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I'm starting a meme! Because I'm bored and I want to see if it actually takes off.
So, I like first lines. They're hard to do well. And there was a meme that went around a while ago about the first lines of your own fanfic. This version is much more plain, just the first lines of books I've read recently.
“It starts with the earth.”
-All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki
“Oshima did not know what to think when she first heard hints from her foster parents, the Mizushimas, that they intended to marry her soon to a young man whom they would then adopt as their son and heir.”
-Rough Living ( Arakure), Tokuda Shusei
“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don’t.”
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
“From the arable river lands to the south, the approach to Montfiore appears a sequence of relaxed hills.”
-Mirror, Mirror, Gregory Maguire
“It ended with a dream.”
-Kushiel’s Avatar, Jacqueline Carey
“The municipal airport of Manhattan, Kansas, was low and brown and rectangular, and had a doorway that led direct from the runway.”
-Was, Geoff Ryman
“Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.”
-Coraline, Neil Gaiman
“May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.”
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.”
-Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
“’Something a little strange, that’s what you notice, that she’s not a woman like all the others.’”
-Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig
“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.”
-The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
“Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.”
-Forrest Gump, Winston Groom
“I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.”
-Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami
“’Going on to the Hartlocks' to-night, Margaret?’”
-An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
“She got to the parking lot earlier than usual.”
-Out, Natsuo Kirino
“Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one’s life and twisting all that follows it.”
-Fool’s Fate, Robin Hobb
“The truth is that I have never been the mastermind of anything.”
-Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
“Rebekah of the violet eyes heard a voice that would haunt her the rest of her life.”
Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
“My father had a face that could stop a clock.”
-The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
Also, GIP! Look what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rackhamrose made! XD
So, I like first lines. They're hard to do well. And there was a meme that went around a while ago about the first lines of your own fanfic. This version is much more plain, just the first lines of books I've read recently.
“It starts with the earth.”
-All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki
“Oshima did not know what to think when she first heard hints from her foster parents, the Mizushimas, that they intended to marry her soon to a young man whom they would then adopt as their son and heir.”
-Rough Living ( Arakure), Tokuda Shusei
“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don’t.”
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
“From the arable river lands to the south, the approach to Montfiore appears a sequence of relaxed hills.”
-Mirror, Mirror, Gregory Maguire
“It ended with a dream.”
-Kushiel’s Avatar, Jacqueline Carey
“The municipal airport of Manhattan, Kansas, was low and brown and rectangular, and had a doorway that led direct from the runway.”
-Was, Geoff Ryman
“Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.”
-Coraline, Neil Gaiman
“May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.”
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.”
-Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
“’Something a little strange, that’s what you notice, that she’s not a woman like all the others.’”
-Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig
“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.”
-The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
“Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.”
-Forrest Gump, Winston Groom
“I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.”
-Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami
“’Going on to the Hartlocks' to-night, Margaret?’”
-An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
“She got to the parking lot earlier than usual.”
-Out, Natsuo Kirino
“Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one’s life and twisting all that follows it.”
-Fool’s Fate, Robin Hobb
“The truth is that I have never been the mastermind of anything.”
-Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
“Rebekah of the violet eyes heard a voice that would haunt her the rest of her life.”
Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
“My father had a face that could stop a clock.”
-The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
Also, GIP! Look what
rackhamrose made! XD