The Love Hypothesis RP Starters
These starters are taken from The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. Feel free to change wording as needed.
"Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man."
“This might be inappropriate but… ___ You are really… You are extraordinary”
“He’d clearly never seen a rom-com or read a romance novel in his life.”
“I know it’s scary, being vulnerable, but you can allow yourself to care. You can want to be with people as more than just friends or casual acquaintances.”
“You put in expired contacts?”
“It’s okay. Expiration dates are for the weak.”
“Everyone likes tall, broody, sullen hunks with genius IQs.”
“Because I’m starting to wonder if this is what being in love is. Being okay with ripping yourself to shreds, so the other person can stay whole.”
“I asked if I could kiss you, and you said yes.”
“Incorrect. You asked if you could kiss me and I snorted.”
"Good. Fine. I mean I wish I were dead. But aside from that.”
"Is there something you need? Name it. It’s yours. If I have it, it’s yours.”
“But a good kiss will do that: make a girl forget herself for a while.”
“I am going to take care of this, and then I’ll come find you, and I’ll take care of you.”
“Or, you could stay mad, and we could go to your lab and throw test tubes full of toxic reagents at each other until the pain of third-degree burns overrides your shitty mood? Sounds like fun, no?”
“I've never been surer of anything. Except maybe cell theory.”
“I think that somewhere along the way I forgot that I was something. I forgot myself.”
“He'd been going on and on about this amazing girl for years”
“Academia takes alot from you a gives back very little. It's hard to stick around without a good reason to do so”
“Right. Yes I’m an insensitive ass.”
“I have a question. A specific research question. Something that I want to find out.”
"It will be fine, ___ .And if not, at least it will be over.”
“A heart will break even more easily than the weakest of hydrogen bonds.”
"It doesn't matter what it says. It's always one bed."
“Not having a life came in handy, sometimes.”
“I do reserve the right to comment on your abysmal taste in men”
“I like no one, absolutely no one, but I liked you from the start.”
“I must say, the line between excellent career choice and critical life screwup is getting a bit blury.”
“Pumpkin spice is Satan’s dandruff, harbinger of the apocalypse, and it tastes like ass—not in the good way.”
“I have access to your Google Calendar, asshole. You're not busy. If you don't want to hang out with me, you can just be honest.”
“How much do you hate this, on a scale from one to ‘correlation equals causation’?”
“There's nothing bad about taking more than five years to graduate."
“Approximately two out of three fake-dating situations will eventually involve room-sharing; 50 percent of room-sharing situations will be further complicated by the presence of only one bed.”
“I am here for you, and always will be, no matter what. No matter how many pounds of spoiled shrimo cocktail you projectile vomit, you can trust me. We're a team, you and I. "
“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
“Is that shade? Did this fortune cookie just throw shade at me?”
“I doubt a language exists in which the thing you just ordered could be referred to as ‘coffee.”
“There's probably German word for that. Cute, but exceptionally ugly.”
"It doesn't matter. Whatever it is that you're crying about, I will fix it. I will make it right. I-”