↪ ᵗʰᵉ 𝑫𝑼𝑺𝑻𝒀 𝑻𝑶𝒀𝑩𝑶𝑿 . ( a collection of various unsorted sentence starters . adjust phrasing as necessary . no longer updating . )
why are you here ?
drive . drive fast .
i think we should make an informed decision .
are you coming or not ?
you’ve been avoiding me .
[ name ] , what were you thinking ?
this should be your priority .
let me hold you for a minute .
get out of my way . i won’t tell you again .
that wasn’t supposed to happen .
can you keep a secret ?
i don’t know what i did to deserve you .
you seriously think i could’ve done something like that ?
you’re safe with me .
sorry isn’t good enough .
where is all this coming from ?
who told you about that ?
sorry i’m late , i got caught up .
you’re being paranoid .
why are you looking at me like that ?
you’re the single most important thing to me .
all i’m asking is that you hear me out .
whatever they told you , it’s a lie .
we shouldn’t stick around here .
hold my hand , i don’t want to lose track of you .
[ name ] … truth or dare ?
i love you . nothing’s gonna change that .
can you tell me what happened ?
you can’t come around here anymore .
back off , okay ?
what , you don’t have time for me anymore ?
you’re asking for too much .
i’m trying to start a new life .
what do you mean , you aren’t coming back ?
sometimes i think you must hate me .
why can’t we just talk about this ?
i know i fucked up , you can stop rubbing it in .
you’ve got quite a reputation .
i’m not usually like this , i’m sorry .
please , just let me explain myself .
i love watching you work .
we’re on the same team .
did you ever tell anyone ?
you’ve got a lot of explaining to do .
really funny , you’re very mature .
you call THAT a PLAN ?
can we get out of here ?
i thought things would be different .
this is not up for debate !
do whatever you have to do .
karma’s going to get you for that .
it could’ve been a lot worse .
i asked you to leave me out of this .
maybe it’s time to take a leap of faith .
i never want to see you again .
can you see how many fingers i’m holding up ?
i’m gonna be there when you get what’s coming to you .
you’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me .
i’ve been waiting all night for this .
i told you not to contact me .
sometimes i really think you have a death wish .
what do you need ? — what can i do ?
i would do literally anything to keep you safe .
that was supposed to be a secret .
you haven’t called me that in years .
stop telling me to calm down !
we make a pretty good team .
i have so much i want to say to you .
i’m not going to let anyone hurt you .
can we please not do this right now ?
wait , wait … just breathe for a second .
how are you holding up ?
why don’t you stay the night ? i’ll take the couch .
i don’t need your protection !
you’re not making this easier on yourself .
are you going to let me in ?
i’m supposed to be protecting you .
i will kill you if i have to .
do whatever you have to do .
this is going to hurt , i’m sorry .
what happened to you , where have you been ?!
there was nothing you could’ve done .
you’re all i need right now .
i don’t believe in love at first sight .
have you been following me ?
i need you to believe me .
what do you remember ?
i’m not a good person .
what the hell’s going on with you ?
you’re being followed .
just when i thought my day couldn’t be any worse .
i’ve been having weird dreams .
so you’ve been lying to me this whole time ?
are you trying to get us killed ?
this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me .
i never asked for your help .
you’re being followed , pretend you know me .
why has it started to feel different with you ?
don’t worry , i have a plan .
i heard everything .
do you need to sit down ?
i have the right to know what’s going on .
i’ve just gotta catch my breath .
stay out of my business .
what did you think was going to happen ?!
don’t cause a scene .
tell me something about you that i don’t know .
can i buy you a drink ?
what if … we played spin the bottle ?
this was never a problem until [ name ] came around .
you can’t ask me to make that choice .
are you seeing anyone right now ?
i need you to listen to me , we don’t have long .
you’re lying , that doesn’t make any sense .
you look … stunning .
what are you trying to prove ?
who died and made you the boss of me ?
