285 Quotes About First-lines
- Author Valeria Luiselli
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I’m the best auctioneer in the world, but no one knows it because ‘m a discreet sort of man.
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- Author Mallory O'Meara
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Having a new tattoo really sucks,
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- Author Haruki Murakami
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So you’re all set for money, then?” The boy named Crow asks in his typical sluggish voice.
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- Author Joseph Conrad
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Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.
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- Author Luis Alberto Urrea
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On the cool October morning when Cayetana Chavez brought her baby to light, it was the start of that season in Sinaloa when the humid torments of summer finally gave way to breezes and falling leaves, and small red birds skittered through the corrals, and the dogs grew new coats.
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- Author Nic Stone
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From where he’s standing across the street, Justyce can see her: Melo Taylor, ex-girlfriend, slumped over beside her Benz on the damp concrete of the FarmFresh parking lot.
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- Author Ocean Vuong
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Let me begin again.
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- Author Stuart Turton
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I forget everything between footsteps.
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- Author Lisa Halliday
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of all this sitting by herself with nothing to do: every so often she tried again to read the book in her lap, but it was made up almost exclusively of long paragraphs, and no quotation marks whatsoever, and what is the point of a book, thought Alice, that does not have any quotation marks?
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