Harry was bleeding.
J.K. RowlingTag: first-sentence
Legends are born to every generation.
Michael JayTag: first-sentence
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
James Carlos BlakeTag: first-sentence tragedy self-knowledge
He was the deadliest man in Texas, on that they all agreed.
James Carlos BlakeTag: first-sentence texas deadly
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
James Carlos BlakeTag: devil first-sentence everglades
The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.
James Carlos BlakeTag: family first-sentence fugitive
The way other people fantasize about surprise inheritances, firts-glance love, and endless white empyreal pastures, Mitchell dreamed of an erupting supervolcano that would bury North America under a foot of hot ash.
Nathaniel RichTag: first-sentence
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.
Jhumpa LahiriTag: style writing first-sentence rules-for-writing
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 BurroughsTag: 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 VanceTag: first-sentence opening-lines
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