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beach read prompts

dialogue prompts from beach read, adjust as necessary.

You know what we need to get these bad feelings out? We need to dance!

It was definitely a mistake, but I had no better option.

It honestly worries me that I’m the only person who might call you to ask that.

I hate when people think I’m able to drive just because, legally, I am.

For now, more swoon and less doom, babycakes.

Could you turn off your sad-boy-angsting soundtrack?

Unless this neighborhood got airlifted to the little town from Footloose, it doesn’t seem crazy to play music this late.

This isn’t my offended face. I look like this because I’m tired.

The universe is on my side today, looks like.

You are his fairy princess. His shadow self. Or he’s yours or whatever.

This will be the hardest night you have all summer.

That’s actually the perfect amount of time I’ll need to sober up.

It was a joke. The gun part, not the ‘killing you if you try something’ part. I meant that.

I’ve been told I make a bad first impression.

How do you know I won’t keep answering your questions with other questions until we both die?

Believe whatever you want, Jack Reacher risks his life every day to guarantee you that freedom.

Lost in that beautiful brain of yours?

I know feeling small gets to some people, but I kind of like it. Takes the pressure off.

That seems like the biggest in a series of vast exaggerations you’ve made tonight.

Honestly, that guy was always so self-impressed I doubt he could even see you through the glare off his own glistening body.

You’re as small as you are ridiculous.

I love seeing where you get your admirable qualities from.

It didn’t feel like a lie. Maybe a complicated truth, but not a lie.

There are worse things to be than delusively confident.

I hate falling in love. It’s always ruining my bad-boy reputation!

This has

been an exact recurring nightmare I’m only just realizing was actually a premonition.

This isn't fair. You’re mad at me and I can’t even try to fix it?

I thought—think it’s brave to believe in love. I mean, the lasting kind. To try for that, even knowing it can hurt you.

You’re not a black hole.

But I’m also not the bright light.

I just needed to be okay, and I could do the wrong thing if it had the right end.

I am angry and messed up, and every time I try to get closer to you, it’s like all these warning bells go off, and I try to act like a normal person, but I can’t.

You’re so fucking beautiful, you’re like the sun.

You can’t even stop roasting me when I’m losing my mind over your body.

Well, that’s it. I’m in love. RIP me.

Why are you trying to get rid of me?

I’m an idiot when it comes to you!

That’s what you think? That this is all some kind of identity crisis for me?

I don’t want to hurt you and I don’t want to feel what it would be like to lose you.

I don’t think I’ve ever loved the world like you do. I remember being afraid of it. And then angry with it.

No matter how much shit, there will always be wildflowers.

If we drank green smoothies like we drink alcohol, we would live forever.

I’ve never met someone who is so perfectly my favorite person.

When I think about being with you every day, no part of me feels claustrophobic.

Because I know no matter how long I get to love you, it will be worth whatever comes after.

I don’t care how the story ends as long as I spend it with you.

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the newsroom, season 1 episode 1 prompts

dialogue prompts from the newsroom - we just decided to, adjust as necessary.

When did I ever express any lack of faith?

I'm afraid you're gonna start shooting light out of your ass

I think we'd need a more precise definition of "perverted."

That sounds like a good answer. I'll take it.

No, I'm gonna hold you to an answer on that.

You don't look satisfied.

I want a human moment from you.

I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

We aspired to intelligence. We didn't belittle it.

First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one.

What did I say out there?

It's not a meeting, it's a party.

Loyalty, I'm making a dumb decision out of loyalty.

You're making a smart one out of ambition.

What's the part that you know that I don't?

That was a story about how sometimes things fall right into your lap.

Yeah, I get that there are moments, small moments, infrequent moments, where I'm not the easiest guy to work with.

I'll replace you in 15 minutes.

You've always been the smartest guy around here.

I'm never going on vacation again.

She's been to way too many funerals for a girl her age.

Coincidentally, that's the last time you were a nice guy!

I'm sorry. I gave too much information.

Let me try to guess at something, and you tell me how close I am to being right.

I maxed out three credit cards. But I figured, "Hey, the economy's booming, so what the heck."

These are just routine questions.

You put that all together really fast.

When was the last time you were in love with a woman? Like Hollywood love, high school love?

I don't understand why you chose this moment to lose it!

Hey, jughead, I ain't afraid of nothing except jellyfish, which is completely normal.

How the hell much money do you get paid?

You're behaving in a way that is bothering me.

You know you're still on this side of the door.

Your guy here is a pain in the ass.

