329 Quotes About Opening-lines

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks

This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.

They murdered him.