34 Quotes About Opening-line

On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who later was to be the cause of a sensation in New York, awoke much too early for her night before. One minute she was asleep, the next she was completely awake and dumped into despair. It was the kind of despair that she had known perhaps two thousand times before, there being 365 mornings in a calendar year.

Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce.

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

Today was the day. Today our routines were different; today we would know our place in the world.

An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked ravishing.

Once upon a time, Isola Wilde was watching late-night television with her eldest brother, Alejandro, when Channel 12 broadcast a live suicide.

I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the enemy camp.

Your Grandfather," said Vanyel's brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, "was Crazy.