247 Quotes About First-sentence

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide—it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese—the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

Is today a good day to die?

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

Women have always been spies.

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.