I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as the LINK. In that datastream I've uncovered the meaning of another kind of dreaming--that of a fond hope or aspiration, a yearning, a desire, or a passion. This much I have. When I dream, I dream of Mecca.
Lyda MorehouseTags: first-lines science-fiction
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He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.
Laura KinsaleTags: first-lines
After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.
Michael CoxTags: murder first-lines fiction gothic opening-sentences
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.
Bill BrysonTags: truth first-lines first-words iowa
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
Alice SeboldTags: inspirational opening-lines first-lines life-and-death
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
Anita BrooknerTags: literature first-lines ruined
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
William ShakespeareTags: opening-lines fantasy first-lines witches william-shakespeare
It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.
Muriel SparkTags: first-lines
Sure. Sure you have. I never forget a face.
Stephen KingTags: first-lines
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