Writing / roleplay prompts based on the book The Lamb , written by Lucy Rose.
tw: violence, generally dark themes, toxic relationships & abuse mentions, slight suggestive content
❝ Mama told me it was a hex. ❞
❝ It doesn’t feel like four years at all. ❞
❝ It was always the quiet and dark nights that kept me awake. ❞
❝ I’d heard Mama tell many folk tales. ❞
❝ They felt lost, and that is what beckoned them to us. ❞
❝ She learned to make them feel invincible. She made them feel in control. ❞
❝ Men are stupid when they feel powerful. They become complacent. ❞
❝ She was once in love with the local gamekeeper. ❞
❝ He liked holding my hand in his. ❞
❝ He used to measure the size of his fingers and palms outstretched next to mine. ❞
❝ I forget I am a giant. ❞
❝ Papa wouldn’t have been happy, but Papa was gone. ❞
❝ I’ve felt nothing like this before. ❞
❝ I knew she didn’t love him the way she thought she did. ❞
❝ The hole in her chest is never filled. ❞
❝ When my reflection stared back, I saw the nuisance everyone thought I was. ❞
❝ He is someone who only sees what he wants and nothing else. ❞
❝ The people out there, they will never understand us. ❞
❝ We aren’t like them. We’re woven from a different cloth. ❞
❝ They will never accept us. ❞
❝ I wasn’t like them in my heart. ❞
❝ Every intrusive thought felt like a desire unfulfilled. ❞
❝ I wanted to know her inside out. ❞
❝ My daughter loves this song. ❞
❝ It’s all much easier than it sounds. ❞
❝ It feels complicated. ❞
❝ I don’t like him. In fact, I don’t like most of the people here. ❞
❝ Though powerless apart, when brought together you can hold the power of the cosmos in your palm. ❞
❝ He didn’t care about me. He cared even less about you. ❞
❝ I want to hear you say it. Say that he is selfish and he doesn’t love you. ❞
❝ There is no one more vulnerable than a lone mother and her child. ❞
❝ The snow is beautiful and glittering, especially if it goes untouched. ❞
❝ That is what motherhood is like. Treacherous and disappointing. ❞
❝ I want to see what you do when you put the word in your mouth and speak it. ❞
❝ Has anyone told you that you have a beautiful smile? ❞
❝ I’ll come to find you in the morning. ❞
❝ She’s different from the others. ❞
❝ You can stay as long as you need. ❞
❝ Can I help you with them? ❞
❝ The things that happen to us change us. ❞
❝ We can’t save each other. Not really. ❞
❝ We have company. It’s not a good time. ❞
❝ Can we take this somewhere else? ❞
❝ You left me. For her. ❞
❝ I won’t leave again. This is where I belong. With you. ❞
❝ Love, after all these years, has finally found us. ❞
❝ It’s okay if you can’t find the words. ❞
❝ There really aren’t words to describe what it feels like, are there? ❞
❝ He has a child and a wife, but I think he was falling in love with me. ❞
❝ You promised yourself to her a long time ago, but you were always mine. ❞
❝ This is what family is supposed to be. ❞
❝ I want you to stay here. ❞
❝ Please. Let me keep you. ❞
❝ I know you aren’t a good man. But I don’t think you’re a bad man, either. ❞
❝ Has anyone seen him since he left? ❞
❝ You don’t have to be hungry anymore. ❞
❝ I don’t think she loves me anymore. ❞
❝ I’m only looking after you, I hope you know that. ❞
❝ You know, it’s my job to look after you. ❞
❝ You’re not as tense as you usually are. ❞
❝ I know you’re right here with me, but I’m trying to hold on to every detail because I’m scared you might disappear. ❞
❝ I want to remember everything. ❞
❝ Do you understand? I’ll never leave you. ❞
❝ You’ve loved another woman before? ❞
❝ I thought that was love, but now I realise I didn’t know what love truly was until you found me here. ❞
❝ You make me feel full. ❞
❝ The absence of love had spoilt something in their souls and mine. ❞
❝ Our love was rotten, but still looking for the burning it craved. ❞
❝ I miss him, sometimes. ❞
❝ You can’t miss someone you didn’t truly know. ❞
❝ He loved the idea of me before he peeled back all the layers. ❞
❝ Men love the idea of women. They love the question about a woman; the mystery yet to be solved. ❞
❝ He didn’t love me. He just wanted a wife. ❞
❝ I was expected to be perfect and quiet. Compliant. ❞
❝ Do you think I look pretty? ❞
❝ You are the most pretty. ❞
