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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 12:18 pm 

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They say you never really forget your first. So tell me, what are some of your favorite first lines from novels, movies - or even role plays? What really captured you right from the beginning? If it's a book or a movie, tell us where it's from. If it's from a role play on site, link it!



Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:57 pm 

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LabyrinthFirst post up!

The Labyrinth!! One of the best movies to ever be made and it it just so awesome with what was happening in the movie.

But what happened after? Always curious about that!

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You're going to hate me for this but I loved the first lines from The Fic That Must Not Be Named... which to those who aren't Sissy is: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
The payoff to its cryptic meaning isn't revealed until the climax 115 chapters later. It's sadly not the key to the mystery of the fic, but it does show the author had planned the ending years ahead:

Beneath the moonlight glints a tiny fragment of silver, a fraction of a line...

(black robes, falling)

...blood spills out in litres, and someone screams a word.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:50 pm 

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:59 am 
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I looked up a book I read years ago and I came across the first paragraph. Gotta post it here. It's not a line, but it is only the first three sentences. They're just... very long. At least the first two.
The book is an anti-nationalism, anti-imperialist, anti-racist satire from the 1930's called The War with the Newts and it is one of the funnier books I have read, and one of the cleverest:

If you looked up the little island of Tana Masa on the map you would find it just on the Equator, not far south of Sumatra; but if you were on the deck of the Kandong Bandoeng and asked its captain, J. van Toch, what he thought of this Tana Masa where you've just dropped anchor he would first curse for a short while and then he would tell you that it's the dirtiest hole all the Sunda Islands, even more loathsome than Tana Bala and easily as damnable as Pini or Banyak; that the only apology for a human being that lives there-- not counting these louse-ridden Bataks, of course--is a drunken commercial agent, a cross between a Cuban and a Portuguese, and an even bigger thief, pagan and pig than the whole of Cuba and the whole of the white race put together; if there's anything in this world that's damnable then it's the damned life on this damned Tana Masa. And then, you might cautiously ask him why it is that he's just dropped his damned anchor as if he wanted to spend three damned days here; at which he would snort in irritation and grumble something about not being so damned stupid as to sail all the way to Kandon Bandoeng just to get this damned copra or palm oil, and there's nothing else here, but I've got my damned orders, and you will please be so kind as to mind your own damned business. And he would carry on cursing as widely and as fully as you might expect from a sea captain who was no longer young but still lively for his age.

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I'll chip in this opening bit from one of my favourite series, The Iron Druid Chronicles (Kevin Hearne). The books are terribly fantastic.

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There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favourite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 3:48 pm 

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"Okay, this looks bad"
Sorta silly, but that's usually how Hawkeye comics start, and i just feel it so much.

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