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Sticky lines from fics I've read:
“Adrien still thought that home meant a big, lonely bedroom with barred windows. Chat Noir knew better.”
—"tell me something i don't know" by @carpisuns
"It’s not your fault, Milady. I don’t blame you."
—"Sebben, crudele, mi fai languir (Although, cruel love, you make me languish)" by @komorebirei
“"We’ll be together tomorrow, won’t we?' he asks, moving his face closer to hers on the pillow. She does the same, their foreheads touching.
She says: 'Yes, always.'
Cut to black."
—"tomorrow" by @peachcitt
"Above him, the sky is black. It’s a void of another name, stretching beyond the horizon and swallowing the world in darkness. But it’s not empty, not in the slightest. A dazzling array of stars glitters above him, packed denser than he thought stars could be."
—"make beautiful things" by @aquaquadrant
"Her grief is not gone. Her grief will never be gone. But for now, the Castle of Lions needs a leader, and she is the only one they have. Her grief drives her. It will not be put to rest, and neither will she.
There is a war to win."
—"change of heart" by rythyme (pugglemuggle)
"Some things don’t make any more sense under a microscope. You can spend all night turning them over in your head, and the harder you look, the more they seem to shift, made inscrutable. It’s the difference between observing things and actually living them, maybe. The risk of getting too close."
—"quantum mechanics, smirks, and other complications of the universe" by @amillionsmiles
"This vexing, brilliant, beautiful boy was laughing so hard she couldn’t tell if his cheeks were wet with water or his own tears. Like everything else, he put his whole heart into it."
—"Tu Eres Mi Corazon" by 13Vivacious13
“'Real.'"
—"Real" by @carpisuns
You know when you come across A Line in a book or a fic that just makes you stop in your tracks and let it sink in because it’s so beautiful? Or one that makes you lose your mind and wheeze-laugh for five entire minutes? Or just one that’s said in such an interesting way that you’ll never forget it? I call those “sticky lines.” The ones that stick in your brain for a long, long time after you’ve finished reading, sometimes forever.
Writers, reblog this if you want people to tell you what your sticky lines are! Or feel free to make your own list of favorite sticky lines :)