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Community Season 1 Sentence Starters

feel free to change pronouns

“Okay, there’s more to this speech. There’s actually a middle card that’s missing. Can we look around our immediate areas?”

“Holy crap. ____, I see your value now.”

“Um, I am in a bit of a jam.”

“I would say anything to get what I want and I want you to like me.”

“Do you have something balled up inside of you?”

“Say you have to pee. I need to talk to you.”

“I’m gonna go to the bathroom and bring my jacket, wallet, and keys with me...in case there’s a fire.”

“I think she needs to decide whether she wants to be considered a child or an adult because children get pity, but not respect. And adults, they get respect, but they also get the back of their heads grabbed and faces pushed through jukeboxes.”

“Would you have some self-respect? You are obsessing over someone who does not give you a second thought.”

“I AM A SPANISH GENIUS!”

“My knowledge will bite her face off! So don’t mess with ____ or you’ll get bit!

“We’re gonna take this and put it in a museum for crazy people.”

“How about I pound you like a boy-? That didn’t come out right.”

“Boo. An ordinary coffee for an ordinary life.”

“I shall have...a birthday cake!”

“I can help you with your image. First, I’d lose the jacket, you look like a high school bitch.”

“So, who wants to be in a psych experiment?”

“Houston, we have an idiot.”

“___ told me she had a sex dream about you. You still have a chance!”

“If I’m occasionally naked in your dreams, I won’t complain.”

“No worries, man. Eh...some worries, man. Some worries...”

“We were designed by whatever entity you choose to hear what’s in this range. And really this range alone. Because you know who’s talking to us in this range? The people we love.”

“I don’t know about you, but this feels like a real college to me.”

“I’ve peed alone my whole life.”

“I’m not having a conversation with someone who emerges from a bush.”

“You were way more attracted to me than you were willing to admit.”

“I am offering you an opportunity to drink from the cup of life rather than romancing your nether regions in front of the E channel.”

“I’m sorry i called you a handsome hobo.”

“Is there a pill that makes the word ‘no’ clearer?”

“If this dude doesn’t show up, we’re definitely going to Applebee’s.”

“___, kick his ass!”

“Beep-beep! Oh my god, what’s going on? Beep-beep beep-beep beep! My bull-crap meter’s going crazy.”

“I’m back with no booty.”

“She’s had enough! She’s had enough!”

“If the sea was always still and calm, no one would respect her.”

“Hey! Get out of my parking space, dip-wad!”

“You ever get tired of being a buzz-kill, ___”

“Why are you dressed like a wizard?”

“The dean announced the prize and we turned on each other like animals.”

“Checkmate, bitches.”

“___ made God mad!”

“I’ll take everyone out. I play paintball three times a week, bro. I’m one of the douches that brings his own equipment.”

“I know the family downstairs hates me. I don’t need to know why.”

“Tell me who did it so I can murder your face!”

“Yeah, learn everything. Learn until you’re dead or you could call this number.”

“___, Don’t get back together with ___! I love you.”

“I’m glad you’re staying.”

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Schitt’s Creek Season 6  Sentence Starters

feel free to change pronouns 

“Are you sure you don’t want any help with that?”

“Are you still trying to close that thing?”

“Okay, does nobody care that I’m going to be gone for six months?”

“Take me with you.”

“No! This is not-! This is not how I go! Somebody help!”

“I’m feeling a little tension.”

“No, it’s wet. There’s wet in the bed.”

“Oh my god, ____? Did you wet the bed?”

“Nothing about that is fine. Do we have to file for divorce if we were never married?”

“Does that window open? Because I’m about to jump out of it.”

“And now you need to remake your little bed, because I peed in it!”

“____, language, please. A man is dead.”

“Okay, I’m leaving. And if I don’t come back, it’s because of you.”

“So are you just never going to talk to me?”

“So ask me if I care.”

“____, dinner’s ready.”

“I’m just, like, so happy to see your face.”

“Why is there a turtle on the floor?”

“Can you drive better please?”

“Imagine us right now, but just with a little baby.”

“I’m not gonna stand in the way of you finding what makes you happy.”

“Well, It would be so nice to not be completely alone for a night.”

“This is a cult. I brought you to a cult.”

“I have had worse things in my mouth.”

“I’m so glad I wrestled you away today for this oenological escapade. I finally have you all to myself.”

“I look like a cheese puff.”

“I like to think that we helped each other get here.”

“I don’t think I’m ever gonna meet another woman that made me feel the way you do.”

“I’m just looking for like, any distraction from the fact that my heart’s shattered into a million pieces.”

“I can’t seem to do anything right now.”

“You are going to have to get it together.”

“Okay, how about you shhhh for a sec?”

“I have big dreams.”

“Why do you want to go back to a place that’s done nothing but hurt your feelings?”

“I want those people to know that I’m not a joke. And that I’ve won.”

“On a personal note, I don’t want you to leave me here! Okay?”

“Did you put on deodorant today?”

“What? One pizza? What is this, Les Mis?”

“I don’t want to be anywhere you don’t want to be.”

“What happened? Who died?”

“You can barely get through this without crying, so that’s a no.”

“You ate three bagels in half an hour.”

“I love you very much.”

“That was the first time I ever received a happy ending.”

“Why would I want you to get a happy ending from a stranger on our wedding day?!”

“This is not a wedding dress it’s a white floor length gown! It’s very different.”

“I’ve never felt as safe as when I’m with you.”

“It’s 6am, ____. I’m moving as fast as I can.”

“I also didn’t go to bed last night.”

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Conan Gray Superache Sentence Starters

Feel free to change pronouns

trigger warning for domestic violence mention

Movies

“I want a love like the movies.”

“If you are the diamond, then I am the ring.”

“Still can’t believe that this isn’t a dream.”

“Falling in love with a damn fantasy, that’s so me.”

“I’ve been living life in fiction.”

“In my head, we’re dancing in the dark.”

“Baby, this ain’t like the movies.”

