cassandra clare : city of bones … sentence starters
“All the stories are true.”
“I am stunningly attractive.“
“Just coffee. Black - like my soul.“
“I pity the mugger who goes after you.”
“It tends to make humans a little crazy.”
“You’re so stupid, can’t you see anything?“
“I like anyone killing things, especially me.”
“Don’t. I’m not really in the mood right now.”
“Have you had dealings with demons, little girl?“
“Unfortunately, my one true love remains myself.”
“Don’t call him that. He doesn’t look like a weasel.“
“Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.“
“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person, yet?”
“Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay.”
“Half of your attention is better that all of anyone else’s.”
“Don’t touch any of my weapons without my permission.“
“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
“That’s got to be the first time a girl’s ever said that to me.”
“My eyes are usually described as golden… and luminous.”
“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.“
“Are you just going to let her stand there and call me names?“
“Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I’ve got a purpose.“
“If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.“
“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.“
“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
“Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.“
“It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.“
“The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.“
“My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.“
“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?“
“Well, I’d certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.“
“I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners.“
“You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.“
“Unfortunately, we’re all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it’s either tea or nothing.”
“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.“
“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?“
“If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you’d be twice as funny as you are.”
“There is a fine line between sarcasm and out-right hostility, and you seem to have crossed it.”
“Don’t stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires, and werewolves, and zombies?“
“First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.“
“I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.”
“Keep up. I don’t want to have to keep looking behind me to make sure nothing’s happened to you.”
“I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don’t.“
“It’s your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn’t make you crazy, just different.”
“And next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get my attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
“One minute you’re munching a faerie plum, the next minute you’re running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head…. Not that this has ever happened to me.”
“That’s why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don’t say anything, they just nod. The nod means, ‘I’ am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass’.”
