285 Quotes About First-lines

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.

A bride should look chaste—not caught.

Nothing is as it should be; everything is upside down. That is what Rebecca Wright thought.

The runes moved under my fingers as the fabric of space split and fluctuated within the confines of the portal.