329 Quotes About Opening-lines

They have said that we owe allegiance to Safety, that he is our Red Cross who will provide us with ointment and bandages for our wounds and remove the foreign ideas the glass beads of fantasy the bent hairpins of unreason embedded in our minds.

First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.

On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky-walks, cupolas, together with three spiral green glass towers through which the red sunlight shone in twisted glints and peculiar colors.

It’s funny how one summer can change everything.

It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.

It was a pleasure to burn.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.