ANNIHILATION (2018) SENTENCE STARTERS
some triggering content may be present! (such as mentions of suicide) feel free to change pronouns / terms / tense as needed!
â How long did you think you were inside? â
â All work and no play, it soundsâŚnot healthy. â
â I thought you were gone. â
â I donât know where it was, orâŚwhat it was. â
â You must be able to tell me something. â
â I deserve a better explanation than no explanation. â
â I saw you. I recognized you. Your face. â
â I donât feel very well. â
â Stay with me, baby. Iâm right here with you. â
â You must be feeling dreadful. Itâs a hangover from the sedative you were given. â
â I want to know what the fuck Iâm doing here. â
â Did he ever mention where he was going, what he was doing? â
â Itâs not easy to move on. â
â We have many theories, few facts. â
â We need to come to an agreement about what to do with you. â
â Youâre not going to let me go home? â
â Is that what you want? To go home? â
â I was just looking at the moon. Itâs always so weird seeing it like that, in the daylight. â
â I get really turned on when you patronize me. Itâs really hot. â
â You didnât tell me where youâre heading this time. â
â I know thereâs something strange about this mission. â
â If you step outside and you look up, weâll be looking at the same stars. â
â Donât you think we should make friends? â
â You know, I always see you here alone. â
â The people here put themselves to sleep in the fetal position making cooing noises. Itâs freaky, you know. â
â Do you have to hit on everyone, like all the time? â
â Under the circumstances, I think Iâm allowed to roll the dice a few more times. â
â What do you think happened to them? â
â Well, there are two theories of what went wrong. One, something kills them. Two, they go crazy and kill each other. â
â I am so sorry. And I know what I have to do. â
â You want to come with us. â
â You can fight. You can learn. You can save him. â
â That was a brave choice. â
â You gotta give me a second. Iâm a little disoriented. â
â We did a food inventory. From the depletion, weâve been out here for at least three or four days. â
â So weâve got no compass, no comms, no coordinates, and no landmarks. â
â Letâs pack up and get moving. Weâve already lost a lot of the day. â
â Anything interesting in there? â
â Okay, just breathe. Itâs okay. Youâre just fine. â
â Is it possible these were hallucinations? â
â It was dreamlike. â
â Sometimes it was beautiful. â
â All other lives feel like a lifetime ago. â
â Volunteering for⌠this. Itâs not exactly something you do if your life is in perfect harmony. â
â Weâre all damaged goods here. â
â More mutations. Theyâre everywhere. â
â Thereâs beds and bags. You think people are here? â
â Letâs not jump to conclusions. â
â "For those that follow.â I believe that means us. â
â Okay, so we know what happened to the last group. They went insane. â
â That was a trick of the light. â
â I donât want to stay here tonight. â
â Itâs too late in the day for us to move on. â
â I gotta leave a day early. â
â The mystery unraveling? â
â Iâm at least as freaked as [name]. Iâm just hiding it better. â
â Whatâre you doing up? Not supposed to relieve me until 3:00. â
â Iâm done sleeping for the night. â
â Iâd say youâre confusing suicide with self-destruction. â
â Almost none of us commit suicide⌠and almost all of us self-destruct. In some way, in some part of our lives. â
â Isnât self-destruction coded into us? Programmed into each cell? â
â Wake up. Somethingâs happening. â
â [name] was next to me. Something took her. â
â We have to go back. â
â Iâm fine going on my own. You just need to decide whether youâre coming with me or not. â
â And thanks for the fucking backup. â
â Youâre saying we get out by going deeper? â
â You lied to them. â
â I didnât know what going back meant. Why it would be safer than going forward. â
â Just⌠leave me the fuck alone. â
â That doesnât make any sense. â
â Itâs literally not possible. â
â This was a mistake. â
â Whatâs really going on here? You think that something may have happened to him? â
â You think somehow heâs found out about our affair. Has he found out? â
â Iâm not interested in talking, or in anything you have to say. Just get dressed and get out. â
â You know, itâs not me you hate, itâs yourself. â
â You lying bitch! â
â Why didnât you tell us? â
â So nothingâs confirmed. Everythingâs on their word.
â Did you kill [name]? Did you lose your shit? â
â Do you think Iâve lost my shit and weâre gonna fuck each other up? â
â Oh, God. When I look at my hands, and my fingerprintsâŚI can see them moving. â
â Iâm not the one tied to a chair. You are. â
â We are disintegrating. Our bodies as fast as our minds. Canât you feel it? â
â The person that started this journey wonât be the person that ends it. I want to be the one that ends it. â
â Itâs⌠in me. â
â It will be in all of us. â
â Imagine dying frightened and in pain, and having that as the only part of you which survives. I wouldnât like that at all. â
â [name] wants to face it. You want to fight it. But I donât think I want either of those things. â
â One by one, all gone, except you. How do you explain that? â
â I had to come back. â
â What was I? Was I you? Were you me? â
â My flesh moves like liquid. My mind is just cut loose. I canât bear it. â
â You ever seen a phosphorus grenade go off? Theyâre kind of bright. Shield your eyes. â
â If you ever get out of here, you find [name] â
â We spoke. What was it we said? â
â Itâs not like us. Itâs unlike us. â
â I donât know what it wants. Or if it wants. â
â So it was alien. Can you describe its form? â
â It came here for a reason. â
â If what you encountered was once alive, it seems itâs now dead. â
â You arenât [name]âŚare you? â