First Lines Opening Lines Quotes

“Hunting dragons brings out the best and worst in people.”
― Kyoko M., Of Wings & Shadows

“The binoculars in my hands were stolen.”
― Kyoko M., The Starlight Contingency

“The last day before Christmas had passed”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Night Before Christmas

“There was a story to do with this story: It was told us by Stephan Ivanovich Kurochka, who used to come over from Gadyach.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt

“Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the roof with shabby indifference: he wasn't carrion yet.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“In Victorian London, even in a place as louche and notoriously crime-ridden as Lambeth Marsh, the sound of gunshots was a rare event indeed.”
― Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

“My trial starts the way my life did: a squall of elbows and shoving and spit.”
― Sara Collins

“Every year, some two million visitors enter Point Pleasant Park, a unique 190-acre collection of paths, ponds, and port-o-potties; flora, fauna, and fungi; battlements, monuments, and burial mounds all situated at the far south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The number of visitors is astounding given the entire population of Halifax is presently about half a million people, a good many of whom believe that any aerobic exercise beyond reaching out the car window for a Tim Hortons double double is time poorly spent.”
― Steven Laffoley, What's the Point?: An Irreverent History of Point Pleasant Park