A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud.
Gary CorbyTag: opening-lines
When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.
Richard StarkTag: opening-lines
The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: opening-lines confido
In the beginning we were a group of nine.
Three are gone, dead.
There are six of us left.
They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all.
I am Number Four.
I know that I am next.
Tag: opening-lines first-lines
You're surprised at all the blood.
He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.
He's surprised, too.
Tag: opening-lines blood you charles-benoit
My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, I"m not saying the event would have gone unnoticed, but the fuss would probably only have lasted a week before public interest moved elsewhere. Besides, in a city you are anonymous; the chances of being picked out as Kristel Kolvenbach's granddaughter would be virtually zero. But in a small town -- well, small towns everywhere are rife with gossip, but in Germany they raise it to an art form.
Helen GrantTag: opening-lines gossip small-towns
This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Mitch AlbomTag: inspirational opening-lines first-lines philosophical
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.
Betty SmithTag: opening-lines a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn
They murdered him.
Robert CormierTag: first-sentence opening-lines opening-sentences robert-cormier chocolate-war
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
George OrwellTag: first-sentence opening-lines first-lines first-line
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