329 Quotes About Opening-lines

I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.

We didn't always live on Mango Street.

Lydia is dead.

Readers, friends, less than friends, enemies, Critics! Here I am at it again with Book I of Guignol! Don't judge me too soon! Wait awhile for what's to follow! Book II! Book III! it all clears up! develops, straightens out! As is, ¾ of it's missing! Is that a way to do things? It had to be printed fast because with things as they are you don't know who's living or dead!

On December 13, 1931, a fifty-seven-year-old English politician, still a member of Parliament but quite unwelcome in his own party’s government, stepped out of a taxi on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

There were times when Josh Heller wished that his former employers hadn’t been quite so thorough in their training; that they hadn’t left him with such an exotic collection of skills, now safely locked away in the attic of his mind.

It is an ancyant Marinere, And he stoppeth one of three:‘By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eyeNow wherefore stoppest me?

They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide.

As Amar watched the hall fill with guests arriving for his sister’s wedding, he promised himself he would stay.