What Remains of Edith Finch - sentence starters
1. “A lot of this isn’t going to make sense to you, and I’m sorry about that.”
2. “Crawling through the doggy door used to be a lot easier when I was ______.”
3. “I lived here until I was ______, but I wasn’t allowed inside half the rooms.”
4. “Let go, you’re going to rip it!”
5. “The thing you’re afraid of isn’t going to end when you leave the house!”
6. “As a kid, I just assumed every house had peepholes and sealed rooms you weren’t allowed inside of.”
7. “Whenever people ask me about my family, the first thing they always want to know about is _____.”
8. “_____ always seemed like a ______ I could be friends with… if she/he/they hadn’t died in ____.”
9. “____ told me there were secret passages, but I never believed him/her/them.”
10. “Turns out, ____ was really good at keeping secrets.”
11. “_____ has a right to know these stories!”
12. “I think it’s best if ____ and I leave tonight.”
13. “My ______ are dead because of your stories!”
14. “I’ll be gone soon, but I wanted to tell somebody about what’s going to happen.”
15. “The gerbil food was dry, but I didn’t mind it.”
16. “When I opened my eyes, everything had changed.”
17. “I wanted to stop, but also, I didn’t.”
18. “I think it’s waiting for me to fall asleep, but it’s not going to wait much longer.”
19. “Whatever’s wrong with this family, it goes back a long ways.”
20. “If _____ had told me there would be so much climbing, I never would have come when I was 22 weeks pregnant.”
21. “I guess now I know why ____ didn’t like me playing with music box.”
23. “This is where your story begins. I’m sorry I won’t be there to see it.”
24. “I think ____ always wanted to fly.”
25. “Well, I’m not scared, ____. I’m furious!”
26. “______ took it all pretty hard.”
27. “On that first day, when the shaking started, I didn’t think I’d survive a week.”
28. “I always expected to be dead tomorrow.”
29. “I’m done waiting. I have to leave while I still can.”
30. “I’m sure ____ was trying to protect me.”
31. “I don’t want to make the same mistakes ______ made.”
32. “Maybe we believed so much in a family curse, we made it real.”
33. “Maybe it would be better if all this just died with me.”
34. “I think we’ve been surrounded by death for so long, we’ve just gotten used to it.”
35. “My imagination is as real as my body.”
36. “Just be careful. That camera’s older than you are.”
37. “I’m just saying. I’m not always going to be here, ____. You’re going to need to remember this stuff, if you want to survive.”
38. “I wonder what ______ saw. What his/her/their world was like.”
39. “I’m sure ______’s happy, and he/she/they would want you to be happy too.”
40. “My ____ was really cool. I wish you could have met him/her/them.”
41. “And then I was alone. The last ____ left alive.”
