285 Quotes About First-lines

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as the LINK. In that datastream I've uncovered the meaning of another kind of dreaming--that of a fond hope or aspiration, a yearning, a desire, or a passion. This much I have. When I dream, I dream of Mecca.

Lyra had been born in the cold, and in the stark of winter, she thrived.

Danielle Reynolds had passed through so many towns that her footprints stopped leaving marks.

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

I have always been considered a bit of an outsider, and a general failure at everything I put my hand towards. In fact, you might even go so far as to say that I’m a lesser being of great insignificance! I state this because, when writing a story, you should always start the first line off with at least one basic truth.-First lines from the novel Sukiyaki

THE BOY WHO LIVED Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Fear sank its jaws into Zima as she recognized the smell of magic.

My not-quite-useless ability to see blue-green auras revealed a light shade around my trembling hands.