50 First Lines – #23

On my twenty-third birthday, a dark-haired stranger walked up to me, handed me a crysanthemum, and said that if we were lucky, we’d never see each other again.

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50 First Lines – #22

I can’t look at the stars anymore.

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50 First Lines – #21

Before we go any further, you need to understand that everything I’m about to tell you is true and real, especially the parts that never happened.

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50 First Lines – #20

I sing of arms and the woman, who first from the orb of Earth, exiled by war, came to Phobos and Martian shores, much scarred in space and asteroid by fires from Sol, through cruel Adam’s unforgiving wrath, and much enduring in vacuum also, till she should build a garden and bring her goddesses to Marineris, whence came the Seraphic race, the Ladies of Nod, and the lofty walls of Eden.

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50 First Lines – #19

The Angel was short, slightly pudgy, had no wings or halo, and sported a rather unsightly wart to one side of his nose, but Jose knew he was an Angel nonetheless.

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50 First Lines – #18

Someone in the future once will tell me, “If at first you don’t succeed, build a time machine.”

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50 First Lines – #17

This is how the world ends: not with a bang or a whimper, but with a huge goddamn party.

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50 First Lines – #16

Zacharias never knew who left the first copy of the Book on his doorstep, but everyday he simultaneously thanked and cursed that mysterious benefactor.

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50 First Lines – #15

Bear sighed to himself as he carefully picked salmon scales out of the fur around his muzzle.

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50 First Lines – #14

Winning isn’t everything, but at least it’s something.

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