Daughter of the Lilies - Book 1: A Girl With No Face - sentence starters
1. “Oh, I’m sorry. I guess I’m a little on edge because there is a cannibalistic _____ crawling around here somewhere and it can see in the dark.”
2. “They’re gonna kill me! Help! HELP!”
3. “He/she/they ripped off my hood. He/she/they saw me.”
4. “Let’s see. Oh. Uh… this is a little outside my ability.”
6. “Just show me why I should be hiring you.”
7. “I… I can’t show my face. I’ll understand if that’s a problem.”
8. “You know it’s already dead, right?”
9. “This wouldn’t have happened if the other one hadn’t been there.”
10. “I thought you were going to fix it, not make it worse!”
11. “They took a bite out of me, _______!”
12. “FINE. Ruin your arm. I don’t care.”
13. “They were afraid of me. Even _______ are afraid of me.”
14. “What I’m trying to say is that you’re not like them. You’re smart and talented and we like you. Why can’t you like yourself?”
15. “You’re my employee. Your job is to follow orders. My job is to take care of you.”
16. “Is it true you don’t like working with ______?”
17. “I don’t like working with idiots. Need smart, dependable people who keep heads in a fight. Can trust to watch back. That someone I like working with. And I like working with you.”
18. “I’m running out of flowers.”
19. “NO. No fighting. You will be on your best behavior or you’re fired.”
20. “IF YOU EVER MENTION MY _______ AGAIN…!”
21. “Breathe. Remember where you are.”
22. “Good job. But your control was bad. We’ll talk about that later.”
23. “Hey. Sorry about that. We fight a lot. You get used to it.”
24. “Oh! No worries! Everyone has bad days, right?”
25. “I wasn’t abandoned. My parents are dead.”
26.”You handled it well, though. I would have just punched someone in the face if it had been me.”
27. “Oh please. One quick roundhouse and I would have put you on the floor.”
28. “What’s with the hood?”
29. “Maybe I am old-fashioned, but ______ have nothing to teach us other than new ways to kill each other!”
30. “Thank you very much for the opportunity, _______, but I’m afraid I can’t work for you.”
31. “And you spent all your money on clothes!”
32. “Those old words. Do you even know what they mean?”
33. “Look, I feel sorry for you, so I’ll make you a deal. Step into the circle with me.”
34. “You can tell that I’m not like the others that you’ve seen. It’s because I am very old and very powerful.”
35. “I can teach you amazing things! Make you stronger than the ______ themselves! No one would be able to touch you!”
36. “You’re the reason your _____ is dead!”
37. “I am terribly sorry. I wasn’t listening. Were you saying something?”
38. “How many of these damn things are there?!”
39. “For god’s sake, _______, MOVE YOUR ASS!”
40. “It… it is you, isn’t it? ______? Well, if-if-if-if it is you, I-I-I just wanted to say… sorry.”
41. “They’re pulling me in! Help! HELP!”
42. “You ain’t the first to try, but everyone else only ever said the same thing: It was impossible. Even with magic.”
43. “Here. I’m sorry. I would give you more, but it’s all I’ve got on me.”
44. “I don’t know how it all works. I’m still learning. It wasn’t supposed to be me.”
45. “NO! LISTEN TO ME! Whoa, uh, that was really loud. Sorry.”
46. “Do you mind? Do you have any idea how difficult this is?”
47. “We do not have a choice. We must kill the host.”
48. “Sorry I called you crazy.”
49. “Would you look at this! Incredible! I didn’t know I could do this! Did you?!”
50. “Oh dear… you seem to be in a lot of pain. Don’t worry. I know a way to make it stop.”
51. “You have to destroy the circle. Don’t let it finish the circle.”
52. “It’s gone! All my hard work… it’s all gone! You ruined it! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!”
53. “This is it! This is our shot!”
54. “I deserve this. My ______ is dead and I am responsible. I can’t leave.”
55. “I can’t fix this. He’s/she’s/they’re gone. He/she/they’ll never be able to forgive me. I don’t deserve to be saved.”
56. “Forgiveness is not earned, it is given. Give it to yourself.”
57. “I’m so sorry. I failed you in the worst way a ______ could fail their ______.”
58. “I love you. I’m proud you are my _______.”
59. “Where did this _____ come from? It couldn’t have been my _______, because I explicitly remember forbidding this practice.”
60. “I don’t want to get anyone in trouble.”
61. “I let my frustrations control my words. We should not have met this way.”
62. “I can’t believe you talked to ______ like that.”
63. “Hey, ya’ll alive? Didn’t get you, did it?”
64. “I’m fine! You weren’t kidding about how big it was.”
65. “Have we met? You look familiar.”
66. “It’s just… it’s been there so long that it feels like its a part of me. I can’t tell which thoughts are mine and which are…”
67. “I’m sorry. I… I don’t… I can’t….”
68. “Can… can you keep a secret?”
69. “Please don’t tell anyone… about me and… and the….”
70. “Don’t forget: no scratching.”
71. “I’d happily dump a _______’s chamberpots if it meant they would teach me their secrets. I’d relish the opportunity rather than waste it.”
72. “Sorry? Embarrassed? Don’t you fret, _______. It’s not a wasted experience, provided you learned from it.”
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