This is Us Season 2 Sentence Starters
( feel free to change pronouns )
“What the hell is going on?”
“Catch your breath? What does that mean?”
“I need to stop feeling so…disappointed and I need to start feeling something else first.”
“No, I’m not throwing down with you in an adoption parking lot.”
“I’ve been chasing it my entire life; perfection.”
“When it comes to you and me? Baby, there ain’t nothing muddled there.”
“We are perfectly imperfect. And I didn’t even know that was a thing.”
“I’m drunk right now. I’ve been drunk all day. I’ve been drunk for weeks.”
“I’m still really upset and I don’t think I’m ready to talk about any of that just yet, but…I shouldn’t have let you leave.”
“Get in the car. Get in the car, ___.”
“If you have a problem, we will fix it together. I just need you to get in the car so we can go home.”
“I’m gonna go pay the tab even though we didn’t order anything.”
“You are the strongest person I know.”
“No, I’m not a masochist. I did not invite her.”
“You’re really cute when you’re dumb.”
“You’re tougher than that itch. You’re stronger than that itch.”
“Well who actually likes bowling?”
“When the snow is gone, I want you gone too.”
“She told you what I said?”
“Screw you, ___! And that is really hard for me to say because confrontation makes me cry!”
“No, don’t do that. Don’t make me the nagging girlfriend when you were a jerk.”
“At work if I’m wrong, it’s just money. But what if I’m wrong with a baby?”
“Damn. I almost had a baby named after me until I said that, huh?”
“You are not ‘instead’ of anything. You are exactly how it was meant to be.”
“Middles can be the hardest because that’s where you can really lost. But middles can also be a beginning too.”
“Just a year ago, my mother was alive and I had my girl and we were having a son. And now they’re all gone.”
“You tell me you’re disappointed? Well guess what. I am more disappointed. I am the most disappointed man you ever met in your whole damn life.”
“Oh wait. I thought I was gonna be the one who was gonna bring the heat and you were gonna calm me down. So we’re switching?”
“Next time I’ll reschedule getting jumped.”
“And even when he tries to tell people how pathetic he is, they don’t hear it. They just cheer.”
“Are you out of your mind coming back here, you bastard?!”
“That necklace, it’s the only thing I have left in my life from my dad. It’s the only thing I have.”
“I just need somebody to help me! I just need help please!”
“I’m in pain out here. Look, I’m in pain here!”
“We’ll I’m not gonna apologize for being excited.”
“It happened to me. It didn’t happen to you.”
“I’m trying to be strong here ‘cause that’s the gig. But it happened to me too. And it hurt.”
“At least the coffee’s cold.”
“Those were my onions. You just took them from me.”
“Life feels like pac-man sometimes I guess…it’s the same game over and over again. Same board, same ghosts.”
“I’m not holding in my passive-aggressive sighs.”
“You wanna talk about your tortured childhood? You wanna compare baggage?”
“The only thing you’re addicted to is attention.”
“You know, for a bad guy, you have one hell of a disguise.”
“Did we forget something at the mall?”
“Some people look at vacation rentals, some people look at porn, I look at dogs.”
“I’ll be back with a sledgehammer. This’ll be great!”
“Just let me remember you when it was good, okay? Will you do that?”
“I want you to know that you weren’t just a name on my list. ___, you were the name.”
“See? No porn, no puppies, no puppy porn.”
“I need you to wake up! The house is on fire! Get dressed! Put some shoes on!”
“Look at me, I’m gonna get us out of here, okay? Just look at me. Just be calm ‘cause we’re gonna get out.”
“Get down here now, ___! ___, don’t go back inside!”
“I’m going in the kitchen to get that and I’m never coming back.”
“How could you possibly joke right now?”
“When you lose someone…when you lose someone unexpectedly, it hurts…differently.”
“That’s what unexpected loss is like. It’s like a lightning bolt you can’t even see, reaching inside of you and tearing out your guts and-“
“No no, can you just back up? And can you leave me alone?”
“Can somebody get this person to give me some space, please?”
“I’m gonna be strong for them. God help me, I’m gonna be strong for them and if you can’t be strong either, then you need to take a walk around the block until you can.”
“I’m sorry I wasn’t there that night and I’m sorry the last thing I ever said to you was…awful.”
“I wanted to come here, I wanted stop avoiding you and I wanted to just talk to you. And just talk to you and tell you that I’m sorry and tell you that I’m gonna do better, okay?”
“If it’s the last thing I do, I’ll make you proud of me. I swear, I’ll make you proud of me.”
“The night ___ died, I thought ; we’re done. We won’t come back from this. And then I thought ‘okay, maybe they can. Maybe one day.’ Not because they needed him less, but they were built out of stronger stuff than I was.”
“Do you know that you changed my life? That you saved my life?”
“Uh-oh? What does ‘uh-oh’ mean?”
“Get out. You’re walking home.”
“Don’t you try and sell me on what you can’t do because I’m too old, I’m too smart, and I’m not buying it.”
“Can I just sit here with you for a little bit?”
“It was not your fault. Do you hear me? He was a grown man who made a choice. And if I have to spend the rest of my life making sure that you know that, I will.”
“It’s okay, because every battle scar is gonna tell our story.”
“I sit inside your anxiety every damn day and you can’t give me one night?”
“You don’t have to talk to me like I’m a child.”
“You can’t sleep either?”
“I like you, but you’re soft.”
“Choosing our people is the closest we come to choosing our own destiny.”
“I liked your toast. I’ve always been a sucker for a good toast.”