Welcome to Litsy!

This is what happened in Faha over the Christmas of 1962, in what became known in the parish as the time of the child.

To those who lived there, Faha was perhaps the last place on earth to expect a miracle. It had neither the history nor the geography for it. The history was remarkable for the one fact upon which all commentators agreed: nothing happened here.

#Firstlines

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1. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice – not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother‘s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God, I‘m a Christian because of Owen Meany.
2.It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Dr. Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter.
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1.In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
2The Island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
3."I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?" said my brother's wife
4.Harriet Vane sat at her writing-table and stared out into Mecklenburg Square
5.When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake - not a very big one.

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⭐ "Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."

⭐ "There is a pirate in the basement."

⭐ "The stranger came out of the sea like a water ghost, barefoot and wearing the scars of his journey."

⭐"The story that follows is one I never intended to commit to paper."

⭐"Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints."

Thanks for the tag @Eggs #FirstLines

1. Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened...although he called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life.

2. First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

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After Dark - Haruki Murakami: Eyes mark the shape of the city.

Bunny - Mona Awad: We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny.

Dance, dance, dance - Haruki Murakami: I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

Dare me - Megan Abbott: “Something happened, Addy. I think you better come.“

Play it as it lays - Joan Didion: What makes Iago evil? some people ask. I never ask.

1. A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:
"Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi!
That's all right!"
2. “Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.
3. If this typewriter can‘t do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.
4. There is a pirate in the basement.

Thank You @monalyisha For Creating This Play & Share Card.

1- It was little more than three miles from the Wall into the Old Kingdom, but that was enough.

2- They say the first of my kind was a woman named Alasdair, a human raised by hawks.

3- A boy went missing the night of the storm.

4- I remain committed to my goal of saving humanity from itself, but my latest efforts are meeting with mixed results.👇

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"How well I remember." ~ A Gentleman In Moscow

"In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit." ~ The Hobbit

"The first place I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it." ~ Black Beauty

"People disappear all the time." ~ Outlander

"Light came through the window, trickling morning all over the room." ~ The Bronze Horseman

1. Apparently Yoko had not been listening to the man from the start.
2. Call me Ishmael.
3. Piping down the valleys wild
4. The one thing everyone in Wychcomb St. Mary agreed on was that Mildred Hoggett was up to no good.
5. This is Oscar Fox with Outfoxing the Paranormal!

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