mellivia sentence starters
a series of quotes from mellie grant and olivia pope about each other, to each other or individually from abc’s scandal. [ change pronouns as needed ]. triggers for adultery, alcohol, sex, death, eating disorders, abuse and rape may be present.
❝ i don’t know what i’d do without you. ❞
❝ leave us alone, we’re drinking. ❞
❝ it’s ours and neither one of us are leaving without a fight. ❞
❝ i have to save [insert name here]. ❞
❝ your mistake was thinking you could take what’s MINE. ❞
❝ and in case there is any doubt about where i stand on the president, you’’ll notice he’s my ex-husband, not my husband. ❞
❝ i was trying to get her to swim again but she won’t. ❞
❝ i make her take walks with me. ❞
❝ i make her eat, she forgets to eat! ❞
❝ she’s missing now, there but not there. ❞
❝ she’s… a different person. ❞
❝ you’re the biggest bitch i know. ❞
❝ you wanna come watch ? ❞
❝ don’t tell me you can’t do this. ❞
❝ what the hell, do you want some ? ❞
❝ tell me you brought more. ❞
❝ you don’t get to be vulnerable, or weak, or compromised in any way, by anyone. ❞
❝ we’re gonna get you out of here. ❞
❝ you don’t choose me, nobody does. ❞
❝ breathe, we’re gonna get you out of here. ❞
❝ i was happy you were around, too. ❞
❝ you were a good mistress, probably a great one. ❞
❝ i don’t have a therapist. ❞
❝ i had a realization about you. ❞
❝ you are my white knight. ❞
❝ you are my challenger, my push to greatness, my savior. ❞
❝ i was wrong, you are not my enemy. ❞
❝ you just appeared out of nowhere and ruined everything. ❞
❝ all these years i spent hating you, wishing he’d never met you, thinking you showed up and took him from me. ❞
❝ don’t sit down next to me like we are friends. ❞
❝ i’m guessing you didn’t come here to talk cover art. ❞
❝ there’s got to be some warm blood flowing behind those eyes, wouldn’t you say ? ❞
❝ you’d have to be an idiot to be this reckless. ❞
❝ you are not an idiot and you are never reckless. ❞
❝ i have kept this secret for fifteen years. ❞
❝ i have lived this LIE for fifteen years. ❞
❝ all the while, i have watched him walk away from me. ❞
❝ i have been destroyed. ❞
❝ i’m tired of carrying the cross. ❞
❝ i know you are better than them. ❞
❝ you are a better person than most. ❞
❝ you are inherently good. ❞
❝ you were nasty and i took it. ❞
❝ i am an overachiever, once i put my mind to something, i commit. ❞
❝ i wanted to fight but you never fought. ❞
❝ you were my husband’s mistress, was i supposed to be friendly ? ❞
❝ in here, i am spiteful and petty. ❞
❝ you don’t get to say what you want, not in here. ❞
❝ smile [insert name], the world is watching. ❞
❝ your wants, your needs, nobody cares anymore. ❞
❝ all that matters from now on is him. ❞
❝ i hope you know what you’re really fighting for. ❞
❝ you get dropped in a cage and you are trapped. ❞
❝ you will make so many sacrifices and compromises you won’t even feel like a real person anymore, you will be unrecognizable. ❞
❝ this is what makes you feel alive. ❞
❝ living here, in this prison, that is what makes you feel numb. ❞
❝ you don’t know why you stayed. ❞
❝ you don’t why, do you ? ❞
❝ do you know why you left ? ❞
❝ i left for the same reason you stayed i was scared. ❞
❝ i don’t want to spend my nights sleeping next to a man who gets erections in his sleep. ❞
❝ i am not to blame for your affair. ❞
❝ you didn’t need some man to give you the power, you had the power the whole time. ❞
❝ there is a fire inside me now. ❞
❝ i found the light, i was living in the dark. ❞
❝ i was blind, but now i see. ❞
❝ can you believe i went so long never feeling this ? ❞
❝ i took [insert name] back. ❞
❝ i want to see him burn. ❞
❝ thank you so much for coming. ❞
❝ i like your new boyfriend, is he married ? ❞
❝ i’d like you to come back. ❞
❝ he’s not alive when you’re not here. ❞
❝ he can’t breathe when you’re not here. ❞
❝ you’re everything to him. ❞
❝ does he know what you’re asking me ? ❞
❝ you and i have always wanted the same thing. ❞
❝ why are you doing this ? ❞
❝ it seems like my whole marriage is about you. ❞
❝ i’m sure we can make some kind of deal. ❞
❝ everything was fine, i just don’t understand what happened. ❞
❝ the truth does not work for me. ❞
❝ i am not miserable that she survived. ❞
❝ you don’t have to apologize to me. ❞