Contest Results

Here is the complete list of lines, titles and authors. Again, congratulations to Paul, and thanks to everyone who participated!

  1. If I had cared to live, I would have died.
    - Silverlock, John Myers Myers
  2. It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria.
    - Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
  3. It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me.
    - Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny
  4. I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
    - The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
  5. If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.
    - Twelth Night, William Shakespeare
  6. The primroses were over.
    - Watership Down, Richard Adams
  7. It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white.
    - Elric of Melniboné, Michael Moorcock
  8. His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.
    -Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  9. In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part . . .
    - The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
  10. Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.
    - The Shining, Stephen King
  11. The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.
    - 2001 A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
  12. "Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows," Sam Clemens said, "I can't say the sleeping is very restful."
    - The Fabulous Riverboat, Philip Jose Farmer
  13. "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
    - Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
  14. One of the few redeeming facets of instructors, I thought, is that occasionally they can be fooled.
    - Another Fine Myth, Robert Asprin
  15. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
    - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayám (translated by Edward Fitzgerald)
  16. When the world was new, the seven Gods dwelt in harmony, and the races of man were as on people.
    - Pawn of Prophecy, David Eddings
  17. She came out of the store just in time to see her young son playing on the sidewalk directly in the path of the gray, gaunt man who strode down the center of the walk like a mechanical derelict.
    - Lord Foul's Bane, Stephen R. Donaldson
  18. Mass murders are usually all the more shocking because of unexpected settings and the past character of the murderer.
    - Midnight at the Well of Souls, Jack. L. Chalker
  19. The sun was already sinking into the deep green hills to the west of the valley, the red and gray-pink of its shadows touching the corners of the land, when Flick Ohmsford began his descent.
    - The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
  20. Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
    - The Inferno, Dante Aligheri (translated by John Ciardi)
  21. In the nighttime heart of Beirut, in one of a row of general address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality.
    - Ringworld, Larry Niven
  22. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
    - 1984, George Orwell

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