You thought I forgot. Ha.
A little twist this time. Pick up the first novel to hand, and go to page 85. Reading from the top of the page, find the first bit (sentence, partial sentence, whatever) of dialog. It doesn’t matter how short it is, but if it’s long, just take the first clause or two.
Post your contributions here, as usual. I’ll let this one run probably all week.
I’ll start with Con Ed, by Matthew Klein:
“Okay, Kip.”
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“We’re listening”
Fire along the sky. pg 85
“Gosh”, she said,
Pawleys Island, Dorothea Benton Frank.
Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex.
“I want to meet him.”
“My best room–that you’ll have–my very best room.”
Angelica, Sharon Shinn
On a Highland Shore, Kathleen Givens
“And I knew I would meet you again. Do you remember me telling you?”
“Still need them, up to Mardians,”
Ngaio Marsh, Off with his head
and to erect within Isreal God’s royal tent.
The NIV Study Bible
Nancy B– we need a novel for this exercise, and a line of dialog. Do you want to try again?
‘Are we sure there are no men here?’
Margaret George, “Mary Called Magdalene”
“Well, Miss!”
from Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Not my first choice of novel, but the closest to hand (in the pile of Brit Lit I have to read for an upcoming class).
‘Wherever she goes in battle she receives half of those who fall, and Odin receives the other half.’
Gylfaginning, 23 from The Wordsworth Dictionary of Mythology.
”Th… this is Henry. I’m sorry to disturb you so early.”
Excavation / by James Rollins
“A pity I haven’t got a letter of authority from the king.”
The Adventures of Alianore Audley by Brian Wainwright
Someone To Watch Over Me – Lisa Kleypas
“Innocence,”
(Short, but apparently he doesn’t finish the sentence since it’s the only quote on the whole page!)
“We tried to head you off.”
Agnes and the Hitman, Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
“You are an angel, Minerva,”
Diana Gabaldon, “Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade”
“…the impression he was concerned about something.”
Jodie, in Tripwire by Lee Child.
“Over here. This is where I am.”
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
(Had to go all the way to page 89 for the first quote!)
I hope we make out in town.
Margaret Caldwell, Born to the Sun
“Let’s go!”
from The Restorer by Sharon Hinck
“This is how you do it!”
Rebel, by Bernard Cornwell
“Are you angry with me?”
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
“sit ye doon,young man, and I’ll attend to this boorachie”
the Fiery Cross, Diana Gabaldon
Oops, I didn’t do my first attempt correctly. Let my try again.
“Still had a room for rent,” Clive said.
Someone to Love, Jude Deveraux
“Oh, it’s you,” she said.
Santa Montefiore, “The Gypsy Madonna.”
“You are involved in the plot.”
Joseph Roth ‘The Emperor’s Tomb’
“Look, you said you were going to explain everything.” Lewis, in The Paradise War by Stephen Lawhead.