285 Quotes About First-lines
- Author Nicolas Mathieu
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Anthony stood on the shore and stared.
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- Author Rumaan Alam
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Well, the sun was shining.
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- Author Yaa Gyasi
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Whenever I think of my mother, I picture a queen-sized bed with her lying in it, a practiced stillness filling the room.
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- Author Ian McGuire
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Midnight.
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- Author Kingsley Amis
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They made a silly mistake though,’ the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.
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- Author Sjón
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The October evening is windless and cool.
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- Author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
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Illiterates, abecedarians, elitists, rodents all—I will tell you this: I, Zebra, born Bibi Abbas Abbas Hosseini on a scorching August day in 1982, am a descendent of a long line of self-taught men who repeatedly abandoned their capital, Tehran, where blood has been washed with blood for a hundred years, to take refuge in Nowshaht, in the languid, damp regions of Mazandaran.
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- Author Julia Phillips
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Sophia, sandals off, was standing at the water’s edge.-Disappearing Earth
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- Author Hiroko Oyamada
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I moved out here with my husband.
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