It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
Lois LowryTags: first-sentence opening-lines
Who is John Galt?
Ayn RandTags: opening-lines philosophy first-lines galt objectivism taggart
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
Shirley JacksonTags: reality first-sentence opening-lines sanity escapism escape
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: first-sentence opening-lines
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Charles DickensTags: opening-lines biography
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Blaise PascalTags: poetry opening-lines on-writing despair creative-process life-and-death
Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
Tags: opening-lines romeo-and-juliet
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
Charlotte BrontëTags: opening-lines first-sentences opening-sentences walks
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
Diana Wynne JonesTags: opening-lines
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
Samuel BeckettTags: opening-lines great-first-lines beckett murphy
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