If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
P.L. TraversTags: opening-lines crossroads policeman
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
First, I'm going to give you all the Copperfield crap, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it, not one paragraph, so if you're not interested in how I came to see the future, or how I came to understand that the biggest truth in my life was a lie, or, for that matter, how I parlayed my distaste for hot dogs into an '84 RX-7 and a new self-concept, do us both a favor, and just stop now.
Jonathan EvisonTags: opening-lines evison lulu
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.
Natalie BabbittTags: opening-lines summer
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
I am a vampire, and that is the truth.
Christopher PikeTags: opening-lines horror vampire
Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary
Paul HoffmanTags: opening-lines gripping
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
Neil GaimanTags: first-sentence opening-lines
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
James JoyceTags: opening-lines first-lines fiction ireland shaving
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
J.K. RowlingTags: first-sentence opening-lines human-nature
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