Best-opening-lines Quote by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

“Evelyn was forty-eight years old and she had gotten lost somewhere along the wa. Things had changed so fast. While she had been raising…

— Fannie Flagg

“She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and…

— C.S. Harris

“The woman on the bed was old, her life was fading as the mist rose. She thought of her mother as already in the…

— James Baldwin

“I was acutely aware of her dying, so much so that it seemed to me the air itself was dangerous to breathe, for each…

— Random House Canada

“ On a Tuesday they were wed And by Friday they were dead And they buried them in the churchyard side by side, Oh,…

— Cassandra Clare

“Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)”

— William Butler Yeats

“It was difficult to understand that he would not come into the bungalow again and that when he got up in the morning she…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person…

— Frank Delaney

“And yet, death was still there, everywhere. We had adopted her. She lived in us and we in her. She’d emerge from our red…

— Mahi Binebine