First-sentence Quote by Richard Ford

“On a pitch black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running…

— Émile Zola

“They shoot the white girl first.”

— Toni Morrison

“When my cousin Anil-da started telling us what he’d heard at the market about the groom’s family, at my aunt Moina-pehi’s wedding in January…

— Aruni Kashyap

“Randy stared into the glass he held in his hand, gazing into its cobra eyes. A double shot of thirty-year-old single malt whisky. You…

— Ted Magnuson

Aaron Spelling kept trying to bring vampires about, and I feel badly that it happened so much later. He was ahead of his time,…

— Brigid Brannagh

“I didn't tell any of my friends about our first date. I waited until after our second, because I wanted to make sure it…

— David Levithan

You know, things happen to you, and sometimes you don't realize why it happened until much later. But eventually it all makes sense.

— Anonymous

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in…

— John Hurt

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a…

— Chuck Close

I was quite a clever child, I don't know what happened later on.

— June Brown

“It would have been worth the complaint and subsequent chewing out I would have received, if the events of the night just wouldn't have…

— Rose Wynters

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life,

— Sheryl Swoopes