Everyone wants those one-liners that will make everyone immediately think of your story, right?
"I got a jar of dirt!"
"Ride or die, remember?"
"Always."
"Pudding!"
"Let's get down to business..."
"If this is to end in fire, then we should all burn together."
[Please feel free to add more in the comments].
Here's my advice: make a sentence starters list. Use a notes app, a notebook, and/or something you can reference. Any good lines that you come up with go in there. All of them.
Make headings for what kind of situation it would be for. For example:
Injury:
"Oh my god! Just stay awake, ok? You're not allowed to die on me now."
"Is that... blood?"
"Why didn't you tell me you were hurt? You idiot!"
And etc.
You can use those suggestions in your own stories and it can give you an entirely new idea for a scene you may have been stuck on before. Who knows, one of those random stored lines can make you famous one day.
I honestly use this all the time. The things I read online, hear around town, what my friends say, etc. A lot of it goes in there. Note apps are the best for storing all your best ideas.
Here are some of the cooler ones:
"It's like trying to find an angle in a circular room."
"You can play twister by yourself. We'll just call out random commands. Head yellow." "Yeah, at maximum speed."
"Go get in the recycling bin and become a better person!" (I actually said this one and I was pretty proud of it at the time). It was said playfully to a friend, don't worry.
Trust me on this, storing cool lines, names, and ideas is a good practice to get into.
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