What's your favorite line?

Adam Israel · Nov 4, 2007

What's your current favorite line?

The one that has me giggling the most right now is from chapter 2:

They crossed the foyer and entered the chapel, walking past row after row of dark wooden pew, their surfaces polished by decades of pious asses squirming in uneasy silence.

DamaNegra · Nov 4, 2007

Mine is:

Being perfect is a defect, Alan.

Joycecwilliams · Nov 4, 2007

I take a bite of the pineapple upside down cake and then of the caramel nut brownie alternating them until they’re gone. The perfect ending for a sinful day.

Devil Ledbetter · Nov 4, 2007

Maybe this one:

I sat alone in a skanky little pub in Saginaw, the Warwick. It was the sort of place that made me think of vomiting beer.

whistlelock · Nov 4, 2007

From my first chapter.

me said:
Is this what Jesus felt like? If it was I can see why he let himself get nailed to a cross.

PastMidnight · Nov 5, 2007

Ooh, I can only pick one? Well, so far (it's a Victorian and the character is digging through a pile of women's underclothing looking for a tiny key pinned to one of the items):

Looking for the key amidst those great flapping garments was like trying to find a turd beneath a family of disgruntled swans.

Denryu · Nov 6, 2007

Ah, favorite sentence threads are pretty entertaining. Let's see, I guess mine at the moment would have to be:

“If I find your hands anywhere weird, I'm going to break them,” he grumped, trying to fall back to sleep and pretend this insane midnight meeting never happened...kind of hard when there was a teenage boy poking you randomly asking, “Is this somewhere weird?”

Kind of funnier in context, but isn't that always how it goes?

truelyana · Nov 6, 2007

So far it's

"The assigning will not be necessary, as Sir Howard Barclay wishes to see to it himself. Hope you approve"

Unique · Nov 6, 2007

'Has he lost his mind, his spirit still wandering the smoke road?'

Heh. Wish I were there.

AnnieColleen · Nov 6, 2007

I can't think of any lines I like, but that's largely because I won't go back looking for them... These are interesting, though!

Sage · Nov 6, 2007

Hope sucked when it abandoned you.

FTJoshua · Nov 9, 2007

I paused, running through that mental rolodex of sins people commit against you that you keep handy in your brain.

Sage · Nov 10, 2007

Current favorite line:

Oh god, don't tell me you really are attracted to me. I mean, it's flattering but the trying to kill me thing is kinda a turnoff, not to mention the part where I can't see you.

AnnieColleen · Nov 10, 2007

That's definitely a curiosity-making line!

Here's mine, so far:

The bread must take precedence, always.

eodmatt · Nov 11, 2007

How high do we have to fly to avoid being shot down? Oh. A Cessna Twin cant fly that high.

AnnieColleen · Nov 11, 2007

I like this one better, or at least part of it:

but I recall, these here recall, when Alec Flitter-by-night, Alec o'Morn, went over the pacings with Hearret's whip at his tail.

Monkey · Nov 11, 2007

I'm not sure what my favorite line is, but I know my favorite scene: the evil wizard holds a yard sale in front of his tower.

Sassee · Nov 12, 2007

“As for your original question,” he said, pausing dramatically to take another sip of juice, “it's complicated.”

Denryu · Nov 13, 2007

Out of the Gates on The Last Horizon I would say my favorite line so far is:

"When did you become my mother?" David complained flatly, but got up and did as he was asked while Shou continued cutting up the vegetables for the beef stew they were having for dinner.

"Around the time I started picking your dirty laundry up off of the floor, I'd imagine," Shou said.

okay, that's two lines, so sue me.

PastMidnight · Nov 18, 2007

Not sure why I like this one so much:

In the end, it was Slick Dick who knapped Kitty Tango’s brown satchel.

twnkltoz · Nov 19, 2007

From the very first paragraph: "Another reason to cry: unsympathetic beagles."

ccarver30 · Nov 20, 2007

I wrote the best line EVER. I am so proud.

The sound of her name on his perfect lips made her want to swoon and punch him in the face at the same time.

twnkltoz · Nov 20, 2007

That's great!

Sassee · Nov 21, 2007

Drooly bubbles of joy teleported at my feet.

dancingandflying · Nov 22, 2007

Yes.

I am so incredibly nice and innocent that I really have no idea how to use the word 'fuck' in a sentence and have never heard of
condom. In fact, I don't know what sex is.

from what i just wrote. and i know it was two/three lines. so sue me.

peace out.

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