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The first line
KevinEvans:
BTW, as a side note,
A friend of ours Brandon Sanderson ("Elantris", the "Mistborn" trilogy and "Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians" has received the contract to finish the last book (12), he says it will be out Dec. 09.
Regards,
Kevin
--- Quote from: Quantus347 on January 16, 2008, 08:53:46 PM ---Never said it makes sense or anything, it was just a little pet peeve of mine i guess.
As to Robert Jordan himself, I miss him, all the great things he could have written *hangs head in silence for a moment* :'(
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OZ:
"My best friend when I was twelve was inflatable."
This is the first line in Joe Hill's short story "Pop Art". It remains one of my favorite opening lines to a story. (And the short story it starts is one of the best I have read in a long time.)
Darklost76:
Here's one the first lines (or two) to something I wrote WAY back in high school (well over a decade ago)::
"For a while there, I thought life had a meaning. That obviously was when I was young and naive...and before the change."
And in amongst all of that high school writing stuff, I found this random, unrelated blurb that never went anywhere:
"Every coin has a light side and a dark side. Unfortunately, so do you. And the best part of the whole deal? The coin that decides the fate or your soul is constantly in motion. One moment, you are the perfect angel (literally)...and the next, you are the devil incarnate. (And everyone though that a woman with PMS had mood swings...?)"
Why that last little parenthetical thought got included, I don't know...
Ah...and here's one of those paragraphs that never got beyond that point:
"Life started off simple for you. Money. Power. Greed. You had complete access to it all. You had want of nothing. You already owned everything. That was...until Camille came into town. She had the look that would go perfectly with your power. The press would love this story. The only thing is...she snubbed your every attempt of seduction and flirtation. The flower arrangements were sent back...and the jewelry, as well. Nothing could persuade her to come to your side. Yet, the night came when she gave in and invited you over for dinner. That would be the night you will never forget.
She won't let you...."
Hrm...and here's another first sentence (or two)::
"I remember that first look into your eyes...standing there so quiet, so mysterious...and seemingly so alone. So lonely from the inside out...."
Kristine:
How about some classics - some of these wouldn't of hooked me...
Famous First Lines:
1. Call me Ishmael
2.Marley was dead, to begin with.
3.All children, except one, grow up.
4. For a long time I used to go to bed early.
5.Alice was beginning to tire of sitting by her sister on the bank.
6.Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
7.Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
8.It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
9.Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed.
10.When he was thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
11.In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
12.Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
13.It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
14.As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a giant insect.
15.Mother died today.
List of Authors:
A) James Joyce, Ulysses
B) Herman Melville, Moby Dick
C) Jane Austen, Pride and Predjudice
D) Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
E) Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol
F) George Eliot, MiddleMarch
G) Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
H) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby
I) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
J) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
K) D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
L) George Orwell, 1984
M) Albert Camus, The Stranger
N) Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
O) J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Answers:
(click to show/hide)1 -B Herman Melville, Moby Dick,
2-E Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol,
3-O J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan,
4-D Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way,
5-G Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,
6-J Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina,
7-F George Eliot, Middlemarch,
8-C Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice,
9-A James Joyce, Ulysses,
10-I Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird,
11-H F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby,
12-K D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover,
13-L George Orwell, 1984,
14-N Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis,
15-M Albert Camus, The Stranger
LizW65:
"Hell!" said the Duchess.
(No idea what that's from, but I like it.)
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