✧ —𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 [𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝟐]
“You ready for more yet?”
“You haven't met him yet, you haven't had the chance.”
“The sun comes up and the world still spins.”
“Now the work at home begins.”
“My home sweet home, I wanna give you a kiss.”
“I traveled the wide, wide world and came back to this.”
“I haven't even put my bags down yet.”
“I guess I better think of something to say.”
“We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less.”
“Oh, if the shoe fits, wear it.”
“It's too many damn pages for any man to understand!”
“Welcome to the present, we're running a real nation.”
“Don't lecture me about the war, you didn't fight in it!”
“You think I'm frightened of you, man?”
“Damn, you're in worse shape than the national debt is in.”
“Turn around, bend over, I'll show you where my shoe fits.”
“Such a blunder, sometimes it makes me wonder why I even bring the thunder.”
“You wanna pull yourself together?”
“They're being intransigent.”
“You have to find a compromise.”
“They don't have a plan, they just hate mine.”
“They think me Macbeth, ambition is my folly.”
“Do you have to live an ocean away?”
“There's a little surprise before supper and it cannot wait!”
“I'll be there in just a minute, save my plate.”
“Hey, our kid is pretty great.”
“Run away with us for the summer.”
“I've got so much on my plate.”
“We can all go stay with my father.”
“There's a lake I know in a nearby park.”
“You and I can go when the night gets dark.”
“In a letter I received from you two weeks ago, I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase. It changed the meaning, did you intend this?”
“I'm coming home this summer at my sister's invitation.”
“I know you're very busy, I know your work's important.”
“You're not joining us? Wait--”
“I know I'll miss your face.”
“Screw your courage to the sticking place.”
“Take a break and get away.”
“If you take your time, you will make your mark.”
“There's trouble in the air, you can smell it.”
“I hadn't slept in a week.”
“You've never seen a bastard orphan more in need of a break.”
“I know you are a man of honor.”
“I'm so sorry to bother you at home.”
“I don't know where to go, and I came here all alone.”
“I don't have the means to go on.”
“I don't know how to say no to this.”
“I wish I could say that was the last time.”
“Uh oh, you made the wrong sucker a cuckold.”
“Time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled.”
“So was your whole story a setup?”
“Stop crying, God dammit, get up!”
“I didn't know any better!”
“I am helpless, how could I do this?”
“Just give him what he wants and you can have me.”
“Whatever you want, if you pay.”
“How can I say no to this?”
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐌 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐒
“I guess I'm gonna have to finally listen to you.”
“Well, hate the sin love the sinner.”
“Decisions are happening over dinner.”
“No one else was in the room where it happened.”
“No one really knows how the game is played.”
“I know you hate him, but let's hear what he has to say.”
“Maybe we could solve one problem with another.”
“Wouldn't you like to work a little closer to home?”
“We never really know what got discussed.”
“Click boom! Then it happened.”
“You got more than you gave.”
“When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game.”
“You don't get a win unless you play in the game.”
“I wanna build something that's gonna outlive me.”
“If you stand for nothing then what'll you fall for?”
“The art of the compromise, hold your nose and close your eyes.”
“We want our leaders to save the day, but we don't get a say in what they trade away.”
“We dream of a brand new start, but we dream in the dark for the most part.”
“Sometimes that's how it goes.”
“No one knows who you are or what you do.”
“They don't need to know me, they don't like you.”
“You'll always be adored by the things you create.”
“People think you're crooked.”
“I've always considered you a friend.”
“I swear your pride will be the death of us all.”
“The only person you have to convince is me.”
“Revolution is messy, but now is the time to stand.”
“He knows nothing of loyalty.”
“Everything he does betrays the ideals our nation.”
“You must be out of your GODDAMNED mind.”
“We're too fragile to start another fight.”
“Frankly it's a little disquieting you would let your ideals blind you to reality.”
“Have you an ounce of regret?”
“Before he was your, friend he was mine.”
“I bet you were quite a lawyer.”
“Every action has an equal opposite reaction.”
