KLAUS starters
feel free to change pronouns
“Stop, don’t tell me. Let me guess…. I give up. Who are you?”
“Can I get your something to drink? Espresso, cappuccino?”
“Aren’t you supposed to be in equestrian training?”
“No worries, I’ve got someone covering for me.”
“I’m gonna take one last look around the old place so I can forget it.”
“There you have it! But, hey, we gave it the old college try didn’t we?”
“Guess I’ll just go pack up and head home then. Too bad! Darn, oh darn!”
“You’re right! When will I grow up? When will I stop squandering these opportunities- that you so kindly forced me into- and become my own man?”
“I guess I must really hanker down and rethink my priorities.”
“You think I’m just going to watch you purposely fail and then let you waltz right back to a privileged life void of any purpose or meaning?”
“You can’t cheat, bribe or squirm your way out of this one.”
“Thank you, Dad! This is really wonderful, father, thank you so much!”
“I love this terrible coach ride. Thank you so much.”
“Nice boat. Any chance we might actually get on it today?”
“I thought there would be some sort of a reception.”
“This is no way to treat a person. Certainly not THIS person.”
“Come to the counter, I’ll be right out!”
“What kind of town has a Battle Bell?”
“Welcome to _, home ot the world’s finest feuds.”
“Are you gonna buy something, or are you just here to chit-chat?”
“Holy moley, that’s you?! What happened?”
“Mingling with their sworn enemy spawn? Can’t have that!”
“So now I’m reduced to doing this so I can get some money and start fresh far, far away from here.”
“Are. You going. To buy something?!”
“C’mon, sport! I saved the best for last.”
“Go home, you loser!”
“Oh, I get it. Did my father put you up to this?”
“Show me where I’m really staying. I’d like a hot bath and a look at the dinner menu.”
“That’s it! This place is the worst! I’m going home!”
“I hate it here! It’s so cold and icky and the people are mean to me!”
“Nice guy. Loves visitors.
“Hello? I’m in your house.”
“Better alive in the gutter than hacked into pieces! No thank you!”
“Please don’t chop me up and scatter my parts in the woods!”
“In there? What? No way. You must be kidding.”
“Please! Open this! Why are you doing this to me?”
“These better sound sad. Do they sound sad?”
“Probably not an axe murderer. Though, still is a possibility but, most likely, no.”
“Remember me from the nice breaking and entering the other night?”
“That is… totally normal!”
“Centuries of glorious hatred passed down through generations!”
“Now, I just know you didn’t mean to disrespect all of that heritage. Right?”
“Telling children to go to school to learn to write? What is wrong with you?!”
“I’m so close to getting out. I am not about to let you mess it all up.”
“Whatever you’re doing, leave me OUT OF IT.”
“Not a word. You just sit there and be all magical and awesome.”
“Are we going to learn something today?”
“Look, if you have to be here, at least be quiet.”
“Let’s make a deal- If I teach you something will you get out of here? Please?”
“Friends of yours, I take it?… They seemed nice.”
“A flying sleigh… pulled by magical reindeer?”
“Oh look. It CAN laugh.”
“What are you doing at our ambush?”
“So we must band together in peace… To help stop this peace?”
“Back home I’ve got pretty much everything.”
“Back home I’ve got pretty much everything. But here I’m just another irrelevant,pointless… nobody.”“
Hey. You’re a pretty good listener, y’know?”
“How many nights do you lie awake, in the darkest place?”
“If happy lives a mile away, a couple steps is all it takes.”
“If kindness lives in everyone, then all it takes is standing up.”
“Can’t touch it, see it- but you can always feel it.”
“The greatest things you’ll ever know are invisible.”
“How have we never defeated you?”
“We wanted children. Lots of them.”
“We kept waiting, but they never came.”
“Even now, sometimes, it almost like she’s still...”
“After she was gone, I guess I got lost.”
“Yknow what? No homework! Am I the best teacher ever or what?”
“I just thought I’d give the place an update.”
“Check it out, I think it looks pretty good.”
“Someone would have to be pretty stupid to want to leave this place now.”
“Oh, wow. You have no idea what you’ve done, do you?”
“Not quite the same place is it?”
“A true act of good will always sparks another.”
“Everybody’s out to get something, right?”
“Oh, well. Best leave it alone, I say. I’m sure it’s nothing that could fester and eventually become a source of regret.”
“He said he’d never been more proud of me... And he hugged me. Can you believe that?”
“This town was built on resentment and spite.”
“Let’s go. We’re done here.”
“Kids talk. And if kids happen to talk about their parents forming an angry mob then, y’know, teachers listen.”
“Then you showed up and made it complicated, as usual.”
“So all this was for nothing?”
“Shall we then?”
“What did you expect of course she loved me.”
“I’m coming, Love.”
“It was as if he had just... faded away.”
“What happened to him after that... How, why... I can’t even begin to comprehend.”
“I stopped trying to make sense of it a long time ago.”
“What I do know is that, once a year, I get to see my friend.”