Best Opening Lines Quotes

“Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss.”
― Dennis Sharpe, Destroyer of Worlds

“Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows

“He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaib gher, the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon', hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

“Carol Druze Was A Stone Killer.”
― John Sandford, Eyes of Prey

“The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke.”
― Jeffery Farnol, Black Bartlemy's Treasure (Treasure & Vengeance,

“At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland...”
― Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey , The Lady of the Basement Flat

“We all have been founded by the universe for only one purpose - To competitiveness.”
― Sushil Singh

“Sam was a dog.”
― Kaitlin Broadfoot, Super Sam

“On my fourth birthday, I plucked six severed fingers from the shower drain.”
― Lucy Rose

“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not some misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, although some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from both sides. Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent, and although it is admittedly one of a minor nature, it is perhaps also the sole talent I possess. At other times, when I reflect on how I cannot help but observe the world in such a fashion, I wonder if what I have should even be called talent. After all, a talent is something you use, not something that uses you. The talent you cannot not use, the talent that possesses you—that is a hazard, I must confess. But in the month when this confession begins, my way of seeing the world still seemed more of a virtue than a danger, which is how some dangers first appear.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer