The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.
When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!
And first love always happens in the overwhelming first person. How can it not? Also, in the overwhelming present tense. It takes us time to realise that there are other persons, and other tenses.
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
Inching into the room, it’s clear something is wrong here. There’s a tingling sensation up my legs and back before I can even really focus on the parlor’s details. There are silhouettes of people, but...
After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.
Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge.
I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!
