10 Famous First-Liners
Some books grab you right from the start! Check out these intriguing first lines from famous books. Do you know which books they come from? Click the links to find out…
- Far out in the unchartered backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Accidental space travel.
- I’m pretty much f*cked. Oh dear.
- It was a pleasure to burn. It’s getting hot in here.
- It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. What year is it again?
- Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Nothing to see here.
- If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. Not David Copperfield.
- My suffering left me sad and gloomy. Life get’s better.
- It was love at first sight. It’s not what you’re thinking.
- The thing is, all memory is fiction. I can’t remember.
- On the day of the miracle, Isabel was kneeling at the cliff’s edge, tending the small, newly made driftwood cross. Tell me more.
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