“You say that it’s over, but why does she call you at 3am and 4am? That’s a funny way of staying friends.”

“Baby we lost all the life that we had and I can’t pretend it’ll ever come back.”

Disaster

“The potential of us, it was keeping me up all night long.”

“This could be a disaster, like what if you freak out and then we’re losing it all at the critical chapter where I say I love you and you don’t say it after?”

“I’m drunk, I really shouldn’t have called, I’m a little bit plastered.”

“This could be a disaster.”

“Let me just lose my mind.”

“Is it purely platonic to call me, like, every night.”

“Maybe I just made it up, messed it up.”

Best Friend

“Remember when you broke up with your fucking ex? God, I’m glad you’ve finally gotten over them.”

“God, I swear that bitch was such a narcissist.”

“Everybody knows I love you so so so so much.”

“That’s my fucking best friend, that’s my fucking right hand, that’s my fucking throw up in the bathroom, but still love them.”

“I hate, like, everyone except for you.”

“Who else is gonna grocery shop with me at 2am? Who else is gonna take that picture for you just to get revenge?”

“You’re just as psycho as me, just as sick inside the head.”

Yours

“I’m somebody you call when you’re alone. I’m somebody you use, but never own. I’m somebody you touch, but never hold. And you’re somebody I’ll never really know.”

“I know I’m not the one you really love. I guess that’s why I’ve never given up.”

“I could give you all you want, the stars and the sun, but still I’m not enough.”

“All I really wanted was that look in your eyes, like you already know that I’m the love of your life, like you already know you’re never saying goodbye.”

“I want more, but I’m not yours. And I can’t change your mind.”

“I should’ve known that it was dumb love.”

“All the things that I’ve done for you not to notice.” “Can’t believe I chose you over all my best friends. What the fuck did I do in the end? Just to not be yours.”

Family Line

“My father never talked a lot. He just took a walk around the block till all his anger took a hold of him. And then he’d hit.”

“My mother never cried a lot. She took the punches, but she never fought.”

“I say they’re just the ones who gave me life, but I truly am my parents’ child.”

“I’m so good at telling lies. That came from my mother’s side. Told a million to survive.”

“God, I have my father’s eyes.”

“I can run, but I can’t hide from my family line.”

“I watch the fathers with their little girls and wonder what I did to deserve this.”

“Someone who loves you, wouldn’t do this.”

Footnote

“Why would I lie? It’s so clear I’m in love with you.”

“I’ll stop being pretentious and loathing our friendship.”

“You taught me a lesson, that love isn’t precious.”

“I’ll just take a footnote in your life and you could take my body. Every line I would write for you, but a footnote would do.”

“We’re perfect together, but I’ll never be the one.”

Memories

“It’s been a couple months. That’s just about enough time for me to stop crying when I look at all the photos.”

“Please don’t ruin this for me. Please don’t make it harder than it already is. I’m trying to get over this.”

“I wish that you would stay in my memories, but you show up today just to ruin things.”

“I wanna put you in the past ‘cause i’m traumatized, but you’re not letting me do that!”

“Tonight, you’re all drunk in my kitchen, curled in the fetal position, too busy playing the victim to be listening to me!”

“Grab your books and your coat and that one good cologne that you bought when we were fighting! ‘Cause it’s still on my clothes, everything that I own and it makes me feel like dying!”

The Exit

“It’s crazy how fast you tilted the world that we were busy building.”

“Feels like we had magic wounds, but mine’s still black and bruised and yours is perfectly fine now.”

“Feels like we buried alive something that never died.”

“You love her, it’s over. You already found someone to miss while I’m still standing at the exit.”

“I can’t hate you for getting everything we wanted. I just thought that I would be part of it.”

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Conan Gray Sentence Starters pt.2

Wish You Were Sober

“This party’s shit. Wish we could dip. Go anywhere but here.”

“Don’t take a hit, don’t kiss my lips, and please don’t drink more beer.”

“This is definitely not my crowd.”

“Real sweet, but I wish you were sober.”

“Honestly you always let me down and I know we’re not just hanging out.”

Fight or Flight

“Something’s gotten into you. You don’t really look at me the way you used to.”

“Every single rumor that I’ve heard of you say you were off with someone that I don’t know, calling other people on your telephone.”

“I’d rather die than have to cry in front of you.”

“I’d rather lie than tell you I’m in love with you.”

“You smell like perfume out a magazine.”

“I’m throwing all your shit out of my window.”

Comfort Crowd

“Someone come and help me.”

“By the time they’re there, I’ve already hid the body.”

“This hurt that I’m holding’s getting heavy. But imma keep a smile on my shoulders till I’m sweaty.”

“My breath’s getting short and I’m unsteady.”

“I don’t really need nobody.”

“I just needed company now. Yeah. I just needed someone around.”

“I like your shirt soggy.”

Jigsaw

“If changing my clothes my clothes would make you like me more, if changing my hair would make you care, then I’d grab the kitchen scissors and cut myself to slivers for you.”

“I’ve changed every part of me until the puzzle pieces aren’t me at all. I look in the mirror. Now I’m just a jigsaw.”

“You take every part of me, all of the things you need. Then the rest, you discard.

All I did just to make you happy. Still you don’t even fucking love me.”

“Killing parts of myself to fit you. Clear as shit I was not the issue.”

“If I made you like me, would i even like myself?”

“Pointing out my flaws doesn’t help.”

Astronomy

“Young love don’t last for life.”

“It’s time to go.”

“We’ve traveled the seas, we’ve ridden the stars, we’ve seen everything from Saturn to Mars.”

“As much as it seems like you own my heart, it’s astronomy; we’re two worlds apart.”

“I wish I’d stayed with you.”

“I thought if I wanted, I’d fall back in love.”

“Stop trying to keep us alive.”

“You’re pointing at stars in the sky that already died.”

“You can’t force the stars to align when they’ve already died.”

The Cut That Always Bleeds

“I don’t love you anymore.”

“If you’re gonna leave, better leave, better do it fast. Can’t live a longer sitting on your lap.”

“I can’t be you lover on a leash.”

“I can’t be the kiss that you don’t need, the lie between your teeth, the cut that always bleeds.”

“Can’t live another minute bleeding from my back. ‘Cause I don’t have another one for you to stab.”

“But even though you’re killing me, I need you like the air i breathe. I need, I need you more than me. I need you more than anything. Please please!”

“I could be your lover on a leash.”

“I could be anything you need as long as you don’t leave.”

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The Office Season 4 Sentence Starters

Feel free to change pronouns and such

“You know, generally it’s not a good idea to click on any internet offers that you haven’t requested.”

“I have some bad news, this morning __ was hit by a car.”

“Why did you do it? Was she talking back?”

“Guess what. I have flaws. What are they? Oh I don’t know, I sing in the shower, sometimes I spend too much time volunteering, occasionally I’ll hit somebody with my car. So sue me.”

“You cracked my pelvis.”

“Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it’s not like this compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.”

“I’m not superstitious but I’m a little stitious.”

“Blink once if you want me to pull the plug.”

“I’m having relationship problems and since you’re always having relationship problems, I thought you’d be able to give me some advice.”

“Oh I’m sorry is this a working office and not a French beach?”

“I want you to tell me that you care about me, that is what I want!”

“Big strong man, fancy new whatever. I don’t think you ever cared about me”

“I can’t do this. I can’t be with you.”

“WHERE ARE THE TURTLES?!”

“I drove my car into a fucking lake.”

“You don’t even know what stupid is! It’s about to get all stupid up in here!”

“I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!”

“Tell me again why I can’t join your club.”

“Let me ask you something, did you accomplish what you wanted?”

“What was fun about it for you? Was it the death of the twins?”

“You’re ugly and I know it for a fact ‘cause I got the evidence right there.”

“What are you doing with my diary?”

“Mmm. Sort of an oaky afterbirth.”

“I don’t care what they say about me, I just wanna eat. Which I realize is a lot to ask for…at a dinner party.”

“Fine, you win! Let’s have a fucking kid!”

“I can’t prove it, but I think she might be trying to poison me.”

“What part of shorn’t don’t you understand,___?”

“No question about it. I am ready to get hurt again.”

“You’re asking what I do with the checks that people write me?”

“After ___ left me, things did not go well. And it was hard to see…It’s just nice to win one.”

“I will be honest, the dating has not been going well.”

“Stop calling me so I can put on my dang socks.”

“The more I’ve gotten to know you, the less I’ve come to respect you.”

“I figured I’d look presentable. You…went a different way.”

“If the devil were to explode and evil were gone forever, what sort of party would you have? Like a beach blow-out or a toga?”

“I want an anti-gravity machine.”

“Only one of us can be the winner. Spoiler alert; I’m gonna win.”

“Actually it was when I heard her voice. It was love at first see with my ears.”

“I am going to propose tonight. Holy crap.”

“Wipe the knife off before you stick it in the jelly! have you ever made a sandwich before? Damn it, ___!”

“You cheated on me? When I specifically asked you not to?”

“You know, somehow after all those ribs I’m still really hungry. I was thinking of maybe going off campus somewhere and getting some dessert?”

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The Office Season 3 Sentence Starters

feel free to change pronouns

“You have no idea how long I’ve wanted to do that.”

“You’re really gonna marry him?”

“I need to know who put my calculator in jello or I’m gonna lose my freakin’ mind!”

“The prog- The progidal…My son returns.”

“I love inside jokes. Love to be a part one someday.”

“Society teaches us that having feelings and crying is wrong. Well that’s baloney.”

“I don’t care how your day was.”

“And just as you have planted your seed in the ground, I will plant my seed in you.”

“You know I just think it’s really important that you be productive today.”

“Not everything’s a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.”

“I decided to come. Uh, I feel a little underdressed. But at least I’m not dressed as a slutty cheerleader, right?…Is that mean?”

“___, no acapella.”

“I brought an air bed for just such an occasion. You’re welcome to share. It’s a roomy twin.”

“I know you’re mad. But don’t do this to me. I know-I know I hurt you. Don’t do this to me. Don’t hurt me like I hurt you.”

“I got two tickets to paradise! Pack your bags we’re leaving day after tomorrow!”

“Christmas is canceled.”

“He’s cute, you should date him.”

“You’d love all the details, wouldn’t you? Sceevy little perv.”

“Guess what. I’m not falling in a chocolate river.”

“I never let anyone walk behind me. Seven out of ten attacks are from the rear.”

“I want to know what you were doing this morning by the end of the day.”

“Am I happy about how things turned out? Well, happy’s such an ugly word.”

“Part of me wants the people in this office to have learned their lesson and just shut the hell up, and part of me thinks ‘you know what? Keep talking. I’d really love a home theatre’”

“Sorry I annoyed you with my friendship.”

“Do you still have feelings for her?”

“Who wants some man meat?”

“Poop is raining from the ceiling!…Poop.”

“You know what? He doesn’t know anything and neither do you. So suck on that!”

“Your art was the prettiest art of all the art.”

“What did I tell you about yeppers?…I told you not to say it.”

“Don’t want it, won’t open it. Don’t need it, won’t take it.”

“What is so stupid about wanting to name a baby Usher?”

“My life…Oh my life…”

“___, you ignorant slut. Depression is a very serious illness.”

“I saved a life; my own. Am I hero?”

“This day is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S! This day is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S”

“The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive.”

“I want ice cream, I need a boyfriend.”

“It was never my intention to ruin a life, but sometimes you just gots to get your freak on.”

“Society doesn’t care. Society sucks. I don’t even consider myself a part of society

“I wanna break up with ___.”

“Oh my god. I’ve never seen that look in a man’s eyes ever. I thought that I might die. On beach day.”

“It’s like sometimes some of you act like I don’t even exist.”

