SENTENCE MEME ⟶ TERRY PRATCHETT’S REAPER MAN: CD SIX.
tenses / details have been changed for ease of sending! always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.
‘it’s no use you looking like that. we know you can move.’
‘it can’t be thinking. there’s no room for a brain.’
‘actually, prawns are quite intelligent.’
‘hardly anything natural has got wheels.’
‘isn’t there a sort of cuckoo that builds clocks to nest in?’
‘just one small fireball?’
‘i know you’re in there!’
‘i hate having to do that. i can’t help thinking it’s pandering to popular prejudice.’
‘i wonder– could you stop trying to twist my head off?’
‘it is just possible that i could knot your arms behind you.’
‘i may have put that rather clumsily.’
‘it tried to steal his books.’
‘shutting up is something that happens to other people.’
‘nothing wrong with a good swear. it keeps the blood flowing!’
‘can’t you say something else? like… like ‘darn’? or ‘poot’?’
‘she may say ‘sugar’, but what she means is shi–’
‘darn, darn, darn. sugar sugar sugar. pooty pootity poot. it’s no good, it doesn’t relieve my feelings one bit.’
‘we had one, but the end fell off.’
‘fetch the other one; this one’s broke.’
‘it’ll never catch on. you mark my words.’
‘i know where you live. and you ain’t paid no rent there for five years, neither.’
‘i’m tired and it won’t stop.’
‘he gave me a humorous apple juice fermented drink because of the heat, and now i feel ill.’
‘it’s all part of being alive.’
‘now i almost know why some people wish to die.’
‘she was holding it like someone holds something very tightly.’
‘just because something is a metaphor doesn’t mean it can’t be real.’
‘it’s asking a lot of a man like him to destroy something like that.’
‘i’ve never been very sure about what is right.’
‘i’m not sure there’s such a thing as right, or wrong. just places to stand.’
‘no. right’s right and wrong’s wrong.’
‘there’s nothing wrong with smuggling!’
‘he’s probably the world champion absent leaver of half-eaten sandwiches.’
‘we can’t get a clear shot at anything with all these civilians around.’
‘get away from me, you– you. you… basket.’
‘they have as much choice in the matter as water does about flowing downhill.’
‘we might as well be trying to hold back the sea.’
‘being dead isn’t like falling asleep after all.’
‘you’re right. you could have put it a little less coarsely, but you’re right.’
‘people have to sort things out for themselves.’
‘they’re coming to get us.’
‘remember: wild, uncontrolled bursts.’
‘the ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal.’
‘there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average eighty-year-old spanish peasant grandmother.’
‘that’s not, i might venture to point, entirely useful at this time.’
‘you might as well have tried to blow a mountain over.’
‘i never did anything like that. why do anything like that?’
‘it won’t work. i was wrong to think it would.’
‘there are some things you cannot escape.’
‘you can’t live forever.’
‘why can’t you live forever?’
‘what does cosmic wisdom know about it?’
‘i don’t know! you go round stopping the clocks the whole time.’
‘the kind of death that poses against the skyline and gets lit up by lightning flashes doesn’t turn up at twenty-five past eleven if he can possibly turn up at midnight.’
‘i had one once, but the head fell off.’
‘how did you know my name?’
‘it must be very odd knowing the kind of things you know.’
‘if we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives.’
‘if people knew when they were going to die, i think they probably wouldn’t live at all.’
‘it’s been… quite nice, having you around the place.’
‘have you got any last words?’
‘you are in no danger. probably.’
‘don’t know who you’re talking about.’
‘drop the scythe and turn around slowly.’
‘maybe life is something you acquire.’