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Rhys hung his head and scrubbed his hand over the back of his neck and let out a deep sigh. - Giving Up the Ghost
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I'm in the middle of a big photo shoot, and there's a fight going on about whether my bangs should be swept to the left or to the right. - When You Wish
Flames engulfed the boat, and my lungs ached as dark, noxious smoke filled the air. Carrier of the Mark
The wind was shrieking through the narrow pass, bitter and cold, piercing right through her well-worn cape. - Lair of the Lion
When Rhys and I showed up at my "brother" Matt's house at eight in the morning, he was happy...in the sense that he was glad I was alive and hadn't disappeared forever. - Torn
I sat on the kitchen counter, watching my mom make pasta bake; she was panicking slightly and kept glancing at the clock every couple of minutes. - The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window
A new customer strolled through the front door of Letty's Sporting House. ~ Beauty and the Bounty Hunter
One Hundred and Thirty-six Days Before The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.-Looking for Alaska
She sat across from me, this beautiful girl who had to be both the cutest and sexiest thing I’d ever seen - Lost to You
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. -The Fault in Our Stars
"Come on!" Emma whispered from my right, her words floating from her mouth in a thin white cloud. -My Soul to Take
Het was ochtend. De leerlingen van het college van de theaterschool lagen nog te slapen. - In danspas op dansuitstap
Malachi the Magnificent, Consultant to the Stars, had a storefront in a dingy, rundown strip mall between a sketchy-looking Laundromat and a closed-up nail salon with a big, bright orange health department sticker plastered on its door. - Body & Soul
This is the story of Barnaby Brocket, and to understand Barnaby, first you have to understand his parents: two people who were so afraid of anyone who was different that they did a terrible thing that would have the most appalling consequences for everyone they loved. - The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
Confession: I never intended to go looking for adventure. - The World Above: A Retelling of "Jack and the Beanstalk"
I think we should take all these first lines and put them together in a story, lol. I love this thread.
Some girls dream of their wedding: the perfect dress, the perfect husband, and the perfect dance. - Holding On and Letting Go
Phillip Lanahan drove to Vegas in is 1985 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet, a snappy little red car his parents had given him two months before, when he graduated from Princeton. - V is for Vengeance
I tugged the jean skirt down and tried not to fidget with the straps of the tank top as we stood in line for the show. -Sweet Evil
Sophronia intended to pull the dumbwaiter up from the kitchen to outside the front parlor on the ground floor, where Mrs. Barnaclegoose was taking tea. -Etiquette & Espionage
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Neil Gaiman (other topics)E.L. James (other topics)
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