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What's your favorite first line?

PostPosted: April 21st, 2011, 11:32 pm
by lizzie23
Hi guys! I just read this book and absolutely fell in love with the first line! :D Here it is, from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins:

"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."


What's yours?

Re: What's your favorite first line?

PostPosted: July 8th, 2012, 6:31 pm
by paeng
The first paragraph of Lolita

Re: What's your favorite first line?

PostPosted: September 21st, 2012, 2:31 pm
by joee
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

This line from Pride and Prejudice. :)

Re: What's your favorite first line?

PostPosted: September 21st, 2012, 10:23 pm
by Wanda
Hi joee! Oh i love that line, too!

joee wrote:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

This line from Pride and Prejudice. :)

Re: What's your favorite first line?

PostPosted: December 19th, 2012, 8:23 pm
by meileen
"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life?" -Laura Restrepo, A Tale of the Dispossessed

Re: What's your favorite first line?

PostPosted: April 20th, 2013, 8:43 pm
by pretentiousreader
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I Capture the Castle

nothing profound there hihi but you have to know Cassandra to appreciate it

Re: What's your favorite first line?

PostPosted: July 23rd, 2013, 6:42 pm
by sarahcruz24
joee wrote:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

This line from Pride and Prejudice. :)


THIS. and...

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
this is where it all started. Harry potter book 1 first line

Re: What's your favorite first line?

PostPosted: October 6th, 2013, 1:48 pm
by virtuallybraindead
“Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddamn horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.”

― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye

Re: What's your favorite first line?

PostPosted: October 12th, 2013, 12:37 am
by aderyn
"The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed."

And thus begins (cough, <again!>) Ronald's quest for the Dark Tower. Not only does this take me back to the dark, twisted, demented, heart-breaking, and awesome world that is Stephen King's multiverse, it also takes me back to my quests to scour Booksales and Pandayans across Manila and Central Luzon to find all the books in the series. A quest that I failed once, when I couldn't find the Song of Sussanah in any of the stores and I have to purchase the book at full price at Fully Booked in Megamall.