* .  âĄÂ  sentence  starters  ft.  nbcâs:  this is us |  part one.
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â youâre the only good thing in my life. â
â i had this whole dream life that i envisioned for myself. â
â give me the magic phrase to say, to make you feel better and iâll say it. â
â i donât just want you to believe it. i want you to know it. â
â there is not a single day that goes by where i donât think of what iâve lost. â
â i took the sourest lemon that life has to offer and turned it into something resembling lemonade. â
â iâll make you a bigger laughingstock than you already are. â
â i care what everyone thinks. you know that. â
â truth is, i never thought iâd have anything to care about again.  â
â i need to know that i can move forward. â
â i donât know if you have some problem with that arrangement, but also, i donât really care. â
â i did everything wrong by you. and youâve done everything right. â
â i shouldâve been there. and iâm going to be there, okay? â
â your enemies will see you exactly as you want to be seen. â
â what happens when you die? uh, is.. you die. â
â you do that a lot. doubt yourslef. â
â they look at me like iâm a joke, right? which makes me start to think that i am a joke. â
â iâm not gonna stand for anything changing between us. â
â life is full of color. and we each get to come along and we add our own color to the painting. â
â people will die. in our lives, people that we love. in the future. maybe tomorrow. maybe years from now. â
â thereâs no dying. thereâs no you or me or them. itâs just us. â
â itâs the only thing i have left. and at first i didnât want to wear it. i wouldnât even look at it, but now itâs all i have and i canât take it off now. â
â what am i doing? iâm supposed to be comforting you, not snotting all over you. â
â what happened is my ___ died. and i hated them for it. â
â i couldnât eat for a month. and i used to wake myself up crying, so i could cry myself back to sleep again. â
â why do you push all that away? you canât just kill the feelings like theyâre some creature youâre afraid of. â
â that pain is apart of you. i can feel it. â
â i need you to know something. i want you to stand out. â
â that was a midlife crisis. but just a little one. â
â you treated me like a dog. and just like a dog, i kept coming back again and again, just hoping for a scrap from you. â
â thereâs no one in this world iâd rather be too hot or too cold with. â
â when youâre a grown up, you donât have to do the stuff you hate. â
â if i let up for a moment, i will remember that i am unwanted. and then whatâll happen to me? â
â i know youâre making fun of her, alright? thatâs not cool. â
â that was real. those feelings were real and i know you know that. â
â and it doesnât shock me that youâre scared, right? youâre horrified and youâre trying to sabotage it. â
â what might be worse than that, is that iâm not sure youâve experienced anything real youâre entire life. â
â you have robbed me of the feeling of trust. do you understand how that feels? â
â as you get older, you might start to find that things get harder. â
â that must have been incredibly lonely. â