329 Quotes About Opening-lines

At dusk they pour from the sky.

Ove is fifty-nine.

Through the smal tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.

The pain woke him again. Not the constant throb that was so familiar he could hardly remember being without it. This was one of those sharp stabs from the wound along his thigh.

There were four of us--George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.

George Washington Crosby began to hallucinate eight days before he died.

For many years, Henry Kitteridge was a pharmacist in the next town over, driving every morning on snowy roads, or rainy roads, or summertime roads, when the wild raspberries shot their new growth in brambles along the last section of town before he turned off to where the wider road led to the pharmacy.

She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead.