Won't somebody play with me?

I have no immediate deadlines, therefore, I meme.

First, one gacked from phaballa: I post the last lines of a bunch of fics, and you write a ficlet starting from that last line, and comment here with it. The new ficlet should be its own thing, unrelated to the fic it originally came from. (Well, phaballa's version said 'drabble' not 'ficlet' but drabbles are harder, so. Feel free to write a drabble if you wish!)

I'm not sure how fertile my last lines are, but perhaps something will inspire you. I've just picked the ends of stories written in 2008, otherwise the list would go on for *ever*. I love my muses.( Here they are: )

And now, randomly, a couple of quotes for you which I happen to like.

Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

Lincoln Six-Echo: "What's 'God'?"
McCord: "Well, you know when you want something really really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy who ignores you."


Finally, another meme, one I remember Being Really Good At last time around (ah, hubris!). Quote me a sentence or so from one of my stories, and I'll tell you which story it's from.

And feel free to comment on the fact that I have arbitrarily chosen to post with a Brian icon, because it is adorable.