「Stormlight Archive Sentence Starters」 ▬▬
“That man’s so incompetent he might as well be fighting for the other side.”
“Why don’t you fight? You did before. Now you’ve stopped.”
“So in reality, you’re telling me I’m beautiful precisely one-sixth of the time.”
“The others cry at night. But you don’t.”
“He’s just a likable bastard. Those are the worst kind. When you kill them, you end up feeling guilty for it.”
“Well, if you want to kill me, you could always let your breath do the job.”
“My breath needs to be up close to kill, while that face of yours can kill any man from a distance.”
“But we are each many different people, and you can tell much about a person by what they carry with them.”
“He said there are those who take lives. And there are those who save lives.”
“One of those tells me that if I leave you, I might lose myself.”
“You can’t protect by killing.”
“You can either tell me your name, or I’ll keep pestering you.”
“How am I ever going to catch you, man?”
“I never find hunts as interesting as everyone says they’re going to be. I don’t care how big the beast is—in the end, it’s really just butchery.“
“There was someone watching me in the darkness that night.”
“Before I met you, I never had to think about death or lying.”
“A whore joke, ___ ? Is that the best you can manage?”
“I guess I just have to count on him wanting more of my bribes.”
“I had imagined that a walk would involve more walking.”
“I don’t fault your bravery; I fault your wisdom.”
“Why do men lie? I can see what lies are, but I don’t know why people do it.”
“He’s a lighteyes. That means he lies.”
“The more noble they look, the more corrupt they are inside. It’s all an act.”
“I doubt that even were I to decide to crawl, I could slow you any further.”
“A merchant who is careless with contracts is one who finds himself with enemies instead of friends.”
“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should.”
“The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers.”
“Didn’t you once tell me that you didn’t understand your own self?”
“If your opponent can trip you, or make you stumble, you’ll lose. Losing means dying.”
“Storm it, you’re supposed to be better than the others!”
“For saving my life, I spare yours.”
“How attached to your limbs are you?”
“An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.”
“Money is behind every war. Religion is but an excuse. Or perhaps a justification.”
“Protecting ten innocents is not worth killing one. In the end, all men die.”
“If you’re crazy, you’re a good type, and I like you. Not a killing-people-in-their-sleep type of crazy.”
“I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.”
“Well, your men won’t leave without you, and my men won’t leave without them. So you will get on your horse and we will escape this death-trap.”
“What I’m saying is that I faced eternity, and I saw peace there. That will change how I live.”
“You’ve shown me that I’m still a threat.”
“Wait. You— That— What just happened?”
“What is a man’s life worth?”
“Well, if you act like a child, you get treated like one.”
“Why is one man born a king, and another a beggar?”
“I owe you my life. That’s the only reason I haven’t yet thrown you through a window.”
“Humans don’t make sense.”
“You have bad days. You have good days. Evens out eventually.”
“You’re starting to sound a lot like my mother.”
“Sleeping when you’re supposed to be on guard duty?”
“No honorspren would give that creature the means to slaughter as he does.”
“If the afterlife really is a big war, then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.”
“These men, they claim they can drink more than Horneater. Airsick lowlanders. Is not possible.”
“No. Sorry. I’m kind of useless at anything that doesn’t involve someone getting stabbed.”
“My mistake. I was under the impression that jokes were supposed to be funny.”
“You’re being sour. I can practically taste it.”
“What has happened to us? Where is our honor?”
“No stealing souls, now. We ain’t here for souls. Just a little thievery, the type what never hurt nobody.”
“I’m no highspren. Laws don’t matter; what’s right matters.”
“I’ll make sure nobody unauthorized runs off with the chamber pot, sir.”
“It’s far too early for arguments. Try it. Give me an insult.”
“I’d rather walk these chasms with a compulsive murderer than you. At least then, when the conversation got tedious, I’d have an easy way out.”
“I’m really not very witty. You just happen to be stupid, so it seems that way. Contrast, remember?”
“Reuse of jokes is strictly forbidden on pain of getting dunked in a highstorm.”
“Please. Don’t leave me down in these chasms alone.”
“It would be more beautiful if it hadn’t tried to eat me.”
“Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while. If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!”
“We are not having another stupid conversation about you dying in here while I bravely continue on.”
“I don’t know if the lad is touched in the head or merely starved for attention.”
“Insults in particular will be of great use to my people, as they are truths and lies combined in a quite interesting manner.”
“If I protect … only the people I like, it means that I don’t care about doing what is right.”
“I will protect even those I hate, so long as it is right.”
“You sent him to the sky to die, assassin, but the sky and the winds are mine. I claim them, as I now claim your life.”
“Whatever else might be said, at least the world chose a nice night upon which to end.”
