if we were villains ❧ sentence starters
feel free to change pronouns as needed! taken from the absolutely recommended book ‘if we were villains’ by m.l. rio.
- ❝ seems like just yesterday my dad was shouting at me for throwing my life away. ❞
- ❝ last time we went skinny-dipping i fell on the dock buck naked and spent the rest of the night facedown on the couch with ______ pulling splinters out of my ass. ❞
- ❝ i know what you’re capable of, and i’ll be damned if i don’t drag it out of you by the time you leave this place. ❞
- ❝ everyone has a weakness. even you. the strongest thing you can do is admit it. ❞
- ❝ get drunk, get loud, get lucky. ❞
- ❝ okay. let’s kill them. ❞
- ❝ i’m not playing. don’t fucking do that again. ❞
- ❝ i’m bleeding. you son of a bitch. ❞
- ❝ you’re lovely, but you’re not worth it. ❞
- ❝ be careful, ______. you’re much too trusting. ❞
- ❝ you’ve got puke on your face. ❞
- ❝ we need to decide what to tell the police about what happened. ❞
- ❝ you of all people should understand…we don’t owe him anything. ❞
- ❝ i’m going to bed unless you’ve got something to say. ❞
- ❝ i’ve had enough sexual misadventures for one year, thanks. ❞
- ❝ if it makes you feel any better, i’d have done exactly the same thing. ❞
- ❝ c’mon. it’s fucking freezing and i’m not leaving you out here alone. ❞
- ❝ when did we become such terrible people? ❞
- ❝ i’ll be the first one to admit i don’t know what we’re doing here. but i want to figure it out. ❞
- ❝ are you going to cold-shoulder me all night? ❞
- ❝ what’s gotten into you? you don’t sound like yourself. ❞
- ❝ i guess my other option is an existential crisis. ❞
- ❝ you can’t quantify humanity. you can’t measure it. people are passionate and flawed and infallible. ❞
- ❝ you know, ______, i like you. mostly in spite of myself. ❞
- ❝ i want so badly to be mad at you that i could do that, but i CAN’T, so i’m mad at myself instead. do you even understand how unfair that is? ❞
- ❝ fuck! fuck this, fuck me, fuck YOU. ❞
- ❝ don’t do that, please –––– right now can we just be ourselves? ❞
- ❝ i don’t know what’s wrong with me. i want to hurt the whole world. ❞
- ❝ ever heard of hate sex? ❞
- ❝ don’t follow me. ❞
- ❝ no! don’t come too close. keep your distance. tell me what happened. ❞
- ❝ why don’t you fight back? why won’t you get your hands dirty? ❞
- ❝ i’d have killed him myself if i thought it would keep the rest of you safe. ❞
- ❝ will you marry him? it’s been long enough. ❞
- ❝ the future is wide and wild and full of promise, but it is precarious, too. ❞
- ❝ you know, the bare-chested, covered-in-blood look, it’s working for you. ❞
- ❝ would you change the ending, if you could? ❞
- ❝ we’ll never forget it. that’s the worst part. ❞


