We do not mean "Do you come here often?" or "Let me guess your sign" or "Have many people told you how much you resemble Rachel McAdams?" These are not pick-up lines, except in the sense they make you pick up a book. Try these:
"This is a story to be read in bed in an old house on a rainy night." -- John Cheever, "Oh What a Paradise It Seems."
"I still haven't figured out my accident." -- Elia Kazan, "The Arrangement."
"He sent her a music box which played an aria from Trovatore while simultaneously emitting Chanel's wonderful new scent." -- Richard Condon, "An Infinity of Mirrors."
"They threw me off the hay truck about noon." -- James M. Cain, "The Postman always Rings Twice."
And one we'll hear often this December: "Marley was dead to begin with."
You know whose line that is.
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