I enjoyed the thread about favorite first lines from novels. So if you were to write a book, what would your first line be ?
I’ll go first :
“He found himself hovering only inches above a vast angry black ocean that stretched to the horizon.”
Looking out over the vast expanse of the ocean from her porch, she realized why the intervening years had not changed her perspective about him one iota.
You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming.
Og Mandino
That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.<a true Wally original!>
There is no direct route to Santa Fe.
“Hush, village idiot!”
I woke up that morning with an intense hatred of sunlight and a feeling of general confusion as to where I was and how I had ended up there.
Nurse Brown smelled like good Italian bread.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good dipped in chocolate.
There’s no good way to tell a man he’s already dead.
I’m your only friend
I’m not your only friend
But I’m a little glowing friend
But really I’m not actually your friend
But I am
It was a primary color day. The sky was the very definition of “blue,” and the trees an impossible “green.”
When both my parachutes turned out to be malfunctioning, I realized this was going to be one short-ass book.
The ironic ridiculousness of the situation hit me, almost physically, as I dodged my grandmother’s fragile, flaying fists.
It was a dark and stormy night…
I always knew my little habit was going to cause big problems someday.
“Surprise!”
(Actually, that is the first line of my book.)
Esprix
Ask the Gay Guy! (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, Asketh the damn Priest Guy!)
“Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”
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Chapter One
After all, what is your hosts’ purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. – P. J. O’Rourke
“Out of my way, jackass!” he shouted at the Hilfiger-clad yuppie, cellphone glued to his ear, who strolled across the middle of the street like an arrogant urban Moses parting the rush-hour traffic.
Hi.
“Organs gross me out. That’s organs, not orgasms.”
-the wallster
The End.
My classes are optional. So is graduating.
(Certifiable WallyM7Sig)
Homepage: www.lightwave.com
Occupation: Photon
Location: I’m still stuck on this phosphor screen
Interests: Illuminescence, Phosphorescence and Florescence
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It was a good thing the unwed pregnant man had no inhabitions.
“Clatu, Verrata…nector?..neck-tie?”
oooh, good one! Occam.
A little persistance goes a long way. Announcing:
“I go on guilt trips a couple of time a year. Mom books them for me.” A custom made Wally .sig!
“Don’t call me Ishmael. Ishy will do nicely.” That’s the first line from Moby Dick 2: Electric Bugaloo. I haven’t thought of the opening line to Moby Dick 3: In 3D yet. Keiko will play the title role in the movie version of Moby Dick 4: The Final Chapter, in which it is not explained how a white whale can turn into an orca. Moby Dick 5: Abolutely the Last Movie in this Series and Moby Dick: A New Beginning have not yet been greenlighted, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
What is it about Thursdays?