329 Quotes About Opening-lines

​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses.

Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham - the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself.

On our wedding day I was forty-six, she was eighteen.

The night Effia Otcher was born into he musky heat of Fanteland, a fire raged through the woods just outside her father's compound.

​In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley.

​I am the vampire Lestat.

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.

​While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.

​Lady Pamela Sutton stared at the dreary government-issued posters on the wall of her small cubicle in Hut 3.