fantamemes

[fantamemes]

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron - Forever Free :: Sentence Starters

a.k.a. i was feeling nostalgic for my favorite childhood pc game, and so made an extremely obscure meme out of it. feel free to modify pronouns, phrasing and such as needed.

“ [ name ], you're all right! But you look weak, my friend. Don't worry. Soon you'll run wild just like before. ”

“ Are you ready to move on? ”

“ Sometimes the eagle will want to race. If you beat him, he'll give you a feather. ”

“ That's all I have to teach you. Good-bye, my friend. ”

“ Hey [ name ], you look a little tired. Take one of my carrots - it will make you feel stronger! ”

“ We can escape together. ”

“ Nah, I'm too slow to jump the fence. ”

“ You won't throw me this time! ”

“ Hey slowpoke! If you can catch me, I'll give you another one of those carrots. ”

“ I don't believe it, you caught me! I have to go practice my racing... ”

“ Escaping the rustlers was so exhausting. ”

“ When I need something, I'll call for you. With your help, I know I'll be back to normal soon. ”

“ Thanks, but I'm not [ hungry / thirsty ] right now. ”

“ Feeling up to a little race, [ name ]? ”

“ Better luck next time, [ name ]! Don't be sad, everyone says I'm a fast flyer. ”

“ Please, help me! I'm stuck! ”

“ If you kick down this tree, I might be able to free myself. ”

“ Thanks! I thought I'd never get out of that jam! I'm feeling a little hungry now. Hmmm... ”

“ Spotted any apples around here? I'm not leaving till I find one. ”

“ I understand. You must be busy. ”

“ [ name ], I'm in trouble! The sheriff thinks I stole [ ____ ] , but I didn't do it. ”

“ I can't talk now, [ name ]. I have to figure out how to free myself. ”

“ You're probably in on it with him. Get out of here! ”

“ Well, I'll be. You found it. I guess that kid didn't take the [ ____ ] after all. ”

“ Here, take [ name ] with you. She belongs with you and the other horses. ”

“ This farm life is tough now that the farmer's ox ran off. ”

“ Hot enough for you, horse? My advice: find some shade. ”

“ Getting a lot of use from that railcar wheel? Why a horse would want a wheel is a mystery to me... ”

“ Oh, no! Now I've done it! Mother will be so mad... [ name ], will you bring me water to put out the fire? ”

“ I'm going to get in so much trouble for this! ”

“ Please, take [ ___ ] with you. It's the least I can do to show my appreciation. ”

“ I decided to learn to weave. If you come back later, I may weave you a nice rug or even a blanket. ”

“ That's good news, because I need a blanket. ”

“ Can't find an axe? There's not one around here, I know that much. ”

“ How do you like my work? This will be my best blanket yet. ”

“ Bad news travels fast, my friend. ”

“ I've seen people collecting flowers along the shore. ”

“ You have done a great thing, [ name ] ”

“ You're the one who saved me, aren't you? Thanks. ”

“ Greetings, [ name ]. What a gift it is to see you again. ”

“ Too rich for you, huh? Your loss. Come back when you're ready to do business. ”

“ Have you seen a little boy around? He's gotten himself lost. ”

“ Have you checked the mine? I'd look there myself but I can't get across the broken bridge. ”

“ HEEELP! Is someone there? Say something! Oh... Well. If you can hear me, fetch a rope so I can climb out! ”

“ You and [ name ] getting along well? He's a good horse, that [ name ]. ”

“ Leave me be, horse... ”

“ Get me out of here, will ya? ”

“ Dang, now I'll never get all this wood sawed. ”

“ My, you are one fast horse! ”

“ It's good to see you! If you could get me out of this, I'd owe you big, [ name ]! ”

“ Well I'll be! It's a horse! Just what I needed. Mine's all wore out. ”

“ Sorry, I don't do manual labor. ”

“ You and [ name ] go run off together, I have some chopping to attend to. ”

“ It's good to be back, young fella! You've done us all proud again. ”

“ Any sign of those wranglers? I thought I smelled 'em just now... ”

“ How can I ever thank you, my friend? ” / “ Just by being my friend. ”

“ I knew you'd grow up into a brave stallion! I'm so proud of you! ”

“ I didn't realize how much I missed home! ”

“ The grass is much greener here. Mmm, tasty! ”

“ Did you see any gold in that mine up in the mountains? It could be valuable to someone. ”

“ Thanks for the quick thinking, [ name ]. ”

“ Whew, it's good to be home, huh? ���

“ [ name ], I'm glad you're here. ” / “ Me too. ”

“ Help me kick this rock, [ name ]! It's our only chance. ”

“ What in the world's going on up there? ”

“ Oh, no! We'll never capture another horse now! ”

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Come Alive :: Beth Crowley :: sentence starters

“ I am a wanderer. ”

“ I never needed anyone, but you've stopped me in my tracks. ”

“ I like the way you scare me. ”

“ The future's anybody's guess, just give me right now. ”

“ I don't want to keep my distance anymore. ”

“ I come alive in your arms, you touch me and I fall apart. ”

“ You are a blinding light. ”

“ A darkness courses through my veins, and somehow you chose me. ”

“ I refuse to let you down. ”

“ You're what I never wanted, but now I have never wanted something more. ”

“ If good and evil do exist and we're on different sides of it, take my hand and walk me through the fire. ”

“ I know I’m different than what you expected, but I’ve been playing a role. ”

“ It’s time that you know the truth. ”

“ You may not want me anymore, I’m not what you’ve been looking for. ”

“ Under these pieces and parts is a beautiful heart, and it loves you. ”

“ Meet me at midnight. Find me by moonlight. ”

“ I’ve been waiting for so long to feel like I’m whole. ”

“ I'm more than what you see... Please don’t define me. ”

“ This is bigger than you and I. ”

“ Always told what to believe, now nothing is quite what it seemed. ”

“ It’s a battle of head versus heart, I can’t tell them apart like before. ”

“ The truth is concealed in the lies. ”

“ I’ve decided I’m done trying to hide. ”

“ I won’t sit back and watch the world burn when I know it’s my turn to fight this war. ”

“ Is my mind playing tricks? 'Cause you look like home. ”

“ I trust what I feel, that neither of us has to be alone. ”

“ You don’t have to be alone. ”

“ We were both children when, so full of innocence, we used to play our games in flowery fields. ”

“ You're the one who could see the good inside of me. ”

“ I used to love you from afar, as we all decided who we are. ”

“ You were never mine to have, still I loved you to the last. ”

“ Another came along and slowly won your heart. I cared enough for you to let you go. ”

“ A thousand times the words just died right on my lips, regret came over me with its swift and stinging kiss. ”

“ You try to wear me down with your pretty, pretty words. ”

“ Just when I think I’m done, I’m halfway out the door, you pull me in again. ”

“ You’re a rocket to the moon; I’m stranded on the ground. ”

“ Here we go again, I lose myself in you. ”

“ Your love defines me in a way I didn’t want it to. ”

“ If I keep holding on, you’re going to bend me til I break. ”

“ I’m coming face to face with what I’ve always known. ”

“ I am terrified of who I am when I’m alone. ”

“ Now it’s time to choose which one of us I’m going to save. ”

“ You could be the greatest chance I’ll never take. ”

“ You’ll always be my worst and favorite mistake. ”

“ Come back for what you lost, let me show you what I found. ”

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What You Need :: Beth Crowley :: sentence starters

“ I'm, in the end, just what you made me. ”

“ I look the same but I'm not fine, the master of my own disguise. ”

“ If you knew the truth, you'd probably hate me. ”

“ I need a fight, I've got you in my sights. ”

“ Only one of us will make it out alive. ”

“ I'm turning into a monster right before your eyes. ”

“ My tongue is a weapon and I'm locked and loaded. ”

“ When you least expect it, you won't know it's coming. ”

“ I'm merciless, when will you learn? ”

“ I can hear your heartbeat drumming. ”

“ I hear life has made you jaded and the light you had is faded, and I wonder... would you still shine for me? ”

“ I have tried hard not to listen, but a voice keeps saying I'm what you need. ”

“ I'll be resigned that your name won't pass my lips. ”

“ But then you call me up one day, and my resolve just melts away, and I can't help but fall into you again. ”

“ I catch myself before admitting it's not good enough to just be your friend. ”

“ I know you only miss me because my face brings back your memories of a better time. ”

“ Our best was never quite enough, we weren't supposed to last. ”

“ You're complacent in the dark. ”

“ I hope one day you finally find what you need. ”

“ I wish I could have been the person you need. ”

“ I walk alone, pace up and down the streets we used to know. ”

“ Our house no longer feels much like home. It hasn't for a while. ”

“ I write you letters that you'll never read, paint you pictures you will never see. ”

“ In all my life I never thought I'd be living without you. ”

“ I lost of part of me I'll never find. ”

“ I hear your voice, a symphony that soars above the noise. ”

“ I've got to make a choice - stay still or start anew. ”

“ I'll try to finish what you started, be the person that you wanted, see the beauty in the world. ”

“ I have no heart, just ice and stone. ”

“ I know exactly what I'm for. To hurt and destroy, and nothing more. ”

“ I still don't know if I can change. ”

“ Something has stirred, a beast has awakened. ”

“ So hear my battle cry, I'm out for blood to claim what's mine. ”

“ Finally questioning if I am my own worst enemy. ”

“ I never thought that I could love. ”

“ Love's not a thing you get to choose, try to resist you'll always lose. ”

“ I made a deal to sell my soul, but lately I have dared to hope. ”

“ Tell my secrets to the wind. Flying, I feel infinite. ”

“ You don't know yet where you're going, if it's better than where you are coming from. ”

“ Settle down, this feels right somehow. ”

“ You meet twists and turns every corner, but each step you take brings you closer to everything that's achingly familiar. ”

“ At the edges of your mind, something is whispering to go into the unknown. ”

“ So deep breath in. You're meant for this. ”

“ Everyone wants to know if you're the answer they've been searching for. ”

“ All eyes on you, so much to prove. ”

“ Whoever you were back then, you won't ever be again. ”

“ You forced yourself to dig deeper when you redefined the impossible. ”

“ Some rules are meant to be broken. You won't be confined by them anymore. ”

“ This might be your one chance at redemption. ”

“ It's all or nothing, make your stand. ”

“ You reached the edge, there is no choice - now you have to jump and see where you land. ”

“ Remember how far you've come. ”

“ Don't think, just run. ”

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HUMAN. :II: NATURE. :: Nightwish :: sentence starters

“ Before you, my home was in the wind and surf. ”

“ You blew your cave bear bone and began to hum, eradicating the torment of a heavy heart. ”

“ Sing the graceful third part, then orchestrate an air for only you to sing. ”

“ Music, fanning the flames of a mystery, deepening the listening. ”

“ Lose yourself to the endless symphony of now. ”

“ Want a tale in major scale? ”

“ Can you hear the brave drum from the moors? ”

“ Follow the beat, and leave the noise behind if we be lovers. ”

“ Come join the gathering, and you will leave with a wildflower aftertaste. ”

“ Become the kind who still laughs at butterflies. ”

“ Give me a home inside you until the final thank you and a good night. ”

“ It is coming your way, the very first song. ”

“ In here, I am the silence of sound. ”

“ I'll greet the greedy crowd, but will never, never ever sing to them. ”

“ Follow me into the fog, to the hilltop. Follow the call, sky-clad. ”

“ Evoke the hum, allure the sirens. All it took was time and silence. ”

“ Have you felt it in yourself? Music? ”

“ Have a near-life experience. ”

“ You have become the tool of a tool. ”

“ Shut up and dance! ”

“ Color a yarn and the crowds will gather. ”

“ Please, endure. ”

“ I have such empathy in me. ”

“ Hum, noise, hum. Beautifully numb, tapping the quiet air to have a meaning. ”

“ The Earth has a real voice. ”

“ Join the gathering, tell a tale. ”

“ A feast of fears is drawing nearer. ”

“ Beyond the horizon something terrifying sleeps. ”

“ You're with us. Face off the night, singing through the morn for mankind. ”

“ I want to sing with you. ”

“ You're home now. ”

“ Hope revived for a lifetime, to rekindle the human spark. ”

“ We came here to be a waypoint to the far, stars calling with the sound of a dreamlike dulcimer. ”

“ We came here to stay with your guiding light. ”

“ My harvest will come, tiny valorous straw, among the millions facing to the sun. ”

“ Something unsung our way comes. ”

“ Join the harvest of hundred fields, hearty and tame, all going back to one single grain. ”

“ They have beauty beyond the poetry, but choose a silent misery. ”

“ Once there was a silent canvas, sleeping stories unimagined. ”

“ The birth of what if's, hope and wonder. Winds will be named, words will shelter. ”

“ We're the writers of another way to be. ”

“ Reset the world, imagine home. ”

“ Imagine music, dance, illusion. Tales of dust, of the man in the moon, the sea lady, snow, glass, apples... ”

“ It is stories that built cathedrals. ”

“ To lose yourself. To find who you are. ”

“ Follow your tale, remember your name. ”

“ The play is yours to write. Yours to live. ”

“ How's the heart while it still beats? ”

“ Sorrow hides well in your shell. ”

“ Dear one, here I am to share the fear. ”

“ Come in, the fire's warm. ”

“ We met where the cliff greets the sea, shared a story, took the leap. ”

“ Dear one, night will come, but not to stay. ”

“ The answer's in the fair winds, my love. ”

“ Fly towards the calm. Fly, utterly lost, towards a beating heart. ”

“ Dull the blade and dance some more. ”

“ We are singers of the gone. We remember. ”

“ We are, we were, and we will not be. ”

“ Then they saw the moon, and found caring. ”

“ We have been here a while. ”

“ We wrote this in a tongue you will understand. Words and melodies, with a touch of coloring. ”

“ Smile to elders like a good doll. Repent, accept, separate yourself. ”

“ I am the one you call the thief. ”

“ I'll sing the dawn in with you. ”

“ Earthbride amongst the carrion kind, walk with me to your sea. ”

“ Someone in the tomorrow is waiting for me. ”

“ I am the grass, I am the dust, I am the several endings. ”

“ Decades... Make them matter. ”

“ Myriad tales shall befall on you before the evenballad of our stay. ”

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Tales From The Twilight World  ::  Blind Guardian  ::  Sentence Starters

“ The apparation of this land and it's dream makes me feel I've seen it before. ”

“ I can taste there's life everywhere you can find. ”

“ Like whispering echoes in the wind, I'm a million miles from home. ”

“ The morning sun is near, first light of dawn is here. ”

“ Where do we go now? So where is the way? ”

“ The apparition of my words in these days makes me feel I've told them before. ”

“ All my plans will come true, I'll control destiny. ”

“ By my dreams I must find the way to stop the raging war. ”

“ Something savage is yearning for me, I'm waiting afraid for the night. ”

“ Look to the mirror, it shows what I am. ”

“ I terrorized this town many times, and here I start again. ”

“ Now I'm stronger, and so cold... cold as ice. ”

“ Returning is my destiny. ”

“ I feel it's burning deep in me, I'm not what I was before. ”

“ Could I stop this dream? ”

“ It's too late for me. ”

“ A growing fear's all that I feel. ”

“ Drive them into darkness, forever they'll be bound. ”

“ Who can tell me who I am? Who I am, my friend? ”

“ I'm an alien, so they say, a risk to everyone. ”

“ No. Tell me, what do they see? What do they feel, what do they fear? ”

“ I could escape, but I need your helping hand. ”

“ Did you hear my crying? ”

“ Thanks for your helping hand. ”

“ You trust to no one, no warmths reach your heart. ”

“ To you I'm the stranger, but you're strange to me. ”

“ You destroy all that is unknown to you. ”

“ Don't you know I'll come back again? ”

“ I will go home now. Much too long I'm forced to stay. ”

“ In visions I see, so dark and so deep, mankind will destruct all life. ”

“ I hope I will see you again at the end. ”

“ Darkness surrounds, can't go forward, can't go back. ”

“ I see planets dying... I fall into the light, a new universe awakens. ”

“ I search for deliverance, but I cannot find. ”

“ Take me away from the place I've been. ”

“ I'm free. I fly alone. ”

“ The wisdom of many lives burns deep in me. ”

“ I can feel what's happening to me... The pain in my head... ” 

“ I should get away from here. ”

“ A vibration is filling me and music is in my head. ”

“ There's something going wrong, I read it in your face. ”

“ Can you feel it? Is there time? ”

“ Do you know that place where the light is never seen? ”

“ Remember his words, and his songs. ”

“ The last candle will burn, but there's hope for everyone when it burns high. ”

“ They feel the magic in the wind, but they just fear the old man's song. ”

“ You know so much about all, what is your price? ”

“ There's just a little chance for all you fools. ”

“ Somebody’s out there, I feel there's somebody. ”

“ There comes the last part, and end of our old age. ”

“ To the end I'll fight, but I know that the things that I do are meaningless. ”

“ It's so far away I know I can't reach it, but I try again and again in my dreams. ”

“ You see in their eyes there's no way out. ”

“ I'm lost in a dark dream and losing control. ”

“ How long can I stay here? ”

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Somewhere Far Beyond  ::  Blind Guardian  ::  Sentence Starters

feel free to modify pronouns, phrasing, etc. as needed to fit.

“ Silence has broken the darkest truth. ”

“ The things she remembered had never been her own. ”

“ What do I see, what will I find? ” 

“ Know the answer inside, it's your last step. ”

“ Time, what is time? ”

“ I wish I knew how to tell you why it hurts to know ”

“ These dreams were never mine. ”

“ Who can say what's wrong or right? ”

“ His eyes had seen it all. ”

“ I know it's all a lie. ”

“ What did I see... What have I done? ”

“ Come, lock the door, don't let me in. ”

“ I am the one in your destiny. ”

“ Look into my eyes, feel the fear for just a while. ”

“ Is it all over now? ”

“ I'll leave, but I'm singing. ”

“ He saw it clearly, it's too late. ”

“ It does not heal, but it lets us forget. ”

“ We'll never know, so don't take care. ”

“ Should I forget the way I feel? ”

“ Many songs I've written about the things I saw. ”

“ My inner soul's a wasteland, I can't run away from here. ”

“ I try to find them, all the lost thoughts in my mind. ”

“ I woke up on a hill so many times before. ”

“ Yesterday seems like a dream no more. ”

“ Am I born to be a king, or a jester of the fools? ”

“ You're the mystical old bard on your journey through the dark. ”

“ I can't remember my name, I never knew how to find my home. ”

“ I'm the chosen one to perform all these things, but not for me. ”

“ Will I ever find myself? ”

“ The distance is growing. My hope has gone away. ”

“ Which part of me remains? ”

“ There's no way to turn back. ”

“ ‘In my hands it lies’, I thought. But I failed. ”

“ They all knew what it meant, but they couldn't change it. ”

“ It's all gone... What is left behind? ”

“ The children will love your singing. ”

“ The sea is calling, now we've to leave it. ”

“ All I left behind are my tears. ”

“ By the ruins he stands, and he's waiting for me. ”

“ His paths seem strange, but they're always planned. ”

“ On our quest we lose our way. ”

“ I know the answers, although they don't exist. ”

“ I must leave... To another life, to another world far beyond your dreams. ”

“ He's longing for a place where he can find himself. ”

“ Death awaits, knocking at the door. Leave him. ”

“ I am the one. The one who's calling. ”

“ Be sure that my voice will take you home. ”

“ He surrendered long ago, there was no real chance. ”

“ When hours have gone by I'll close my eyes. ”

“ In a world far away we may meet again. ” 

“ Now, hear my song. ”

“ Tomorrow will take us away, far from home. ”

“ No one will ever know our names, but the bards' songs will remain. ”

“ The fear of today will be gone, due to our magic songs. ”

“ There's only one song left in my mind, tales of a brave man who lived far from here... ”

“ Now the songs are over, and it's time to leave. ”

“ No one should ask you for the name of the one who tells the story. ”

“ You're not alone, so don't be afraid in the dark and cold. ”

“ The bards' songs will remain, they all will remain. ”

“ In my thoughts and in my dreams, they're always in my mind. ”

“ The treasure that I've found is more than enough. ”

“ Far to the hill we've to go, over the mountains and seas. ”

“ Ice and fire and forest we passed, and horror in the halls of stone. ”

“ I am trying to find a way, blind in the dark. ” 

“ I came from far beyond your reality. ”

“ I am the narrator; and now I'll tell you where I've been, and what I saw, and how it ends... ”

“ I'm so alone on my way, and I don't fear that dusty godforsaken path. ”

“ Look at my soul, there are some things I've to hide from you. ”

“ I'm losing control and I don't care. ”

“ I'm looking for those healing things to be prepared. ”

“ Will it be the end, or just a new quest, after all? ”

“ Look around and see, the world is turning fast. Faster, day by day. ”

“ I'll try to change it if I can. ”

“ There's only one chance, and it lies somewhere far beyond. ”

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Eurus :: The Oh Hellos :: Sentence Starters

“ I see the moonlight steal across my sheets, my love is lying fast asleep. ”

“ The clouds overhead open up for the wicked and just, all the same. ”

“ Like the sun that turns the sky illuminating all, in time, the tables will be turned on their side. ”

“ The pillars of the empire will be burned, in kind. ”

“ I see the trail of shoulders I've climbed over. ”

“ A vine of ivy's pushing her way through, and as she creeps along she sinks her roots into the cracks, and pulls 'em back until the structure's coming loose. ”

“ The way the shadows on the wall are cast look like a twisted apparition from the past, and all the memories come flooding fast. ”

“ There's a wilderness you kinda miss, but were taught you ought to cut it back. ”

“ So you shut it out, you shout it down until you're all white-knuckled. ”

“ Let be what is, let be what isn't. ”

“ It's a natural world in which we're living, and if you let it alone, it will surely grow. ”

“ Just leave it alone, child, and let it go. ”

“ You got a lot to learn, if you'd just settle down and let the river run its course. ”

“ Leave the ruins where they fall. Leave them all, and let the wild take over. ”

“ Spinning that stone uphill again, like atonement for a bygone sin. ”

“ Like lightning changing hands, it all returns back to his pockets, in the end. ”

“ The bait hanging from the string is calling my name, and like the wind it slips again out of my fingers. ”

“ You're stamping your heels along with the drum, praying the serpent's underneath one of 'em. Like there's some villain left to defeat instead of a dance with a rhythm and beat. ”

“ You've been too busy thinking ahead. ”

“ Even the great celestial hieroglyphs are bodies of dust illuminated. ”

“ If the heavens can be both sacred and dust, oh, maybe so can the rest of us. ”

“ I've seen the line of ocean and shore, the tumbling tide of water and soil. ”

“ They took to it like a fox to a burrow, like an eagle to an aerie. ”

“ It's getting hard to even hum a single thing. ”

“ You were the song that I'd always sing, you were the light that the fire would bring. ”

“ I can't shake this feeling that I was only pushing the spear into your side again and again. ”

“ As I prune my feathers like leaves from a vine, I find that we have fewer and fewer in kind. ”

“ My palms and fingers still reek of gasoline from throwing fuel to the fire of that dream. ”

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Notos :: The Oh Hellos :: Sentence Starters

“ Whisper to me words in a voice so small. Quiet as a candle and bright as the morning sun. ”

“ The fire and wind shattered down the hills with a rage unbent, and a fear that shook the firmament. ”

“ He was not within them, the clatter of brass and drums. ”

“ I know you want me to be afraid. ”

“ Still you beat your drums, raising holy war with every strum, shouting down the quiet to kingdom come. ”

“ I got a venom like a snake running out of my mouth. ”

“ Innocent or not, you're not a bet I care to take. ”

“ Over and over again, we keep that old wheel turning. ”

“ I got a terror I can't shake pushing down on my lungs. ”

“ I can feel it on my tongue, brick and mortar as thick as scripture, drawing lines in the sand and laying borders as tall as towers. ”

“ I babble on until my voice is gone. ”

“ This hill I'll die on is about 90 meters of bricks. ”

“ All that's left for me to climb to the heavens is the chasm of the night and a matter of time. ”

“ I feel my blood pounding like the beat of a drum. ”

“ Every good intention is interpolation, a line we drew in the array. ”

“ Everything is turning, and the shapes that you drew may change beneath a different light. ”

“ Everything you thought you knew will fall apart, but you'll be all right. ”

“ There's an eerie quiet on the southern levees, with a halcyon sky and atmosphere gone heavy. ”

“ There's a wind arising with the ire of Venus, tugging at the surface of the seas. ”

“ A thunderous disturbance: and for every action, a reaction. ”

“ Every inhale I take swallows the ocean whole, and I am one with the hurricane. ”

“ The rush will take you away like you're caught in the undertow, and you will drown in the wake of the things you said that you can't take back. ”

“ Every word you shouldn't say will come bubbling out of your throat. ”

“ It took forever and a day for the canyon's and coasts to erode away by the weight of the ocean's cyclical motion. ”

“ Though the eons may pass as slow as the sands of an hourglass, every grain that we've counted claims that even the mountains can change. ”

“ The winds from the south have the waves riled up like a hungry mouth, and your stomach goes hollow at the thought that it could swallow you whole. ”

“ Nothing you do can slow the rising tides. ”

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The Oh Hellos ( self-titled EP - 2011 ) :: Sentence Starters

“ Hello, my old heart, how have you been? ”

“ I've been so worried, you've been so still... ”

“ Oh, don't leave me here alone! ”

“ Don't tell me that we've grown, for having loved a little while. ”

“ I want to find a home, and I want to share it with you. ”

“ Every day I add another stone to the walls I built around you to keep you safe. ”

“ How is it, being locked away? ”

“ Well, don't you worry, in there you're safe. ”

“ Nothing lasts forever, some things aren't meant to be. ”

“ You'll never find the answers until you set your old heart free. ”

“ I was born a restless, wayward child. I could hear the whole world calling me outside. ”

“ I had to see with my own eyes. ”

“ Take me home. ”

“ I know that I'm a weathered stone, but I owe it to my brothers to carry them home. ”

“ Oh, there is no power on earth or below that could ever break our hearts or shake our souls. ”

“ Cold is the night without you here, just your absence ringing in my ears. ”

“ Hard is the heart that feels no fear. ”

“ Long is the road that leads me home, and longer still when I walk alone. ”

“ Take this burden away from me, and bury it before it buries me. ”

“ Many are the days I've wanted to cease, lay myself down and find some relief. ”

“ Heavy is the head that gets no sleep. ”

“ We carry our lives around in our memories. ”

“ Steady is the hand that's come to terms with the lessons it has had to learn. ”

“ I've seen the things that I must do, but this road is meant for two. ”

“ Take my hand and set me free. ”

“ We’re climbing trees like we did when we were children, scaling walls that took us years to build. ”

“ Safe inside the walls we built, we found ourselves a home. ”

“ Higher branches, harder fall. Hesitation stops us all. ”

“ But heartache pales in comparison to love. ”

[fantamemes]

Through the Deep, Dark Valley :: The Oh Hellos :: Sentence Starters

“ We were born in the shadow of the crimes of our fathers. ”

“ Blood was our inheritance. No, we did not ask for this. ”

“ Shadows lurking close behind, we were fleeing for our lives.”

“ Will you lead me? ”

“ I was sleeping in the garden when I saw you first. ”

“ Like the dawn, you broke the dark and my whole earth shook. ”

“ You were the brightest shade of sun I had ever seen. ”

“ You will surely be the death of me. ”

“ These things that you're after, they can't be controlled. ”

“ This beast that you're after will eat you alive and spit out your bones. ”

“ There is no courage in flirting with fear to prove you're alive. ”

“ See, I was born the second child, with a spirit running wild, running free. ”

“ They saw trouble in my eyes. ”

“ I could hear the world outside calling me. ”

“ Heaven knows how hard I tried. ”

“ Can you hear it hanging on the wind? ”

“ You've got to go on, further than you've ever gone. You've got to run far from all you've ever known. ”

“ Only had myself to blame for the company I was keeping. ”

“ Curse my restless wandering feet, prone to wander endlessly. ”

“ All the love you gave to me, it wasn't enough to keep me. ”

“ I've bent my knee to many kings, idols of prosperity. ”

“ Heard that dollar calling me, so I sought it in the city. ”

“ There wasn't any water in the wishing well. ”

“ Well, it's a long way out to reach the sea, but I'm sure I'll find you waiting there for me. ”

“ You'll hold me like you'll never let me go, and beside the salty water, I could hold you close. ”

“ You are far too beautiful to love me. ”

“ When you wage your wars against the one who adores you, then you'll never know the treasure that you're worth. ”

“ I've got holes in my pockets burned by liars' gold. ”

“ When you're doing all the leaving, then it's never your love lost. And if you leave before the start, then there was never love at all. ”

“ Brother, forgive me. We both know I'm the one to blame. ”

“ When I saw my demons, I knew them well. ”

“ When I saw my reflection, it was a stranger beneath my face. ”

