Comments on: The First Lines Contest http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/ The Official Site of Author Y S Lee Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robin K http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Robin K Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:51:36 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-219 Undead and Unwed MaryJanice Davidson The day I died started out bad and got worse in a hurry. Undead and Unwed
MaryJanice Davidson

The day I died started out bad and got worse in a hurry.

]]> By: Mel http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-218 Mel Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:07:24 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-218 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. - George Orwell, 1984 and I tweeted! http://twitter.com/hefollowedme/status/9188191916 Thanks, I loved reading the other entries too :) Mel It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. – George Orwell, 1984

and I tweeted! http://twitter.com/hefollowedme/status/9188191916

Thanks, I loved reading the other entries too :)
Mel

]]> By: Sarah Keery http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Sarah Keery Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:00:20 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-217 I always thought I'd died by drowning. Cry Mercy by Toni Andrews. I always thought I’d died by drowning.

Cry Mercy by Toni Andrews.

]]> By: Kate at Read This Book! http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Kate at Read This Book! Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:59:17 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-216 I emailed you my entry! :) thanks for this great contest. I emailed you my entry! :) thanks for this great contest.

]]> By: Lizzy http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Lizzy Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:44:12 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-155 I'm not sure if I'm too late, but I emailed these anyway. I thought it would be fun to post them, too. "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 Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling and, of course, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." -Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen I’m not sure if I’m too late, but I emailed these anyway. I thought it would be fun to post them, too.

“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 Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

and, of course,

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

]]> By: Latoya B. http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Latoya B. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:23:43 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-141 My suffering left me sad and gloomy. Life of Pi by Yann martel My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
Life of Pi by Yann martel

]]> By: Julie G. http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Julie G. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:54:30 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-138 "I planned my death carefully; unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it." Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood. “I planned my death carefully; unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.” Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood.

]]> By: Stephanie C. http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Stephanie C. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:25:30 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-130 " Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. First picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees.... This forest eats itself and lives forever." The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Technically not a first line, but the entire first paragraph is one of my favourite openings ever. ” Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. First picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees…. This forest eats itself and lives forever.” The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

Technically not a first line, but the entire first paragraph is one of my favourite openings ever.

]]> By: Catherine N. http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Catherine N. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:35 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-122 "The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end- began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain." -- IT, Stephen King “The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years – if it ever did end- began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.” — IT, Stephen King

]]> By: Admin http://yslee.com/2010/01/the-first-lines-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Admin Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:09:18 +0000 http://yslee.com/?p=426#comment-119 Ooh, this is good. I love Joan Aiken! Ooh, this is good. I love Joan Aiken!

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