329 Quotes About Opening-lines

Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.

On the cool October morning when Cayetana Chavez brought her baby to light, it was the start of that season in Sinaloa when the humid torments of summer finally gave way to breezes and falling leaves, and small red birds skittered through the corrals, and the dogs grew new coats.

From where he’s standing across the street, Justyce can see her: Melo Taylor, ex-girlfriend, slumped over beside her Benz on the damp concrete of the FarmFresh parking lot.

Let me begin again.

I forget everything between footsteps.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of all this sitting by herself with nothing to do: every so often she tried again to read the book in her lap, but it was made up almost exclusively of long paragraphs, and no quotation marks whatsoever, and what is the point of a book, thought Alice, that does not have any quotation marks?

After the End came the Beginning.

There’s a feather on my pillow.

The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson.