Category:First Line Friday

“Every kid has a moment in their childhood when they realise just how terrifying the world can be.”

“You’ve chosen and chosen well.”

“Once, long ago, I believed the god of war was my father, but only because he was the first to hold me in his arms after I was born.”

“Gold for blood – that’s my advertisement and the words I live by.”

“There is blood under my fingernails.”

“When light came, it nearly split Helena’s brain open.”

“When I was eleven, my English teacher told me that fire is like a tiger.”

“We all turned sixteen today, and for any normal girl that would mean raspberry and lemon macarons and tiny pastel blimps and pink champagne and card games.”

“A hologram filled the center of my office with a painting.”