the new-born "Last Line" meme...
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debg and I were having, and since she posted first... the last lines of my published Cosa Nostradamus books (I'd do the other books, but I'd have to go dig them out and I'm laaaazy) and a few others that were on the bookcase. And yes, I know. Some of them are the last two sentences. Pbbbtthht.
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"They weren't bad, as humans went. He rather thought he might keep them." (STAYING DEAD)
"But there are things stirring now, things that would lead me to believe that a coalition of sectors might be to our mutual benefit..." (CURSE THE DARK)
"They'd fight -- tomorrow. Today, there was art to display." (BRING IT ON)
"So long as you're safe." (BURNING BRIDGES)
(aside: BURNING BRIDGES may be the most romantic book I've ever written. And there's barely any actual romance in it)
"His startled laughter was the best sound she had heard in months." (FREE FALL)
"Nothing said you had to do it alone." (BLOOD FROM STONE)
I am, btw, damned amused that the last line of the first book and the last line of the sixth book tie together both thematically and emotionally. In fact, the sixth book picks up and ties in a neat little bow things I set in motion in that first book. Of course I did it on purpose. *nods firmly* Totally on purpose, planned out, all that. Uh-huh....
"When Merlin came back, everything was going to change for her." (GRAIL QUEST: THE CAMELOT CURSE)
"But nobody heard her." (GRAIL QUEST: MORGAIN'S REVENGE)
"And, in the window of her bed chamber, a small owl clucked mournfully, then spread its sawdust-stuffed wings and flew away." (GRAIL QUEST: THE SHADOW COMPANION)
"And the line between the two is often merely the width of interpretation." (P:TL: THE SHADOWS BETWEEN)
"And somewhere in the non-distance of time, she felt a vaguely feline, powerful purr of approval." (THE NIGHT SERPENT)
"Laughing, a book tucked carefully under her arm, Buffy obeyed." (BTVS: DEEP WATER)
"And, as the Observer would admit to Sam much later, he had never seen his friend make a more beautiful Leap -- a description that had little to do with the display that he alone had witnessed." (QUANTUM LEAP: DOUBLE OR NOTHING)
ETA: and, for those of you who want a weeeee taste, the first line (sort of) from FLESH & FIRE:
"In the hills of southern Iaja, thunder had rolled through the night before, but no rain accompanied it, and the slaves were at work in the vineyards soon after sunrise."
debg and I were having, and since she posted first... the last lines of my published Cosa Nostradamus books --------------------
"They weren't bad, as humans went. He rather thought he might keep them." (STAYING DEAD)
"But there are things stirring now, things that would lead me to believe that a coalition of sectors might be to our mutual benefit..." (CURSE THE DARK)
"They'd fight -- tomorrow. Today, there was art to display." (BRING IT ON)
"So long as you're safe." (BURNING BRIDGES)
(aside: BURNING BRIDGES may be the most romantic book I've ever written. And there's barely any actual romance in it)
"His startled laughter was the best sound she had heard in months." (FREE FALL)
"Nothing said you had to do it alone." (BLOOD FROM STONE)
I am, btw, damned amused that the last line of the first book and the last line of the sixth book tie together both thematically and emotionally. In fact, the sixth book picks up and ties in a neat little bow things I set in motion in that first book. Of course I did it on purpose. *nods firmly* Totally on purpose, planned out, all that. Uh-huh....
"When Merlin came back, everything was going to change for her." (GRAIL QUEST: THE CAMELOT CURSE)
"But nobody heard her." (GRAIL QUEST: MORGAIN'S REVENGE)
"And, in the window of her bed chamber, a small owl clucked mournfully, then spread its sawdust-stuffed wings and flew away." (GRAIL QUEST: THE SHADOW COMPANION)
"And the line between the two is often merely the width of interpretation." (P:TL: THE SHADOWS BETWEEN)
"And somewhere in the non-distance of time, she felt a vaguely feline, powerful purr of approval." (THE NIGHT SERPENT)
"Laughing, a book tucked carefully under her arm, Buffy obeyed." (BTVS: DEEP WATER)
"And, as the Observer would admit to Sam much later, he had never seen his friend make a more beautiful Leap -- a description that had little to do with the display that he alone had witnessed." (QUANTUM LEAP: DOUBLE OR NOTHING)
ETA: and, for those of you who want a weeeee taste, the first line (sort of) from FLESH & FIRE:
"In the hills of southern Iaja, thunder had rolled through the night before, but no rain accompanied it, and the slaves were at work in the vineyards soon after sunrise."
