Seated opposite me in the railway carriage, the elderly lady in the fox-fur shawl was recalling some of the murders that she had committed over the years.
John BoyneTag: opening-lines first-lines
So I'm on my way to work and I stop to watch a pigeon fight a rat in the snow, and some fuckhead tries to mug me!
Josh BazellTag: humor first-lines
A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old films, he said -- when you see this old parchment map just ... getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just ... fwoom.
Hal DuncanTag: first-lines
Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to...
Shaun TanTag: first-lines
I did it! I stopped time.
[Hampton Green]
Tag: opening-lines first-lines
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.
But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran.
Tag: first-lines young-adult post-apocalyptic young-adult-fiction monument-14
I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.
Rae HachtonTag: love death first-lines death-and-dying opening-sentences gothic-romance vampire-romance gothic-fantasy
This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.
Melina MarchettaTag: first-sentence opening-lines first-lines
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.
Suzanne CollinsTag: first-lines
It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.
Jonathan KellermanTag: first-sentence first-lines first
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