285 Quotes About First-lines

I never knew any one so keenly alive to a joke as the king was.

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half-credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvelous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.-From The Mystery of Marie Roget

At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18–, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in the company with my friend, C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisieme, No. 33 Rue Dunot, Faubourg St. Germain.

One week before my wedding day, upon returning to my hotel room with a tube of borrowed toothpaste, I find a small bird waiting inside the area called the antechamber and I know within moments it is my grandmother.

Grif Blackmore never did a job on a Tuesday.

The boy wakes me up: do you know where mosquitoes come from, Mama?

Deacon Cuffy Lambkins of Five Ends Baptist Church became a walking dead man on a cloudy September afternoon in 1969.

There’s that sound again.

Lilly, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet.