Opening-lines Quote by Peter Bunzl

“... he ran across the road and began to walk at breakneck speed down the hill. He hardly knew where he was walking. Pride…

— James Joyce

“There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking…

— Charles Dickens

“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the…

— Herman Melville

“The wind funnelled down the covered platform, jostling the passengers and tearing at their clothes. A woman's scarf whipped by overhead, somersaulting as if…

— Philip Sington

“I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!”

— Mary Shelley

“...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed…

— Iain M. Banks

“Great-Uncle Merry, coming back towards the car from the Grey House, had suddenly stopped in his tracks in the middle of the road. He…

— Susan Cooper

“Thanks anyway,' Vanderdecker repeated, and wandered off to have a stare at the sea. It was his equivalent to beating his head repeatedly against…

— Tom Holt

“A barge of mist floated along the water, and dragonflies, iridescent blue ones, darted back and forth like they were stitching up the air.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Mist devils spun in the air, dispersed then reassembled, gyrating above the ground, vapor-gamboling.”

— J. Cameron McClain

“When the plane took off with me in it, I felt strangely light—as if the strings mooring me to the life I’d made had…

— Melodie Winawer