| Opening Line |
Novel |
Author |
| You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. | | |
| Marley was dead, to begin with. | | |
| Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. | | |
| When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. | | |
| Who is John Galt? | | |
| Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do | | |
| 'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.' | | |
| It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. | | |
| We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. | | |
| The primroses were over. | | |
| As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. | | |
| It is three hundred forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago today that the citizens of Paris were awakened by the pealing of all the bells in the three districts... | | |
| When he woke in woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. | | |
| I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. | | |
| Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. | | |
| Mother died today. | | |
| It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents... | |
