285 Quotes About First-lines

Today an extraordinary adventure took place.

Today an extraordinary adventure took place

Off and on: one week there, the next nowhere to be seen, that’s how my dead began...

Through the gates of the inn in the provincial town of N drove a rather handsome, smallish spring britzka, of the sort driven around in by bachelors: retired lieutenant colonels, staff captains, landowners possessed of some hundred peasant souls—in short, all those known as gentlemen of the middling sort.

Neither can drive.

During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see.

The sun is a cold star.

That night, when Mrs. Chamberlain called, Emirates could only piece together the words “...take Briar somewhere...” and “...pay your double.

In the late spring of 1995, just a few weeks after I’d turned twenty-eight, I got a letter from my friend Madison Roberts.