To say the least, it was inconsiderate of Diana’s almost-dead husband to show up at her engagement party.
Robin Lee HatcherTags: opening-lines beloved
As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms, breaking into dry, moaning sobs.
Edgar Rice BurroughsTags: first-sentence opening-lines
On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky-walks, cupolas, together with three spiral green glass towers through which the red sunlight shone in twisted glints and peculiar colors.
Jack VanceTags: first-sentence opening-lines
The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling --a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension-- becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
Iam FlemingTags: opening-lines
I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die.
Nick CaveTags: first-sentence opening-lines opening-sentences
They have said that we owe allegiance to Safety, that he is our Red Cross who will provide us with ointment and bandages for our wounds and remove the foreign ideas the glass beads of fantasy the bent hairpins of unreason embedded in our minds.
Janet FrameTags: first-sentence opening-lines opening-sentences
When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks
Molly HarperTags: first-sentence opening-lines
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