Ten Things I Hate About You – Sentence Memes
- “Make anyone cry today?”
- “It’s not everyday you find a girl who’ll flash someone to get you out of detention.”
- “Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.”
- “Just ‘cause you’re beautiful, that doesn’t mean that you can treat people like they don’t matter.”
- “I don’t like to do what people expect.”
- “No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, *no* ritual animal slaughters of any kind.”
- “Tell me something true.”
- “Who needs affection when I have blind hatred?”
- “We’ll dance, we’ll kiss, we’ll come home. It’s not quite the crisis situation you imagine.”
- “Well maybe you’re not afraid of me but I’m sure you’ve thought about me naked, huh?”
- “You don’t buy black lingerie unless you want someone to see it.”
- “Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action.”
- “Wow, is this what a bar looks like?”
- “"Hates him with the fire of a thousand suns.” That’s a direct quote.“
- “I warned him that if he told anyone, the cheerleading squad would find out how tiny his dick is!”
- “You are amazingly self-assured, has anyone ever told you that?”
- “I dazzled him with my… wits.”
- “You don’t always have to be who they want you to be, you know?”
PENELOPE (2006) Sentence Starters
Change pronouns, adapt dialect accordingly.
“That was the last of the ho-hos!”
“Rich people suck!”
“They were invited back to the house, where they were legally gagged into secrecy.”
“lf being ugly were a crime, I’d have to arrest half the people in this city.”
“He said ‘shit’ to me twice. And then he just stood there staring at me.”
“Do you have any idea what a story like this will do to me?”
“Hang in there.”
“I’m sorry you got stuck with me.”
“Hold on honey, you can do it.”
“I’d given up all hope of ever finding a woman who truly understands me.”
“I had given up all hope that is … until I met you.”
“She’s gotta pee. You got a bathroom? I’m going to get some punch.”
“No one ever seems able to see past that.”
“Curse or no curse, if I am more than my name and my face, well then, surely you are more than yours?”
“Let me in.”
“And, like, what guy looks at me and thinks picket fence?”
“My mother did what any loving mother would do: she faked my death. And had me cremated.”
“Why can’t I have bacon?”
“So, what? Are you hiding from the law, or is that a bad nose job?”
“How can he not see me, you know? I’m on a Vespa with wings.”
“Once the curse is broken I’ll be just like anybody else.”
“Either you ______ or so help me god I am going to rip your guts out.”
“I have to pee and I can’t leave you alone with the phones.”
“lt’s not the power of the curse, it’s the power you give the curse.”
“I like myself the way I am.”
“You have ruined my life!”
“But this isn’t me. The real me is inside here somewhere just waiting to get out. (And you can make that happen.)”
“____, let me in.”
“Unfortunately, my believing you isn’t going to do either one of us any good.”
“Five thousand bucks worth your while?”
“I used to spend every weekend there just hanging on a bench writing stupid love songs. People watching.”
“That’s what mothers do with daughters! They talk about how to look prettier.”
“Once the queen’s dead the king’s useless.”
“God! He licked me.”
“Alright, keep in mind; never bet a better.”
“I fear I did you a terrible disservice that day.”
“What if the curse isn’t broken. What if — what if the curse can never be broken?”
“I felt the rush of a thousand heart breaks.”
“We have both always known there was no guarantee.”
“Are you freaking out or what?”
“Sorry. Ridiculous.”
“You shit! You lied to me!”
“I’m sorry I dragged you down with me.”
“Are you in or out?”
“Listen, I’m sorry I ran from my feelings.”
“What the hell have you been chasing all these years?”
“Listen you little worm, I know your kind: spoiled rotten mama’s boy —”
“Oh, now I’m the bad guy!”
“I don’t have the power to break the curse.”
“I knew you would run. I wanted you to, but perhaps if I had taken the time to really listen to you, maybe we could have helped each other find our way.”
“You see, like you, I felt imprisoned most of my life.”
“No, you have beautiful ears. Beautiful. They’re beautiful.”
Ever After (1998) Roleplay Starter Sentences
Change pronouns and titles, adapt dialect accordingly.
Especially suitable for royalty/fairy tale/period AUs.
- A sapling cannot grow in the shadow of a mighty oak.
- I was merely borrowing it!
- Speak of this to no one and I shall be lenient.
- A lady of breeding ought never to raise her voice any louder than the gentle hum of a whispering wind.
- Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
- I was not shrill, I was resonant.
- I very much doubt your style of resonance would be permitted in the royal court.
- Darling, nothing is final until you’re dead and even then I’m sure God negotiates.
- This is our home and I will not see it fall apart.
- I trust you slept well.
- Why don’t you sleep with the pigs, _____, if you insist on smelling like one.
- Your appearance does reflect a certain crudeness, my dear. What can I do to make you try?
- I do wish to please you. Sometimes I sit on my own and try to think of what else I could do, how I should act-
- After all that I do, after all that I’ve done, it’s never enough.
- Have you lost your marbles?
- Do you know what the punishment is for servants to dress above their station? Five days in the stocks!
- Me? Pretend to be a courtier? Prancing around like some nobleman, why I’ve never even been to the royal court, and neither have you.
- They’ll never buy it, you are too sweet.
- Now, don’t you dare laugh, I’m coming out.
- Nobody will be looking at your feet.
- Yards of fabric and I still feel naked.
- If you’re going to be a noblewoman, you must play the part.
- I suppose it’s because I lack conviction. You seem to have it in spades.
- I demand that you release him at once, or I shall take this matter to the king.
- — You ill-mannered tub of guts!
- You dare raise your voice to a lady, sir?
- A servant is not a thief your highness, and those who are cannot help themselves.
- If you suffer your people to be ill-educated and their manners corrupted from infancy and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed to them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?
- Are you coy on purpose or do you honestly refuse to tell me your name?
- I confess the plight of the everyday rustics bores me.
- I gather you do not converse with many peasants.
- Am I to understand that you find me arrogant?
- Darling, he’s royalty, they’re born like that.
- Well then I suppose the penalty for being wealthy is that you have to live with the rich.
- Do you really think there’s only one perfect mate? Well, then how can you be certain to find them? And if you do find them are they really the one for you or do you only think they are and what happens if the person you’re supposed to be with never appears or she does, but you’re too distracted to notice.
- And is everything just chance or were some things meant to be?
- You cannot leave everything to fate, _____. She’s got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand.
- You are trying to bait me with your snobbery.
- I’m afraid,_____, that you are a walking contradiction and I find that rather fascinating.
- You spout the ideals of a utopian society and yet you live the life of a courtier.
- And you own all the land there is and yet you take no pride in working it. Is that not also a contradiction?
- First I’m arrogant and now I have no pride, however do I manage that?
- You have everything and still the world holds no joy and yet you insist on making fun of those who would see it for its possibilities.
- Why do you like irritate me so?
- Forgive me, your highness. I’ve lost track of the hour.
- Your highness, what an unexpected surprise!
- It is not fair sire, you have found my weakness but I have yet to learn yours.
- In all my years of study, not one tutor demonstrated the passion you have shown me in the last two days.
- You have more conviction in one memory than I have in my entire being.
- Well this is terribly embarrassing.
- Honestly, your highness, where’s your sense of adventure?
- You would think I would know the way to my own castle.
- And I still can’t believe that I’m down here while you’re up there and in your undergarments no less.
- You will give me back my dress, sir!
- I insist you return my things at once and since you deprive me of my escort I demand a horse as well.
- You can have anything you can carry.
- You are reading my thoughts, my lord.
- To be so defined by your position, to never be seen as who you are but as what you are. You have no idea how insufferable that is.
- They’re defined by their status just as your title defines you, yet it is not who they are.
- You have been born to privilege and with that comes specific obligations.
- I am sorry, my mouth has run away with me again.
- Why you lazy little leech!
- There was a bee.
- I fear that I am not myself today.
- I feel as if my skin is the only thing keeping me from going everywhere at once.
- I cannot stay long but I had to see you. There is much to say.
- I used to think that if I cared about anything I’d have to care about everything and I’d go stark raving mad.
- Why did you have to be so wonderful?
- Last night was the happiest night of my life.
- Why it’s almost as absurd as a prince who spends his days with a servant that sleeps with pigs.
- What bothers you more, _____, that I am common or that I am competition?
- Yes, I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door!
- We must get you ready for the ball!
- A bird may love a fish, _____, but where would they live?
- Do not address me so informal.
- I was born to privilege and with that comes specific obligations.
- I know that a life without love is no life at all.
- And love without trust, what of that?
- I am but a servant to my crown and I have made my decision. I will not yield!
- Men are so fickle aren’t they?
- Well my, my, my aren’t we feisty today?
- Was there a time even in its smallest measurement, that you loved me at all?
- How can anyone love a pebble in their shoe?
- Oh, I do so hate to see you in irons. I’d remove them if only you’d promise not to run away again.
- I belong to no one, least of all you.
- I had a horse like you once. Magnificent creature. Stubborn just like you, willful to a fault, it too just needed to be broken in.
- You will maintain your distance, sir.
- Oh you didn’t say please.
- I could hang you for this.
- I do love your spirit.
- My father was an expert swordsman, _____. He taught me well. Now hand me that key or I swear on his grave I will slit you from navel to nose.
- I uh, I came to rescue you.
- Perhaps you would be so kind as to help me find the owner of this rather remarkable shoe.
- Choose your words wisely Madam, for they may be your last.
- How dare you turn on me you little ingrate!
- I’m only here for the food.
- I want you to know that I will forget you after this moment and never think of you again. But you I am quite certain will think about me ever single day for the rest of your life.
- How dare you speak to me that way, I’m of noble blood!
- You sir, are supposed to be charming.
- And we, princess, are supposed to live happily ever after.
Wizarding World Questions
MUGGLES
- What is your character’s opinion of Muggles?
- Does your character look down on Muggleborns?
- Would your character ever use the phrase ‘Mudblood’?
- Is your character familiar with Muggle technologies, customs, or money?
- What is your character’s blood status?
- Has your character ever watched TV or gone to the movies?
HOGWARTS
- What was your character’s House?
- Was your character happy with their House? Did they feel the Hat was wrong?
- What is your character’s opinion of the other Houses?
- Did they have many friends in the other houses?
- Which subjects did your character take?
- What OWLs and NEWTs did your character achieve?
BEINGS & BEASTS
- Does your character or their family own a House Elf?
- Would your character join SPEW because they support House Elf Rights or to shut Hermione up?
- Does your character consider Werewolves to be Beings or Beasts?
- Would your character stop being friends with someone after learning they’re a Werewolf?
- Would your character willing kill a transformed Werewolf if they encounter one? Would they see the difference in killing an untransformed Werewolf?
- Does your character respect Non-Human Beings?
- Does your character support a Non-Human’s right to a trial?
OTHER
- What is your character’s Patronus form? Can they cast a Patronus?
- What is your character’s Boggart? Is it embarrassing for them?
- Has your character ever thought about or tried to become an Animagus? What form do or do they think they would take?
PENELOPE (2006) Sentence Starters
Change pronouns, adapt dialect accordingly.
“That was the last of the ho-hos!”
“Rich people suck!”
“They were invited back to the house, where they were legally gagged into secrecy.”
“lf being ugly were a crime, I’d have to arrest half the people in this city.”
“He said ‘shit’ to me twice. And then he just stood there staring at me.”
“Do you have any idea what a story like this will do to me?”
“Hang in there.”
“I’m sorry you got stuck with me.”
“Hold on honey, you can do it.”
“I’d given up all hope of ever finding a woman who truly understands me.”
“I had given up all hope that is … until I met you.”
“She’s gotta pee. You got a bathroom? I’m going to get some punch.”
“No one ever seems able to see past that.”
“Curse or no curse, if I am more than my name and my face, well then, surely you are more than yours?”
“Let me in.”
“And, like, what guy looks at me and thinks picket fence?”
“My mother did what any loving mother would do: she faked my death. And had me cremated.”
“Why can’t I have bacon?”
“So, what? Are you hiding from the law, or is that a bad nose job?”
“How can he not see me, you know? I’m on a Vespa with wings.”
“Once the curse is broken I’ll be just like anybody else.”
“Either you ______ or so help me god I am going to rip your guts out.”
“I have to pee and I can’t leave you alone with the phones.”
“lt’s not the power of the curse, it’s the power you give the curse.”
“I like myself the way I am.”
“You have ruined my life!”
“But this isn’t me. The real me is inside here somewhere just waiting to get out. (And you can make that happen.)”
“____, let me in.”
“Unfortunately, my believing you isn’t going to do either one of us any good.”
“Five thousand bucks worth your while?”
“I used to spend every weekend there just hanging on a bench writing stupid love songs. People watching.”
“That’s what mothers do with daughters! They talk about how to look prettier.”
“Once the queen’s dead the king’s useless.”
“God! He licked me.”
“Alright, keep in mind; never bet a better.”
“I fear I did you a terrible disservice that day.”
“What if the curse isn’t broken. What if — what if the curse can never be broken?”
“I felt the rush of a thousand heart breaks.”
“We have both always known there was no guarantee.”
“Are you freaking out or what?”
“Sorry. Ridiculous.”
“You shit! You lied to me!”
“I’m sorry I dragged you down with me.”
“Are you in or out?”
“Listen, I’m sorry I ran from my feelings.”
“What the hell have you been chasing all these years?”
“Listen you little worm, I know your kind: spoiled rotten mama’s boy —”
“Oh, now I’m the bad guy!”
“I don’t have the power to break the curse.”
“I knew you would run. I wanted you to, but perhaps if I had taken the time to really listen to you, maybe we could have helped each other find our way.”
“You see, like you, I felt imprisoned most of my life.”
“No, you have beautiful ears. Beautiful. They’re beautiful.”
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threepillared asked: “Royal balls are such a bore, aren’t they?” |
This is a test. Everything out of his mouth has been a test.
She’s met suitors like him before — upstarts who attempt a conversational counterpoint to the challenges she’s devised for them. Some wish to curry favor in the hopes that she’ll help them cheat through the rest of the games. Others are simply so desperate to show off their cleverness at every turn that they can’t help but PEACOCK on or off the arena. Every now and again there are those looking to kick her off her golden pedestal by making her look spoiled. Princess Daphne has kept her sovereignty for as long as she has by playing upon the affections of her people. She remains free so long as her suitors are seen UNWORTHY of her goodness. If she were to appear ungracious, the games would suddenly seem cruel and senseless, and the crowds would turn against her, the capricious aristocrat. And here comes this suitor, dashing and unknown and bent on winning. Every word of his just as DOUBLE-EDGED as the riddles she famously pens.She keeps her expression placid.
❛ You’ve attended many balls this season, I take it? ❜
Neverwhere Sentence Meme ( Pt. 2! )
↳you can find Part 1 here.
- “ I loathe pet names. They’re so demeaning.“
- ” I spy, with my little eye, something that’s going to be— “
- “ I’m not cheap, and I never give freebies.“
- ” You don’t ask any questions. You don’t get any answers. You don’t stray from the path. “
- “ You haven’t heard a word I’ve said, have you? “
- ” Uh-uh. I’m out of your life. And you’ve been wonderful. “
- ” It’s compact, yes. But I like to think of that as a virtue. “
- “ And might I say how your telephonic confabulation brightens up and cheers our otherwise dreary and uneventful day? “
- ” Of course I’ll stop toadying and crawling . “
- “ You think you’re so damned clever. “
- ” So we aren’t allowed to kill her/him any more? “
- “ Can you take orders? “
- ” I could wish you the best of luck in your career, but I’m afraid I rather doubt you’ll live long enough to have one. “
- ” Then what makes you think that they wouldn’t have been pleased to see us? “
- “ We weren’t in any real danger. It was like a haunted house. A few noises in the dark and your imagination does the rest. “
- “ It’s not as impressive as it looks. "
- ” You are out of your league, in deep shit, and, I would imagine, a few hours away from an untimely and undoubtedly messy end. “
- “ If you can survive for the next day or two, you might even make it through a whole month. “
- “ When you don’t have any redeeming features, you don’t take particularly kindly to disappointment, do you? “
- “ Really, we ought to look upon it as a mercy killing. "
- ” You just have to let them know who’s boss, that’s all. “
- ” I, for one, have had almost as much as I’m willing to take. “
- “ Go on, say something funny. ”
- “ I don’t know how you could even bring yourself to think such a thing. ”
- “ More haste, less speed. ”
- “ ______ ! Fine name! I had a horse called ______ .”
- “ Death is so final, isn’t it? “
- ” You’d have to be mad to go in there. “
- ” You killed him/her because he turned you down? “
- “Don’t like jam. Makes me belch.”
- “ It’s a ______, and a good one. Memento. Souvenir. Keepsake. And it’s free. A gift. Me to you. Bit of a thank-you. ”
- “ I’ve sort of got to like having you around. Please don’t go. “
- "Work. Home. The pub. Meeting boys/girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?"
Mistake Starters
"It wasn't meant to be like this.""What have I done?"
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!"
"Oh, god. Oh god, no!"
"No, no, no, no. Look at me. You'll be fine."
"PLEASE! I MADE A MISTAKE, LET ME FIX IT! DON'T DO THIS!"
"I messed up..."
"I thought I was helping!"
"I didn't know!"
"It wasn't meant... I didn't know this would happen."
"Why didn't you tell me it would be like this?!"
"I wasn't THINKING!"
"Because I love you! Because I said I'd die for you and I meant it, all right?"
"Because you would have died!"
"I couldn't just let it happen, okay? I had to do something!"
"Sure, I screwed up! But at least I DID something!"
"What would you have had me do, exactly?"
"You have to stop them. Please."
"Oh, god. Oh, no. No, no. Please help me. They're going to kill him/her."
"Please. I need your help."
"I can't fix this on my own."
"I can't do this on my own."
"It's not like that. Not any more."
"I can't help you."
"I can help you."
"Don't leave me alone."
"I don't want to die."
"Please."
Various Lemony Snicket quotes meme, Part One.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
“If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”
“Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.”
“The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.”
“What a schmuck!”
“One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen.”
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
“I suppose I’ll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
“…you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
