First Sentence First Lines Quotes

“People often shit themselves when they die. Their muscles slack and their souls flutter free and everything else just...slips out.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire of light and commerce that the adults called the Golden Hour, for a reason I did not yet grasp.”
― Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns