devise here in this garden to drive away the heavy thought of care? ❞

❝ I could weep, _____, would it do you good. ❞

❝ Woe is forerun with woe. ❞

❝ O, I am pressed to death through want of speaking! ❞

❝ Little joy have I to breathe this news, yet what I say is true. ❞

❝ I have a thousand spirits in one breast to answer twenty thousand such as you. ❞

❝ In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne. ❞

❝ What subject can give sentence on his king? ❞

❝ So we shall proceed without suspicion. ❞

❝ Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me to this submission. ❞

❝ Will no man say ‘amen’? ❞

❝ Give me the crown. ❞

❝ I thought you had been willing to resign. ❞

❝ You may my glories and my state depose but not my griefs; still am I king of those. ❞

❝ Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down. ❞

❝ Are you contented to resign the crown? ❞

❝ Now, mark me how I will undo myself. ❞

❝ Mine eyes are full of tears; I cannot see. ❞

❝ My grief lies all within, and these external manners of laments are merely shadows to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul. ❞

❝ I'll beg one boon and then I'll be gone and trouble you no more. ❞

❝ Being so great, I have no need to beg. ❞

❝ Then give me leave to go. ❞

❝ Is there no plot to rid the world of this pernicious blot? ❞

❝ I see your brows are full of discontent, your hearts of sorrow, and your eyes of tears. ❞

❝ Come home with me to supper. ❞

❝ This way the king will come. ❞

❝ Learn, good soul, to think our former state a happy dream. ❞

❝ I am sworn brother, sweet, to grim necessity, and he and I will keep a league till death. ❞

❝ And must we be divided? Must we part? ❞

❝ We make woe wanton with this fond delay. Once more, adieu; the rest let sorrow say. ❞

❝ I will be satisfied. ❞

❝ Let me see the writing. ❞

❝ Treason! Foul treason! Villain, traitor, slave! ❞

❝ Give me my boots, I say! Saddle my horse! ❞

❝ Have we more sons? Or are we like to have? ❞

❝ I do beseech your Majesty to have some conference with your Grace alone. ❞

❝ Open the door, or I will break it open. ❞

❝ My heart is not confederate with my hand. ❞

❝ O, heinous, strong, and bold conspiracy! ❞

❝ For God's sake, let me in! ❞

❝ Speak with me, pity me. Open the door! ❞

❝ A beggar begs that never begged before. ❞

❝ Pardon is all the suit I need. ❞

❝ Yet I am sick for fear. Speak it again. ❞

❝ I am the King's friend and will rid his foe. ❞

❝ Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot unlikely wonders. ❞

❝ Thus I play in one person many people, and none contented. ❞

❝ Music do I hear? ❞

❝ How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept. ❞

❝ I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ❞

❝ So sighs and tears and groans show minutes, times, and hours. ❞

❝ I was not made a horse, and yet I bear a burden like an ass. ❞

❝ What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say. ❞

❝ Patience is stale, and I am weary of it. ❞

❝ Go thou and fill another room in hell. ❞

❝ O, would the deed were good! ❞

❝ For now the devil that told me I did well says that this deed is chronicled in hell. ❞

❝ They love not poison that do poison need. ❞

from the play by william shakespeare written in approximately 1595, but meant to have sentences (hopefully) suitable for both historical and modern muses. (or maybe the modern muses are deliberately quoting the play.) feel free to modernise it a bit if you prefer, change pronouns, lord/lady, and all that!

❝ I do defy him, and I spit at him, call him a slanderous coward and a villain. ❞

❝ Let's purge this choler without letting blood. ❞

❝ Deep malice makes too deep incision. ❞

❝ Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed. ❞

❝ I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here. ❞

❝ Rage must be withstood. ❞

❝ Take honour from me and my life is done. ❞

❝ O God, defend my soul from such deep sin! ❞

❝ Call it not patience, _____. It is despair. ❞

❝ Where then, alas, may I complain myself? ❞

❝ Do not so quickly go. ❞

❝ Your will be done. ❞

❝ This must my comfort be: that sun that warms you here shall shine on me. ❞

❝ A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege. ❞

❝ Within my mouth you have enjailed my tongue. ❞

❝ Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. ❞

❝ Grief makes one hour ten. ❞

❝ There is no virtue like necessity. ❞

❝ The apprehension of the good gives but the greater feeling to the worse. ❞

❝ Well, he is gone, and with him go these thoughts. ❞

❝ Now put it, God, in the physician's mind to help him to his grave immediately! ❞ 

❝ Pray God we may make haste and come too late. ❞

❝ O, but they say the tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony. ❞

❝ Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life---how happy then were my ensuing death! ❞

❝ So much for that. ❞

❝ How long shall I be patient? Ah, how long shall tender duty make me suffer wrong? ❞

❝ Think what you will. ❞

❝ Be merry, for our time of stay is short. ❞

❝ We see the very wrack that we must suffer. ❞

❝ Who shall hinder me? ❞

❝ Will you go along with us? ❞

❝ Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever. ❞

❝ Well, we may meet again. ❞

❝ Of much less value is my company than your good words. ❞

❝ But who comes here? ❞

❝ My gracious lord, I tender you my service. ❞

❝ Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord. ❞

❝ Let me know my fault. ❞

❝ What would you have me do? ❞

❝ I am a subject, and I challenge law. ❞

❝ I am loath to break our country's laws. ❞

❝ Things past redress are now with me past care. ❞

❝ These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. ❞

❝ I weep for joy to stand upon my kingdom once again. ❞

❝ Discomfort guides my tongue and bids me speak of nothing but despair. ❞

❝ Are we not high? ❞

❝ Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death, and death will have his day. ❞

❝ All goes worse than I have power to tell. ❞

❝ O villains, vipers, damned without redemption! ❞

❝ Sweet love, I see, changing his property, turns to the sourest and most deadly hate. ❞

❝ For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings. ❞

❝ For within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king keeps Death his court. ❞

❝ How can you say to me I am a king? ❞

❝ This ague fit of fear is overblown. ❞

❝ What say you now? What comfort have we now? ❞

❝ By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly that bids me be of comfort anymore. ❞

❝ A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey. ❞

❝ He does me double wrong that wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. ❞

❝ We do debase ourselves, _____, do we not, to look so poorly and to speak so fair? ❞

❝ Let's fight with gentle words, till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords. ❞

❝ O, that I were as great as is my grief, or lesser than my name—or that I could forget what I have been, or not remember what I must be now. ❞

❝ What must the King do now? ❞

❝ Well, well, I see I talk but idly and you laugh at me. ❞

❝ Down, down I come, like glistering Phaëton. ❞

❝ Tears show their love but want their remedies. ❞

❝ For do we must what force will have us do. ❞

quotes from the 140307 episode ‘neil degrasse tyson returns again’ of the nerdist podcast. some quotes are by dr. tyson and some quotes are by the interviewers. feel free to tweak pronouns, wording, etc etc if necessary!

❝ But you need his body, I think, if you're gonna pull that one off. ❞

❝ I get criticized for being a 70's pornstache. ❞

❝ I came of age in the 70's, I'm that old. ❞

❝ Let me first share with you what keeps me awake at night: wondering whether the human species is just too stupid to figure out the universe. I just wonder. I lose sleep over that. ❞

❝ It's just a matter of the size of your tools. ❞

❝ Is that my new moniker? Pornstache? ❞

❝ Hey, it's Dr. Pornstache. ❞

❝ The universe isn't the only thing that's ever expanding. ❞

❝ No, that's not a nanobot. That's just a little robot. ❞

❝ Well, that was the whole B-plot of the Amazing Spiderman reboot. ❞

❝ Wasn't it also the B-plot of Iron Man 3? ❞

❝ That was not on purpose, but I'll take the credit for it. ❞

❝ I think it's kind of cool that we might be some PhD-thesis simulation of the universe in somebody's lab. ❞

❝ Give me something to test that fact. ❞

❝ I don't wanna wake up in goo. ❞

❝ Brilliant guy. My man, Isaac Newton. ❞

❝ Wait wait wait, did I just talk about Isaac Newton and calculus and you said, 'It's like TMZ'??? Did you actually start that sentence?! ❞

❝ I don't know, I don't know why this is a table! ❞

❝ My concern there is that the philosopher actually believes they're asking deep philosophical questions about nature, and to the scientist it's, 'What are you doing?!' ❞

❝ If you are distracted by your questions so that you cannot move forward, you're not being a productive contributor to the understanding of the natural world. ❞

❝ _____, I think we all agreed that you turned out okay. ❞

❝ Why is this and why do I care? I should not care because it's all pointless. ❞

❝ That's very numerical of you, very mathematical. ❞

❝ Don't encourage this, okay? ❞

❝ You're basically shouting into the void of your own mind and then an answer is being fired back at you. ❞

❝ Not all questions are created equal. ❞

❝ Just because you can ask some good questions doesn't mean all your questions are good. ❞

❝ He just started thinking so hard it just broke his brain. ❞

❝ It's so poetic, like it sounded like you were just reciting a poem from somebody. ❞

❝ That's just kinda how they wrote back then. ❞

❝ Iceland should not be named Iceland. It should be named Volcanoland. ❞

❝ No, this is how I party! ❞

❝ Life finds a way, except when it doesn't. Because 97% of species that ever lived on this earth are now extinct. So therefore 'Life finds a way' is myopic, actually. ❞

❝ You know, maybe then instead of death they should just say that people have normalized. ❞

❝ You're quoting movie scripts. ❞

❝ It's just false, okay? It was never true. ❞

❝ People say, 'Oh, you eat like a bird.' 'So you mean, I eat a lot? No, I eat a little!' Well, birds eat a lot! Any time you see a bird, it's eating! Or looking for food! Okay? You ever put food in front of a bird and it said, 'No, I'm full, I can't'? ❞

❝ This just means, don't have a scientist over to your house because they're gonna poke holes in everything you believe in. ❞

❝ I just wanna use a little hyperbole around here! ❞

❝ You know, you have to realize what we must look like to crocodiles. ❞

❝ I'm going to the Bahamas after this and you're not gonna see me for five years. ❞

❝ Let me fix the thing on the microphone here. We good? Sorry. ❞

❝ That's a tweet. I'm gonna tweet that right now. ❞

❝ If they're gonna represent our country, they need to know politics when they battle in a cage match! ❞

❝ Tweet the picture of him tweeting the tweet. ❞

❝ This is gonna be like the last scene of Reservoir Dogs. ❞

❝ You are not biased any time you ever speak the truth. ❞

❝ Already 56 retweets and 37 favourites! You're a machine! ❞

❝ Why did you hashtag it 'Pornstache'?! ❞

❝ His 'stache is sentient. ❞

❝ Wait, wait, wait, let me do some time-dilation relativity on this. ❞

❝ We're predictable macroscopically but not microscopically. ❞

❝ You are overvaluing the meaning of the present. ❞

❝ Everyone thinks they live in special times. That's the perennial frailty of our capacity to imagine the future. ❞

❝ I'm gonna go overtime here, but I gotta get this in. ❞

sentences from series 1 (episodes ‘abu dhabi’ to ‘fitton’) of the bbc radio sitcom ‘cabin pressure’, collected here for roleplaying purposes. feel free to change pronouns or ‘sir’ to ‘ma’am’ and vice versa if necessary!

❝ I'm happy to tell you that I feel lucky. ❞

❝ Ooh, what are we playing? ❞

❝ Well, get ready for a treat. ❞

❝ You're not seriously asking me to call you 'sir.' ❞

❝ I don't mind that no-one knows. ❞

❝ I am going to count to one. ❞

❝ I'm just trying to soothe the cat. ❞

❝ Do you want to go and... sew youself back together? ❞

❝ I tried my hardest, you know. ❞

❝ It's a command decision, sir. All yours. ❞

❝ Yes, thank you, Professor Science. ❞

❝ Look at yourself, _____! You have open wounds! ❞

❝ It's only a job. There'll be other jobs. ❞

❝ You know, you can give up any time you like. ❞

❝ You've set the bar punishingly high. ❞

❝ I have another job for you. ❞

❝ Yes, I know, I know. Keep your goggles on. ❞

❝ You're not going to strike terror into anyone's heart---unless you chat them up in a bar. ❞

❝ Give me a break! You're not the commander of anything! ❞

❝ I'm not crying. Your smoke got in my eyes. ❞

❝ I was thinking we could just go back home. ❞

❝ Oh, I know. Trying to save someone's life is such a chore, isn't it? ❞

❝ I don't know if you liked that. You probably didn't. ❞

❝ Remember how I didn't know three minutes ago? No new information has come in since then. ❞

❝ I just wondered if... I mean, this is a bit difficult, but... could you give me some advice? ❞

❝ You're the boss. What you say, goes. ❞

❝ All right. Tell me when you're ready. ❞

❝ While we're waiting, can I just have a quick look in duty free? ❞

❝ There is a time and a place for the strong-arm tactic. ❞

❝ I want to talk to you. Well, heaven knows that's not true, but I have things to tell you. ❞

❝ And they call Hitchcock the master of suspense. ❞

❝ There's something on your face. No, no, lower. It's hanging off the bottom of your face. It's a sort of huge shelf of bone and flesh, and it's flapping about making a horrible noise. Will you make it stop? ❞

❝ The thing is, is it unprofessional to tell a passenger that you once made a collage of her face out of pasta shapes? ❞

❝ Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I say 'know'? I meant 'care.' I really don't care. ❞

❝ Oh, I'm so sorry, _____. I thought you were one of those idiotic fans. ❞

❝ I'm so sorry if I have in any way offended you. Nothing could be further from my intention. ❞

❝ Oh God. What have I done now? ❞

❝ I just want you to make them all go away! ❞

❝ This is certainly more how I expect to be treated. ❞

❝ You sent them away? Why on earth did you send them away? ❞

❝ There is absolutely nothing to worry about. ❞

❝ You're quite the little ray of sunshine, aren't you, _____? ❞

❝ You made a right old meal of that, didn't you? ❞

❝ Ah! My cover is blown. ❞

❝ Oh, I suppose you think I'll believe anything, do you? ❞

❝ Right, come on then. Let's get out of this hellhole. ❞

❝ _____, will you put that damned thing away before I make you eat it! ❞

❝ I think we can give ourselves a license to bend the rules just a tiny bit in this situation. ❞

❝ Right, that's enough pleasantries, I think. Shall we go? ❞

❝ So... you don't think anyone will want to be with me? ❞

❝ You must feel totally emasculated. ❞

❝ I'm afraid, sir, that I like to think of myself as not quite so easily bought. ❞

❝ Nice to get some fresh air and exercise, eh? ❞

❝ I didn't think it was your style to roll over and grovel just for a big tip. ❞

❝ I seem to have lost the thread of my remarks. ❞

❝ That's almost enough to make me admire you, if you weren't so obviously an odious little tick. ❞

❝ Well then, where's your national pride, you reptile? ❞

❝ The time for quality has passed. Quantity is the watchword now! ❞

❝ What do you want to do if you grow up? ❞

❝ I think you may be showing me the wrong bag. ❞

❝ That actually is romantic. ❞

❝ Oh, please, someone save me from this. ❞

❝ _____, it's a hairdryer. You have to point it steadily. You can't just zap things dry like it's a ray gun. ❞

❝ It's a long, slightly weird story. ❞

❝ Just thought I'd stop by on my way home. ❞

❝ We meet at last! I've heard so much about you. ❞

❝ Well, won't you come in for a drink? ❞

from the shakespeare play written in approximately 1601 but meant to contain sentence starters appropriate for various situations, historical and modern. warnings for: mentions of drinking, mentions of weapons (swords). feel free to change pronouns, lord to lady and vice versa, etc etc. enjoy!

❝ If music be the food of love, play on. ❞ 

❝ Enough; no more. ❞ 

❝ 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. ❞ 

❝ What country, friends, is this? ❞ 

❝ For saying so, there's gold. ❞ 

❝ I am sure care's an enemy to life. ❞ 

❝ That quaffing and drinking will undo you. ❞ 

❝ I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. ❞ 

❝ What is 'pourquoi'? ❞ 

❝ O, had I but followed the arts! ❞ 

❝ I'll stay a month longer. ❞ 

❝ You are resolute then? ❞ 

❝ Peace, you rogue, no more of that. ❞ 

❝ Give me leave to prove you a fool. ❞ 

❝ One would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him. ❞ 

❝ Speak to me; I shall answer for her. ❞ 

❝ I would be loath to cast away my speech: for besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken great pains to con it. ❞ 

❝ Are you a comedian? ❞ 

❝ I swear, I am not that I play. ❞ 

❝ Are you the lady of the house? ❞ 

❝ If you be not mad, be gone; if you have reason, be brief. ❞ 

❝ Will you hoist sail, sir? Here lies your way. ❞ 

❝ Tell me your mind; I am a messenger. ❞ 

❝ Speak your office. ❞ 

❝ I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage. I hold the olive in my hand; my words are as full of peace as matter. ❞ 

❝ Have you no more to say? ❞ 

❝ Good madam, let me see your face. ❞ 

❝ Is it not well done? ❞ 

❝ I will not be so hard-hearted. ❞ 

❝ I see you what you are. You are too proud. ❞ 

❝ But if you were the devil, you are fair. ❞ 

❝ I cannot love him. ❞ 

❝ What is your parentage? ❞ 

❝ Get you to your lord. ❞ 

❝ Not too fast! Soft, soft! ❞ 

❝ Well, let it be. ❞ 

❝ Will you stay no longer? ❞ 

❝ My stars shine darkly over me. ❞ 

❝ If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant. ❞ 

❝ You might have saved my pains to have taken it away yourself. ❞ 

❝ I care not for good life. ❞ 

❝ What a caterwauling do you keep here! ❞ 

❝ For the love of God, peace! ❞ 

❝ Be patient for tonight. ❞ 

❝ I smell a device. ❞

❝ I was adored once, too. ❞

❝ Are you ready, sir? ❞ 

❝ You must amend your drunkenness. ❞ 

❝ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. ❞ 

❝ I thank my stars; I am happy. ❞ 

❝ I do not care for you. ❞ 

❝ I am not what I am. ❞ 

❝ I could not stay behind you. ❞ 

❝ I could be sad. ❞ 

❝ Why, this is very midsummer madness! ❞ 

❝ If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. ❞ 

❝ Here's the challenge; read it. ❞ 

❝ A good note! That keeps you from the blow of the law. ❞ 

❝ I have said too much unto a heart of stone. ❞ 

❝ And, I beseech you, come again tomorrow. ❞ 

❝ I will acquit you. ❞ 

❝ Put up your sword! ❞ 

❝ Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please. ❞ 

❝ This comes with seeking you. ❞ 

❝ Out of my sight! ❞ 

❝ Come by and by to my chamber. ❞ 

❝ Blame not this haste of mine. ❞ 

❝ Do not desire to see this letter. ❞ 

❝ This is to give a dog and in recompense desire my dog again. ❞ 

❝ For the love of God, a surgeon! ❞ 

❝ Why do you speak to me? ❞ 

❝ I never hurt you. ❞ 

❝ Most wonderful! ❞ 

❝ You have done me wrong, notorious wrong. ❞ 

❝ And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. ❞ 

"Oh, that sounded so much worse than I was bracing for."

"Don't worry, we're not doing any weird kink roleplaying... yet."

"Is that announcement-worthy?"

"Do you just feel important and powerful, via your ass?"

"Your ass is where you feel all the most important emotions."

"Leave before you just terrify us any more with this terrifying crap."

"That, like, literally jumpscared me."

"How much did they pay for this house?"

"Time to wreak some fricking havoc."

"I am gonna mess shit up."

"I'm abusing substances and I'm allowed to do it if I want!"

"I must digest more poisonous things!"

"Put me down, you bastard!"

"How do I turn on the oven?"

"I'm gonna be the best dad, you are not going to do shit."

"What is this in the cupboard?"

"Where was that petrol? I want to set myself on fire."

"Oh my God, there's a secret hatch."

"Aha! I've found you, you little bastard!"

"I think you're looking nice and safe there."

"Why don't we go for a father-son drive?"

"Let me into my own car!"

"I swear your parents had the weirdest rules of parenting."

"This game is broken."

"And you ate glass?!"

"By trying to help, I actually accelerated your demise."

"Let's never be parents."

"We live in a messed-up world."

"Yes, I was awake. I've been awake."

"I'm... I'm on my way, is where I am, and almost there already, so everything's great!"

"You don't know what happened yesterday, you're not a historian!"

"I swear to God, I will kill you!"

"I. Got. You."

"Money! I want my money!"

"Could I just sit here for a second?"

"Can you just... hang out... with me? For a second?"

"I hate men."

"There have been some... unforeseen circumstances."

"No, you lied to me! You lied to me the whole time and now you've screwed both of us!"

"It is strange in here."

"If I were you, I wouldn't leave town."

"You're a terrible assistant."

"You are endangering the whole goddamn operation!"

"I let everyone down."

"So bored. My life sucks."

"Don't worry, I'm not getting my hopes up."

"Look, it's not easy doing this under pressure."

"Not like you're paying me that much anyway."

"No, I didn't say that actually. How did you---"

"I can already tell we've got oodles in common."

"I just had a hunch you might be important."

"I barely get out of the house anymore."

"What's wrong with you, exactly?"

"Is it that important that you not be identified as my friend that you felt the need to argue about it?"

"That is not what's happening."

"Can we just be quiet for the drive?"

"Probably should've seen this one coming. Like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs."

"Bad news delivery!"

"What the hell is this new shit?!"

"We are not professionals!"

"What did you guys do to this place?"

"Nobody makes a fool out of me!"

"I'm sorry, I'm very good at getting into situations, I've often found I have more trouble getting out of them---"

"Don't worry, this one doesn't have questionable romances."

"I have no idea what's about to happen. All I know is that's cute."

"I'd like to see your failure."

"When will it end?!"

"Watch out, lads. Watch out, girls."

"You can't avoid it."

"The neighbours are going to think this is really weird."

"I wanted to win so bad!"

"Have you just lost your voice?!"

"You didn't need to try so hard!"

"Oh my god. We're going to get kicked out."

"That's how it should have gone."

"We're pretty crap."

"Don't do weird stuff to me 'cause I can't see!"

"Well, that was just an open invitation, wasn't it?"

"I feel a bit scared, I don't know why."

"Serious business, this is serious business."

"There is a death drop either side of the small platform."

"Oh, I wish you hadn't told me that."

"If I didn't tell you that, then you wouldn't know there was any danger!"

"I'm scared now, my hands are sweating already."

"This shouldn't be that hard."

"All you have to do is walk forward."

"It just felt right."

"Yes, you died."

"You're on the precipice of annihilation!"

"Zayn would be worse at this."

"I bet they're so expensive to make as well."

"Flicking it really doesn't do anything."

"Are you trolling me?"

"It was hard for you? How hard do you think it was for me emotionally?"

'Do you think all my other senses are gonna be heightened now?"

"Do you smell me about to punch you in the face?"

"French lessons were useless!"

"You were a bit too eager."

"You just moonwalked to victory!"

"You're the worst person in the world."

"How hard can this be?"

"I just burst a blood vessel."

"What a hot mess you are."

"I still have no idea what's happening."

"What's that penguin?!"

"That was something I still have nightmares about."

"I got emails from people asking for photos of my feet for 76 pounds."

"I knew exactly what I was doing!"

"That looked painful."

"You just got K.O.ed by a guy's nuts."

"Kick his butt. Or his face, that works too."

"Don't concentrate on your enemy's butt, concentrate on kicking his butt."

"I don't know what I did, but it was great!"

"This isn't how you treat a man."

"You really need to work on your intimidating banter."

"You're fighting a polar bear!"

"Mate, you're gonna be in the Wikipedia list of extinct animals."

"Don't deserve a high five for that."

"Who needs the devil when you can kick him in the face?"

"I feel like this is possibly the biggest achievement of my entire life so far."