INTO THE WOODS by stephen sondheim & james lapine || sentence starters
“I wish… more than anything.”
“I have no fear, nor no one should.”
“Everyone tells tiny lies, what’s important really is the size.”
“You’re back again, only different than before.”
“What’s so intriguing as what’s out of reach?”
“You know nothing of madness.”
“If I dare, it’s because I’m becoming aware of us as a pair of us.”
“We’ve changed, we’re strangers”
“Let’s hope the changes last.”
“How can you know who you are ‘til you know what you want, what you don’t?”
“It’s your first big decision, the choice isn’t easy to make.”
“There’s a lot that’s at stake, but you’ve stalled long enough.”
“Couldn’t you stay content safe behind walls?”
“Now you know what’s out there in the world.”
“I was not company enough?”
“I am no longer a child! I wish to see the world.”
“Who out there could love you more than I?”
“Someone has to shield you from the world.”
“Stay a child while you can be a child.”
“Anything can happen in the woods.”
“You’re right. How foolish.”
“Was he suddenly getting bored of me?”
“Wake up, stop dreaming.”
“No matter what you do, children won’t listen.”
“You’re so nice… You’re not good, you’re not bad, you’re just nice.”
“I’m not good, I’m not nice, I’m just right.”
“You’re responsible, you’re the one to blame, it’s your fault—!”
“Oh, why bother? You’ll just do what you do.”
“I was raised to be charming, not sincere.”
“The farther you run, the more you feel undefined.”
“We disappoint, we leave a mess, we die but we don’t.”
“Then kill him! …No. Don’t kill him.”
“Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood.”
“No one leaves for good.”
“You are not alone. No one is alone.”
“Now we can all return home, and hope there will be no more killing.”
“You’ll have to take care of yourself now. It’s time.”
“How proud _____ would have been of you.”
“Maybe I just wasn’t meant to have children.”
“How can I go about being a father with no one to mother my child?”
“Careful the things you say.”
“You can’t just act, you have to listen.”