I collect starter lines.

Little things I hear in broken conversations of passing people. Fragments of ideas from a poem or story.

There's this website I found on LiveJournal.com called 2_lines.

People can say whatever they want, whatever is on their minds. But it has to be in two lines.

I've gotten plenty of story ideas from these.

Some of the best ones I've kept:

He dared me once, thinking I couldn’t.

i've been feeling three feet tall this month, hardly indestructible

And most nights it’s still easier to get struck by lightening

than it is to absolutely admit to the truth to myself.