First Lines Meme

[toujours_nigel]

Because this is going around tumblr and I am a sheep.

1. Arthes is a body stitched together with rawhide and silk, needles dipped in boiling wine, and the sure and untender hands of battleground surgeons. (Idylls of the Queen, Arthurian genderflip)

 

2. Sunayna her mother, patrani of Mithila, lotus among flowers, takes her younger daughter’s little hands in her own painted hands and says, “Today you are four, and that is old enough to look upon the world and see it with true eyes, now that childhood’s mist has passed and learning’s veil is yet to descend”. (unmukha, Ramayana)

 

3. This is how the story starts. (your turn in the field with the god, Hadestown)

 

4. The thing about being friends with Natasha is that it’s like being friends with a cat. (aw, infinity war, MCU)

 

5. “I thought you said the potion made moons easier,” Sirius says, morning after the third night, while Remus is trying to fit his body back into the comfortable grooves of his favourite armchair. (a soft epilogue, Harry Potter)

 

6. At the dhaba Shyam looks up from his scraped-clean plate and says, “I should bring you along to more of these.” (soch samajhke aanch rakhna, Mahabharata modern AU)

 

7. I'm glad he's in Azkaban, Remus thinks. (not reached the stars, Harry Potter)

 

8. He has the Slytherins in class by themselves. (and in the mirror, Harry Potter)

 

9. Before they depart Vrishali says, “She is the most beautiful woman in the world,” and bends closer to the dasi who is taking his uttariyas and packing them away, in a cedar chest and nudges her shoulder with a painted foot and says something, low-voiced, about satchets of fragrance. (jadidang hridayang, Mahabharata)

 

10. “They’re at it again,” Berenel informed him when he emerged from the wardrobe trailing three pages in various states of anxiety. (he says in the end you’re dead, nothing can hurt you, Lord of the Rings)

Patterns, huh? Other than that I like beginning in the middle of thought or word or deed, I can’t really see any.

Comments

[greerwatson]

Not being on Tumblr I am unsheeplike in these matters. What meme is this? Aside from being a selection of stories of yours, obviously.

[toujours_nigel]

Ah, simply to put up the first line of the last ten stories posted, and I suppose specualte about patternicity.

[greerwatson]

Well, looking down at myself, I do believe I see curly white fleece. I must be turning sheepish after all.

[toujours_nigel]

I don't appear to have access to it but \o/ all the same.

[greerwatson]

Mea culpa. I did it piecemeal under privacy lock and then forgot to open it. Try again.