I have a few, and they're always changing. I like a lot of the lines of
The Art of Being Alone. My favourites right now are:
'To borrow a bit of his faded fairytale glamour.' and
'... the words that shattered the dust and bone castle that I had built around myself.'
I think I like them so much because they're sentences about Mervyn Peake's
Titus Groan, and I spent a long time trying to express what I love about his writing.
I also went a bit crazy for a few hours last night, and wrote a lot of
Sick Minds's sequel, and I came up with these:
'She found him, twisted up in his bed sheets with whisky spilled down his front and his gullet, and he was sobbing. Truly sobbing: these huge, horrible, messy, gasping sobs that doubled him over; clutching at himself to keep his lungs and the bile inside, choking, choking.'
Also:
'He could see the insanity pulling at her eyes, her face pulled back and drawn, all bones and skin and nerves... She was shaking her head, and that locked away hysteria was climbing out now, of her eyes and her hands.'
Finally, I'm rewriting
Sweet Charity to make her more psycho and the story more gnarly. Favourite lines from that so far are
'You thought your goody two shoes ways and sickening names had broken through my bad boy exterior to my golden heart... I'm not going to apologise because you were
stupid enough to believe I cared for you.' (The latter half I love because it is the line that sparked off the revamp
)
And:
'Cut
myself?... Why would I do that?... I'm so pretty!'
Because that girl is insane.
'Because I enjoy ruining lives as much as she does./And it doesn't hurt that she's easy on the eyes.'