rp sentence starters using lines from richard siken’s work , war of the foxes.
“ what’s there to be faithful to? ” “ i have my body and you have yours. ” “ but go ahead, yell at yourself. ” “ some people don’t understand anything. ” “ let’s kill something. ” “ what does a man want? ” “ why take more than we need? ” “ you’d break your heart to make it bigger. ” “ i thought of myself as a city. ” “ will you defend yourself? ” “ i prefer to blame others, it’s easier. ” “ it helps to have an anchor. ” “ we throw ourselves into the future. ” “ what is a ghost? ” “ i glued my head back on. ” “ sooner or later they go to ground and rot. ” “ everyone runs the risk of being swallowed up. ” “ the bodies decompose eventually. ” “ you can try, but we will not remain unscathed. ” “ abandon your will and let the world have its way with you. ” “ when you have nothing to say, set something on fire. ” “ i gave shape to my fears and made excuses. ” “ something’s not right about what i’m doing but i’m still doing it. ” “ the enormity of my desire disgusts me. ” “ want something to chase you? run. ” “ take a body, maybe your own, and dump it gently. ” “ take only what you need. ” “ never finish a war without starting another. ” “ i’ve seen your true face. ” “ if you were walking away, keep walking. ” “ everyone needs a place. ” “ why do anything at all? ” “ who gets to measure the distance between experience and its representation? ” “ everything is a metaphor for itself. ” “ the night sky is vast and wide. ” “ i owe myself nothing. ” “ i like dead things, they cannot hurt me. ” “ there’s not enough room for us to be ourselves. ” “ my body is a graveyard. ” “ everyone wants a battlefield. ” “ people like to think war means something. ” “ love might be the wrong word. ” “ let’s admit, without apology, what we do to each other. ” “ all stories are the wrong story if you’re impatient. ” “ some say god is where we put our sorrow. ” “ in the wrong light anyone can look like darkness. ” “ some people like to hear the sound of their own voice. ” “ ____ took the gods and made them human. ” “ i am afraid. ” “ i put my sadness in a box. ” “ i think that you might like it here. ” “ i tell you these things because i love you. ” “ everything casts a shadow. ” “ i surrender my desire to be healed. ” “ shame means you’re guilty, like the rest of us. ” “ maybe it’s better if my opponent wins. ” “ you want it to mean something. ” “ you are what you cover up.” “ one wonders why a story like this exists. ” “ i want to give you more but not everything. you don’t need everything. ” “ someone has to leave first. ”
