First-sentence Quotes · Page 2

“I held her feet in my hands.”

— Geoff Nicholson

“A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.”

— Aldous Huxley

“He was the deadliest man in Texas, on that they all agreed.”

— James Carlos Blake

“Legends are born to every generation.”

— Michael Jay

“Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.”

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

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

— Melina Marchetta

“On top of everything else, Boobie's got the clap.”

— Adam Rapp

“First snow: it came this year late in November.”

— John Updike

“Ilium, New York, is divided into three parts.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism.”

— Mary Doria Russell

“All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.”

— Kamila Shamsie

“Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that’s true.”

— Anonymous

“Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument.”

— Robert Cormier

“Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.”

— Mercedes Lackey

“Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress. ”

— Martha Ackmann

“Onaj koji kaže da novcem ne možeš kupiti sreću očito nikada nije bio u knjižari.”

— Melissa Hillis

“The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.”

— James Carlos Blake

“I never believed in dharma. karma, reincarnation, or any of that spiritual crap, which caused sort of a problem growing up because…

— Sonia Singh

“He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was…

— Virginia Woolf

“They have said that we owe allegiance to Safety, that he is our Red Cross who will provide us with ointment and…

— Janet Frame

“I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up.”

— Rebbecca Ray

“At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.”

— Charles Frazier

“There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.”

— Elizabeth Leiknes

“It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.”

— Jonathan Kellerman

“The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.”

— H. G. Wells

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Call me Ishmael.”

— Herman Melville

“See the child.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Amy called the whale punkin.”

— Christopher Moore

“Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.”

— Crystal Chan

“The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.”

— George Orwell

“Although I'm afraid I don't get too many clients these days!”

— Patrick McCabe

“Unfortunately, I am only myself.”

— Lisa Burstein

“My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. ”

— Amy Tan

“The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. ”

— Esmeralda Santiago

“His first memory is an execution.”

— Blaine Harden

“It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.”

— Esmeralda Santiago

“If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster.”

— Stephanie Lawton

“Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hotel Meurice.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.”

— Kate Atkinson