“___, I called off my wedding because of you.”

“I shouldn’t have been with ___ and there were a lot of reasons to call off my wedding, but the truth is I didn’t care about any of those reasons until I met you.”

“So we have all night. Where do you wanna go first?”

“Who’s ready to work?”

“Um are you free for dinner tonight?”

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The office sentence starters season 1-2

feel free to change pronouns

“This is my kingdom as far as the eye can see.”

“I’m boring myself just talking about this”.

“I don’t think it would be the worst thing if they let me go.”

“Ooh, discipline. Kinky.”

“You’re a jerk!”

“What’s the scuttle-bud?”

“Do you want to form an alliance with me?”

“Are you jealous ‘cause there’s another girl/boy around?”

“Stay away from my mom.”

“We’re not dating, we’re engaged.”

“It’s nothing, my ride just bailed on me.”

“Keep your acceptance speeches short. I have wrap-it-up music and I’m not afraid to use it, ___”

“No no, because the ice melts and it’s like second drink.”

“I feel God in this Chili’s tonight.”

“I feel bad about what I wrote on the bathroom wall.”

“Hey, what has two thumbs and hates ___? This guy.”

“I’m so used to being the bad boy.”

“Mo’ money, mo’ problems.”

*pressing ear against wall* “These babies are thin.”

“A 30 year mortgage at ___’s age essentially means he’s buying a coffin. If I were buying my coffin, I would get one with thicker walls so you couldn’t hear the other dead people.”

“As far as I can tell, I’m the best looking one here.”

“Are you calling me a ho?”

“Hey, can you ignore those and do something for me instead?”

“Those aren’t chips and dip.”

“I’m going wherever they value loyalty the most.”

“Some may say we had our first date last night.”

“Are we in danger?”

“Why did you even bring me here tonight.”

“We should break up.”

“BFD. Engaged ain’t married.”

“Never ever ever give up.”

“I’m hurt, I have hurt myself! Oh my god, this is not looking good!”

“Do you want some aspirin because you seem kind of fussy.”

“Listen I like kids, but this is not a kids’ environment.”

“I have one goal today; to get one kid to like me. Just one.”

“Have you ever pooped a balloon?”

“Now, exactly how much pot did you smoke?”

“Jinx buy me a coke! No no no, no talking!”

“I know you’re innocent but it can’t look like I’m treating you any differently.”

“I need your urine.”

“You look like you have something really important to say and you just can’t for some reason.”

“I bet he’ll try and beat you up. I got your back if he does...but try to stay out of it.”

“There are always a million reasons not to do something.”

“You gotta take a chance on something sometime, ___”

“Oh, excuse me, I’m fine with my choices.”

“I say if Jesus saw that, he’d freak out! He’d freak out, ___!”

“I’m going to drop a deuce on everyone.”

“I just…I’m in love with you.”

“I don’t wanna do that. I wanna be more than that.”

“I’m really sorry if you misinterpreted things. It’s probably my fault.”

“Not your fault. I’m sorry I misinterpreted our friendship.”

“Thanks for inviting me, I really needed it.”

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Conan Gray Sentence Starters

feel free to change in order to fit muses

Checkmate

You think you you’re funny, right? Calling me drunk when it’s too late at night.

You think you’re super sly. Flirting with them then telling me your mind.

Now I’m gonna ruin your life

I’ve gotten tired of the games that you play. You tell me you love me then you throw me away

Cry me a river till you drown in the lake

You may think you’re winning, but checkmate

Now this is getting fun. I saw you kissing someone else’s tongue

You said that I’m the only one you love

I’ll let you think you’ve won

Yeah, baby, you should really run

You’re gonna wish you never harmed me

You did some damage so I’m making you pay

No one’s ever gonna love you anyways ‘cause you’re just a narcissist who’s totally fake

Heather

I still remember the 3rd of December. Me in your sweater. You said it looked it looked better on me than it did you.

Only if you knew how much I liked you

I watch your eyes as she walks by. What a sight for sore eyes.

She’s got you mesmerized while I die

Why would you ever kiss me? I’m not even half as pretty.

You gave her your sweater. It’s just polyester.

You like her better. Wish I were Heather.

But how could I hate her? She’s such an angel. But then again kind of wish she were dead.

Maniac

Do you think I’m a joke?

People like you always want back what they can’t have and I’m past that and you know that

Tell all of your friends that I’m crazy and drive you mad. That I’m such a stalker, a watcher, a psychopath.

Tell them you hate me and dated me just for laughs.

So why do you call me and tell me you want me back? you maniac

We had magic but you made it tragic

Now you’re manic. Honestly I’ve had it.

Listen to yourself you need to get some help

People watching

That wasn’t funny but she laughed so hard she almost cried

They’re having talks about their future until 4am and I’m happy for them

I wanna feel all that love and emotion, be that attached to the person I’m holding

Someday I’ll be falling without caution, but for now I’m only people watching

Im only looking just to live through you vicariously

I’ve never really been in love, not seriously

I had a dream about a house behind a picket fence

Next one I choose to trust I hope I use some common sense

I cut people out like tags on my clothing. I end up all alone, but I still keep hoping

Telepath

Don’t even finish that sentence, babe. Already know how this ends

What a shame, don’t even wanna stay friends

It’s just so you. You’re just so predictable Won’t you try something original?

Old news, reused. That’s why I don’t cry

I got a feeling you’re coming back just like you have in the past

I got a feeling you’ll see me moving and hate that I’m gone again

Yesterday you said that you hate my guts. Now you’re back in love

I bet you I’ll call you when I’m crying

I won’t stop you from trying

Can see it, you’re coming back. Call me a telepath

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I hope you’re happy but not like how you were with me I’m selfish I know, can’t let you go to find someone great                     but don’t find no one better                     I hope you’re happy                     but don’t be happier.

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This is Us Season 5 Sentence Starters

(feel free to change pronouns)

“Can we change the channel? Please? Just for a minute.”

