Opening Sentence Quotes

“Sam LeClaire was a good-looking son of a bitch.”
― Rachel Gibson, Any Man of Mine

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

“The bed woke Kali up with a soft caress, dressed her in her favorite comfy robe, and gently deposited her, standing vertically, in one-sixth gravity.”
― @hg47, Daughter Moon

“When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant— a combined gardener and cook— had seen in at least ten years.”
― William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

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

“For one whole year he did nothing but drive, traveling back and forth across America as he waited for the money to run out.”
― Paul Auster, The Music of Chance

“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

“Today was the day. Today our routines were different; today we would know our place in the world.”
― Kaylie Fowler

“She has often suspected that her last words to herself and in this world will prove to be 'You bloody old fool' or, perhaps, depending on the mood of the day or the time of the night, 'you fucking idiot'.”
― Margaret Drabble, The Dark Flood Rises

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

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