Post by Imorta Thaw on Nov 3, 2008 16:13:38 GMT -8
Copy past from here: www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node%252F3001488
"Glass crunched beneath her shoe, the sound abnormally loud in the silent world of dawn/dusk."
"The Emperor's pet mage had been detained."
He sprinted into the hospital, his best jacket flaring behind him.
It had been five years, but he would know his old friend anywhere -- short and skinny, black leather, flaming red hair, and a stump where his right hand had been.
She ran into him in the library.
"Why don't you watch where you're going?" he asked, looking down at her on the floor, surrounded by fallen books.
A box turtle with a pretty pink ribbon tied around its shell crawled happily in her underwear drawer.
Snoopy Mrs. Anderson knew something was terribly wrong when she heard an explosion from inside the loony bin.
The night is always darkest just before the dawn, so if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. On the other hand, it's also a fantastic time for [insert MC's activity here]
"Guys, calm down. They ARE just bakery items."
If i had known that when i got up this morning, THIS would have happened...........I would have stayed in bed.
The wetness fell on her head, as she turned her head up she couldn't help but wonder why it always had to rain right after she got her hair cut.
If i learned anything at all today it was that you should never leave (insert character's name) and (insert another character's name/object) alone together in a room.
"You guys are going to choir Hell."
"I eat nuns for breakfast."
"Did your mother pack hash brownies?"
"Now I've got a big bouncing lobster in my way."
"When I was little, my goal was to turn into a big blueberry."
"The room was small and square, all of the weathered planks that held it up creaking surreptitiously whenever cold winds blew."
Don't you dare tell me slamming revolving doors is impossible. I've done it.
If you say "it could always be worse" i will kill you.
it shouldn't seriously be taking you this long to change a lightbulb.
the old woman looked remarkably like a moose. and not a very attractive moose either.
"i expletive can't find my expletive book for this expletive class!" Character was very good about censoring himself while in the presence of his second grade class, but the redundancy of it all almost made the benefit obsolete.
‘Alright, who added ‘hippopotamus’ to the shopping list?’
Note to self: Never, ever, ever listen to the voices. Especially when they mention sporks.
Maybe I shouldn’t have snatched his wig.
King me.
At this point, I only have one question: Where did it all go wrong? I've never felt as suffocatingly miserable as I am right now and all I want is to turn back time. Back to that moment.
It wasn't that I was fat; I just really, really liked my pizza.
We'll be fine, I just bought half a cow.
It didn't matter how many times he tried, he just couldn't get the taste of the cat's hairball out of his mouth.
I never knew there were bears in Florida.
I was five when I learned what my mother was doing was wrong.
It never is too late to start again.
(just imagine a gay man yelling this into your answering machine XD )."If you don't pick up the phone right now I'm throwing away all the birthday presents you ever gave me and trashing your motorcycle."
Life's not like a box of chocolates, it's more like a piece of fabric. You take your scissors to it and if you're not careful, you'll end up with a piece of crap.
She didn't know it yet, but waffles would lead to Annabel's demise.
There was something about the way my alarm went off that morning that told me I was going to have a terrible day.
"You see what happened was..."
Never, ever say that "life couldn't get any better" because then it only gets worse.
"All right! Who's stolen the goldfish?"
"Paris was just so much more attractive when you didn't actually have to be there."
"No I will not wear that dress. Because it is purple, and purple is the colour of fail!"
"He was faced with a choice: get on the train back to *insert place name here* or jump in front of it. It wasn't that hard a decision to make. He jumped."
"If the kids had hidden yet another goblin in her handbag there was going to be fire, brimstone, and a distinct lack of dessert in the forseeable future."
"If you hurt yourself and die of septic shock I promise you you'll regret it!"
1..Some things aren't worth dying for. This was one of them
2.The world ended quite suddenly on a drizzly Thursday afternoon in March. Douglas Adams would have been proud, had the planet he was on still existed.
3.Some believe the world will end with a bang, others believe it will end with a whimper. I've seen it, and it ends with something that sounds alarmingly like a duck being stepped on.
4.In a gargantuan explosion of fire and dust and ice, the Earth, the solar system and a good chunk of the galaxy blew up. And in the resulting silence, all that could be heard was a sheepish, "Oh... bugger."
5.For some, the end of life as we know it is a cause of mass panic, repentance of sins, expectations of rising to a higher plane where perfect peace and harmony would reign for eternity. For [MC], it was a faintly inconvenient event that interrupted his 2 AM bowl of cornflakes.
6.It was the end of the world, the Apocalypse, the end of days, the day of reckoning. At least, it was for most people. For Those In Charge, it just meant filling out paperwork. In triplicate. Apocalypses were so inconvenient.
7. The End, he thought, what a perfect place to start.
8.She wanted to see the sea; to touch it, to feel it, to dance between the waves and to make it just hers
9."They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but you'd be hard pressed to win a duel with one."
10."It had been 18 years since she had seen him, and the fact that he was dead and she was seeing him now
really unnerved her."
11.Hope is such a fragile thing.
12."Did you really just bite me?!"
13.If it hadn't been for the poltergiest living in the second-floor bathroom, the house might have sold quite nicely.
14.In a small town, even the most trivial of events becomes big news. [Character]'s secret, however, was far from trivial. And the last thing she wanted was for anyone in town to know about it.
15.The sun rose over the sleeping city for the what would be the last time for a long while.
16."Everybody has their role to play in the universe but it's up to you to make sure that people remember your performance."
17."Tell me, what is it that you see? Do you see the rain or the life that it brings?"
18.Legend said he would come. Reason said he would not."
19."Waking up from nightmares is never fun; it's as if your body's running a check to make sure that, when your life really is
in danger, you have the reflexes and physical prowess to save yourself. Me, I always die before I wake up - wonder if it's a
sign."
20."You look like death...so who's the girl?"
21."Have you been borrowing my body again?"
22."I'm a WHAT?!"
23.She had never believed in knights-in-shining-armor. I mean, some perfect gentleman coming and sweeping you off your feet? Get real. This was the 21st-century, and the best man you could find was a nice healthy businessman in a suit who didn't smoke or drink or cheat on his woman. And then her knight-in-shining-armor appeared. Complete with white horse, gleaming silver armor, and an entourage of standard-bearers.
24. And that was it. Three coins, two beads and an unidenfiable object covered in fluff. Not the best start to a journey.
25.She took a deep breath forward and stepped into the fog; as she fell, she couldn't help but think how ironic it was that the world turned out to be flat after all."
26."I've loved you before," he said, staring into my eyes.
27.She held her first born son tightly, sobbing her heart out. After the rivers of blood, locusts, and fire raining from the sky, it was plain to see that the plagues of Egypt had arrived in New York.
28.Afterwards, all she could remember was the scent of roses.
29.A tree is a tree is a tree, unless you know the secret of how to look.
30.If God is all-knowing, why didn't he see this coming?
31.“Crap,” he said, staring at his reflection in the mirror and running his hand across his forehead. With fingers caked in blood he poked at the hole where the bullet had entered.
32.It is a really stupid idea to hire a seer as a weatherman.
33.As Death's lips left mine, I suddenly wondered if this was legal.
34.How can you separate a story from its end?
35.*Who are you and why are you trapped in that mirror?
36.*So much remained, not lost, but overlooked.
37.And that was when I realized I was wearing a red shirt.
38.She never expected her life to end like this.
39.There's a Vampire saying: That which runs away is my prey, That which stands and fights is my enemy but what about that which does nothing at all except stare into my eyes. How do we classify them?
40.Ok seriously George, if EVER there was a time to listen to your magic 8 ball, it's NOW!
41.I want you to look me straight in the eye, and tell me you're not a wizard.
42.At the end of the day, most people in the factory went home to warm dinners and loving wives and children. They would watch the 11:00 news over a piece of pie, get into bed and set the alarm for 5:00 the next morning. [MC] would go home to an unusually talkative cat with powers of telekinesis, eat a hot pocket and wait for the phone to ring. If it didn't ring by 10, he knew all was well. He could rest easy. If it did, he knew there would be another long night ahead of him.
43."All vampire novels start in the dark, but it takes a truly powerful vampire to start in the daylight. He was a truly strong vampire. (He was a truly stubborn vampire)
44.Fairies were never particularly forgiving, and [name] knew they weren't going to make an exception in his case.
45.My name is not Elizabeth.
