Paranorman sentence starters
73 starters
feel free to change gender pronouns
“Well, the zombie is eating her head, _____.”
“That’s not very nice. What’s he doing that for?”
“I’m sure if they just bothered to sit down and talk it through, it’d be a different story.”
“He’s, like, R-I-double-P-E-D. Like, a seven-pack, at least.”
“How many times do we have to go through this, _____?”
“God, I’m not making this up, I swear!”
“Does anyone smell burning?”
“You stink of illiteracy!”
“I keep telling you, _____. I like to be alone.”
“You shouldn’t let them get you down.”
“If you were bigger and more stupid, you’d probably be a bully too.”
“I was told not to talk to you. Sorry.”
“I can see ghosts too. And I know that’s not all you’ve been seeing lately, is it?”
“And I’ll bet no one told you about the witch’s curse, did they?”
“The witch’s curse is real! And you’re the one who has to stop it.”
“You’ve got to use your gift of talking to the dead.”
“Don’t make me throw this hummus. It’s spicy.”
“Jeez, what a dirty old creep.”
“So is it true? Can you see ghosts, like, everywhere, all the time?”
“Can you stop doing that? It’s kind of stupid.”
“No, you try it. I already went, like, fifty times.”
“You know, sometimes people say things that seem mean, but they do it because they’re afraid.”
“But I… I don’t know what any of it means.”
“Do I look crazy to you?”
“You know, I’ve kind of got other things on my mind right now.”
“Just go home, _____. I’m better off on my own anyway.”
“There’s nothing wrong with being scared, _____, so long as you don’t let it change who you are.”
“I think I peed my pants!”
“Are they going to try to eat our brains?”
“_____, I don’t understand. Just tell me what to do!”
“I really need to get home ‘cause I’ve got a seriously early curfew.”
“Just so you know, I totally saved his life, and I could totally save yours.”
“Sorry, my fault. When I’m nervous, I get mouth diarrhea.”
“You know, I would Google this myself if there wasn’t a three-hundred-year-old guy trying to rip my face off.”
“I really think it might help if you tried to see things from his point of view.”
“Man! Zombies take over the world and we lock ourselves in a library! Are you kidding me? There’s an adult video store just across the street.”
“This will be a piece of cake, you’ll see.”
“It would’ve been a quiet night too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids.”
“I can’t believe this is your plan.”
“There’s something moving out there. I think it’s the zombies.”
“I’m scared, _____, and I can’t listen to this anymore.”
“You never listen. No one ever listens!”
“I’m scared too, but I’ve still got to do this!”
“I should’ve known you wouldn’t understand. No one ever does!”
“I’m not going anywhere. You can’t make me.”
“Why won’t you listen to me? Why are you doing this?”
“Do you have anything to say for yourself?”
“I didn’t do anything wrong!”
“Leave me alone or I’ll make you sorry!”
“You must stop the curse.”
“I believed we were doing what was right. I was wrong. Now, this is our punishment.”
“_____, if we die tonight, this may be the last chance I get to tell you how I feel.”
“I have cheered the uncheerable, _____, and I am not letting you give up now!”
“I wish I understood you.”
“You’re not welcome here. Go away.”
“I don’t want to go to sleep, and you can’t make me.”
“I don’t like this story!”
“I wanted everyone to see how rotten they were.”
“They did something awful, but that doesn’t mean you should too. All that’s left in you now is mean and horrible!”
“Then stop! This is wrong and you know it!”
“You’ve spent so long remembering the bad people that you’ve forgotten the good ones.”
“But you’re not alone! You have to remember!”
“I think you got so scared that you forgot who you are.”
“But what about the people who hurt you? Don’t you ever want to make them suffer?”
“You think just because there’s bad people out there, that there’s no good ones either?”
“That story you were telling, how does it end?”
“I thought I was going to lose you.”
“You did it! You stopped the witch’s curse and made the zombies go away and saved pretty much everything!”
“So, do you think now everything’s going to turn back to normal?”
