285 Quotes About First-lines

For many years, Henry Kitteridge was a pharmacist in the next town over, driving every morning on snowy roads, or rainy roads, or summertime roads, when the wild raspberries shot their new growth in brambles along the last section of town before he turned off to where the wider road led to the pharmacy.

She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead.

​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses.

Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham - the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself.

On our wedding day I was forty-six, she was eighteen.

The night Effia Otcher was born into he musky heat of Fanteland, a fire raged through the woods just outside her father's compound.

​In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley.

​I am the vampire Lestat.