No, if _ doesn't want me to hear it, I'd like to hear it.

Look, you don't have to trust me. She trusts me.

Can we please get back to work and send the Hardy Boys to their room?

I'm the only one who's not dramatically doing anything.

I don't know what that is, but I like it.

Don't talk to me unless you absolutely have to, all right.

So I did a terrible thing and I don't expect you to forgive me.

I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.

You orchestrated the whole thing.

Can I buy you a drink?

Another night when I haven't spent the day getting my ass kicked, okay?

I was wrong, you were right.

I've been exhausted since I was 30. Everybody's exhausted.

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the west wing, season 2 episode 16 prompts

dialogue prompts from the west wing - somebody’s going to emergency, somebody’s going to jail, adjust as necessary.

You sleep here last night?

Maybe you need to go home for a while.

'Cause I think you're putting too much faith in the magical powers of a new shirt.

I can't tell you how relieved I am to have your approval on that.

Little thing called team morale. You gotta make people feel good about themselves.

All right, shut the hell up, everybody. I've fired more people than you before breakfast.

No, don't call them protesters, I've seen better organized crowds at the DMV.

You want to make out with me right now, don't you?

I can't believe I'm giving this speech.

What plaid flannel-wearing, cheese-eating, yahoo of a milkman governor signed that idiot bill into state law?

I'll make a decision. I don't know what the damn hurry is.

How many different ways you know how to kill a man?

I was trying to make you laugh.

Give me 200 bucks and it's done.

Let's let reason and logic have its moment.

God, wouldn't it be great if there was someone around here with communication skills who could go in there and tell them that?

'Cause I'm not allowed to get arrested anymore.

I got your back, man, you know? Or not.

You can't tell her. You have to tell her something else

The truth isn't good?

It's just there are certain things you're sure of... like longitude and latitude.

You know what you are? You are old school, my friend.

_ and I are going to get _ drunk, and then put him to bed.

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heated rivalry prompts

dialogue prompts from heated rivalry, episode 1 & 2, adjust as necessary.

I wanted to introduce myself.

I'm not sure you're supposed to smoke here.

You will not be so nice when we beat you.

I'm still in shock.

He is strong, but he needs discipline.

It's everything you dreamed of?

It was my idea.

A whole lot of kids are gonna be looking up to you.

So, uh, look, we can forget that happened in there, OK?

You are a really bad liar.

I thought you might chicken out.

This is such a bad idea.

I like trouble.

Weren't you scared of getting caught?

You make me curious.

Come on, I want to see you.

You saw me in the showers.

You think I am asshole?

I know you're an asshole.

You're not gonna tell anyone about this, are you?

Will you disappoint them?

How does it feel to be perfect?

We can all live without you.

Is someone chasing you?

Get on your knees.

You don't deserve me. I should go.

We're not, like, friends or anything.

You're just up here sulking because, what, you couldn't take another victory lap around me?

Not everything is about you!

No one is looking.

Go be weird somewhere else.

You're straight up blushing.

Never in life have I blushed.

Why the fuck did you think it was ok to sext me before _?

You missed me, didn't you?

So where do you want me?

I can smell the cigarettes from here.

You still want?

Good news is we're not gonna be here long enough.

I saw you up here. I wanted to see how you're doing.

You need a haircut.

I am a better _ now than I have ever been.

Always looking for someone else to blame.

I'm an angel. It would be great if you could remember that.

I pay attention sometimes. When there's something worth paying attention to.

You used to be fun.

Danger used to get you going, if memory serves.

What the fuck do you want?

You haven't answered a text from me in, like, 6 months.

You won't even acknowledge I exist unless there's a fucking camera pointed at us.

If you want me to get on my knees on this filthy bathroom floor, you will have to ask nicer than that.

Show off for me. I want to watch you.

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gilmore girls, season 4 episode 11 prompts

dialogue prompts from gilmore girls - in the clamor and the clangor, adjust as necessary.

I'm just trying to lighten the mood.

'Cause you wouldn't want a downer funeral.

Hey, did you ever notice that in _ death comes in fives?

You guys just eulogized _! They're not even dead yet.

One of my most romantic memories happened during those bells.

You look like my seven year old when she's all grumpy-puss.

Oh, I'm rock and roll, I don't know anything about boy-bands.

What are they, like a guilty pleasure for you or something?

I am always serious about rock and roll.

I love the first snow of the year.

It's probably be a long shot, but you never know!

You know, its people like you who are destroying the music industry.

As we speak, I am working on the perfect alibi.

Not a lot of loopholes in your world, huh?

You'll thank me in a few years when you find those waifish looks of yours aren't quite as charming.

Very few people in life listen to what anyone else says anyhow. It's all about volume.

These are the same freaks who also like sunsets and the moon and the stars.

Three weeks ago you moved to another county? Were you gonna mention this to me anytime soon?

I thought we were friends but I guess we're not!

I swear, that guy should work for the CIA. He gives away nothing, absolutely nothing!

I wanna chime in and be supportive, but I don't know what you're talking about.

You think everything is your business. Everything is about you! Well, here's a newsflash. Some things are not about you.

I have been tying my own shoes since I was I was four, I have repairing my own car since I was fourteen, and I have been making my own decisions since I could crawl! I owe you nothing!

It's the whole reason to be in the band, that and the loose chicks.

Come on, you gotta roll with the punches.

I didn't know what to do and you always seem to know what to do, so I thought I'd drop by and ask you what to do.

Well, what are you gonna do, just never go home again?

Oh good, because the longer you wait, the easier it's going to be.

Everything's so screwed up: my life, everything I'm doing.

Look at where you are, look at what you have. I'm so jealous you have a life.

I do not appreciate you calling me that. In fact, I don't appreciate you talking to me, or about me at all.

I'm sorry about last night. I don't want to keep secrets from you.

No, I just - I want to please you so badly, but I can't.

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foundation, season 1 episode 1 prompts

dialogue prompts from foundation - the emperor's peace, adjust as necessary.

Each night, she told me stories. I traveled light-years… my mind expanding to hold more and more worlds.

We need to be real quiet.

You get nothing if you win.

And you assume it cares anything about us?

Stop tempting fate.

To understand our future, we have to remember the past and the ones who caused it all.

That doesn’t mean it won’t all work out.

All my life, I looked out and dreamed of being somewhere else.

Now I realize how much I’ll miss this view.

They all hate me. You don’t hate me, do you?

You wouldn’t see the scars if you didn’t know to look.

Probably didn’t make the news on your world, some sort of kerfuffle at the galaxy’s edge.

Words have a way of fanning into wildfires.

You’ll be no less fascinating to your biographers.

When people are afraid to do their job right, they’re certain to do it wrong.

Not everything is a teachable moment.

They’re more trouble than they’re worth.

It’s not the most important thing we’ll do this week, but it’s the most important thing they’ll do in their lifetime.

Curiosity isn’t a crime here.

I imagine you were lonely, a mind like yours in a place like that.

They’re going to arrest me tomorrow. And you.

They’re worried you can predict the future.

There’s more at stake here than you can imagine.

I risked my life coming here.

You left your home one step ahead of arrest yourself.

This building will burn one day. Stealing is a mercy.

You haven’t seen it. When a planet wants you dead, you die.

Art is simply politics’ sweeter tongue.

He will die as all men like him die, unseen by God.

If you are in trouble, I can help you. Is that what you want?

Did they bring me here as bait? 

The hook hurts, but I’m trying not to wriggle too much.

A rotten tree trunk appears strong until the storm breaks it in two.

History is littered with charlatans and false messiahs.

We’re all different. But you’re something else. And if you don’t know what it is, I urge you to figure it out before someone else does and uses it against you.

You must have been lonely there. I can imagine how it must have felt to be recognized. To be valued.

Surely you can understand the value in a younger mind who shares your intellect.

I thought if I could make people listen, that I could save them.

Change is frightening, especially to those in power.

It takes more power to build than to burn.

You came here hoping to save your world. I’m asking you to dream bigger.

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magic: the gathering flavour text prompts

dialogue prompts from the flavour text of some of the mtg cards i own, adjust as necessary.

I want to help. Show me the way.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

If you had one wish, what would it be?

A whole life, full of memories and experience, love and sorrow, drained drop by drop into this bottle. Could any feast be more glorious?

All must fall, and those who stand highest fall hardest.

The desert is a voracious beast, devouring both flesh and stone.

Skill, imagination, smarts: none of it matters unless you have the nerve to use it.

Even when hope is but a small flame fighting the night, I will serve.

The difference between mischief and malice? Numbers.

There is a fierce joy in losing yourself to savagery, and a bitter pain in regaining your senses afterward. You could never understand.

Oaths are naught but empty air. Take what measures you must to ensure absolute loyalty.

I will protect the less fortunate. I will love bravely. I will face despair and fight on. I can do no less.

