- It’s awkward.
- Tamina’s skin itches.
- The weeks after...after most their students die...shutter by.
- She grips the stick in her hand and stares down at it, unbelieving.
- The red string was striking, bright.
- Neji takes in the small frame filling in the doorway.
- “I’m just a adrift, Neji."
- A person's sensory memory is only about twenty seconds long.
- Walking into Chouji's room, the first thing he saw was a huge fruit basket on the table and a little behind that, shoved there as if forgotten in the excitement of food, was a plant.
- Somewhere, in the city, a girl who was once her friend was probably crying, and further than this city, a boy who had tried to kill her friends, who were his own friends also, was running.
- Suigetsu is all smiles and bravado and showiness when they bring him in.
- Karin knows her importance has been downgraded when she’s handed off to some trainee.
- The tears on her face are not hers.
- The messenger bird had been returned to its cage clumsily, and now wicker latticework of an elegantly designed birdcage lay busted on the egawa floor.
- They’d heard rumors for weeks.
- Lune had not believed the rumors till he approached the thrones.
- “Did you ever think you’d never…,” Susan sees Aravis’s tongue pressed against her lips, the way she grips her father’s letter, and the moment Aravis chooses to say something else.
- His father calls it just a stage.
- When she’s an old woman, she will think, “I can’t remember it clearly.”
- After Uchiha-san flees the Leaf, Hinata can’t help wonder what her father thinks.
6 opening lines directly reference seeing, 4 reference hearing something (only one of which is dialogue), 2 reference touch. None reference smell. That makes 12 of the lines opening with sensory experiences, plus one that, while not describing a sensory experience, talks about sensory memory. Most are fairly short lines, though there are some exceptions. Nine of the lines reference characters by name and a total of 16 mention people, even if they are not named. That means only four are about objects or setting.
- That she can look at and love him truly one day too.
- Sand drifts out and the moment collapses, only to start again.
- She smiled tonight, let that be enough for now.
- Rising, she unlocks the door and goes to greet her husband with the news.
- So he watches his opened doorway instead.
- So he simply answers, “Yes.”
- Its not the seal, but hurts just the same.
- Then he left her behind, only her and her reflection in the greenhouse again.
- "Wanna play a game of Go?"
- And somewhere, quite close, in a room, this room, right next to her ear, a heart was beating as above a rose bloomed.
- What she really wants to ask is, did you miss me when I was gone?
- “Sasuke-kun, huh?” She pauses, thinks, and for once tries not to tell her interrogator lies.
- But still- how does one get over the indignity of having loved alone?
- "Not you, Not you.”
- There is nothing for them here but Anvard’s prayers.
- "Have you been experiencing Giants raiding too?”
- "You are, as always, in Aslan’s hands.”
- He lets the word fall into the rhythm of the insects buzzing and let’s muscle memory take over as his mind drifts far away.
- She blinks and pretends she does not love either one.
- Perhaps a chance for all three's freedom has been created in the end.
Seven out twenty ending lines were dialogue (or someone thinking what they wanted to say). Three involve someone leaving or entering a room (two directly reference doorways). Many reference other people's emotions, especially that of love. All of them involve the story characters. No line ends describing only an object or setting.