I'm working on a fanfic (my first -- ok, my second, but the first story is extremely tongue-in-cheek) and the first few opening lines have been in my head for a very long time.

Now that they're written down, I find them... more familiar than they should be, perhaps.

So I'm wondering: are they so familiar because I've read them so many times as I'm editing, or because they were in my head every time I dabbled in the idea of writing a story... or is it because they belong to someone else, and I've read them in a fanfic?

If they belong to someone else: who are you and what story is it (so I can give credit where credit is due), and can I borrow them (please say "yes" since I already did)? If I promise to give 'em back?

Oh, yeah -- it's currently 22 pages, is very episode related, and I'm nearing the ...let's say resolution. I could use a BR.

Here's the lines:

Thanks!

Ooh, I love it, Janet!

You know my address...


Wendy

Very nice start, and no, I'd say those are your own words. Go for it, I say!

Yvonne

I'm anxious to see what you think.

~Toc

This is just an idle 1am thought about your question...sometimes when I write, things sound familiar because I tend to pick up bits and pieces of different authors' styles. You know, some people are more witty, others use a lot of sparse, tense words... I think we learn things from different authors as we read...

JD

Sounds like SuperStud to me, when Lois ask's Clark when he started feeling this way about her after he'd been exposed to the modified pheromone spray.

TEEEEEJ

To go by Google, I find a few stories with some slightly similar phrasing. Nothing that appears to substantially resemble this passage, though. I'd say you may have read some really good fanfic and then synthesized what you read into your own.