285 Quotes About First-lines

Sweet, soft and precious. That’s how I entered this world…

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half-credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvelous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

If you aren’t paying attention, it’s easy to miss when love changes. Sometimes it’s gradual—unravelling slowly like a ball of yarn rolled across the floor. Other times it’s lightning fast, triggered by something so powerful it cannot be quieted or undone.

Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns.

Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?

In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her.

The door slid open, and Clarke knew it was time to die.

The drought had lasted for 10 million years now, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.

Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.