Transformers: MTMTE Sentence Starters
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“All good things must come to an end, if there’s one thing in life I’ve learned it’s how to say goodbye and mean it.”
“You think that just because the war is over, we can afford to stop fighting!“
“Okay, so tell me what happened- in layman’s terms, please. The fewer syllables, the better. Science makes me twitchy. Too many rules.”
“Never stand next to a quantum generator when it’s about to flout the laws of physics.“
“So, who broke the rule?”
“Either it’s very far away, or you’ve invented the world’s smallest drink.”
“Don’t say I’m irritable. It really—it really irritates me.”
“One day you’ll say something nice to me—just before you tell me I’ve got a terminal illness or something.“
“Bottom line? I’ve got nothing else to lose.”
“Wow. If I’d known that was the best you’ve got, I’d have said something genuinely offensive.”
“Nice to meet you, loser!”
“But there’s always been a war! That’s like saying there’s no more blue or—or the weather’s stopped!”
“Nothing tingles like a teleport.”
“I was aiming for the other guy…! Obviously.”
“A senseless waste, a terrible tragedy. Boo hoo.”
“He promptly beat me to the brink of fade-out and left me in a critical condition.”
“But that’s a whole other story. Sorry—I always wanted to say that. That, and ‘Impossible! Our laserfire is just making him stronger!’ Ahem. Go on…”
“Please! I surrender! Don’t shoot!”
“MUTINY! Everywhere I look I see rules being stretched and laws being broken and protocols being dragged outside and kicked to death.”
“Maybe I have been taking things too seriously. Maybe I should try and… and… whatever. There’s a word for it.”
“Course I didn’t press it… but what if I had pressed it?”
“A metafictional bomb. It blows a hole in the fourth wall.”
“I can tell you pretty emphatically that none of this – none of this even approaches my definition of ‘okay’!"
"Listen to me. NEVER. HOPE. Hope is a lie.”
“That was a nasty fall. Need a hand?”
“Get the hell out of my bar.”
“Ah, enriched nucleon…! The magic ingredient!”
"You should really stop and listen to yourself sometimes.”
“Life’s messed up. I’m messed up. I’ve done bad things and I continue to do bad things, because the voice telling me not to…? He’s not said much for a while. And y'know what keeps me going? ANGER. Anger’s an insulator. Stops life getting too close. If I got myself 'fixed,' maybe the anger would leave me—and then I really would be screwed.“
"Your life is in the palm of my hand. Before I squeeze, I offer up one last shining truth…”
“If God were on your side you’d have stopped me by now! Will anybody pit their faith against mine?”
“I know, I know—I’m incorrigible.”
“Honestly? I think for an intuitive weapon to promote long discredited notions of moral absolutism is problematic in the extreme.”
“When did you first decide that the universe needed ‘dominating’?"
"My life is a succession of decisions made in confined spaces.”
“If you want to get the measure of an author, don’t look at what they’ve left on the page…. look at what they’ve taken away.”
“Information carries weight. It’s not corporeal, but it has presence. It can be felt. It hangs in the air like—like words. Like the morning after an argument! Actually, not like that. That’s a bad analogy. I’m distracted.”
“Shut up. Stop expecting things of me.”
“The war is over and, thankfully, we lost.”
“I’m confronting my own mortality! I’m having one of those—those existential crisises!”
“'Could!' The luxury of 'could!' I’m already dead!”
“If I sit next to you too long, am I going to die of smartass poisoning?”
“There’s a thin line between categorization and segregation, and I never want to see it crossed again.”
“If the world thinks you’re a monster, what does it matter? The world is wrong. But when you start to think of yourself as a monster…”
“Touch me again and I’ll kill you.”
“Here’s a survival tip: When everyone’s lining up to make sacrifices… always get to the back of the queue.”
“I’ll let you in on a little secret… I can do whatever the hell I like.”
“Maladies of the mind are easily hidden. We don’t want to see them. They remind us of our fragility.”
“You have two weapons at your disposal: your brain and your fists. You must be prepared to use both.”
"I’m fine. Bad dream, that’s all. My first flashback. These things’ll happen when you’ve got a head full of history.”
“This conversation is ridiculous. You are ridiculous. Everything that’s happened in the last few days is intensely ridiculous.”
“We’re all of us the sum of our experiences.”
“I know who I am, but I don’t necessarily know who I was. I find it hard to compare the two.”
“I want to tell you a story.”
“I’m trying to show concern. I’ve seen other people do it.”
“People don’t like me – they just laugh at my jokes. There’s a difference.”
“I hate you. As in, I actively hate you. I am in hate with you.”
“No one cares what you have to say~”
“I had a plan! Same plan as always: survive.”
“I order you to survive.”
“Nothing makes sense anymore.”
