dialogue prompts from we could be rats by emily r. austin.
that's the most insensitive thing you could have said.
i never say the right thing.
i wasn't the type of kid who wanted to be a teenager.
there were times i thought i hated you.
maybe if we'd met as adults, things would have been different.
i was the kind of kid who believed toys had hearts and souls.
nothing is ever purely good, is it? there's always a rotten piece.
i'm not depressed. i feel great.
i'm not the same person you knew.
did you feel like you knew me, the last couple of years?
i don't think i've ever been described as 'smart' before.
would it help to hear a joke?
why didn't the skeleton go to the party? because they had no body to go with.
i have you listed as my next of kin.
do you think i'm being insensitive and gruesome?
just bury me in a garbage bag.
i never really honed being well-mannered, did i?
i think i've accidentally made up white lies that were ruder than the truth.
creeps like us have to stay alive.
we haven't put a label on it.
i think your definition of 'creep' might be different than mine.
say i was abducted by aliens, or something.
are you mad at me? it's okay, if you are.
is my tone making you madder? i bet it is.
i don't plan to haunt you.
____ is like a comic book villain. like a caricature of a bad guy.
listen to people who have different experiences than you do.
we're supposed to examine what's wrong, or it festers.
i used to think i could do anything.
what happened? are you hurt?
the actual experience is never quite what's promised, is it?
it feels like i'm not the target audience for a lot of life.
tell people to fuck off more. take what you want. stir shit up.
i feel like i'm still a kid here.
i always cared about you.
everything will be fine. we'll find our way.
it didn't occur to me that not panicking was an option.
it's hard to balance being both happy and considerate.
it's kinder to lie sometimes, right?
i'd rather be a pig than a cop. pigs are adorable.
being grown up feels like playing a board game with no instructions.
masks meld onto your face.
remember swinging, when you were a kid?
'to thine own self be true', or whatever.
people judge others by their own standards.
i don't remember how i got here.
i feel like i was cast as a character i'm not able to play.
i wouldn't want to live forever. would you?
i'm not sure there's a way to be alive without upsetting people.
dying is less scary than growing up.
is this actually happening? am i dreaming?
the trick to lying is to convince yourself.
i don't want you to feel sorry for me.
i feel like i don't know the things i'm supposed to. i feel like i'm pretending.
revolution is about creation, not destruction.
sometimes it's kinder to let people believe they're helping you, even when they're not.
i'd like to see where you grew up.
it sounds like a lot of people want to help you.
do you have people who want to help you?
there's no way the moon is a dude. she's got a soulful face. she's gorgeous.
we don't actually get much choice in life, do we?
thinking about _____ sort of knocks the wind out of me.
if i hadn't met you, i'd be a totally different person.
i know i'm unbearable, but what else can i be?
i have a history of bad judgment.
what the hell did you just call me?
i'm not interested in small talk with people who offend or insult me.
i used to believe everyone was good.
i thought everyone felt that way.
did you hear it was on the news?
deep down, we're all who we were when we were kids.
being an adult is about re-finding who you were when you were eight years old.
i don't want to be someone who hurts people. i don't think i was meant to be that.
have you been outside today?
