how to sell a haunted house - grady hendrix sentence starters
change tenses/pronouns as needed !! Â some lines have been edited for clarity / length / ease of roleplaying
tw ; death , alcohol , language , mental health
âyou need to sit down.â
âjesus, iâm sorry Iâm not doing it the right way. iâm sure youâd be perfect at this.â
âI find knowing these details makes it easier.â
âyou should have a drink, too.â
âiâm not going to die. not for a long time.â
âjust because we shared a bathroom for fifteen years doesnât mean you know a thing about me.â
âmy yoga instructor knows more about me than you do.â
âI knew youâd do this. I knew youâd show up and start telling everyone what to do.â
âlook, I know you need to be in charge, but Iâve taken care of this.â
âstop telling me how to deal with things. things are dealt with. I dealt with them.â
âyou canât argue with someone when theyâre upset.â
âI donât know what got into me, but I overreacted and Iâm not proud of if it, and it wasnât fair to you.â
âyou always needed everyone looking at you.â
âI didnât do it for attention. I did it because I was upset.â
âI donât like coming in here anyways. itâs got bad vibes.â
âyou canât put a price tag on love.â
âbeing here is really bad for my mental health.â
âI know you donât like me because iâm not successful enough for you.â
âiâm actually happy with my life.â
âif we arenât related, if we met today, we wouldnât chose to be friends.â
âI donât think we should be in here at all. I think my plan was better.â
âdonât you feel the vibes?â
âthis is happening too fast. we need to slow down.â
âyour house is haunted.â
âevery single time I give you the benefit of the doubt, or I try to help, it comes back and bites me in the ass. every! single! time!â
âour house is not haunted.â
âiâm telling you thereâs weird vibe. I can feel it in my gut.â
âmethinks thou doth protesteth too much.â
âghosts donât exist.â
âthere are true things and there are false things, and there are no in-betweens.â
âthere are facts, like houses and car accidents and cremation, and thereâs bullshit like ghosts and vibes and exorcisms. and if you start getting the true things mixed up with the false things, youâre fucked!â
âreality is not a consensus!â
âwhen you donât like the way a conversation is going you deflect with personal attacks.â
âyouâre like some kind of emotionally abusive octopus entangling everyone in your word tentacles.â
âeven I know that you donât go back in a haunted house after dark.â
âthe only things here are memories, and those canât hurt us.â
âyouâre very threatened by new ideas.â
âI offered to stay tonight because I thought it would be good for you. iâm hoping it gives you some closure.â
âwhy are you so mad at me? is it because you feel guilty?â
âiâm sorry you remember it that way because that must feel terrible, but thatâs not what happened.â
âstop telling me what I remember!â
âno one ever says no to you, (name) because weâre all scared youâre going to lose your temper.â
âoh, fuck you. nice try, (name), but fuck you.â
âno matter what you did, I still donât want anything bad to happen to you.â
âeverything has to be a big production and youâre the star.â
âeverything has to be a big production and youâre the star. all because you canât face the fact that your life is sad and empty.â
âitâs a little late for you to start being my brother now.â
âyou blew my mind. it felt like we were the only two people left in the world.â
âno matter what, I donât want to ditch you here with a bunch of ghosts.â
âright now what you need, for once in your life, is to listen to me.â
âthe way youâre laughing is actually really, really scary.â
ânone of this is real.â
âI donât think Iâm well. I think something is really wrong inside me.â
âdonât you fucking laugh at me. for the first time ever, my life finally makes sense.â
âI donât think I know whatâs real anymore.â
âmy explanation is logically consistent. yours is all magical energy.â
âit was absolutely terrifying.â
âhow much trouble are you in?â
âlook at me. youâre not crazy. this really happened.â
âdonât make this funny.â
everything youâve seen tonight, iâve seen it too.â
âiâm sorry I wasnât stronger.â
âit was easier to pretend nothing happened.â
âmy entire life Iâve always known something was wrong with me. iâve spend my entire life scared that if didnât do everything exactly right, reality would unravel around me and Iâd lose myself again.â
âI hope you feel better. iâm fine.â
âI didnât think you had it in you.â
âall the things I did, I want to forget.â
âiâm not doing it! iâm not doing it again!â
âyou need to get out of here right now.â
âit wonât hurt me, but itâll hurt you. you have to go right now!â
âdonât let him do this again. donât let him take over.â
âan apology would go a long way.â
âcan you keep it down? I had to lie about what happened to a lot of people.â
âare you seriously upset with me because I saved your life?â
âyou need to accept reality.â
âyouâve become such a grouch.â
âI wish youâd let someone take care of you.â
âdo you agree that there are forces greater than this world and we are helpless in the face of them?â
âwe donât have time to fuck around.â
âiâd like to say this the weirdest shit thatâs ever happened to me but I have a bad feeling itâs about to get a lot worse.â
âI told you this was a bad idea.â
âI think weâre fucked.â
âthis is wrong. what youâre doing is wrong.â
âletâs talk about something thatâs actually interesting.â
âit just hurts a little. and by âa littleâ I mean âa lotâ and also âall the time.ââ