285 Quotes About First-lines

  • Author Jessica Shattuck
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    The day of the countess's famous harvest party began with a driving rain that hammered down on all the ancient von Lingenfels castle's sore spots—springing leaks, dampening floors, and turning its yellow façade a slick, beetle-like black.

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The day of the countess's famous harvest party began with a driving rain that hammered down on all the ancient von Lingenfels castle's sore spots—springing leaks, dampening floors, and turning its yellow façade a slick, beetle-like black.

-Jessica Shattuck

​They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.

-Nick Hornby

A fuse had blown in Swindon, so the south-west network ground to a halt.

-Mick Herron

​Because the other way wasn’t working.

-Maria Semple

I've begun this letter five times and torn it up five times.

-James Baldwin

Son, Last Sunday the host of a popular news show ask me what it meant to loose my body.

-Ta-Nehisi Coates

It takes a particular confidence for one unknown musician to pronounce to another that their first meeting has the hallmarks of legend.

-Tony Fletcher

  • Author Sharon Cameron
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    The heavy blade hung high above the prisoners, glinting against the stars, and then the Razor came down, a wedge of falling darkness cutting through the torchlight. One solid thump, and four more heads had been shaved from their bodies.

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The heavy blade hung high above the prisoners, glinting against the stars, and then the Razor came down, a wedge of falling darkness cutting through the torchlight. One solid thump, and four more heads had been shaved from their bodies.

-Sharon Cameron

The great fish moved silently through the night water.

-Peter Benchley

 

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