In the end, death usually has its way.

The wise learn from successes as well as mistakes.

A keen eye and steady hand are essential for defeating most foes.

Even as we mourn the last, we look to the next with joy.

Find glory not in blood, nor dragons felled. But in kindness given, oaths upheld.

The boundary between real and imaginary is as thin as the page, and just as easily torn.

Fear of fire is a sensible instinct. If I were you, I'd be terrified.

Life is a tournament that rewards the bold.

It's not like everyone can get by on their own, you know?

At the end of all things, will you find redemption or rebirth?

Monsters dwell in every heart. We only think civilisation tames them all.

She's got a heart of gold and a nose for danger.

My story ends when I say so.

Life is conflict. Only the strong survive.

Might doesn't make right, but it does win the fight.

Forget the expected. Embrace the unpredictable.

Count yourself lucky I came upon you. This is not a world of second chances.

Be like the sea: flow around that which is unmovable; for everything else, crash into it unrelentingly.

Stolen treasures can be reclaimed, but stolen knowledge is yours forever.

The pain of exploring is less than the pain of not knowing.

Life always starts small. Only time will tell what heights it will achieve.

You're not mad I pulled a little prank. You're just mad you fell for it.

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a geographer's map to love prompts

dialogue prompts from a geographer's map to love, adjust as necessary.

Tedium is best described as an opportunity for imagination.

If you want things to flow easily, you have to not give a damn.

Manners are for people who don't have anythint more interesting to say.

He's so uptight, I can't remember the last time relaxed, let alone laughed.

Look down?! When they told me this job was a ground-level position, I took that literally!

Go home. And once there, try to locate your backbone.

My focus is exactly where I want it to be.

Gods do what they like, they call down hurricanes with a whisper, or send off a tsunami the way you would a love letter.

You risked your life on the basis of a wild guess like that? I've never heard of anything more foolhardy, reckless, insane–

Do not accuse me of being lucky. I am far too clever for luck.

Thank you for your consideration, but please do not be charming or gallant. Do not give me your coat.

Do not make me like you, or I will remember that I love you.

Saying yes is a dangerous thing.

Just because you can read a map doesn't mean you know where you're going.

You are your own personal disaster zone.

However, it seems a burglar has already been, and has stolen your vocabulary.

Time doesn't only go forward, it goes deep too. I don't want to just walk down a road, I want to experience it.

Good heavens, you agree with something I said?

Would it to be unladylike of me to point out the phallic imagery?

Mortality weighs heavy on me like unwilling sleep.

How do you feel so much emotion all the time and not collapse with exhaustion from it?

Parts of that may have been my fault, and other parts accidental.

My wedding wasn't the worst day of my life. That would be this one.

You'll come up with some mad idea that will almost kill us but ultimately prove a brilliant success.

You shouldn't have risked your life for me like that.

You rescued me, now I have the honour of rescuing you.

You're mine. I won't let time take you from me.

I like my people. I'm not so keen on quantities of random strangers.

Don't try to be something else, I beg you.

My every though circles back to you, my every breath wants to kiss you.

You brought me wild joy in a life that had always been about safety, and excellent school marks, and mapping my every step.

Not a waste. You existed, that was always enough for me.

Whatever you do, don't fall in love with your husband.

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tales from cazilor : wyldflowers prompts

dialogue prompts from naethan apollo's tales from cazilor: wyldflowers, adjust as necessary.

In a moment, _, I'm inspiring the youth!

Never got better, but I never said I would.

Who cares about the future? I just know the future’s bad!

Can you hear the call? And most of all, will you answer?

For those who can’t fight, I’ma fight for them.

History has taught us things we can’t forget about.

It’s time for the little guy to teach a hard lesson.

The choices we make will be studied by historians.

Tell me which way will you face when life comes at you today?

Quit acting that your life is not a life in your control.

I work too hard to go get treated like a fucking dog.

I am not training you to that standard. I am training you to mine.

Do you seriously think any of these other losers can put up a time even close to that?

I tiptoe when I conversate 'cause I don’t want hoes to congregate.

If that’s too hard, get the fuck out the way.

You’ll catch me at the top when the timer has stopped.

Even if he is a dick, it's not like he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Well, it sounds like we all have it hard, which does make me feel a little bit better, so, thanks.. guys.

You cannot just say that and not expect me to have questions!

I did everything that you wanted me to. So when will it finish? When will I be enough for you?

Thankfully I had my friends to help me out. Otherwise, who knows where I'd be.