“Try not to crack under the stress, we're breaking down like fractions.”
“We smack each other in the press, and we don't print retractions.”
“I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion.”
“This prick is asking for someone to bring him to task.”
“I'll pull the trigger on him, someone load the gun and cock it.”
“If we don't stop it, we aid and abet it.”
“Well, somebody has to stand up to his mouth.”
“If there's a fire you're trying to douse, You can't put it out from inside the house.”
“Follow the money and see where it goes.”
“I wanna give you a word of warning.”
“I don't know what you heard, but whatever it is, [name] started it.”
“Relax, have a drink with me.”
“Let's take a break tonight.”
“Pick up a pen, start writing.”
“I wanna talk about what I have learned.”
“You have to serve, you could continue to serve.”
“Your position is so unique.”
“Why do you have to say goodbye?”
“You are uniquely situated by virtue of your position.”
“Virtue is not a word I'd apply to this situation.”
“To seek financial gain, you stray from your sacred mission.”
“The evidence suggests you engaged in speculation.”
“I hope you saved some money for your daughter and son.”
“You don't even know what you're asking me to confess.”
“I don't have to tell you anything at all.”
“If I can prove that I never broke the law, do you promise not to tell another soul what you saw?”
“I may have mortally wounded my prospects, but my papers are orderly.”
“I never spent a cent that wasn't mine.”
“You sent the dogs after my scent, that's fine.”
“Yes, I have reason for shame. But I have not committed treason and sullied my good name.”
“As you can see, I have done nothing to provoke legal action.”
“Are my answers to your satisfaction?”
“How do I know you won't use this against me the next time we go toe to toe?”
“We both know what we know.”
“In the eye of a hurricane, there is quiet. For just a moment.”
“When I was seventeen, a hurricane destroyed my town.”
“I couldn't seem to die.”
“I looked up, and the town had it's eyes on me.”
“Total strangers, moved to kindness by my story.”
“I wrote my way out of hell.”
“I wrote my way to revolution.”
“I was louder than the crack in the bell.”
“And when my prayers to God were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance.”
“I was twelve when my mother died.”
“This is the eye of the hurricane.”
“This is the only way I can protect my legacy.”
“That's one less thing to worry about.”
“I came as soon as I heard.”
“All the way from London? Damn.”
“Thank god, someone who understands what I'm struggling here to do.”
“I love my sister more than anything in this life.”
“I will choose her happiness over mine every time.”
“You could never be satisfied.”
“God, I hope you're satisfied.”
“Hey, at least he was honest with our money.”
“You ever see somebody ruin their own life?”
“I saved every letter you wrote me.”
“Be careful with that one, love.”
“When you were mine, the world seemed to burn.”
“In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives.”
“You've married an Icarus. He has flown too close to the sun.”
“You and your words, obsessed with your legacy.”
“Your sentences border on senseless.”
“The world has no right to my heart!”
“The world has no place in our bed.”
“They don't get to know what I said.”
“I'm burning the memories, burning the letters that might have redeemed you.”
“You forfeit all rights to my heart!”
“You forfeit your place in our bed. You'll sleep in your office instead.”
“The scholars say I got the same virtuosity and brains as my pops.”
“I'm only nineteen, but my mind is older.”
“Gotta be my own man, like my father, but bolder.”
“I shoulder his legacy with pride.”
“He disparaged my father's legacy in front of a crowd.”
“I'm making my father proud.”
“How 'bout when I get back, we all strip down to our socks?”
“Shh, I'm tryin' to watch the show!”
“Ya shoulda watched your mouth before you talked about my father.”
“I didn't say anything that wasn't true.”
“Your father's a scoundrel, and so, it seems, are you.”
“I don't fool around, I'm not your little schoolboy friends.”
“Well, see you on the dueling ground. That is, unless you wanna step outside and go now.”
“I doubt you would have let it slide, and I was not about to!”
“I came to ask you for advice, this is my very first duel.”
“They don't exactly cover this subject in boarding school.”
“Did your friends attempt to negotiate a peace?”
