ASSORTED ASKBOX PROMPTS featuring the dialogue of films and literature in the PERIOD DRAMA genre, including the works of Jane Austen, Little Women (2019), The Great (2020), Anne With An E (2017), Enola Holmes, and more!
CHANGE gendered words and in-universe phrases as needed
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❛ A young woman should be free to follow her heart. ❜
❛ Either we escape tonight or we say goodbye forever. ❜
❛ Your life is still in danger. ❜
❛ You bewitched me from the very first moment we met. ❜
❛ I too have known heartache and betrayal. ❜
❛ My dear girl, don’t you know that I’m in love with you? ❜
❛ You don’t know what it is to be without power. ❜
❛ Actually, for once, I think that there is some small value in what you say. ❜
❛ If I changed at all, it was because of you. ❜
❛ Sometimes, I think you couldn’t possibly be real. ❜
❛ I just can’t live without you. ❜
❛ Just because my dreams are different than yours does not mean that they’re unimportant. ❜
❛ I cannot stop thinking of you. ❜
❛ I am yours; I have always been yours. ❜
❛ A man with charm is an entertaining thing. ❜
❛ It’s alright to have anger, but you can’t let that be the ruling factor over your life. ❜
❛ You deserve everything your heart desires. ❜
❛ Night and day, I dream of you. ❜
❛ Dancing is a trust; it is a union. ❜
❛ Did you admire me for my impertinence? ❜
❛ It is you I cannot sacrifice. ❜
❛ I love crying over a good book, don’t you? ❜
❛ I love you. Most ardently. ❜
❛ There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ❜
❛ When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I don’t have an excellent library. ❜
❛ Caring deeply will always be the right thing. ❜
❛ I don’t need friends. I have my own company. ❜
❛ Evil to some is always good to others. ❜
❛ Have a little compassion on my nerves! You tear them to pieces! ❜
❛ No man on earth cares for me. ❜
❛ I forgive what you have done to me. ❜
❛ I do not find it easy to talk to people I don’t know. ❜
❛ Men of sense do not want silly wives. ❜
❛ I have crossed oceans of time to find you. ❜
❛ How I love being a woman. ❜
❛ You are a wish come true I never knew I was making. ❜
❛ Sometimes, you just have to let people love you. ❜
❛ If you want to be heard, you have to make some noise. ❜
❛ I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all that a woman is meant for. ❜
❛ You’re being emotional. It’s understandable, but unnecessary. ❜
❛ I want things to go back to the way they used to be! ❜
❛ Wait, they didn’t teach you that in finishing school? ❜
❛ Whatever society may claim, they can’t control you. ❜
❛ You’re not rid of me yet. ❜
❛ You have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well. ❜
❛ I’ve always known that I would marry you. Why should I feel ashamed of that? ❜
❛ I don’t want to leave you. ❜
❛ No one should be alone all the time. ❜
❛ Marriage is both a joy and a place where you will be dealt unbearable griefs. ❜
❛ I can’t risk losing anyone else I love. ❜
❛ You don’t believe in me. I’ve spent my whole life trying to get you to … and you just don’t! ❜
❛ You are a befuddling, strange creature. Everything you are saying is ridiculous. ❜
❛ Have you been hiding from me? ❜
❛ If anything were to happen to you, I would never be able to live with myself. ❜
❛ It’s pretty obvious now that for us to stay sane, we have to stay together. ❜
❛ The world is hard on ambitious girls. ❜
❛ Do you truly have feelings for me? ❜
❛ I don’t think there’s any place for me in this world. ❜
❛ How do I look? Do I look alright? ❜
❛ I want a home. And a family. ❜
❛ An I talking too much? People are always telling me that I do, and it seems to cause no end of aggravation. ❜
❛ Oh, isn’t it a beautiful morning? ❜
❛ It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of they day. ❜
❛ You don’t annoy me; you make me nervous. ❜
❛ You are an unexpectedly dark character. ❜
❛ I have been unpardonably vain and insufferably arrogant. ❜
❛ You have to watch your tongue. ❜
❛ I’m so sorry; I don’t understand what you are saying. ❜
❛ I don’t understand why you’re being so kind to me. ❜
❛ Don’t be defeatist, dear. It’s very middle class. ❜
❛ We should see more of each other. ❜
❛ I look like a prized calf trussed up for auction. ❜
❛ Your reputation precedes you. ❜
❛ Ever since I was a child, I felt like greatness was in store for me. ❜
❛ You don’t look as though you’re struggling. You look … radiant. ❜
❛ I will love you until time has lost all meaning. ❜
❛ There are many versions of you, and you know that I’m the only one who sees them all. ❜
❛ You aim to rile me. I like it. ❜
❛ Will you join me for dinner? ❜