❝ He could be earnest and sweet, but his temper was short if he didn’t get his own way. ❞
❝ The devil looks as ordinary as you and me. ❞
❝ You’ve got big awful bags under your eyes like you’ve not slept. ❞
❝ Is that what you kids do for fun these days? ❞
❝ It won’t be like this forever. ❞
❝ It’s okay. You’re going to be fine. ❞
❝ I could listen to your stories all day. ❞
❝ Tell me about your mother. ❞
❝ It’s such a lie that we have to love our own blood. ❞
❝ I’d give her my beating heart if she really wanted it. ❞
❝ My mother was a wicked thing. ❞
❝ She was hell-bent on getting me into my husband’s marriage bed so I could give her grandchildren. ❞
❝ We can belong to each other. ❞
❝ Being a mother is a big job. ❞
❝ Our empathy is waning as every second passes because it’s not supposed to come so naturally to mortal creatures. ❞
❝ I don’t think that’s true. ❞
❝ I will protect you both. ❞
❝ She doesn’t like ugly things. ❞
❝ There’s nothing bad about a wish. ❞
❝ Years feel longer when you aren’t loved the way you want to be. Or the way you’re supposed to be. ❞
❝ We all need different sorts of love to make us feel whole. ❞
❝ I’m not just a mother. I’m a whole person. ❞
❝ Why do you need hemlock? ❞
❝ Does she love me the way I love her or does she just desire me? ❞
❝ I know I can be selfish. My feelings get the better of me. ❞
❝ Do you want to come in with me? The water will be cool. ❞
❝ This is how we keep ourselves safe. ❞
❝ Is everything alright at home? ❞
❝ I wonder what I must look like to him. ❞
❝ How can you deny me what is natural? What I crave? ❞
❝ I’m doing what’s best for us. ❞
❝ You don’t know what’s best for me! ❞
❝ Maybe you don’t know me as well as you think you do. ❞
❝ You see how she says things just to spite me? ❞
❝ She didn’t want me. She only wanted [name]. ❞
❝ There is not enough room in her heart for the both of us. ❞
❝ You are the most important thing in my life. ❞
❝ You can show me the blackest part of your heart and I will not flinch. ❞
❝ I want things to stay this way forever. ❞
❝ To feel a little baby inside you is like nothing else. ❞
❝ I’ve travelled for a very long time. ❞
❝ I was born in a small town and I couldn’t wait to leave. ❞
❝ All that time, I just needed a reason to settle. ❞
❝ I’ve met so many people in my life, but none of them will remember who I am, whether I was a passing face or a lover. ❞
❝ I wish I could see the things you’ve seen. ❞
❝ No? Then she’s not yours, is she? ❞
❝ What are you thinking of? ❞
❝ Take those feelings and hide them. Push them down. Keep them in the dark. Keep them where no one can see them. ❞
❝ It hurts when I try to forget her. ❞
❝ I’ve had to do that before. Put my heartbreak somewhere I could not see it. It’s sometimes for the best. ❞
❝ It’s hard to do it all on your own. Sometimes I don’t want to anymore. ❞
❝ Sometimes, I think about you in ways I’m not supposed to. ❞
❝ I wanted to make sure everything was okay. ❞
❝ He kept you late. What was that about? ❞
❝ Come to bed. It’s time for you to rest. ❞
❝ We are family now. You belong to us. ❞
❝ You have to try to put good into the world, otherwise everyone’s putting bad into the world. Someone has to swallow their pride and make things okay. ❞
❝ Can you do something good by doing something bad? ❞
❝ Everything has its place in the world. ❞
❝ I think we all deserve a small piece of happy. ❞
❝ What’s this bad thing you’re so worried about? ❞
❝ I didn’t mean to frighten you. ❞
❝ It was anger that changed her. I had broken free and now it controlled her. ❞
❝ Why did it have to be me? ❞
❝ She was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong person. ❞
❝ Get away, or I’ll pull out your teeth. ❞
❝ I’m scared she will leave me. ❞
❝ Come inside. You’ll catch a cold. ❞
❝ I don’t want to leave you out here all alone. ❞
❝ I’ve changed for her. ❞
❝ I’m not settling anymore. I want to hunt. ❞
❝ Your pulse sounds the same as your father’s. ❞
❝ I’m not lying. Cross my heart. ❞
❝ With my own flesh, I formed you in my womb. We’re made of the same cloth. ❞
❝ You feel this hunger the same way I do. ❞
❝ When you love someone, you promise to love all of them. ❞
❝ Sometimes, when I look at you, I see him. ❞
❝ She told me to try something new. To get my anger out. ❞
