Opening Line | Novel |
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... | |
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