“Check it out. 100% tremor free.”

“I’ve battled with that stuff. I’m battling it now.”

“Alright, old man. Meet you downstairs for some birthday breakfast. Don’t forget your dentures.”

“Someone unpause this man, please.”

“Help! Somebody help me, please!!”

“I don’t like to talk about that part of my life. That part of my life before here. Before you.”

“So I’ve been thinking and I’ve got some exciting things to tell you.”

“I think I love you.”

“Sir, are you high right now?”

“Is sh-she gone?…I-Is she gone?”

“Yeah, he’s jacked up for sure.”

“They say check on your strong friends…Checking.”

“You wanna tell me what happened?”

“I prayed my kids would turn out better than I did.”

“I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but I put my foot up in these pancakes.”

“___, you know you have absolutely nothing to prove to me, right?”

“I’m never leaving this bed. You cannot make me.”

“I would like you to tell me his name. I would like you tell me where I can find him. And I would like to kill him.”

“I’m gonna need some absinthe tonight.”

“___, where have you been? And don’t even fix your mouth to tell me a lie.”

“Get off of me! I’m not drowning!”

“You can’t keep doing this to yourself. If you don’t let the guilt go, it’ll strangle you.”

“Hey, have I mentioned how much of a freaking warrior you are?”

“___, get back here right now!”

“You wanna be on time? Get your own car.”

“I feel like there’s the person I was before I went to the hospital and the person I am now…I barely remember who that girl was.”

“Oh good. I love a dinner with something to prove.”

“I’ve lived alone a really long time. And I’ve been stuck. And anything good that would ever happen to me it just seemed…it just seemed impossible. But here I am. I made it.”

“Hmm…the ring feels kinda stuck…it’s stuck.

“It was a cute proposal, ___. I would have said yes.”

“There’s only one person that I owe an explanation to and that is the one person I can never give one to. I certainly don’t owe one to you.”

“What do you want? I’m not a mind reader. I’m asking you, what do you want from me?”

“No, man. You can’t break a window.”

“It is a prison, ___. Having to show gratitude and nothing but gratitude all the damn time.”

“I can’t believe we looked for an hour and they were in your freaking pocket.”

“I never wanted to be special, man. I just wanted to blend in like everybody else.”

“Dude, you drank ‘cause you’re a drunk.”

“I can’t even pick out your best quality__. There’s too many.”

“Every time you get your hopes up for me, I just disappoint you. You should probably stop putting yourself through that.”

“You always believed I would find myself again. How?”

“I’m just not sure how much more failure I can take.”

“I know the feeling of having your dreams cut at the knees.”

“You do know you’re the most impressive person I know, right?”

“Well I’m not gonna stop coming to you for pep-talks anytime soon.”

“Did you seriously just ruin the show for me?!”

“It feels like everyone wants a version of me that isn’t me.”

“I need inside air.”

“I’ve never really given you an explanation, have I?”

“No no no, I’ve let you let me off the hook far too many times.”

“I knew things and I hid them and I’m very ashamed.

“I know it’s way too late to say this, but I need to say this very clearly. I am so sorry.

“There’s no easy way to say this. I think our relationship has gone as far as it can go, ___.”

“Are you in love with me?”

“My mother gave me these and then she left. She left me with a father who gave me nothing.”

“I have stumbled through life gratefully accepting any scraps of affection anyone would give me.”

“Your family has given me the first family I have ever had and it would be so easy for me to tip-toe around the fact that you may not be in love with me.”

“I can’t marry someone who’s not in love with me. I know it’s ironic, but you have finally made me realize that I am worthy of that.”

“Hey, let’s keep talking! Five minutes, five minutes until the hospital.”

“Me having a cocktail might save your life.”

“Ahh I looked at it again, ___! Distract me!”

“I wanna hit you, but I also wanna kiss you.”

“Okay, you being moody I can handle, but comparing us to our parents is a bridge too far.”

“You’re not even gonna pretend to be interested?”

“Hey hey hey, let it go, ___!___, let it go!”

“I was terrified of being like my father and you were terrified of not being like yours. We’ve both wasted a lot of time being quietly terrified.”

“I’m glad that you have a thing with ___, but you’re suppose to think of me first.”

“You wanna go through ___’s Instagram and trash-talk?”

“I’m sorry I showed up unannounced. I recognize it’s kind of weird.”

“I didn’t know you had a huge knuckle!”

“Well you’re no stranger to helping yourself to whatever you want.”

“Go in there and do what you always do; blow us all away.

“You are too young and too smart and too strong to not find new dreams and go for them.”

“You don’t suck the air out of the room. You are the air.”

“You’re my day one.”

“I did not tread lightly.”

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This is Us Season 4 Sentence Starters

(feel free to change pronouns)

“Isn’t it so strange how a complete stranger can become such a big part of your story?”

“I’m not calling you first.”

“Hey, can I see you tomorrow?”

“I’m sorry, you plan on kissing me with that mouth today?”

“Promise to shine that beautiful light on the world today?”

“So, this is what a bus is like.”

“Am I a bad person?”

“I didn’t need you to come.”

“I hate this sad little room.”

“Things that happened there…you can’t come back from. They make you less human.”

“Are you offering me a job?”

“Maybe I’m funny for a hot person, but not actually funny.”

“Good news! He thinks it’s just one dead possum not a family!”

“Don’t try to relate to me.”

“No wait, you know what? No. Here’s the thing. Maybe I didn’t fight in a war but I’m allowed to have a crappy day just like everyone else, okay?”

“Something that was really important to me ended. And yeah, I know it was a little goofy, but it was a big part of my life.”

When big things end, it hard not to imagine how they started. So please, if you could ease up for a few seconds.”

“Stop saying I’m like you. I don’t want to be anything like you.”

“You really do have the strangest relationships with people.”

“I’m gonna be there to make sure no one gets in your way or holds you back.”

“I don’t blame, ___. I wouldn’t want to be with someone as screwed up as me.”