❝ Stay. Just for a second longer. ❞
❝ I didn’t feel anything like that. ❞
❝ I felt like everything had been scraped out from inside of me. ❞
❝ I know how capable you are. ❞
❝ Prove yourself useful. ❞
❝ Sometimes I imagine what life would be like without you. If you’d have still haunted me anyway. ❞
❝ I felt like being alone. ❞
❝ I don’t think I want to be alone anymore. ❞
❝ You’d do anything for me. ❞
❝ Every word I spoke was gospel and you looked at me like I was the most beautiful woman in the world. ❞
❝ Do you know the story of Saturn and his Son? ❞
❝ His son would grow bigger and stronger than he himself ever was. ❞
❝ I want to tell you something. A confession. A secret chapter of my life. ❞
❝ That’s the thing with babies, they’re destructive little things before they’re even out of you. ❞
❝ I didn’t want to see the oh-so-perfect family that took my son. ❞
❝ I was fifteen and somehow it was all my fault. ❞
❝ You don’t have to run anymore. ❞
❝ I don’t think you should marry him. ❞
❝ You’ll get bored with him quickly. ❞
❝ What are you smiling about, freak? ❞
❝ You want to be just like me. ❞
❝ I wanted to kill him. ❞
❝ Maybe I’m already like you. ❞
❝ I’ll make you miserable for this! ❞
❝ I’m scared I will disappear. ❞
❝ What were you thinking, doing something so reckless? ❞
❝ You’re going to do exactly as I tell you to do. Nothing more. Nothing less. ❞
❝ I’m going to set you free. ❞
❝ It’s the thing she’s best at, making people love her. Fall in love with her. ❞
❝ I want to keep her safe from a world that can’t understand us. ❞
❝ I can’t keep you safe anymore. ❞
❝ It’s so easy to get to you. ❞
❝ When did you become like this? ❞
❝ You are always going to be lonely without me. ❞
❝ I know you’ll grow bored of her. The same way you’ve grown bored of me. ❞
❝ I could have been so much more than this. ❞
❝ What did you say to him? ❞
❝ If I tell you something, will you take it with you? ❞
❝ Laughter and love came in abundance but it spoilt them. ❞
❝ What do you want us to tell them? ❞
❝ People will draw their own conclusions. ❞
❝ She is a person who knows exactly what she wants, and takes it. ❞
❝ Dry your tears. There’s no more time to waste. ❞
❝ I never wanted to be a mother. I just wanted to be a person. ❞
❝ None of this was supposed to happen. ❞
❝ I don’t want to be a mother. ❞
❝ You make me hate myself. ❞
❝ I’m never going to tell her I’m sorry. ❞
❝ You need to learn to behave yourself. ❞
❝ Tell me about love. Real love. ❞
❝ When I think of the word love, I think of the first time I knew I looked beautiful. ❞
❝ Their attention felt like a promise that I’d be loved and looked after for the rest of my life. A human sort of love. ❞
❝ That doesn’t sound like love to me. ❞
❝ I don’t think you love me. ❞
❝ Sometimes I feel connected to you. Drawn to you. Like there is a thread between you and me that can never break or be severed. ❞
❝ I dream of hurting you and I like the way it feels. And I know you feel the same way about me. ❞
❝ Lots of mothers don’t love their daughters. ❞
❝ Do you think I’m ugly? ❞
❝ I draw you as you are. How I see you. ❞
❝ I wonder if this is what being a real human is, accepting you are pieces of other people, too. The people you’ve loved and the people you’ve hurt. ❞
❝ She’s everything I’ve been looking for. ❞
❝ I know you think I’m a monster, but we all have a bit of dark inside. And light too. ❞
❝ You were supposed to be a promise of happiness, but you’ve eaten me alive. ❞
❝ I wonder if we were born with something broken inside us. ❞
❝ This isn’t what I want. ❞
❝ You don’t know what you want. ❞
❝ Hasn’t our little one done such a good job? ❞
❝ I love you. I really love you. And I don’t need anything else except this. ❞
❝ This, just you and me – it feels right for the first time in my life. ❞
❝ I’ve spent thousands of days hiding. Changing myself. ❞
❝ This is what love is supposed to feel like. ❞
❝ This will be unlike anything you’ve ever done. Unlike anything you’ll ever do again. ❞
❝ You’ll never taste anything like this again. ❞
❝ From this slumber, they will never wake. I made sure of that. ❞
❝ Even in death, they crave touch. ❞
❝ Because I made it so, this ground is safe for strangers to tread. ❞
