Opening Lines Quotes

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This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the

This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Inspirational Philosophical First Lines Opening Lines

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

William Shakespeare

Fantasy Witches First Lines Opening Lines William Shakespeare

Two households, both alike in dignityIn fair Verona, where w

Two households, both alike in dignityIn fair Verona, where we lay our sceneFrom ancient grudge break to new mutinyWhere civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents' strife.

William Shakespeare

Opening Lines Romeo And Juliet

Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princet

Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.

Ernest Hemingway

First Sentence First Lines Opening Lines

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were pro

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

Humor Funny Opening Lines

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were strik

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

First Sentence Dystopia Opening Lines April

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or w

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Charles Dickens

Opening Lines Biography

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

Opening Lines Confido

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

First Sentence Opening Lines

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentia

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

Opening Lines Great First Lines

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

Charles Dickens

Opening Lines

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were prou

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

First Sentence Human Nature Opening Lines

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

First Sentence First Line First Lines Opening Lines