Please don't cash your favor in for this, dude! We'll get in so much trouble!

Our last hope left is just to keep running!

Think we got a chance here to finally take a break.

Things don't always end up okay but we ain't gon' die today!

You don't regret what you did at all, do you?

What I don't want to encourage is poor planning. Or having their desires delivered straight to their front door.

My father was a bastard, now I'm a bastard too, I guess it rubbed off over years.

I'm clearly the brains in this duo!

As long as we're together in the meantime, that's all that really matters!

I don't have much time to spend but I would still spend every hour to be with you.

Wе can make it work and make ourself a littlе happy home.

But some days it gets hard to be and your love gets too hard to see.

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tales from cazilor prompts

dialogue prompts from naethan apollo's tales from cazilor, adjust as necessary.

Okay, uh, I'll break the ice if nobody else will.

My kindness is a weapon, a weapon that you turned on me.

And then he asked me this stupid, hypothetical question.

Do you think you would die for me?

I got one too many things I wanna do before I die.

But dying for a friend is a hеll of a way to die.

You'll get back home I am damn sure!

And if my life is on the line, that's a bet I'll take!

Remember when I said, "Shut the fuck up," and then you didn't, you kept talking?

Hold on to memories like that, kid, your squad's all you got in times like this.​

But I'll tell you what my fondest memory will be... when the steel of my blade is pressed against that monster's neck.

I don't start fights but I'll handle you just fine.

I can't believe you used to truly scare me.

But now, I just wish that you'd send me off that ledge so I can finally fucking take you with me.

I just love the enthusiasm. But please remember to be wary.​

Just remember that no matter how hard you push, the enemy will always push back.​

Hold on, was that a joke? Ho ho! Those walls are breaking down! I knew you'd warm up to me!

Life moves too fast, I'll rest when I'm dead.

Thought I was getting better, boy was I wrong.

There's nobody else in the world who can do it like me.

I'm a simple man and have a simple want, to be the best to ever do it, and the best that ever was.

If any friend becomes a burden, a burden will get dropped.

Don't let the warmth lead you into a false sense of security.

Don't look back, just run or you'll die.

You know, recently, I've realized that I'm okay with dying alone.

As a matter of fact, I want nothing more than for thе seats of my funeral to be еmpty.​

And I think that's called love... or some messed up version of it, I truly do, I think that's called love.​

more like... a burden I choose to bear... due to my love for others.

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some desperate glory prompts

dialogue prompts from emily tesh's some desperate glory, adjust as necessary.

While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us.

There are fourteen billion people down there, fuck you.

For once you could get something for being special.

What's the point of being alive if you can't sleep?

You can't live by rules all the time.

If you ever put a hand on me, I will break your wrist.

You're clearly going to be unbearable if you haven't got something to do.

Oh, to hell with that. They just wouldn't have left you.

I take it back, you're not the rules type. You're insane.

If you want my help, that's the price.

If you're not quiet we're going to get caught.

It's okay to feel sad about things if that's how you feel.

Everything was always lies. You have been lied to all your life.

Or maybe, while we live, we're alive, and that's all.

He's less of an ass about it than he is about most things.

You're so hard to talk to.

It's just sex stuff. It's not important unless you let it be important.

I don't want to be a soldier. No one ever asked if I wanted to be a soldier. And now I'm not. I quit.

Everyone who meets you is scared of you.

I'm going to make a list of people who don't get to judge me, you're going to be at the top of it.

I am dangerous, I could kill you.

You've had several chances now. I can only assume you're not here to kill me after all.

Oh, come on, you were never actually going to stand up to me.

You pick the weirdest time to have principles

I would never have thought of–you're so smart.

I hope I never see you again.

Is it strange to say that I felt drawn to you? Like I knew you already, almost. Like it was meant to be.

I shouldn't have left you behind.

Living with you was like living with, I don't know, a fucking horse that blinders, you know, so they don't notice anything that scares them.

Guess some things are universal constants. The speedo of light and how much I want to beat you.

But not once did it occur to those sons of bitches that I was better than that.

You never give up. That's why I wanted you. I know you won't give up.

I can't believe you got two chances at this conversation and you fucked them both up.

You really don't need to tell me about your crush on _ right now. Please don't tell me about your crush.

I'm amazed you thought about me at all.

Fuck off, maybe I wouldn't snitch and drop you two into hell with me, you don't know me.

Focus because this is the last time. Focus because we don't have anymore chances.

Oh, to be a teenager and always right.

On second thoughts, fuck off and die.