Warm Bodies sentence starters
100 starters
feel free to change gender pronouns
content warning: cussing, sexual themes
“What am I doing with my life?”
“My posture is terrible. I should stand up straighter. People would respect me more if I stood up straighter.”
“Why can’t I connect with people?”
“I shouldn’t be so hard on myself. I mean, we’re all dead. This girl is dead. That guy’s dead. That guy in the corner is definitely dead.”
“I wish I could introduce myself, but I don’t remember my name anymore.”
“I have a hard time piecing together how this whole apocalypse thing happened.”
“At some point you just give up, I guess. You lose all hope. After that, there’s no turning back.”
“Oh, man, gross… Stop. Stop! Don’t pick at it! You’re making it worse!”
“I don’t wanna be this way. I’m lonely. I’m lost. I mean, I’m literally lost. I’ve never been in this part of [insert location] before.”
“Traveling in packs just kind of makes sense, especially when everyone and their grandmother is trying to shoot you in the head all the time.”
“This could take a while.”
“No one believes in a cure anymore, _____.”
“Corpses look human, they are not. They do not think. They do not bleed. Whether they were your mother or your best friend, they are beyond your help. They are uncaring, unfeeling, incapable of remorse.”
“You have an obligation to return to us safely.”
“Hey, _____, you gonna help us out or what?”
“We can’t just bail. We have orders.”
“Take some Prozac. Maybe that’ll cheer you up.”
“You’re being paranoid, okay?”
“Now, I’m not proud of this. In fact, I’d appreciate it if you’d look away for a moment.”
“I don’t like hurting people, but this is the world now.”
“I’m sorry, I just can’t help it.”
“I don’t wanna hurt you. I just wanna feel what you felt.”
“_____…. I think I love you… Say something. Don’t just say nothing.”
“I like that you remember that kind of stuff. If we don’t, then it will just all be gone. Y’know?”
“The world is so messed up.”
“_____, where are you? Answer me!”
“I don’t know what I’m doing. What’s wrong with me?”
“Why do I have to be so weird?”
“Alright. Maybe I could’ve thought this through a little more.”
“_____’s idea of saving humanity is to build a really big concrete box, put everyone in it, and then wait at the door with guns until we grow old and die.”
“Well, _____, without the wall, we would be eating brains now instead of rice.”
“Hey. It’s gonna be okay.”
“I need a different approach. Okay, here we go. Don’t be creepy.”
“Why me? Why did you save me?”
“Well, then you’re just gonna go and have to get me some food.”
“Please? I’d be very grateful for some food.”
“Oh, no. Stop staring. You’re acting weird again.”
“I can’t remember the last time I had a beer.”
“This date is not going well. I wanna die all over again.”
“I wanna go home, _____.”
“I’ve never, ever heard a corpse talk before.”
“What’s with all the vinyl? Couldn’t figure out how to work an iPod?”
“There you go again. Shrugging. Stop shrugging, shrugger. It’s a very noncommittal gesture.”
“These are really cool records. How’d you get all these?”
“It’s not like I’m not sad that he’s gone. Because I am. But I think I’ve been preparing for it for a really long time.”
“Man, it must be nice to sleep. I wish I could.”
“You said a few days. It’s been a few days, _____.”
“Maybe these houses have food.”
“Oh, cool! Look what they have. I haven’t seen one of these in forever.”
“It’s important to persevere memories, y’know? Especially now that the world’s on its way out.”
“Everything you see, you may be seeing for the last time.”
“If he saw you, he would’ve just shot you in the head, and you’d just be gone.”
“These clothes are soaking still. I’m gonna lay them out to dry.”
“You know, we try to be better. Sometimes we kind of suck at it.”
“You’re a good person, _____.”
“I mean, I… I guess I kinda knew that.”
“If you guys could pick any job in the world, pretend that everything was totally different, what would you wanna do?”
“I think someday someone’s gonna figure out this whole thing and exhume the whole world.”
“Are you actually dreaming right now?”
“Well, you can be whatever you want.”
“It’s hopeless. This is what I get for wanting more.”
“It’s easier not to feel. Then I wouldn’t have to feel like this.”
“_____, are you sure nothing bit you?”
“Do I look infected to you, _____?”
“I’m gonna forget about her, just like I forgot about everything else.”
“We are changing, I think.”
“I have to explain what’s happening before it’s too late. I have to… Oh, no.”
“I’ve gotta tell you something. It’s actually kinda weird. Please don’t freak out.”
“Like, I wish the internet was still working so I could just look up whatever it is that’s wrong with you.”
“Have sweet dreams about your zombie.”
“You can’t just do that. It’s dangerous.”
“_____, shut up! I’m trying to sleep!”
“Jesus, _____, are you crazy?”
“If they see you, you’ll get killed. Do you understand that?”
“Are you talking to yourself?”
“Okay, seriously, _____, what is going on out here?”
“Come on, we better get you inside.”
“You’re safe here tonight, _____. After that, I don’t know what we’re gonna do.”
“You could be twenty-something, but you could also be a teenager. You know, you have one of those faces.”
“Why did you come here, _____?”
“_____, no one here is ever gonna buy that.”
“Well, what other choice do we have, _____?”
“No matter what, we stay together.”
“What is going on? What is all this?”
“This is gonna sound really crazy, but I think the dead are coming back to life.”
“What’s happening is that every day there are more of them and less of us.”
“Thing don’t get better. Things get worse. People get bit, then they get infected, and then I shoot them in the head.”
“You’re not gonna shoot me.”
“We can fix all this. We can start over.”
“It was scary at first, but every great thing starts out a little scary, doesn’t it?”
“Just pick one. Whatever you want.”
“You don’t want your old life back?”
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