the following is a collection of sentence starters from the star wars legends novel, vector prime, written by r. a. salvatore.
i beg your indulgence â but i donât believe thatâs correct.
they should know to leave us alone.
weâll be killed! weâre doomed!
perhaps we should find a place where you can rest.
by all reports, we should be rested before dealing with him.
if i had needed assistance, i would have called for it.
do you even understand that your stupidity likely escalated an already impossible situation?
we planned to avoid them. avoid! do you understand that word? avoid them and thus cause no further problems or hard feelings.
i did not know that (name) would prove so ⊠intractable.
it was a stupid thing to do.
i still donât understand how any of that concerns the jedi.
here, heâs just found a convenient receptacle for his wrath.
even when i tried to use the force to gain a better perspective on him, i drew ⊠a blank. as if the force had nothing to do with him. no â more like he had nothing to do with the force.
early again? or is it that youâre still here from last night?
heâll get bored with it soon enough.
come here, quick. i canât believe you missed this!
a convenient excuse for our jedi hero to rush to the rescue.
quick to the trigger, they are.
are we to deny their help in those areas where they are best qualified?
and what are you going to do about it?
itâs hard to keep up with it all, and sometimes it feels like iâm fixing symptoms without ever getting to the real disease.
why would you want anything from them and their foolish arguing?
you learn to play along, (name). thatâs the game called diplomacy.
and these are the people you want to please?
these are the people you seek to emulate with your own council?
you bring interference where it is not wanted.
perhaps we should retire to more private chambers.
there is only one truth. it is when one does not like to hear it that one concocts other, more palatable versions.
this is not a meeting. it is a lecture in a hallway.
you canât believe what youâre saying.
have i somehow offended you?
your mere existence offends me!
speak your mind. your questions will only strengthen me.
barbaric! the inhumanity!
he is about as infuriating as any being iâve ever met.
youâre a braver person than i.
i thought youâd have fixed it by now.
youâve been hanging around me too long.
iâm sorry. you donât have to tell me anything.
iâm sick of hearing all of this.
youâll hear it until you learn the truth. that is my responsibility.
this isnât about him. this is about you and me.
youâre sure he wasnât just trying to help?
youâre hearing all the problems, and they seem like theyâll overwhelm you, but that only means you have to deal with them one at a time.
so whatâs the problem now?
youâre not going alone.
youâre sure you donât want to come along?
you did well to quiet them.
i already said my good-byes.
do you think you could enlighten me?
you know the decision i face.
i donât know how to tell you.
iâm afraid of your words, and the way you speak them.
iâm not even going to tell you that youâre wrong. but i will assure you that, as you grow older, youâll come to see things a bit differently.
you call me that again and iâll send you into an oil bath with an open flame.
feeling a bit trapped by the attention?
do you think that selfish?
forgive me. i am surprised to see you here, as many others are.
just to talk with you makes me suspect.
iâm not here to give you any trouble.
run. iâve been slowing you down for the last hour.
youâre wasting time. and oxygen.
do you understand the honor i offer you now?
youâve got a mean streak in you.
not many people dare to hug me.
why didnât you tell me youâd be coming? i could have prepared something.
iâll beat you right now.
do you think it beneath us?
when innocent people are robbed of all their wealth, or taken captive, perhaps, and tortured, is it not the province of the jedi to come to their aid?
there is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.
he asked me to temper my choices, but not to stop.
iâm too old and too slow and too sore.
always appeal to his pride.
and how much of this stuff is illegal?
they seem to know us better than we know them.
it took you longer than i had anticipated.
did you believe that you had a chance?
i told you honestly that you were not worthy.
do you see the truth now?
do you understand the futility?
you will learn your place.
oh, youâre right. thatâs much more effective.
i canât even begin to tell if thereâs any organization to this place.
i knew youâd come back.
i am the beginning of the end for your people.
i think youâll be coming with me.
i couldnât sense a thing. with either of them.
every second means someone else dies.
go with glory and victory. die as a warrior.
let me know when youâre getting too hot.
you turned and ran away while (name) stood his ground and died.
there was nothing else i could do.
it will be a glorious day.
thatâs a living organism?
itâs alive. or at least it was, i think.
something very big and very bad is going on.
you do plan to come back out, donât you?
where in the galaxy do they speak such a language?
iâm not done with you yet.
if you suffer a relapse down there, youâll jeopardize the whole mission.
iâm going. and if i have to go alone, then so be it.
i thought they were all destroyed.
well, i had to build a few more. couldnât lose the technology, after all.
why would they come back?
whatâs taking them so long?
i donât even know what weâre trying to do.
this should have, logically, happened a long, long time ago.
iâd built a bubble around us. we were all in it, you know? in it and safe. nothing could hurt us â could really hurt us.
