Best-opening-lines Quote by John Sandford

“I can't wring blood from a stone.”

— Soheir Khashoggi

“A jagged stone existed where her heart had been.”

— Meljean Brook

“You can’t squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.”

— Lisa Unger

“He's a gypsy killer. He has a special gypsy killing knife.”

— Coco J. Ginger

“That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer.”

— Reyna Pryde

“The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a…

— Jarod Kintz

“Now she was a killer, a mercenary. And that was all.”

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past... Those stones that bore no names seemed…

— Cornelia Funke Inkdeath

“unknown to everyone but Deborah, I was a twisted homicidal sicko myself.”

— Jeff Lindsay

“Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.”

— Eoin Colfer

“ "I don't know; Killers are sort of romantic. Imagine your dying with his hands around his throat. He'd strangle the life out of…

— L.J. Smith

“She's poison of the worst kind, a slow disease that eats the heart and rapes the soul.”

— C.M. Stunich