you can’t just show up here like this .
let me make it up to you .
there’s no way i’m leaving you like this .
can we stay like this ? just for a little longer .
i don’t need you to fight for me .
so … you lied to me ?
you’re the only one that can help me .
i can’t help you if you won’t let me .
i never introduced myself , i’m [ name ] .
i expected more from you .
you have no idea who i am , do you ?
are you real ? is this real ?
can i stay with you ? just for the night .
you’re going to get yourself killed .
why did you help me ?
tell me what i can do to help .
pick a card , any card .
i never wanted any of this .
i love you . you don’t have to say it back .
do you wanna get out of here ?
what the hell are you talking about ?
i should have trusted you .
get your head out of the clouds .
how is any of this MY fault ?!
what aren’t you telling me ?
i can’t help you if you won’t let me .
it’s never just one with you , is it ?
you’re not supposed to know about that .
shut your mouth .
i haven’t kissed you yet , today .
where is this coming from ?
come over here and make me , then .
keep lying to yourself , see where it gets you .
i’m not a bad person .
is that what you wanted to hear ?
we can’t be seen together .
i can’t give you what you want .
i need you to leave .
are you drunk ?
i’m here , i’m here . i’m not going anywhere .
you might want to take a seat for this .
have you been listening to anything i’ve said ?
i haven’t heard from you in weeks .
you’re jealous , aren’t you ?
who do you think you’re talking to ?
what are you reading ?
you could’ve killed me !
come on , we don’t have time for this .
i just need ten minutes of silence .
really ? that’s all you have to say ?
we could leave , you know . go far away .
you don’t look too good .
i never want to see you again .
why can’t you just leave me alone ?
i thought you died .
you’ll do anything for attention .
give me another chance .
how’s the weather up there ?
all you do is hurt people !
i’m sorry , none of this makes sense .
you need to get out of here before anyone sees you .
i told you i didn’t want you around here .
is that supposed to be a threat ?
you’ve changed .
don’t look at me like that .
it’s a beautiful day , don’t you think ?
i did what i had to do .
you never know when to stop .
i’ve got to get home , it’s getting late .
i have nothing to prove to you .
stop LYING to me … all you do is lie .
you don’t have to be nice to everybody .
don’t tell me what to do .
pull your head out of the past .
nobody can help me . i can’t even help me .
we are not talking about that right now .
are you new around here ?
you have no idea what you’re starting .
i’m gonna get us out of here .
whatever you came here to say , i don’t want to hear it .
everyone’s staring at us .
is there anything i can do to help ?
i won’t cause you any more trouble .
– just follow my instructions for once !
do you want to come in ?
i just didn’t know what to do .
you need rest , lie down .
i’m not who you think i am .
i don’t know what you want me to say .
you’re not like anyone else i’ve ever met .
i feel like i’m going insane .
stop asking , you’re not going to like my answer .
i didn’t want you to see me any differently .
i wish i knew what to say to you .
don’t give me that look , you know what i mean .
you should be afraid .
do you still love me ?
i never thought i’d get this far .
the world doesn’t revolve around you .
i need you to give me some space .
i know what you’re doing , don’t play games .
you left me to die .
i’m beyond repentance .
when are you going to get it through your head ?
i missed you more than i thought i would .
i’m in love with you .
what do you need from me ?
i’ll kill them , just say the word .
[ name ] , what are you doing here ?
how can i help ?
you’re pathetic .
i need you to come pick me up .
where have you been ? it’s eleven o’clock .
i couldn’t live with myself if i let you get hurt .
i can’t just pretend it didn’t happen .
you’re a real piece of work .
do you remember how we first met ?
when did all of this fall apart ?
that’s not what i came here for .
i would do anything for you .
i don’t need you to hold my hand through this .
are you sure this is the right thing to do ?
can’t we try to pretend things are okay ?
what is THAT supposed to mean ?
you’re always late , what am i supposed to think ?
there’s nothing you can do to fix this .
you’re far too kind to me .
can we go now ? like , right now ?
i have to do this alone .
where’s your common sense ?
we aren’t supposed to be in here .
can you feel my heartbeat ?
i think i’ve seen you around before .
why are you acting weird ?
i have a really bad feeling .
i hate seeing you like this .
how am i supposed to react to that ?
what do you want most in the world ?