Wakey-wakey eggs and Bakey. I don’t have eggs and I don’t have bacon, but I have coffee.”

“For __ years I pushed people away. Not because I was afraid they would hurt me, but because I was afraid I would hurt them.”

“You’re acting extremely defensive over absolutely nothing and that’s only making me more concerned.”

“Yeah, you did. You said something very clearly. And it was cruel and it was beneath you.”

“You know, I also made the cranberry sauce without burning down the house.”

“What am I? Chopped liver?”

“You want me to come out to the drive-thru speaker?”

“He’s singing about the love of his life moving on from him but there’s no bitterness in him. He’s just grateful to have loved her. He’s sending her away and calling her back at the same time. I just hope that she came back to him and that they laughed together again.”

“If I have to body-slam ___ to get you out of work, I will.”

“You don’t have to be embarrassed. Just tell me. Tell me about your dreams.”

“I lied, man. I need a catch. I’m not okay. I’m not okay, man. He had a knife and he was in my bedroom.”

“Get me out of here?”

“I’ve never been broken up with before.”

“Omg. Did you sleep with ___?”

“You’re just in time for breakfast.”

“Yeah, the B train goes to Queens on the weekend so…we’re going to Queens.”

“I need you to acknowledge that even if your father had lived, that every moment of your life could have gone a million different ways.”

“Question: have you ever really confronted your mother about what she did to you?”

“I never asked you for anything, but I’m gonna ask you for something now.”

“I don’t wanna be in a therapy session 20 years from now, playing out scenarios, wishing that I’d pushed harder, wishing that I’d done more because maybe if I had, you’d still be alive. I can’t live with that even if you can.”

“I’ve already lost 3 parents. And I know losing my mother would break me.”

“Nobody cares about our secret, special thing?”

“What’re you gonna do? I’m not some overweight purse-snatcher. You gonna sucker-punch me?

“How dare you pretend you give a rats ass about what anyone else wants other than yourself?”

“You’ll never know what it’s like to devote yourself to anyone other than yourself.”

“You’ll pretend, but it’ll all be a performance. Like a tired, stale performance. Like all of your performances.”

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[rpmusingsforthesoul]

This is Us Season 3 Sentence Starter

( feel free to change pronouns )

“I’m sorry, I feel like I’m talking too much. Am I talking too much? ‘Cause I feel like I’m talking too much.”

“Please tell me something about you.”

“Aww damn. I wanted to surprise you with breakfast in bed.”

“Tell him to get the hell off of ___’s cousin before I kill him in the face!”

“Even Gayle let Oprah down sometimes.”

“You can’t come to your birthday party tonight.”

“Okay, no touching, no flirting, and, um, don’t do that thing where you half-smile because it makes me full-smile and she’ll see.”

“Nope, can’t even look at you. Get out again.”

“When is the universe going to give me a damn break?”

“It was lame of me to compare our situations. But it’s only because I really want all of this to work out.”

“I think you’re an exceptional person,___.”

“___ and ___ are doing it. I had to say something.”

“I like talking to you…a lot. You make me feel like I’m home and I’ve never really felt like that before.”

“I’m sorry it was such a lousy first date. I’m really very sorry.”

“It’s a hard no on cats?”

“this wasn’t that kind of date and I’m not that kind of girl. But the way you look at me…wow. I never ever do this.” *leans in for a kiss*

“You said you’d step up and take care of everything, but you lied.”

“It’s a struggle for me to get out of bed every morning. It takes every single ounce of energy that I have and then I have nothing left for the rest of the day. Nothing.”

“Do you have a dream? I’m sorry, is that a stupid question?”

“Why do you want to help me so much all of a sudden?”

“Help me out, ___. So when I said “no boxing”, what about that says, “I should teach ___ how to box”?”

“You, in a nightgown, wearing boxing gloves is a fantasy I didn’t even know that I was missing.”

“You ever get tired of pretending you ain’t plain flat-out scared?”

“Hmm. Where I belong, huh? And where exactly is that, ___? Oh please, you tell me because you would be answering the great mystery of my life, I tell you that.”

“When did complacency become the better option here?

“For the past few weeks I’ve been pretending that I’m fine, but I’m not. I’m not fine.”

“You’re my secret ingredient. You’re the horseradish to my Bloody Mary.”

“You need something besides cheap wine in your stomach. Come on.”

“You’re my favorite sound, of course I hear you.”

“You know what? I’m gonna walk out of this room before you say something else you’re gonna regret.”

“I got Nesquick.”

“Geez,___, How do you ruin chocolate milk?”

“I never got to tell him…that it was an accident.”

“It’s hard to be mad at someone who’s not here anymore. There’s nothing you can do with those feelings. But yeah, yeah I’m mad.”

“__, I asked you. I specifically asked you for one thing today; do not make a mess. You’re gonna clean. You’re gonna clean this all up.”

“I didn’t need this today, ___. I didn’t need it.”

“I know he seems like he has it all. He’s tall, he’s handsome, he’s confident. But deep down he’s still a sensitive little boy.”

“It was a pleasure to meet you. And maybe I’ll see you again.”

“When have we ever listened to the odds?”

“We don’t talk about how incredible you are despite all the crap you were put through.”

“I can’t be me without you. How could I be?”

“Okay….okay…No…because…okay. Will you just get in the car so I can straighten this out?”

“I can’t do it. I can’t go in there. I can’t be in there right now. This is all wrong, he was supposed to be here, I can’t breathe.”

“I don’t want grief counseling, ___. I want to rewind the clock.”

“___, I know you’re in there. Will you open the door?”  

“I really can’t be here right now. I really can’t be anywhere right now.”

“Thanks, ___, for your advice on this private matter.”

“What exactly are you doing here?”

“Stressed out? That’s a casual word. I’m not stressed out, I’m losing my damn mind!”

“Dude, if you’re gonna spiral, go do it somewhere else.”

“Wha-? We’re here for four hours?”

“Kids have never been part of my plan and they never will be.”

