20 First Lines Meme Gakked from likeadeuce

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1. "Fucking cornfields!" (Class Trip)

2. All the other girls at the Academy had warned River that Dr. Burkle was a heartless bitch, but that wasn’t true: Fred Burkle’s heart beat as much as any other woman’s, lub-a-dub lub-a-dub. (School of Lost Souls)

3. So they're in Cleveland, and have just had the most mindblowing sex, having more or less fucked out each other's brains, and pretty much the only thing Dawn is able to say at this point is "Guh." (With Love and a Hippo)

4. They are watching her.(The Fairest of Them All)

5. "And so I got this blue-gloves guy in a headlock and the little tiger kicks him straight in the chest--" (Little Tiger)

6. There weren’t many ways in which Rome and Sunnydale were all that similar, but there was certainly a couple of big ones. (The Ransom of Andrew Wells )

7. There is no place for Book that can ever be home. (Conversion)

8. There was a reason that they called space the black. (Through the Black, She Shines)

9. Kristen is fairly sure that she and Tina don't have the type of relationship which entails Kristen giving blowjobs to people because Tina asks her to. (Sex by Proxy)

10. If Emma Frost were the sort of person with qualms about using her telepathic powers, she supposes, she'd view entering Kitty's dreams as some sort of violation. (Imagined Grace)

11. Her dress is in tatters--as is her mind, for that matter--but still she runs. (Disheveled)

12. She's taking over for Lilly Kane, Madison thinks to herself. (Chasing after Train Wrecks)

13. Surely, Holmes, you recognize the singular importance of Porluck. (Requiem at Reichenbach)

14. She has died and been resurrected so many times that not only has she lost count of how many, but she can’t even remember whether she is currently alive, dead, or undead. (Losing Count)

15. “You should hang up lights,” Amy said. (Triangle)

16. It’s still only early April, but it’s Southern California, so it’s already hot as hell—appropriate, you suppose, considering your situation. (Dayswimming)

17. Dawn stands in the corner of the lobby of the Hyperion Hotel while everyone else discusses her. (Taking Care of Business)

18. Giles wraps his arms around his wife, feels the rising and falling of her chest as she sleeps. (Feast of All Souls)

19. She offers her body up to him, he knows, so as to not inflict him on anyone else, as if if only she could channel all of his aggression and anger and sadism and hate onto her, then the rest of the world might be free of it. (The Whipping Girl)

20. "So, um, you ever do this before?" Amanda asked. (First Time's Not the End of the World)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a drabble or ficlet with the same first line (from any of the above) and leave it in my comments here.:

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She offers her body up to him, he knows, so as to not inflict him on anyone else, as if if only she could channel all of his aggression and anger and
sadism and hate onto her, then the rest of the world might be free of it.

Ever since the war. Especially since the war. Ever since she was girl and she knelt, veiled and white-gloved, she's believed what her mother told her: that a person is nothing except their ability to suffer. It was true of the crucified Christ; it was true of the Blessed Virgin. Why not the rest of us?

There's a legend about the storehouses of Heaven. About how when they fill to the brim and overflow with the tears of the people, then the Messiah will come.

For Zoe, that moment is the moment she loses Wash. The moment that it sinks in that "do you really think any of us are getting out of this alive?"

It makes her hollow, numb. So he sends her on her way. With nothing left to hurt, Mal loses interest in her.

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Intrriguing!