First-lines meme
Yeah, this looked like fun.
1. "I," said Ryan, "hate atonalism."
2. Gibbs smoothed a wooden support that didn't really need it and gave a half-smile at a noise on the stairs.
3. "Apple-picking."
4. The time the show goes down for good, you move to L.A. and start to write a book.
5. The thing that attracts him to L.A. is the falsity: the thin veneer of makeup and over-bright lights is freeing.
6. They wear costumes and masks to the midnight showing of The Dark Knight so no one will recognize them.
7. Sam hasn't written for three days.
8. "...Italian leather, on sale."
9. Ryan's sixteen and doesn't believe in anything at all.
10. Pete's first thought, when he woke up with his mouth full of feathers, was that Patrick had slashed his pillow in the night.
11. It's cold for October.
12. He wasn't Mormon anymore.
13. The day the world could have ended was the day Spencer turned twenty-one.
14. The thing was, Spencer was not in love with Jon.
15. Rusty was a sophomore and Danny was half a year into grad school the day they met for the first time.
16. Things Pete has learned about his band mates that he didn't know before they went on tour (that first time, when everything was new and every mile was one mile farther than he'd ever been, and the van started to feel like home somewhere in Wyoming, with snowy farmer's fields on either side under a sky like gray wool):
1. Joe isn't stoned nearly as often as he likes people to think he is.
17. Rain in Chicago turned the gray city even grayer, until the air hung like a soup of smog and forgotten hopes, and people on the street didn't look at each other for fear of seeing nothing there.
18. "That's a crap assignment."
19. The mess was always quiet at night, and was always cool, even in the middle of summer.
20. "So how are you going to do it?"
21. He does a little dance step as he comes towards me, old-style, like Fred Astaire or something.
22. "We've lost Buffalo!"
23. "Jeremy!"
24. Roy Matheson sat behind him in fourth grade.
25. You know you'll never have all of him, because his eyes glimmer with light until the last millimeter, when they close up and die and the light disappears.
Patterns? Um, I don't like explaining what's going on. I like very short sentences. I've written a lot more bandslash, and a lot more, period, than I thought.
1. "I," said Ryan, "hate atonalism."
2. Gibbs smoothed a wooden support that didn't really need it and gave a half-smile at a noise on the stairs.
3. "Apple-picking."
4. The time the show goes down for good, you move to L.A. and start to write a book.
5. The thing that attracts him to L.A. is the falsity: the thin veneer of makeup and over-bright lights is freeing.
6. They wear costumes and masks to the midnight showing of The Dark Knight so no one will recognize them.
7. Sam hasn't written for three days.
8. "...Italian leather, on sale."
9. Ryan's sixteen and doesn't believe in anything at all.
10. Pete's first thought, when he woke up with his mouth full of feathers, was that Patrick had slashed his pillow in the night.
11. It's cold for October.
12. He wasn't Mormon anymore.
13. The day the world could have ended was the day Spencer turned twenty-one.
14. The thing was, Spencer was not in love with Jon.
15. Rusty was a sophomore and Danny was half a year into grad school the day they met for the first time.
16. Things Pete has learned about his band mates that he didn't know before they went on tour (that first time, when everything was new and every mile was one mile farther than he'd ever been, and the van started to feel like home somewhere in Wyoming, with snowy farmer's fields on either side under a sky like gray wool):
1. Joe isn't stoned nearly as often as he likes people to think he is.
17. Rain in Chicago turned the gray city even grayer, until the air hung like a soup of smog and forgotten hopes, and people on the street didn't look at each other for fear of seeing nothing there.
18. "That's a crap assignment."
19. The mess was always quiet at night, and was always cool, even in the middle of summer.
20. "So how are you going to do it?"
21. He does a little dance step as he comes towards me, old-style, like Fred Astaire or something.
22. "We've lost Buffalo!"
23. "Jeremy!"
24. Roy Matheson sat behind him in fourth grade.
25. You know you'll never have all of him, because his eyes glimmer with light until the last millimeter, when they close up and die and the light disappears.
Patterns? Um, I don't like explaining what's going on. I like very short sentences. I've written a lot more bandslash, and a lot more, period, than I thought.