MEMORABLE FIRST SENTENCES (TO BOOKS THAT DON'T EXIST)She Came Into My Office
Pinnochio came into my office and sat down, his arms and legs akimbo, the strings drooping with loose abandonment around his body, but I just kept quiet, knowing how these events are and only waiting for him to speak, but he just sat there silent and unmoving and uncaring, so I looked up at the top of the box we both sat in and read the hastily scrawled words above my head: “To the bathroom—back as fast as you can shake a finger.”
He came into my office doing a voice-over – like me – saying the same words I was saying except in a falsetto voice and keeping time with the exact same words I was saying.
She came into my office wearing nothing but high heels and red lipstick, and promptly sat on my lap, disturbing