“You tend to be the impressive part of the impressions I make.”

“I called you four times. What, did you turn your phone off so you wouldn’t have to deal with me?”

“You know what, ___? You still have that cot in your office? You should go sleep in it. And, here, take this weird-ass purple cheesecake with you.”

“Fine. You wanna do this right now? Let’s do this right now. Close the door.”

“Why would I stand you up? When have I ever not had your back?”

“You’re a lot. And this date was a lot.”

“You’re a very nice guy, but please don’t ever call me again.”

“Well let me put your mind at ease. You don’t need to worry about me proposing again.”

“Admit that you think that your job is more important than mine.”

“I will not be bullied into saying something even more awful to you. I will not speak that way to you. I won’t do it.”

“No, please. I can see your mind working and you looking for the perfect words to make this better. And I don’t want that. I don’t want it.”

“You say the right speech and have the whole world eating out of your palm. Me especially.”

“In what ridiculous universe are you this wallflower that’s just been steamrolled by me?”

“Please do not self-protect by putting this on me.”

“I refuse to be blamed for the fact that you had your awakening twenty years too late.”

[rpmusingsforthesoul]

This is Us Season 2 Sentence Starters

( feel free to change pronouns )

“What the hell is going on?”

“Catch your breath? What does that mean?”

“I need to stop feeling so…disappointed and I need to start feeling something else first.”

“Are you fake smoking?”

“No, I’m not throwing down with you in an adoption parking lot.”

“I’ve been chasing it my entire life; perfection.”

“When it comes to you and me? Baby, there ain’t nothing muddled there.”

“We are perfectly imperfect. And I didn’t even know that was a thing.”

“I’m drunk right now. I’ve been drunk all day. I’ve been drunk for weeks.”

“I’m still really upset and I don’t think I’m ready to talk about any of that just yet, but…I shouldn’t have let you leave.”

“Get in the car. Get in the car, ___.”

“If you have a problem, we will fix it together. I just need you to get in the car so we can go home.”

“I’m gonna go pay the tab even though we didn’t order anything.”

“You are the strongest person I know.”

“No, I’m not a masochist. I did not invite her.”

“You’re really cute when you’re dumb.”

“You’re tougher than that itch. You’re stronger than that itch.”

“Well who actually likes bowling?”

“When the snow is gone, I want you gone too.”

“She told you what I said?”

“Screw you, ___! And that is really hard for me to say because confrontation makes me cry!”

“No, don’t do that. Don’t make me the nagging girlfriend when you were a jerk.”

“At work if I’m wrong, it’s just money. But what if I’m wrong with a baby?”

“Damn. I almost had a baby named after me until I said that, huh?”

“You are not ‘instead’ of anything. You are exactly how it was meant to be.”

“Middles can be the hardest because that’s where you can really lost. But middles can also be a beginning too.”

“Just a year ago, my mother was alive and I had my girl and we were having a son. And now they’re all gone.”

“You tell me you’re disappointed? Well guess what. I am more disappointed. I am the most disappointed man you ever met in your whole damn life.”

“Oh wait. I thought I was gonna be the one who was gonna bring the heat and you were gonna calm me down. So we’re switching?”

“Next time I’ll reschedule getting jumped.”

“And even when he tries to tell people how pathetic he is, they don’t hear it. They just cheer.”

“Are you out of your mind coming back here, you bastard?!”

“That necklace, it’s the only thing I have left in my life from my dad. It’s the only thing I have.”

“I just need somebody to help me! I just need help please!”

“I’m in pain out here. Look, I’m in pain here!”

“We’ll I’m not gonna apologize for being excited.”

“It happened to me. It didn’t happen to you.”

“I’m trying to be strong here ‘cause that’s the gig. But it happened to me too. And it hurt.”

“At least the coffee’s cold.”

“Those were my onions. You just took them from me.”

“Life feels like pac-man sometimes I guess…it’s the same game over and over again. Same board, same ghosts.”

“I’m not holding in my passive-aggressive sighs.”

“You wanna talk about your tortured childhood? You wanna compare baggage?”

“The only thing you’re addicted to is attention.”

“You know, for a bad guy, you have one hell of a disguise.”

“Did we forget something at the mall?”

“Some people look at vacation rentals, some people look at porn, I look at dogs.”

“I’ll be back with a sledgehammer. This’ll be great!”

“Just let me remember you when it was good, okay? Will you do that?”

“I want you to know that you weren’t just a name on my list. ___, you were the name.”

“See? No porn, no puppies, no puppy porn.”

“I need you to wake up! The house is on fire! Get dressed! Put some shoes on!”

“Look at me, I’m gonna get us out of here, okay? Just look at me. Just be calm ‘cause we’re gonna get out.”

“Get down here now, ___! ___, don’t go back inside!”

“I’m going in the kitchen to get that and I’m never coming back.”

“How could you possibly joke right now?”

“When you lose someone…when you lose someone unexpectedly, it hurts…differently.”

“That’s what unexpected loss is like. It’s like a lightning bolt you can’t even see, reaching inside of you and tearing out your guts and-“

“No no, can you just back up? And can you leave me alone?”

“Can somebody get this person to give me some space, please?”

“I’m gonna be strong for them. God help me, I’m gonna be strong for them and if you can’t be strong either, then you need to take a walk around the block until you can.”

“I’m sorry I wasn’t there that night and I’m sorry the last thing I ever said to you was…awful.”

“I wanted to come here, I wanted stop avoiding you and I wanted to just talk to you. And just talk to you and tell you that I’m sorry and tell you that I’m gonna do better, okay?”

“If it’s the last thing I do, I’ll make you proud of me. I swear, I’ll make you proud of me.”

“The night ___ died, I thought ; we’re done. We won’t come back from this. And then I thought ‘okay, maybe they can. Maybe one day.’ Not because they needed him less, but they were built out of stronger stuff than I was.”

“Do you know that you changed my life? That you saved my life?”