46.In a deafening explosion, several galaxies blew up. In the resulting silence, a heated argument could be heard. "You did that!" "Nu'uh! Why do you always blame ME when things blow up?" "Cause it's usually YOUR fault?"
47.I was happy, once, a long time ago. Five days to be exact. God, what an eternity ago.
48. He was oddly ordinary. She was ordinarily odd.
49.Note to self: don't feed the dragon.
50.The book was her constant companion, though she would never have expected it to start talking to her after two months of carrying it with her."
51.'Welcome to my world.... but don't touch anything.'
52."Oh dear. I think that gnome just smiled at me."
53."Tell me; do you see rain or the life that it brings?"
54.We found him facedown in a field of wheat.
55.Note to reader: Don't EVER tell a manticore: "Go ahead, make my day."
56.Note to self: next time I get the urge to stay in bed all day, listen!
57.You've changed." She stated simply after one glance at him. "Huh," he mused. She would notice the little things, he thought, it's practically her job to watch people.
58.They say that magic and science don't mix - God, I wish they were right. Occasionally reality gives you a warning before it throws you a curveball and changes your life forever. This however was not one of those times. (I might use this one myself but other people are welcome to it too).
59.So this is what death feels like," he/she thought. "Like rain..."
60.Dammit, I'm dead. AGAIN.
61.As he died, with that damn smile on his face, he looked right at me and said, "Don't worry, I'll be back."
62.I always knew there was something strange about my fiance, too bad I found out a second too late.
63.It all started with a fortune cookie...
64.And so there I was, trying to fend off an eight foot long monster with a butter knife."
65.True, I didn't die in the sense that I'm no longer in the world, but I did die in the sense that I'm no longer a part of it."
66.Behind the thin facade that we call reality, lurks untold legions of nameless gods, terrible and potent, waiting for their time to spring forth and introduce humanity to a whole new range of torments and terror. Frankly, those nosy bastards can go stick it as far as I'm concerned. I got better things to worry about. Like tetris.
67."A star is born, it lives, and it dies. Just like people. Except people don't explode."
68."Listen to my directions. They are magical."
69.Sometimes I'd like to get my hands on God. Maybe not the one with the white beard who rains down hellfire to those who disobeyed him in the olden times, but I’d defiantly like to get my hands on one of them. Like Aries who causes all the pointless wars of our time, or Zeus who goes around sleeping with people that he shouldn’t be sleeping with, or even Athena with her calming wisdom. If I could get my hands on a god, any god, I would show them a thing or two…at least that’s what I told myself as I walked through the door marked DO NOT ENTER. “Jesus [name], sometimes you are so stupid.”
70.[FMC] ran into [MMC] in the library. She gazed up at him with half a dozen books strewn on the floor around her. "Why don't you watch where you're going?"
71."People say the pen is mightier than the sword, and I think they're right. I mean, if you stab someone with a sword, they could recover. If you stab someone with a pen, they could also recover, but then they'd have ink poisoning so they'd die anyway."
72.I have a traveled a hundred thousand planes of reality on a hundred thousand different worlds and the only thing I can really say with absolute certainty is that there will always be hope.
73. Mother Earth was dying, and it was all Father Time’s fault…
74.I wonder what would have happened if Rapunzel cut off all her hair BEFORE she was rescued from the tower.
75."So, has anyone figured out why Unicorns don't exist anymore?"
76.A hand came out from the hole in the tree and it beckoned me forward
77.The moon was blood red and that meant that the end was imminent
78."Let tomorrow stay in tomorrow, I only want to worry about today."
Bats! There are bats everywhere! Great mother of ostriches, save me!
I regained consciousness to find small mutant penguins tapdancing on my head and someone intelligently discussing medical procedures in my ear.
She promptly stood on her head, but it looked no less cockeyed upside down.
I was born a long time ago--as a matter of fact, even before your mother's great-auntie twice removed (you know, the one who wears the pink bloomers) discovered that her cat was a CIA agent in disguise.
Sometimes in the dark of night when I can't sleep, I ponder deeply about the meaning of life; other times, I just lay back with my head against my SpongeBob pillow and try to force myself to dream about macaroni.
"It wasn't the fact that the dog talked that bothered me so much as what he said."
"The moon bobbed on the surface of the ocean, carrying with it my hopes, dreams, and prayers. One day, I thought, I would follow the moon to its bed. Little did I know how soon that day would come."
