329 Quotes About Opening-lines

Sophia, sandals off, was standing at the water’s edge.-Disappearing Earth

I moved out here with my husband.

The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light.

If there’s one thing wrong with people,” Paul always said, “it’s that no one remembers the shit that they should, and everyone remembers the shit that doesn’t matter for shit.

On Friday, June 12th, I woke up at six o’clock and no wonder; it was my birthday.

From July of his sophomore year in college until the following January, all Tsukuba Tazaki could think about was dying.

Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter.

Carcass.

It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days.