“ I was born at the dawn of our folly. ”

“ I was young, and stubborn to the bone. ”

“ I knew you'd never forgive me, but I was wrong, and I'm so, so sorry. ”

“ I have made mistakes, I continue to make them. ”

“ All the doubts I've faced, I continue to face them. ”

“ Nothing is a waste if you learn from it. ”

“ And the sun, it does not cause us to grow. It is the rain that will strengthen your soul. ”

“ We have lived in fear, and our fear has betrayed us. ”

“ We have made mistakes, but we've learned from them. ”

“ Oh, my heart, how can I face you now? When we both know how badly I have let you down? ”

“ I am afraid of all that I've built fading away. ”

“ I was young and naive. As I was told, so I believed. ”

“ I was told there's only one road that leads you home. ”

“ The truth was a cave on the mountainside, and I'd seek it out until the day I died. ”

“ I was bound and determined to be the child that you wanted. ”

“ The truth became a tool that I held in my hand. I wielded it, but I didn't understand. ”

“ I desired a truth I wouldn't have to seek. ”

[fantamemes]

Dear Wormwood   ::   The Oh Hellos  ::  Sentence Starters

“ Oh, fair and flighty love, the only dove I see... ”

“ I still taste you on my lips; lovely, bitter water. ”

“ The terrible fire of old regret is honey on my tongue. ”

“ I know I shouldn't love you, but I do. ”

“ I feel it in my soul, I feel the empty hole, the cup that can’t be filled. ”

“ I feel it in my blood, in the fire and the flood, the beast that can't be killed. ”

“ All the days of our delights are poison in my veins. ”

“ I know I shouldn't love you. I know. ”

“ I am not a fool, entire. No, I know what is coming. ”

“ You'll bury me beneath the trees I climbed when I was a child. ”

“ There beneath the willow tree I learned a lot about the way of things. ”

“ I learned that everything - the wind, the leaves - has breath inside. ”

“ Their wills were ever bent on waiting with all their might. ”

“ There is beauty in the way of things. ”

“ We were young, you were like wine - lovely as the song in the air as the wind blows. ”

“ I am not the fool I was when I was younger. ”

“ Even when you hunt me with ire, relentless, I will not abide all your raging. ”

“ Hear on the wind how the pendulum swings. Feel how the winter succumbs to the spring. ”

“ Over the palisade morning will break. Rise up to meet it, oh sleeper, awake. ”

“ No, I am not afraid to die. It's every breath that comes before. ”

“ Heartache, I've heard, is part of life, and I have broken more and more. ”

“ I can hope how this will end, with every line a comedy. ”

“ We could learn to love without demand, but unreserved honesty. ”

“ Heed the sirens, take shelter, my lover. Flee the fire that devours. ”

“ Neither plague or famine tempered my courage, nor did raids make me cower. ”

“ It was a pale white horse with a crooked smile, and I knew it was my time. ”

“ Your face wasn't quite as I remember, but I know that wicked shape to your smile. ”

“ These bones never rested while living, so how can they stand to languish in repose? ”

“ So lift your voice with timbrel and lyre; ‘We will abide, we will abide.’ ”

“ There will come a soldier who carries a mighty sword. He will tear your city down, o lei o lai o lord. ”

“ There will come a poet, whose weapon is his word. He will slay you with his tongue, o lei o lai o lord. ”

“ When I was a child, I didn't hear a single word you said. ”

“ You have taught me well to hide away the things that I believed in. ”

“ I know who you are now. ”

“ There before the threshold, I saw a brighter world beyond myself. ”

“ In my hour of weakness, you were there to see my courage fail. ”

“ You have taught me well to sit and wait, planning without acting, steadily becoming what I hate. ”

“ I have always known you, you have always been there in my mind. ”

“ Now I understand you, and I will not be part of your designs. ”

“ I know who you are now, and I name you my enemy. ”

“ I know who I am now, I know who I want to be. ”

“ I want to be more than this devil inside of me. ”

“ Over hill, over dale, through the valley and vale; do not weep, do not wail, I am coming home to you. ”

“ Let the valleys awake, let them rattle and shake in the wind that remakes all that time has worn away. ”

“ To and fro, I will not follow. Where you go, I will not also. ”

“ I will look for you as the sun rises higher, when the dry bones dance with the timbrel and lyre. ”

“ There's a wind alive in the valley. It will fill your lungs, if you'll have it. ”

“ Where I go, will you still follow? ”

[fantamemes]

Final Fantasy 7 Remake :: Battle Dialogue ( Aerith edition ) :: Sentence Starters

feel free to modify as needed to fit.

