A Christmas Carol ~ Sentence Starters
“__ was dead to begin with.”
“What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough!”
“What reasons have you to be dismal? You're rich enough!”
“But you don't keep it!”
“You're quite a powerful speaker. It's a wonder you don't go into politics.”
“Don't be cross.”
“Come! Dine with us tomorrow!”
“Why did you get married?”
“Because I fell in love.”
“I want nothing from you. I ask nothing of you. Why can't we be friends?”
“Good afternoon!”
“He died seven years ago this very night.”
“Many thousands are in want of common comforts.”
“Are there no prisons?”
“They are. I wish I could say they were not.”
“Good! I was afraid something had happened to stop them in their useful cause.”
“You wish to remain anonymous?”
“I wish to be left alone!”
“Many cannot go there.”
“Many would rather die.”
“If they would rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population!”
“It's not convenient and it's not fair!”
“It's only once a year.”
“What do you want me?”
“Who are you?”
“Ask me who I was.”
“Who were you then?”
“Can you sit down?”
“Do it then.”
“You do not believe in me.”
“I don't.”
“Why do you doubt your senses?”
“Speak comfort to me.”
“I have none to give.”
“I cannot stay.”
“I cannot linger anywhere.”
“But you were always a good man of business!”
“Mankind was my business! The common welfare was my business!”
“Look to see me no more.”
“Just a touch of my hand and you shall fly.”
“Do you remember they way?”
“I could walk it blindfolded!”
“Strange to have forgotten it all these years.”
“These are but shadows of things that have been.”
“They have no consciousness of us.”
“The school is not quite deserted.”
“I've come to bring you home!”
“She had a large heart.”
“Do you know this place?”
“Another idol has replaced me.”
“You fear the world too much.”
“You've changed.”
“I have not changed towards you.”
“I release you from your promise.”
“Have I ever asked to be released?”
“These are the shadows of things that have been. They are what they are, do not blame me.”
“Maybe I cannot bare it.”
“Haunt me no longer!”
“Come in!”
“Come in and know me better man!”
“You have never known the likes of me before.”
“Touch my robe.”
“She's not coming.”
“If I had him here, I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast on!”
“Nobody knows it better than you!”
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.”
“I fear you more than any other I have seen.”
“But I know your purpose is to do me good.”
“I thought he'd never die!”
“What's he done with his money?”
“Well he hasn't left it to me.”
“I don't mind going if lunch is provided.”
“Help! He's gone mad!”
“I don't know anything!”
“I know that I don't know anything!”
“I've come to dinner...if you'll have me.”
“God bless us, Everyone.”
