329 Quotes About Opening-lines

I've always felt unclaimed.

This story began, as all writing must, in failure.

Det var en underbar nat - en nat, som man vist kun ser den, når man er ung.

​3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

​A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.

It was a fever, a hot rage of words.

The day of the countess's famous harvest party began with a driving rain that hammered down on all the ancient von Lingenfels castle's sore spots—springing leaks, dampening floors, and turning its yellow façade a slick, beetle-like black.

​They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.