285 Quotes About First-lines

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.

​While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.

​Lady Pamela Sutton stared at the dreary government-issued posters on the wall of her small cubicle in Hut 3.

I've always felt unclaimed.

This story began, as all writing must, in failure.

​3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

​A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.

It was a fever, a hot rage of words.