Here you will find opening lines of my favorite books that I find to be inspiring and clever! I know some people might think that it's weird to have a page of opening lines but I find it interesting and I'm sure other people do too. Having said my piece, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
"All this happened, more or less."
--Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
"Lulu slept naked because she liked to feel the sheets carressing her body and also because laundry was expensive."
--Jean-Paul Sartre, Intimacy
"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 in to it, if you
want to know the truth."
--J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
"I am the Vampire Lestat."
--Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
"I saw him for the first time at the funeral."
--Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
"Right now I'm supposed to be all geeked up because I'm getting ready for
a New Year's Eve party that some guy named Lionel invited me to."
--Terry McMillan, Waiting to Exhale
"Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home!"
--William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"I am the doctor who is sometimes spoken of in rather unflattering terms in this novel."
--Italo Svevo, Confessions of Zeno
"Take care to chop the onion fine."
--Laura Esquivel, Like Water For Chocolate
"Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evry thing
that happins to me from now on."
--Daniel Keyes, Flowers For Algernon
"Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed."
--Michael Blake, Dances With Wolves
"Uta-Jima- Song Island- has only about fourteen hundred inhabitants and a coastline
of something under three miles."
--Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves
"You better not never tell nobody but God."
--Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"The sun completed its route over the Pacific and began to set, reddening the waters around the islands of Japan."
--John Allyn, The Forty-Seven Ronin Story
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