I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

Karen Blixen

Tag: opening-line

Vai alla citazione

---

Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started...

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Tag: opening-line

Vai alla citazione

---

Once upon a time, Isola Wilde was watching late-night television with her eldest brother, Alejandro, when Channel 12 broadcast a live suicide.

Allyse Near

Tag: once-upon-a-time fairytales opening-line

Vai alla citazione

---

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

A.F. Stewart

Tag: paranormal-romance book horror opening-line horror-romance gothic-cavalcade

Vai alla citazione

---

An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Stephen King

Tag: stephen-king opening-line opening

Vai alla citazione

---

Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce.

Richard Yates

Tag: life unhappiness opening-line

Vai alla citazione

---

Telling it all after the fact...easier said than done!...much easier!

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Tag: opening-line

Vai alla citazione

---

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 Kashyap

Tag: first-lines opening-line opening-sentences opening-line-of-the-novel

Vai alla citazione

---

Pagina 1 di 1.

---

---