329 Quotes About Opening-lines

The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.

The blood staining Ellie Whitfield’s hands was as good a reason as any to run from the mutton shunters.

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time - between 12:37 P.M. and 1:14 P.M. - by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn't even begin to identify them.

Well, she was dead, and there was no use crying over spilt milk.

She turned into a tree. It was a Mystery. It must have been. Nothing else made sense, because I didn't understand it.

To say the least, it was inconsiderate of Diana’s almost-dead husband to show up at her engagement party.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

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.