if we were villains ❧ sentence starters
feel free to change pronouns as needed! taken from the absolutely recommended book ‘if we were villains’ by m.l. rio.
❝ seems like just yesterday my dad was shouting at me for throwing my life away. ❞
❝ last time we went skinny-dipping i fell on the dock buck naked and spent the rest of the night facedown on the couch with ______ pulling splinters out of my ass. ❞
❝ i know what you’re capable of, and i’ll be damned if i don’t drag it out of you by the time you leave this place. ❞
❝ everyone has a weakness. even you. the strongest thing you can do is admit it. ❞
❝ get drunk, get loud, get lucky. ❞
❝ okay. let’s kill them. ❞
❝ i’m not playing. don’t fucking do that again. ❞
❝ i’m bleeding. you son of a bitch. ❞
❝ you’re lovely, but you’re not worth it. ❞
❝ be careful, ______. you’re much too trusting. ❞
❝ you’ve got puke on your face. ❞
❝ we need to decide what to tell the police about what happened. ❞
❝ you of all people should understand…we don’t owe him anything. ❞
❝ i’m going to bed unless you’ve got something to say. ❞
❝ i’ve had enough sexual misadventures for one year, thanks. ❞
❝ if it makes you feel any better, i’d have done exactly the same thing. ❞
❝ c’mon. it’s fucking freezing and i’m not leaving you out here alone. ❞
❝ when did we become such terrible people? ❞
❝ i’ll be the first one to admit i don’t know what we’re doing here. but i want to figure it out. ❞
❝ are you going to cold-shoulder me all night? ❞
❝ what’s gotten into you? you don’t sound like yourself. ❞
❝ i guess my other option is an existential crisis. ❞
❝ you can’t quantify humanity. you can’t measure it. people are passionate and flawed and infallible. ❞
❝ you know, ______, i like you. mostly in spite of myself. ❞
❝ i want so badly to be mad at you that i could do that, but i CAN’T, so i’m mad at myself instead. do you even understand how unfair that is? ❞
❝ fuck! fuck this, fuck me, fuck YOU. ❞
❝ don’t do that, please –––– right now can we just be ourselves? ❞
❝ i don’t know what’s wrong with me. i want to hurt the whole world. ❞
❝ ever heard of hate sex? ❞
❝ no! don’t come too close. keep your distance. tell me what happened. ❞
❝ why don’t you fight back? why won’t you get your hands dirty? ❞
❝ i’d have killed him myself if i thought it would keep the rest of you safe. ❞
❝ will you marry him? it’s been long enough. ❞
❝ the future is wide and wild and full of promise, but it is precarious, too. ❞
❝ you know, the bare-chested, covered-in-blood look, it’s working for you. ❞
❝ would you change the ending, if you could? ❞
❝ we’ll never forget it. that’s the worst part. ❞
