There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
Charlotte BrontëTags: opening-lines first-sentences opening-sentences walks
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
Awakened by a thousand dogs, a passing truck, the tailspin of a poisoned mosquito (or, perhaps, merely the silence of my dreams), I had, before remembering who and where I was, seen only that green sun suspended in the firmament of my room (her uterus bottled in preserving fluids) and, through seconds that became millennia, millennia aeons, felt the steadfastness of my orbit around that cold glow of love, a marvelous fatal steadfastness, before my pupils dilated and shadows and unease once more defined reality, the steel box naked but for a mattress and insomnious bugs where I had lived, in a coma of heartbreak and drunkenness, the six months since Primavera's death.
Richard CalderTags: opening-sentences
They murdered him.
Robert CormierTags: first-sentence opening-lines opening-sentences robert-cormier chocolate-war
I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.
Rae HachtonTags: love death first-lines death-and-dying opening-sentences gothic-romance vampire-romance gothic-fantasy
Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin.
Dorothy DunnettTags: opening-sentences
Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.” Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she’d add a fourth: “Deft tongue. And I don’t mean a good talker.
Marie WilsonTags: dorothy-parker opening-sentences the-gorgeous-girls
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 my cousin Anil-da started telling us what he’d heard at the market about the groom’s family, at my aunt Moina-pehi’s wedding in January 2002, his eyes shone like inky marbles reflecting sunlight.
Aruni KashyapTags: first-lines opening-line opening-sentences opening-line-of-the-novel
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