First Line Quotes

“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

“There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck."”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

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“The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.”
― J.D. Robb, Vengeance in Death

“The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.”
― George Orwell, Coming up for Air

“It was one-thirty a.m. when all hell broke loose.”
― Kyoko M., Of Fury & Fangs

“It's a weirdly subtle conversation, I almost don't notice I'm being blackmailed.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.”
― Jonathan Barnes

“I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?”
― John Banville, Snow

“I never thought I'd have a story worth telling, at least not one about me.”
― Perry Moore , Hero

“The rambler who for old association's sake should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey, in the vicinity of some extensive woodlands, interspersed with apple orchards.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders

“In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

“Anima
is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“Tully Dawson made himself new to the world, and ripe for the glories of that summer, by showing he was unlike his father.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

“Your Grandfather," said Vanyel's brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, "was Crazy.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“Damned Elmer's Glue! Just let me finish emasculating this eye and I'll be right with you.”
― Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy

“I was in the closet... with Tamera Muncie.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket

“I was six years old when I last peed my pants.”
― Matt Bellassai, Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations

“I am in my mother's room. It's I who live there now. I don't know how I got there.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“The air out here is mean with cold.”
― Billy O'Callaghan, My Coney Island Baby

“At three in the morning it was dead around here and the windows of the mansion were black, the mansion dark purple and solemn against the moonlit velvet, green of gently sloping lawn.”
― David Goodis, The Burglar

“I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the enemy camp.”
― Brent Hartinger, Geography Club

“They found a body in the Salford cemetery, but aboveground and alive.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway

“Important Bridesmaids notes: Harrison only allowed one beer before the service and one whisky for courage before the speech. When drunk has a tendency to a)Ramble b)Do the robot dance c) Take off his shoes and swing them around his head by the laces. Michelle only allowed one glass of champagne before the service and one gin and tonic for courage before her speech a) Slur b) burst into a spontaneous rap c) Prank call her boss pretending to be Kermit the Frog”
― Katy Birchall, The Secret Bridesmaid

“She imagined it was like getting hit by a freight train. In that nano-second, before thoughts vanished, as pain flared, she wondered just how strong she'd become that a train hadn't killed her on impact.”
― C.M. Martens, Killing Game

“I haven't always been a pain in the ass.”
― Richard Plourde, Back to You...: The Astonishing Fate of John Fisher

“[First Line} It’s quiet here. But then again, it’s supposed to be quiet.”
― Alex Diaz-Granados, Reunion: A Story: A Novella

“The summer before the Great Library...burned, the air was hot and thick with whispers.”
― Zohra Nabi, The City Beyond the Stars

“Some sounds can be both triggering and exciting at the same time.
For Lorelei, that was the sound of her email notification.”
― Laney Williams, His #1 Fan

“The nights have been longer and more beautiful since their world began to bleed into ours.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, The Scorpion and the Night Blossom

“Either that one beer was stronger than advertised, or Goldilocks has broken into the wrong damn fairy tale- and decided my bed was just right.”
― Cathryn Fox, Stick Break