285 Quotes About First-lines

Among other public buildings in the town of Mudfog, it boasts of one which is common to most towns great or small, to wit, a workhouse, and in this workhouse there was born on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

When people ask me what I do--taxi drivers, hairdressers--I tell them I work in an office.

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.

My dear Martin, in the long summer of childhood, when I was a boy the age you are now, your uncles and I spread our mattress on the roof of your grandfather’s farmhouse outside of Homs.

On a Tuesday I came home from school to an empty house, watched the evening news, and then took Equanil caplets lifted from my mother.

The Drome first came to me in the mirror when I was six.

I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.

We didn't always live on Mango Street.

Lydia is dead.