329 Quotes About Opening-lines

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Nothing is as it should be; everything is upside down. That is what Rebecca Wright thought.

There is blood under my fingernails. I wonder how many of my people I've killed this time.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself with child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before. The arm with the sword rose up as if newly stretched aloft, and round the figure blew the free winds of heaven.

In her short life Lily Hartman had come back from the dead not once, but twice. Neither time had been particularly pleasant. The first she didn’t liketo recall; the second she wished every day she could forget.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.