Opening Lines Quotes
Opening Lines Quote of the day
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
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.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings.
This date had started as bland and was speeding right along to abysmal.
Maybe punching her enemy right in the nose wasn't the smartest way to get out of class, but it was definitely a much more entertaining way.
Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.
The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.
You're surprised at all the blood.He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.He's surprised, too.
If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.
It was during Latin that the Austro-Hungarians arrived with their dogs and zombies to kill everyone at the Eden College for Young Ladies.
That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.