329 Quotes About Opening-lines

Leon Hubbard died ten minutes into lunch break on the first Monday in May, on the construction site of the new one-storey trauma wing at Holy Redeemer Hospital in South Philadelphia. One way or the other, he was going to lose the job.

What’s surprised me most about seeing my sister dead is the lingering smirk on her face.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

The baby is dead.

So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades.

Ana Lucia Gardenas Rios celebrated her twelfth birthday on the day she killed her first chicken.

Mama is thirty-seven weeks pregnant.

Maja is thirty-seven weeks pregnant.

The first time it happened was at midnight on Saturday, October 7th, Georgiana’s sixteenth birthday.