❝ I'm pretty good at protecting myself, you know! ❞

❝ Don't you mean we've got this? ❞

❝ Here it comes! ❞

❝ This one's for you! ❞

❝ Hey, you asked for it. ❞

❝ This'll keep 'em away! ❞

❝ Too much? ❞

❝ This is gonna hurt... ❞

❝ Feeling chilly? ❞

❝ You'll be blown away! ❞

❝ I think you need more sleep. ❞

❝ Shh! Be quiet! ❞

❝ Take it easy okay? ❞

❝ Every little bit helps! ❞

❝ Stay strong and carry on. ❞

❝ I won't let anyone hurt you! ❞

❝ Thanks for coming to help. ❞

❝ I've been dying to see you. ❞

❝ Sorry, I know it's sudden! ❞

❝ We gotta do this again. ❞

❝ You'll feel better in a second. ❞

❝ Okay, up and at 'em! ❞

❝ That wasn't... nice... ❞

❝ Somebody help me out here...? ❞

❝ This might be it... ❞

❝ I think I... need to lie down for a bit. ❞

❝ Everything's... getting dark... ❞

❝ I... I just wish I could've... ❞

❝ We'll meet again... I... know it... ❞

❝ That voice... calling to me... I know you. ❞

❝ It's okay, I'll do better. ❞

❝ Let's pretend that didn't happen. ❞

❝ I'm just so tired... ❞

❝ That was... something. ❞

❝ That really sucked... ❞

❝ Show me what you can do! ❞

❝ Back me up, ok? ❞

❝ You can do it! ❞

❝ Why don't you lead the way? ❞

❝ I think we're almost done. ❞

❝ Finish 'em off! ❞

❝ Hey, you ready? ❞

❝ C'mon, team! ❞

❝ I'll show you what I can do! ❞

❝ I'll take care of 'em! ❞

❝ Don't worry, I can handle this!

❝ C'mon, you can do it! ❞

❝ Wait... Seriously?! I can't believe you! ❞

❝ Okay, now I'm mad! ❞

❝ Glad that's over. ❞

❝ Man... I hate when that happens! ❞

❝ And we're safe! ❞

❝ That wasn't so bad. ❞

❝ Phew. Moving on then. ❞

[fantamemes]

The Banner Saga :: Sentence starters

feel free to modify pronouns, phrasing, etc. as needed to fit.

❝ During these long winter days, none of us can be certain how long it has been. ❞

❝ Like a rabid wolf, that one. ❞

❝ Were you wearing that before? You look like a frog. ❞

❝ Shouldn't we have an approach of some sort? ❞

❝ Don't you know? We visit his capital, he visits ours? It's how you make alliances these days. ❞

❝ I thought [____] would never shut up. Did he give you the history of his entire family? ❞

❝ You trying to get yourself killed, [____]? What are you doing!? ❞

❝ Gods, don't start telling them I know what I'm doing! ❞

❝ Let me create a distraction, then go. I'll catch up. ❞

❝ Look at these people. Someone has to hold them together. ❞

❝ I wanted to let you know that I meant what I said before, about making sure nothing happens to [____]. ❞

❝ Just seems like... I could be a help to someone. That's what I want to be. ❞

❝ Why did you have to kill those men? I mean... if it's ok to ask... ❞

❝ I guess I would do it, if I really had to. But, do we have to? ❞

❝ People tell me I'm a ‘strong woman.’ What does that even mean? ❞

❝ If I feel nothing, people think I'm strong. If I cry because my insides feel like they're on fire, I'm weak. Why does that feel so backwards? ❞

❝ I'll be there when I can, just don't expect any miracles. ❞

❝ I don't like any of these ideas... ❞

❝ Let' s see if there's any other way before we start breaking down gates. ❞

❝ I wasn't going to break it, just push really hard. ❞

❝ I don't take sides. Too hard to tell when the good guys have become the bad. ❞

❝ I remember him always rushing around with some important business, but I never knew him. ❞

❝ They respect you for your ability to swing an axe, they need to respect you for your actions. ❞

❝ ‘Hence’? Don't get fancy on my behalf. ❞

❝ Tell you the truth? I wouldn't want to be in your position either. ❞

❝ Throw together this many people, half of them want to hit each other, the rest want to be left alone. ❞

❝ Don't look down on me again. Don't you dare. ❞

❝ Is it a welcoming party bearing mead? That's about the only thing I want to see. ❞

❝ You come running every time you hear yelling? Must be why you look so tired. ❞

❝ You could go hide in the woods, eating nuts and appreciating leaves or some nonsense. ❞

❝ Is this what the end of the world looks like? ❞

❝ If you are not going to die, I suppose we must speak instead. ❞

❝ Is there no child coming to slay me with a magic sword? ❞

❝ Listen, human. This story is not about you. ❞

❝ Is there something I don't know? That's quite a grudge he's holding. ❞

❝ I think a lot of people are intimidated, or scared maybe... of me. ❞

❝ I know it's hard, and you've already been through a lot, but you're needed. ❞

❝ For all our knowledge it always seems as though we know little. ❞

❝ The less people know, the more certain they tend to be. ❞

❝ If something goes wrong here, I need to be certain one of us makes it back alive. ❞

❝ I can do this. For once, let me decide... what happens to me. ❞

❝ Hush, child, look at me. You are alive, and we must go. ❞