a court of thorns and roses sentence starters

scavengememes:

• “don’t feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
  
• “be glad of your human heart. pity those who don’t feel anything at all.”
• “i love you. thorns and all.”
  
• “we need hope, or else we cannot endure.”
  
• “you look… better than before. and your hair is… clean.”
  
• “do you ever stop being so serious and dull?”
  
• “do you ever stop being a prick?”
  
• “you could have demanded every single week of the year. every single week, and i would’ve said yes.”
  
• “he also said that you liked being brushed, and if i’m clever i might train you with treats.”
  
• “everything i love always has the tendency to be taken away from me.”
  
• “i would have been gentle with you, though.”
  
• “i’m tired and lonely, and you’re the only person i can talk to without putting myself at risk.”
  
• “because i wouldn’t want to die alone. because i’d want someone to hold my hand until the end, and awhile after that. that’s something everyone deserves.” 
  
• “i didn’t want you to fight alone. or die alone.”
  
• “has anyone ever taken care of you?”
  
• “i’m drawn to it, even when i know i shouldn’t be, even when i try not to be.”
  
• “beneath all your pride and stubbornness, i could have sworn i detected something that felt differently. interesting.”
  
• “my priority would be to help my family—and i would have picked whatever side could keep them safest. i hadn’t thought of it as a weakness until now.”
  
• “before you start yelling…”
  
• “killing us is easier in pants.”
  
• “all those years, what i did for them… and they didn’t try to stop you from taking me.”
  
• “we’re too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else.”
  
• “we had contests to see who could write the dirtiest limericks while i was living with my father’s war-band by the border. i don’t particularly enjoy losing, so i took it upon myself to become good at them.”
• “do you lie awake at night to come up with all your witty replies for the following day?”
  
• “you don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend.”
  
• “if it grieves you, then i don’t think it’s absurd at all.”
  
• “better to die with my chin held high than groveling like a cowering worm.”