little women (2019) sentence starters.
â not a first attempt, i take it. â
â people want to be amused, not preached at. â
â what do they write, your trouble-making family? â
â you can do nothing if you go back. â
â who will you dance with, ____? â
â i already feel ridiculous. i donât want to look it. â
â i canât get over my disappointment in being a girl. â
â ____, would you like to dance with me? â
â you can laugh if you want to. itâs funny, i know. â
â oh, ____, youâll kill yourself for fashion one of these days. â
â i would love to read what youâre writing, if youâll trust me. â
â do you want to know what i honestly think of you? i despise you. â
â with every chance of being good, happy and useful, you are lazy, faulty and miserable. â
â well, selfish people do like to talk about themselves. â
â you think iâm beautiful? â
â yes, you like that, you old vanity. â
â with all these good things to enjoy, you find nothing to do but dawdle. â
â iâll be good for you, ____. iâll be good. â
â arenât you ashamed of a hand like that? looks like itâs never done a day of work in its life. â
â i feel sorry for you. i really do. i just wish youâd bear it better. â
â iâd be respected if i couldnât be loved. â
â has no one ever talked to you like this before? â
â why be ashamed of what you want? â
â we canât do much, but we can make our little sacrifices and do it gladly. â
â i detest rude, unladylike girls. â
â i know you donât care what i think, but you donât want ____ to find you like this, do you? â
â i donât see how you can write such splendid things. youâre a regular shakespeare. â
â ____, you look tired. were you up again all night writing? â
â boys scare me, and that big old house scares me. â
â donât say such despicable things! â
â i like strong words that mean something. â
â i intend to make my own way in the world. â
â you donât know what ____ loves. â
â well, itâs possible to be right and foolish. â
â i canât afford to lose this position. â
â iâm not scared of anyone. â
â you have always had a talent for getting out of the hard parts of life. â
â donât be a baby and whine about it. â
â i think youâd hate to poke in where youâre not wanted. â
â i told you iâd make you pay, and i did! â
â i really did want to hurt you. â
â donât let the sun go down on your anger. â
â you donât deserve my forgiveness. â
â i will hate you! i will hate you forever! â
â if ____ had died, it wouldâve been my fault. â
â what is wrong with me? â
â iâve made so many resolutions, and iâve written sad notes, and iâve cried over my sins⌠but it just doesnât seem to help. â
â when i get in a passion, i get so savage. i could hurt anyone and iâd enjoy. â
â you remind me of myself. â
â iâm angry nearly every day of my life. â
â i am not patient by nature. but after all this time, iâm learning to not let it get the better of me. â
â i hope youâll do a great deal better than me. â
â there are some natures too noble to curb and too lofty to bend. â
â i miss everything. â
â i said hi to the horses. theyâre very nice. â
â what would ____ say? â
â let me have my fun tonight. iâll be desperately good for the rest of my life. â
â i try to be contented, but it is hard. â
â i donât want to see you. â
â ____, donât be mad at me. â
â iâm a failure. â
â why give up? you have so much talent and energy. â
â talent isnât genius. and no amount of energy can make it so. â
â i want to be great or nothing. â
â iâm of middling talent. â
â iâve always known iâm going to marry rich. why should i be ashamed of that? â
â i believe we have some power over who we love. it isnât something that just happens to a person. â
â i think the poets might disagree. â
â iâm not a poet, iâm just a woman. â
â donât sit there and tell me that marriage isnât an economic proposition, because it is. it may not be for you, but it most certainly is for me. â
â you look beautiful. you are beautiful. â
â i love to listen to you read, ____, but i love it better when you read stories youâve written. â
â iâm very sick and you must do what i say. â
â iâll only plague ____ if i go, so i might as well stay and plague you longer. â
â donât marry ____. â
â i have been second to ____ my whole life in everything. â
â i will not be the person you settle for just because you canât have ____. i wonât. i wonât do it. â
â i wonât do this. not when iâve spent my entire life loving you. â
â we barely have enough to feed ourselves. â
â donât say that. donât say that. â
â iâve had a very long time to think about this and⌠iâm not afraid. itâs like the tide going out. it goes out slowly, but it canât be stopped. â
â iâll stop this. i stopped it before. â
â we⌠we canât stop godâs will. â
â god hasnât met my will yet. what i will shall be done. â
â you are your familyâs hope now. â
â please fight. donât go quietly. fight. please, please, just fight to the end and be loud, and donât just quietly go away, ____. â
â thank god youâre home. thank god for you. â
â we can leave. we can leave right now. â
â i can make a life for us. â
â letâs just run away together. â
â you will get bored of ____ in two years, and we will be interesting forever. â
â just because my dreams are different than yours doesnât mean theyâre unimportant. â
â i want a home. and a family. and iâm willing to work and struggle. â
â i just hate that youâre leaving me. donât leave. â
â iâm not leaving you. â
â iâd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. â
â i canât believe childhood is over. â
â it was going to end one way or another. â
â i may not always be right, but iâm never wrong. â
â iâm just not good, so iâm angry and restless. â
â you donât have to stay here, ____. â
â i have loved you ever since iâve known you. i couldnât help it. â
â i tried to show you and you wouldnât let me. but i must make you hear now and give me an answer, because i canât go on like this! â
â i figured youâd love me, ____. and i realize iâm not half good enough. â
â youâre a great deal too good for me. â
â i donât see why i canât love you as you want me to. i donât know why. â
â i canât change how i feel. â
â it would be a lie to say i do when i donât. â
â i canât love anyone else, ____. i only love you. â
â letâs be happy together, ____! â
â i canât say yes truly, so iâm not going to say it at all. â
â youâll see that iâm right eventually and youâll thank me for it. â
â look at me! iâm homely, and iâm awkward, and iâm odd. and youâd be ashamed of me. â
â ____, i donât believe iâll ever marry. iâm happy as i am, and i love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up. â
â i think youâll find someone and love them. and you will live and die for them. because thatâs your way, and you will. â
â youâre much too lonely here, ____. â
â i ruined our friendship with my temper, just as i ruin everything. â
â if i was a girl in a book, this would all be so easy. just give up the world happily. â
â do you love ____? â
â i care more to be loved. i want to be loved. â
â wanting to be loved is not the same as loving. â
â iâm so sick of people saying that love is all that a woman is fit for, iâm so sick of it. â
â iâm just so lonely. â
â i donât despise you, ____. â
â i just didnât love you as i should. â
â the worst fate is to live my life without you in it. â
â are you in love? â
â i want to say one thing and then put it away forever. iâve always loved you. â
â i think it was meant this way. â
â could we still be friends though, ____, please? â
â life is too short to be angry at oneâs sister. â
â i started something, but i donât think itâs very good. â
â maybe it doesnât seem important because people donât write about it. â
â writing doesnât confer importance. it reflects it. â
â when did you become so wise? â
â i donât want you leave. i want you to stay. â
â i would never leave if you wish me to stay. â
â i have nothing to give you, ____. â