‘The Americans’ Season One Sentence Starters
“I don’t think you understand how unpopular you are.”
“Why is everyone so punctual in this business?”
“It’s no use fighting guys like that.”
“You don’t have to be a cowboy to wear cowboy boots.”
“I thought you were here for your good looks.”
“I would go to jail, I would die, before I would betray my country.”
“She knows how to get men to turn their brains off. That is no small skill, it’s brought down empires.”
“They shouldn’t ask us to do impossible things.”
“I have value, you will see.”
“Do you love her? Because, if you don’t, leave her be. And if you do, leave her be.”
“You worried about me, ______? You think I’m out on a limb and someone’s gonna saw it off?”
“You share your deepest feelings about us, with him, while you lie to me?”
“I did warn them. Twice.”
“I think you’re making an emotional decision.”
“It never really happened that way for us, did it?”
“Thank you for making us take the afternoon off.”
“Both sides have their fingers on the trigger and that’s how it happens.”
“You have to rely on yourself in this world. Only yourself.”
“I’d hire you in a heartbeat. You and your socks.”
“I think we’re both a little lonely.”
“Do you know what loyalty is?”
“One day, you’ll be living a different life, alright?”
“I won’t say this job is twice as hard for women but it’s close to that.”
“You know what I wish, as I fall asleep every night? That I’ll wake up and not be worried.”
“You’re my medicine, ____. Good for a worn heart.”
“‘Calm’? They’re going to put a bullet in my head!”
“I know what it is to feel fear in every fiber of your being and not being able to show it. I’ve been there.”
“There are no happy endings here.”
“I was supposed to be able to trust you and I did. I shouldn’t have, I never should have.”
“You’re not the only one who got hurt today, okay?”
“I’m sorry I didn’t kill you. That’s my apology.”
“Bad things happen, not only in literature.”
“I like to keep my wits when I’m handling snakes.”
“This is a bar. Nobody listens to what anyone says in a bar.”
“Don’t worry. What happened, happened. I wanted you but it never has to happen again.”
“You Americans think everything is white or black. For us, everything is grey.”
“Only duty and honor are real, ____. Isn’t that what we were told?”
“I missed you. I didn’t want to.”
“Just think how you will feel looking at me dead one day.”
“You know, you’re a sweet guy, ____, and handsome. Deep down.”
“We didn’t take a vow to be unhappy.”
“The first time we met, I saw you were disappointed. Like now, in your eyes.”
“I’m not your friend, friend.”
“I don’t want to pretend that your life is a do over because mine isn’t.”
“I wouldn’t let a dog suffer like this. Would you?”
“Time flies. One way or another, you snatch it or it’s gonna snatch you. There’s no pause button.”
“There are worse things than dying. Like shame. Shame’s not an option for me.”
“You can’t be married and not have secrets.”
“I know you just tell me what I want to hear.”
“You do not get to speak to me like that.”
“If you ask them, they’ll do anything for you.”
“I have never wanted too much, really. I just wanted to live for something and I’ve done that.”
“Some people just aren’t cut out for foreign travel.”
“Find somebody that will love you for being so strong.”
“They kill us, we kill them. That’s the world we live in.”
“That was the Harvey Wallbanger talking, sorry!”
“I’m still waiting on an answer that doesn’t smell like bullshit.”
“The only bad guy here is you.”
“Change is hard, daunting. It uproots us.”
“We all die alone. Before that, we make choices.”
“I don’t have anything anymore. I only have fear and you.”
“You, your life is a lie.”
“You grind people into dust. You have no heart, no soul, no conscience. ”
“Do you care about anything? Do you love anyone? Does anyone love you?”
“Surrender for you would be an act of suicide.”
“When you’re a loner, there’s nothing more satisfying than finding another loner to be alone with.”
“No knock on your charms there, Romeo, but there’s no way she’d go for that.”
“I know you better than you know yourself and you don’t know me at all.”
“The kind of man that did that to you, ____, is weaker and more vulnerable than he may seem.”
“I’m sure it’s hard for you to hear how much I miss you, over and over again, but it’s the truth.”
“It didn’t work out, ____. It all fell apart.”