“I’m always crying.”

“Uh-oh? What does ‘uh-oh’ mean?”

“Get out. You’re walking home.”

“Don’t you try and sell me on what you can’t do because I’m too old, I’m too smart, and I’m not buying it.”

“Can I just sit here with you for a little bit?”

“It was not your fault. Do you hear me? He was a grown man who made a choice. And if I have to spend the rest of my life making sure that you know that, I will.”

“It’s okay, because every battle scar is gonna tell our story.”

“I sit inside your anxiety every damn day and you can’t give me one night?”

“You don’t have to talk to me like I’m a child.”

“You can’t sleep either?”

“I like you, but you’re soft.”

“Choosing our people is the closest we come to choosing our own destiny.”

“I liked your toast. I’ve always been a sucker for a good toast.”

[rpmusingsforthesoul]

This is Us Season 1 Sentence Starters

( feel free to change pronouns )

“How could you possibly want me right now?”

“Maybe that’s when I realized trying to to change the world just leads to being blown up in little pieces all over Florida.” 

“How did I get here? Like, how the hell did I get here?”

“Tell me to quit feeling sorry for myself. Tell me to wake the hell up.”

“Seems like you want me to say something and make amends so that you can say ‘screw you’ and storm out of here.”

“There’s no lemon so sour you can’t make something resembling lemonade.”

“Do you need me to show you where the coffee is?”

“Do you need me to show you where my mouth is?”

“I think we’ve been more than off-track.”

“You shower quick, you could work off that last five minutes a different way.”

“I think it’s time we had a talk.”

“You are getting in this car and we are going to this doctor’s appointment right now.”

“Starting to not feel so bad about leaving you at that fire station.”

“I don’t know what you were looking for with all this or even if you do, but I do know you don’t have a whole lot of time.”

“God, I hope the booty call was worth it.”

“Maybe it’s time we to go at it alone for a little while. Just for a little while to see what happens.”

“I don’t like it when you’re sweet.”

“You know, I didn’t know where you were the last four hours?”

“Try on the damn slim cut flat front chinos. I think they’ll look nice on you.”

“No, you may never go to Daytona Beach.”

“A stranger tells you that you’re great and you believe her, I tell you you’re great and you think I’m lying?”

“I refuse to be my mother, watching my father as he watches football.”

“Why do people have kids?”

“Any other dietary restrictions I should let the staff know about?”

“Promise me we are never having kids?”

“You wanna do this now? Okay, let’s do it. So...I am not enough for you? Am I not enough for you?”

“Come here! It’s not worth it. ___ sit down please!”

“___, please stop making me say ___.”

“Have you ever lost anyone?”

“People keep bringing me things like I forgot how to cook.”

“He is now past tense. He use to be ‘is’ now he is ‘was’.”

“This is so dumb. I’m supposed to be comforting you, not snotting all over you.”

“What happened is my dad died. That’s what.”

“I used to wake myself up crying just to cry myself back to sleep again.”

“You treated me like a dog. And just like a dog, I kept coming back again and again.”

“Oh, baby, I’m as cool as the other side of the pillow.”

“I can’t be who you want me to be. I should...I should leave.”

“Please stop trying to see something in me that isn’t there.”

“I’m sorry that she lied to you, but we can’t change that so what do you want us to do now?”

“I want her to hurt as much as I do.”

“I’m starting to feel like you attaching yourself to something that isn’t a calculated act is too much for your empty human shell to handle.”

“Relax your eyes and look through it. It’s right there in front of you.”

“Promise me you’ll never be like him. You promise me.”

“No soup dumplings for you!”

“Don’t give me some damn story about your cat.”

“You must be in a real jam to come to me. Why do you need the money?”

“Hi I’m ___. Don’t worry about what just happened. Can I take you out for a cup of coffee?”

“There are too many things in this house and I need you not to be one of them.”

“I’m concerned my wife might be possessed by demons.”

“Hey, thanks again for the bathroom sex at Froggy’s, ___!”

“I know she’s gone. You don’t think I know she’s gone? I buried her!”

“I will never move on so stop asking me to.”

“Hey, who’s ready for some junk that’ll rot your teeth out?”

“I’m not emotional. I’m not emotional. You’re emotional.”

“I forgot I love watching you eat. You eat like a truck driver.”

“You either roll up your sleeves and fight or you get tired and you give up.”

“Please stop saying things like ‘died’ or ‘passing’ or ‘end of life’.”

“You’re the best thing that ever happened to me so- Okay, I’m not gonna cry!”

“I don’t know what you and ___ talked about but clearly something happened.”

“Trying to be a good guy? Wow I didn’t know you had to try so hard to be a good guy.”

“I needed to have something for myself without you getting in the way.”

“I told you not to come.”

“You deserve the beautiful life you’ve made. You deserve everything, ___”

“I never even got to say goodbye.”

“Maybe instead of running in the morning I’ll go for a walk, slow it down a little, talk to my mailman. Seems like a pretty good way to start the day, doesn’t it?”

“We’re good guys. We deserve to make it.”

“You know what bad guys never see coming? Good guys.”

“We’ll find another way. We’ll find another way to make money, right, ___?”

“Be a good man. And look where it’s gotten me.”

“They make this too hard. It’s just too damn hard.”

“Next week, we’re going back to that bar and one way or another, we’re getting our money back.”

“I have no life! I’m a freaking ghost!”

“No no no no. Nu-uh. Admit to me that you hated the fact that I finally had something happening for myself.”

“The next time you tell me that you love me, make sure you’re not doing it just out of habit.”

“We meant what we said and we can’t just pull it back in the light of day.”

“I want to adopt a baby.”

[rpmusingsforthesoul]

Has that made you laugh? Seeing me try?

                                Knowing that somewhere deep down, despite everything, I still believed.

[rpmusingsforthesoul]

Every hand you’ve dealt me has been crap. But still I kept trying all these years. Trying to always do what’s right. Trying to be the better man; the man that he never was.