“He refused to apologize, we had to let the peace talks cease.”
“Everything is legal in New Jersey!”
“When the time comes, fire your weapon in the air.”
“But what if he decides to shoot? Then I'm a goner!”
“To take someone's life, that is something you can't shake.”
“Your mother can't take another heartbreak.”
“You don't want this young man's blood on your conscience.”
“I'm a little nervous, but I can't show it.”
“You talk about my father, I cannot let it slide.”
“I'd rather skip the pleasantries, let's go.”
“The duel will commence after we count to ten.”
“He lost a lot of blood on the way over.”
“The bullet entered just above his hip and lodged in his right arm.”
“I'm doing everything I can, but the wound was already infected when he arrived.”
“You did everything just right.”
“Even before we got to ten, I was aiming for the sky.”
“Save your strength and stay alive.”
“Is he breathing? Is he going to survive this!?”
“I'm so sorry for forgetting what you taught me.”
“You would put your hands on mine.”
“There are moments that the words don't reach.”
“There is suffering too terrible to name.”
“There are moments when you're in so deep, it feels easier to just swim down.”
“I never liked the quiet before.”
“You would like it uptown, it's quiet uptown.”
“They say he walks the length of the city.”
“You knock me out, I fall apart.”
“Look at where we are, look at where we started.”
“I know I don't deserve you, [name].”
“Hear me out, that would be enough.”
“If I could trade his life for mine, he'd be standing here right now.”
“I know there's no replacing what we've lost, and you need time.”
“Just let me stay here by your side. That would be enough.”
“There's a grace too powerful to name.”
“We push away what we can never understand.”
“We push away the unimaginable.”
“Forgiveness... Can you imagine?”
“They are going through the unimaginable.”
“Can we get back to politics?”
“I love the guy, but he's in traction.”
“He's not very forthcoming on any particular stances.”
“Ask him a question, it glances off. He obfuscates, he dances.”
“You need to change course, a key endorsement might redeem you.”
“You've created quite a stir, sir.”
“You're openly campaigning?”
“Honestly, it's kind of draining.”
“Is there anything you wouldn't do?”
“I'm chasing what I want. And y'know what? I learned that from you.”
“The people are asking to hear my voice.”
“I have never agreed with [name] once.”
“Congrats on a race well-run.”
“I look forward to our partnership.”
“I am slow to anger, but I toe the line.”
“I look back on where I failed, and in every place I checked, the only common thread has been your disrespect.”
“If you've got something to say, name a time and place, face-to-face.”
“I have the honor to be your obedient servant.”
“I am not the reason no one trusts you.”
“I will not equivocate on my opinion, I have always worn it on my sleeve.”
“Even if I said what you think I said, you would need to cite a more specific grievance.”
“Here's an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements.”
“I don't wanna fight, but I won't apologize for doing what's right.”
“Careful how you proceed, good man.”
“Answer for the accusations I lay at your feet, or prepare to bleed.”
“I stand by what I said, every bit of it.”
“You stand only for yourself, it's what you do.”
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇
“I wish I could tell you what was happening in his brain.”
“My fellow soldiers'll tell you I'm a terrible shot.”
“It's him or me, the world will never be the same.”
“This man will not make an orphan of my daughter.”
“If I throw away my shot, is this how you'll remember me?”
“What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.”
“Teach me how to say goodbye.”
“My love, take your time. I'll see you on the other side.”
“History obliterates. In every picture it paints, it paints me and all my mistakes.”
“I survived, but I paid for it.”
“Now I'm the villain in your history.”
“I was too young and blind to see.”
“I should have known the world was wide enough.”
𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒, 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒, 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘
“When you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame, who tells your story?”
“I put myself back in the narrative.”
“I stopped wasting time on tears.”
“When I needed her most, she was right on time.”
“I ask myself, what would you do if you had more time?”
“You could have done so much more if you only had time.”
“When my time is up, have I done enough?”
“Oh, can I show you what I'm proudest of?”
“Will they tell my story?”
“I can't wait to see you again.”
“It's only a matter of time.”