quotes ahoy

Justin has just finished trying on his leotard, very excited about going back to ballet ("Oh, COOL! Look, it still fits! Daniel, I'm going to ballet!!") sees Daniel playing a Age of Mythology, "Daniel! Oh - kill that one! Kill him, kill him!! Yaah!!!"

Boys.

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MBPU (whose name, ironically, is Magnet), does have his moments.

• "It's so funny when I think, when I was growing up abortion was considered unthinkable... then again, so was sex."
  
  
• "I had a judge do that to me once, 'Just shut up, I'm gonna question this witness' - and I was astonished, because he was great at it!
  
  
• "It's interesting, because the provinces really want to protect people from dog poop."
  
  
• And then he basically said, "I enjoyed Mr. Magnet wasting the court's time this morning so that I could read the paper while he was talking, but this is not the issue at hand today."

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Random HPfic quote, from whence I do not recall:

"And you thought that Gryffindors didn't have creative ideas."

"Oh, Slytherins have creative ideas too," Draco said through clenched teeth, his voice thinly controlled. "Only more violent and expressive ones, usually involving knives, whips, torture and generally a lot of pain." Draco's mouth turned upward in a cynical, humourless smile. "But I see you're going for the flat-out humiliation technique, which is on the whole rather effective too. Congratulations."




(Oh, re-reading that above, I should probably clarify that it's from a PG13 fic, I think. Don't fully remember the topic, but I believe it has to do with an embarrassing prank or something. I think.)

April 9th, I hereby dub thee:

Asstastic Unwise Use of Time Day.

Don't ask. Nothing big, just a conglomeration of not finding parking, not having proper coins, no change machines, sources missing from library, brand-spanking new librarian with complicated customers resulting in about 25 minutes total spent waiting for her on three separate occasions.

Oh, in case anyone was wondering:

( First Lines )

And now, I'm off to find another source that will probably also be missing. Then, home.

addicted to dark and stormy nights

"The G8 needs to be democratized to ensure fairness and equity in the global economy."

This statement assumes that there is not, currently, fairness and equity in the global economy, that this is due at least in part to the fact that the G8 is not democratic, and that this situation can be ameliorated by democratizing the G8.

Well, there's my own scintillating opening line. Yeeha. Oh, I can just feel an A+ flowing out of my fingers right about now. Yesirree.

And here's the rest of my ( scintillating paper )

So, you know, I could be working on my essay, or I could be doing this instead. Namely, looking through my shelves for books that I bet at least one person on my flist has read other than me, and writing out their opening lines for your amusement. Or rather, for mine.

Some are rather dead easy. Others, notsomuch. I'm curious to see how many people peg. (Books still to be guessed are in red)

1. "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, guessed by shellmidwife and siliconivy
   
2. The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke, guessed by animaltalker
   
3. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984, George Orwell, guessed by dragonduerme
   
4. 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/Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowlings, guessed by shellmidwife
   
5. A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys.
   
6. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, guessed by siliconivy
   
7. They're out there.
   
8. When I stepped out into the bright sunshine from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. The Outsiders, SE Hinton, guessed by shellmidwife
   
9. Early one evening in September of 1974 a small twin-engine plane, silver and black, sailed down onto a secondary runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport, and slowing, turned aside and taxied to a hangar where a limousine stood waiting.
   
10. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis, guessed by siliconivy
    
11. When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself.
    
12. I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell, guessed by linaelyn

Oh and because I just can't seem to get enough of opening lines, here's a link to the
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, 2003 Results, a contest to find the worst opening sentences to imaginary novels. They are named in honour of Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who first began a book with the immortal words, "It was a dark and stormy night."