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𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐞 : 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔
‘ i’ll find you again , wherever we end up next . ’
‘ the enormity of my desire disgusts me . ’
‘ please , one more kiss in the kitchen before we turn the lights off . ’
‘ i’ve been lost but i’m here now . you’re the only person who has ever been able to find me . ’
‘ almost dead yesterday , maybe dead tomorrow , but alive , gloriously alive , today . ’
‘ you are not broken . ’
‘ you can love and be loved , despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world . ’
‘ i did violence to my own heart . ’
‘ will i be forgiven for the sins i did not commit , but created ? ’
‘ i would never kiss anyone who doesn’t burn me like the sun . ’
‘ i would rather break the world than lose you . ’
‘ i think you and i have known each other in a few lifetimes . ’
‘ i didn’t know . i had no idea how greedy my heart really was . ’
‘ is that why the idea of losing you torments me so much ? ’
‘ how long have i been without you ? ’
‘ am i foolish for wanting this ? it will end in flames . it always does . ’
‘ sorry about the blood in your mouth . i wish it was mine . ’
‘ if i love you , is that a fact or a weapon ? ’
‘ tell me how all this , and love too , will ruin us . ’
‘ and you realize the one person in the world who loves you isn’t the one you thought it would be . ’
‘ it cannot be a mistake to have cared . it cannot be an error to have tried . it cannot be incorrect to have loved . ’
‘ finally , i plead guilty of adoring you . ’
‘ a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort . ’
‘ without realizing , i find it in myself that i cannot stop thinking about you . ’
‘ tomorrow , when i wake up , i promise , i will be better . ’
‘ someone has to leave first . this is a very old story . there is no other version of this story . ’
‘ when i imagine myself , i am always leaving . i couldn’t draw my own face if god asked . ’
‘ do we simply stare at what’s horrible and forgive it ? ’
‘ i wanted to let go of the pain even though it was the last thing that felt alive from you . ’
‘ have i endured loneliness with grace ? ’
‘ i’ll be your slaughterhouse , your killing floor , your morgue and final resting , walking around with this bullet inside me ‘cause i couldn’t make you love me and i am tired of pulling your teeth . ’
‘ and then my soul saw you and kind of went , ‘ oh , there you are . i’ve been looking for you . ’ ’
‘ sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body . ’
‘ i spent my life arguing how i mattered until it didn’t matter . ’
‘ who knew my haven would be my coffin ? ’
‘ dead is the safest i’ve ever been . ’
‘ i’ve never been so alive . ’
‘ you know what i was gonna tell you before , but didn’t have the nerve ? you got your name written all over me . i got my name written on you , too . ’
‘ you already are something . you always were . and you still have time to be . ’
‘ you know me by heart . it infuriates me that you know me by heart . ’
‘ why am i waiting for you ? hungering and thirsting for you in every cranny of my soul and even in my ribs ? ’
‘ you came with a handful of pain and a smile which broke the ground under my feet as the earthquake does when two people meet . ’
‘ the only good thing is that i’m getting used to suffering . ’
‘ the return to time was not my choice . ’
‘ we are built to live inside each other . this means we are built to ruin . ’
‘ time does not bring relief ; you all have lied . ’
‘ time does not know how to keep our hopes safe . ’
‘ you needed me so much that you had to end me . ’
‘ there are days where i am morbidly in love with you , and this is one of those days . ’
‘ i know no end to desiring you . ’
‘ i fear that i am both too much yet not enough . ’
‘ yes , yes , yes , i do like you . i am afraid to say the stronger word . ’
‘ a heart’s a heavy burden . ’
‘ life , as i see it , is all about farewells rather than reunions . ’
‘ heaven is real and you only had two minutes to prove it to me . ’
‘ it was already love . ’
‘ everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that they deserve it . ’
‘ i’ll love you until i forget how to . ’
‘ i’ll love you until i forget how to and then i’ll fall like my knees aren’t already bruised from doing it and i’ll remember why you’re worth the ache . ’
‘ of course i’ll hurt you . of course you’ll hurt me . of course we’ll hurt each other . but this is the very condition of existence . ’
‘ nothing makes me sadder and nothing makes me happier than you . ’
‘ i love you and i do not want to love you , it is too much and too difficult . ’
‘ grief is just love with no place to go . ’
‘ i felt my life with both my hands to see if it was there . ’
‘ you do this , you do . you take the things you love and you tear them apart . ’
‘ i hope it’s love . i’m trying really hard to make it love . ’
‘ if you touch me again i might burn up in the cold air . ’
‘ i asked you not to leave several times . ’
‘ i’ve only adored you lifetimes ago and here we are . it’s nice to see you again . ’
‘ all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember . ’
‘ i feel as though we were never strangers , you and i , not even for a moment . ’
‘ i’d choose you ; in a hundred different lifetimes , in a hundred worlds , in any version of reality , i’d find you and i’d choose you . ’
‘ nothing about this is soft but we pretend . ’
‘ maybe you and i are just a dream . ’
‘ i know you loved me too , you knew me , and it gladdens my heart . ’
‘ i promise i shall never give up and that i’ll die yelling and laughing . ’
‘ i don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision . ’
‘ the world was made so that we could find each other in it . ’
‘ you don’t meet the people you love , you recognize them . ’
‘ i think you and i have known each other a few lifetimes . ’
‘ this body knows fear like a front porch knows welcome – it is always coming home . ’
‘ i miss you more than i remember you . ’
‘ if i could have done it all again , i would have loved you better . but i could not have loved you more . ’
‘ we could have been happy . i know that , and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know . ’
‘ you want a better story . who wouldn’t ? ’
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* ( THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR / SENTENCE PROMPTS.
These may have been edited for clarity or length or to better apply for roleplaying.
❛ i was just really, really sad. ❜
❛ dead doesn’t mean gone. ❜
❛ i thought i was going to die too. ❜
❛ it only felt like dying because, actually, i was still alive. ❜
❛ to truly love another person is to accept that the work of loving them is worth the pain of losing them. ❜
❛ we can’t count on the past. ❜
❛ we think we have it trapped in our memories, but memories fade. ❜
❛ you’ll find it much quieter out here. ❜
❛ any of us could die at any moment. ❜
❛ she/he was my anchor. ❜
❛ i’m a lot braver than people think. ❜
❛ nothing holds, and all things change, given time. ❜
❛ change does not often announce itself. ❜
❛ all things fade. ❜
❛ time takes all things. ❜
❛ it is the way of the world. ❜
❛ the past recedes, memories fade, and so, true, does the spirit. ❜
❛ everything yields to time, even the soul. ❜
❛ there’s a difference between feeling good and feeling alive. ❜
❛ funerals are for the living. it’s up to the living to decide what they can and cannot bear. ❜
❛ i don’t know why brilliant young women are always punished. ❜
❛ you don’t have to lose yourself to find happiness, you know. ❜
❛ i was having the strangest dream. ❜
❛ what have you got when your back’s against the wall when there’s nothing left for you but faith? ❜
❛ sometimes, right can seem wrong, and wrong can seem right. ❜
❛ do you know what life is really all about? ❜
