THE ATLAS SIX SENTENCE STARTERS
These quotes are all taken from the novel “The Atlas Six” by Olivie Blake. Change pronouns etc. as needed. Trigger warning for strong & suggestive language.
“Beware the man who faces you unarmed. If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon.”
“That’s the line you’re going with? Come on, you can do better. I know you must have rehearsed it in the shower.”
“I wouldn’t describe anything that just happened as inconsequential.”
“It’s not hate. It’s corrupted love, twisted love. Love with a sickness, a parasite.”
Haven’t you figured out by now that I want your problems?”
“The secret is people want to break.”
“Whatever will I do without your approval?”
“Habitually, I refrain from trusting people like you.”
“Either you’re complete or you’re not. Stop looking. It’s right fucking there.”
“You’re a fire hazard. So stop apologizing for the damage and just let the fuckers burn.”
“It is the remarkable who suffer. The unremarkable are passed over, yes, but greatness is not without its pains.”
“You want to believe that your hesitation makes you good, makes you better? It doesn’t.”
“We are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal - that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn.”
“We aren’t normal; we are gods born with pain built in.”
“Don’t envy me. Fear me.”
“You have no idea what I am. You think my looks are what make me? My ambitions? You can’t begin to know the sum of my parts, and you can stare all you like, but you won’t see a damn thing until I show you.”
“Am I just always going to be your princess in the tower?”
“I always have enemies. It’s unavoidable.”
“Can’t you strike a deal with the devil if it means getting what you want?”
“You have only one true choice in this life: live or die. It is your decision. It is the only thing no one else can take from you.”
“Regrettably, I do want you to trust me.”
“Perhaps you’re unfamiliar with the concept of trust. but it’s very rarely based on nothing.”
“There’s a difference between what we are capable of and how we choose to use it.”
“Can you imagine? Being like that. Born with all that power and still not good enough, still desperate to flee the room.”
“I never despair. I am only ever patently unsurprised.”
“If I were to elect to do something stupid, I would not require your opinion on the matter:”
“The world is filled with poets who thought a woman’s love has unmade them.”
“I’d do something about it, only the prospect of managing anything at all sounds positively exhausting.”
“There is no fate so final as betrayal. Trust, once dead, cannot be resurrected.”
“There is nothing so destructive as thought, and especially not one that can never be rescinded.”
“You’re a terrible bore when you’re unrested.”
“You’re the kind of beauty that drives men to warfare. To madness.”
“You’re lonely because you chose to be.”
“You’ve spend most of your existence in the singular belief that you’re winning.”
“You’re very guarded with me. It’s rather starting to hurt my feelings.”
“I wasn’t aware you had any feelings available to hurt.”
“You must wonder sometimes if it would be easier to not exist.”
“We don’t need to talk about it. In fact I’d prefer if we didn’t.”
“You’re not only lurking, you’re pining.”
“Just come in here and tell me what’s bothering you so we can move this along.”
“If you go soft then I’ll have to be soft, and I can’t begin to tell you how little time I have for pretense.”
“For what it’s worth, it’s you I’d most want in bed.”
“I don’t make a habit of doing things I should.”
“Self-deprecation is such a waste. Either you believe you’re worthy or you don’t, end of the story.”
“I find people to be largely disappointing.”
