The Dark Knight Rises (Sentence Starters)
âI never cared who you wereâŚâ
âCome with me. Save yourself, you donât owe these people any more. Youâve given them everything.â
âYou donât fear death, you welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.â
âNo, you stay here, Iâm in charge.â
âDo you feel in charge?â
âWas getting caught part of your plan?â
âThis conversation used to end with an unusual request.â
âOur plan is proceeding as expected.â
âSorry I keep letting you down.â
âThe shadows betray you, because they belong to me.â
âIâm ____âs reckoning, here to end the borrowed time youâve all been living on.â
âYouâre pure evil.â
âIâm necessary evil.â
âYou do not fear death.â
âI was wondering what would break first: your spirit, or your body?â
âShouldnât the people know the hero who saved them?â
âThereâs more to you than that.â
âYou do not fear death, you think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.â
âWhat the hell is going on?â
âYou should be as afraid of him as I am.â
âAnd you were right.â
âCalm down, ____, nowâs not the time for fear. That comes later.â
âAnd this give you power over me?â
âYou betrayed everything you stood for.â
âThereâs a storm coming, ____.â
âCongratulations, you got yourself caught. Now whatâs the next step in your master plan?â
âThereâs a point, far out there when the structures fail you, and the rules arenât weapons anymore, theyâre shackles letting the bad guy get ahead. One day you may face such a moment of crisis.â
âI had no choice, I needed a way to keep them from killing me.â
âMy mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.â
âYou think darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, moulded by it.â
âYou panicked, and your weakness has cost the lives of three others.â
âYou think I care what anyone in this room thinks of me?â
âI doubt you care what anyone in any room thinks of you.â
âI like your new girlfriend.â
âYou think youâre the only one who can find the strength to escape?â
âYou boys know you canât come into my neighborhood without asking politely.â
âI doubt many people get the better of you.â
âI thought they killed you.â
âYou just made a serious mistake.â
âI just canât take it. I mean, nobody will ever know who it was who saved an entire city.â
âNo lawyer, no witnesses? What sort of due process is this?â
âIn that moment, I hope you have a friend like I did, to plunge their hands into the filth so that you can keep yours clean.â
âYou could have gone anywhere, but you came back.â
âWe both know that now I have to kill you.â
âI started out doing what I had to. Once youâve done what you had to, theyâll never let you do what you want to.â
âCareful what you wish for.â
âIâll die before I talk.â
âYour guilt has been determined, this is merely a sentencing hearing. Now, what will it be: death or exile?â
âI need you to get me back in the game.â
âHey, when a girlâs desperate.â
âYour hands look plenty filthy to me, ____.â
âThereâs no fresh start in todayâs world. Any twelve-year-old with a cell phone could find out what you did.â
âIâm not afraid, Iâm angry.â
âI think I do more to help someone than most of the people in this room.â
âSuffering builds character.â
âWhen I spotted you, I was looking for a friend of mine, ____.â
âYou were right, about the structures becoming shackles.â
âOh boy, you are in for a show tonight.â
âMaybe your knife was too slow.â
âIs it really painful?â
âI knew ____. I was his friend. And it will be a very long time before someone inspires us the way he did.â
âWhat are you doing here? What are you working on?â
âNo more. Iâve sewn you up, Iâve set your bones, but I wonât bury you.â
âAnd yet, here you are, like weâre still at war.â
âIf you want to save the world, you have to start trusting it.â
âYou see only one end to your journey. Leaving is all I have to make you understand.â
âIâm choosing to trust you. Please.â
âYouâre welcome to try it, ____.â
âLook, you wouldnât beat up a woman any more than I would beat up a cripple⌠Of course, sometimes exceptions have to be made.â
âI always knew there was nothing here for you except pain and tragedy.â
âHappy watching, thank you.â
âHow dare you use _____ to try to stop me?â
âMaybe itâs time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.â
âThat is a man who fights with the power of belief.â
âIâm gonna do what _____ never could.â
âIâm so sorry. I failed you. You trusted me, and I failed you.â
âYou two should exchange notes over coffee.â
âNobody ever accused me of being dumb.â
âNot a lot of people know what it feels like to be angry in your bones.â
âWe could use some hotter heads around here.â
âYouâre sorry? You expect to destroy my world and then think weâre going to shake hands?â
âI wanted something more for you than that. I still do.â
âRight when I saw you, I knew who you really were.â
âShoot them. Shoot them all.â
âHe was trying to kill millions of innocent people.â
âThey âunderstand,â foster parents. Everybody âunderstandsâ for a while. Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he canât do: move on. So after a while they stop understanding.â
âYouâre not living. Youâre just waiting, hoping for things to go bad again.â
âYou donât know a thing about me.â
âIt takes a better mind than mine to fix it.â
âYou see, itâs the slow knife, the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips quietly between the bones⌠thatâs the knife that cuts deepest.â
âIs ____ really that paranoid?â
âYouâre afraid that if I go back out there Iâll fail.â
âDonât worry, _____, it takes a little time to get back into the swing of things.â
âThere are always people you care about. You just donât realize how much until theyâre gone.â
âOne manâs tool is another manâs weapon.â
âDo whatâs necessary.â
âWhy didnât you just kill me?â
âI figured it out too late, you gotta learn to hide the anger. Practice smiling in the mirror. Itâs like putting on a mask.â
âWe were in this together, and then you were gone.â
âWell, I was trying to be modest.â
âNever steal anything from someone you canât outrun, kid.â
âAbout the whole no guns thing⌠Iâm not sure I feel as strongly about that as you do.â
âI want what you owe me.â
âNoâŚIâm afraid that you want to fail.â
âThis means your hatredâŚbut it also might mean saving your life. And that is more important.â
âKeep her close, heâll come for her.â
âIâm afraid I canât allow you to leave with those.â
âTorture. But not of your bodyâŚof your soul.â
âSurvival is in the spirit. The soul.â
âFear not death, let death fear you.â
âWell then, I guess weâre both suckers.â
âMaybe youâre being unrealistic about whatâs really in your pants other than your wallet.â
âA hero can be anyone.â
âHow can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death?â
âI had it under control.â
âThose werenât street thugs, they were trained killers. I saved your life.â
âFear will find you again.â
âYou donât fear death, you welcome it.â
âA hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boyâs shoulders to let him know the world hadnât ended.â
âI do fear death. I fear dying in here.â