❛ save them all if you can, but put your own oxygen mask on first. ❜
❛ death is something to mourn, not fear. ❜
❛ i wasn't going to ask you if you're alright because i don't like being lied to. so, what's wrong? ❜
❛ everyone is exhaustive. even the best ones. ❜
❛ we are meant to die. it's natural. ❜
❛ every living thing grows out of every dying thing. ❜
❛ that's where all it's beauty lies, you know, in the mortality of the thing. ❜
❛ one day at a time is what we've got. ❜
❛ one day at a time is what we've got. it's what everybody's got, if you get down to it. ❜
❛ if you can't feel anything, then i'll feel everything for the both of us. ❜
❛ but no one is going anywhere, okay? ❜
❛ you shouldn't be thinking of losing each-other at all. ❜
❛ don't let that loom over your happiness right now. ❜
❛ it is rare what you've got. ❜
❛ what is the catch? ❜
❛ i’m not running, from anything and it hurts me when you say that. ❜
❛ perfectly splendid. ❜
❛ you have to promise me that you’ll stay in your room. ❜
❛ none of us are blameless. ❜
❛ on a scale of zero to american, how would you rate her? ❜
❛ it’s such a draining thing, dealing with children. ❜
❛ i have an inquiring mind. ❜
❛ we both know you don’t make mistakes. ❜
❛ let me guess, you are to be our very own mary poppins? ❜
❛ i hope she haunts that fucker forever. ❜
❛ why should anyone hate a lake? ❜
❛ let me show you just how beautiful you are. ❜
❛ it’s just you and me then. ❜
❛ look at you all flush. you’re pretty when you blush. ❜
❛ being with him might be scary at times but, it’s also exciting and fun. ❜
❛ and for the first time in my life, that little voice in my head saying i’m not good enough has disappeared. ❜
❛ i’ve never felt so alive. ❜
❛ i swear, you’re such a bore, and you don’t know when the leave well enough alone. ❜
❛ sometimes people just need to be alone. ❜
❛ i couldn’t sleep. i feel like i can never sleep again, frankly. ❜
❛ haven’t we done this already? ❜
❛ i have a surprise for you. ❜
❛ i have a surprise for you. ❜
❛ don’t leave your room at night. ❜
❛ the past is always present. ❜
❛ the stories we tell each other have a way of changing. ❜
❛ love is a haunting melody that i have never mastered and i fear i never will. ❜
❛ no good ever comes from dwelling on the worst. ❜
❛ you can’t choose who you love. ❜
❛ ghosts do not have to be scary. they can be comforting. ❜
❛ the heart is a fragile thing, and it can break in many different ways. ❜
❛ people often fear what they cannot understand. ❜
❛ we are all haunted in some way, by the things we have lost or the things we have done. ❜
❛ death is not the end, it’s just a door we all have to go through. ❜
❛ the past cannot be changed, but it can still hurt us. ❜
❛ the things we bury have a way of finding their way back to the surface. ❜
❛ some people are born to be alone, and others are born to be together. ❜
❛ ghosts are memories, and memories are what make us who we are. ❜
❛ the dead don’t really leave us. they live on in the memories we have of them. ❜
❛ the more we try to run from something, the more it chases us. ❜
❛ we all have a shadow self, the part of us that we don’t like to admit exists. ❜
❛ the world is full of secrets, and some are best left buried. ❜
❛ the heart wants what it wants, and sometimes that can be a terrifying thing. ❜
❛ every relationship is a dance, and both people need to be willing to take a step forward. ❜
❛ life can be cruel, but it can also be beautiful. ❜
❛ we are all just playing a part, but some roles are harder to shake off than others. ❜
❛ the past is written, but the future is still unwritten. ❜
❛ the greatest tragedy in life is not death, but the things we leave unsaid. ❜
❛ i do not like this game. ❜
❛ i'm actually pretty in love with you. ❜
❛ no one should ever need that much help. ❜
❛ you let me handle this part. ❜
❛ the wrong kind of love can fuck you up, follow you and make you do some really stupid shit. ❜
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