Sentene starter meme

[madreen_rua]

Sentence Starter Meme

Use any of the sentences below as inspiration to start your thread.

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1. “Gallows humor. Best kind there is”
2. “Call no man happy until he is dead”
3. “You got a second chance. Make the most of it”
4. “You’re too fucking quiet”
5. “Don’t piss off those bitches in airports”
6. “You are where the forgotten wait”
7. “Damn straight I’m a hustler”
8. “Gods die”
9. “Babes. You’re dead”
10. “The dead always give me the screaming mimis”
11. “You were given the sun itself.”
12. “We’re like the wind. We blow both ways”
13. “Liberty is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses”
14. “A man’s fortune is his own affair”
15. “A story’s a good way of gettin’ someone on your side”
16. “There’s a storm coming, and it’s not a storm of our making”
17. “Where did all the blood come from?”
18. “You shine like a beacon in the dark world”
19. “I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee”
20. “Why does your car smell like bananas anyway?”
21. “He borrowed money and opened a Taco Bell knock-off called Taco Bill’s.”
22. “I would do anything to get away”
23. “It’s there in the moment of eclipse and the moment of the storm”
24. “Good-byes are overrated”

Source: American Gods, Neil Gaiman

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[madreen_rua]

1. I heard the mailman approach my office door, half an hour earlier than usual.
   
   
2. I never used to keep track of the phases of the moon.
   
   
3. There are reasons I hate to drive fast.
   
   
4. It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
   
   
5. Somethings things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste... Wizards and television.
   
   
6. The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.
   
   
7. On the whole, we're a murderous race.
   
   
8. Blood leaves no stain on a Warden's grey cloak.
   
   
9. Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
   
   
10. Winter came early this year; it should of been a tip-off.
    
    
11. The summer sun was busy broiling the asphalt from Chicago's streets, the agony in my head had kept me horizontal for half a day, and some idiot was pounding on my apartment door.
    
    
12. I answered the phone, and Susan Rodriguez said, "They've taken our daughter."
    
    I sat there for a long five count, swallowed, and said, "Um. What?"
    
    
13. Life is hard. Dying's easy.
    
    
14. Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, has unique ideas regarding physical therapy.
    
    
15. A good con doesn't just happen. It's all about setup.
    
    
16. My brother ruined a perfectly good run by saying, "Justine is pregnant."
    

[madreen_rua]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Angry people are not always wise

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.”

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

[madreen_rua]

Go and tell the children of the night to make wonderful music somewhere else, will you? I have a headache.

There’s no better present than a future.

Good and bad is tricky,’ [ _____ ] said. ‘I ain’t too certain about where people stand. Perhaps what matters is which way you face.

When people were in serious trouble they went to a witch. (Sometimes, of course, to say, ‘Please stop doing it.’)

“It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

“When I die,” said [ _____ ], inspecting the patient, ‘I’m going to instruct them to put a bell on my tombstone, just so I can have the pleasure of not getting up when people ring. Put him down, please. Looks like concussion.”

"I was at a party, you know."

“[ ____ ] sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it.”

Why don’t we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?

When you break rules, break ‘em good and hard.”

Blessings be upon this... tent.

There’s no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.