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First Sentences, Favorite
Okay, guys, this is the thread for favorite first sentences. I'm sorry, I have one, but my baby sister is sleeping in that room, and I can't remember it! So put down the sentence, the title of the book, and who wrote it. I'll be back later to put mine up...
submitted by Brynne, age 13, Flying away on
(April 11, 2009 - 1:48 pm)
(April 11, 2009 - 1:48 pm)
"Everything was silent, except for the screaming." M.T. Anderson, The Game of Sunken Places
(April 12, 2009 - 10:10 am)
My favorite first sentence is from Through A Brief Darkness by Richard Peck. "The week before Karen was taken out of public school, she found thee verse scraled in grease pencilon the mirror of the sixth-grade girls' washroom."
(May 10, 2016 - 9:09 am)
"Look, I didn`t want to be a half-blood."
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
P.S. This is my fave sentence which (by coincidence) is from my fave book! So everyone who hasn`t read these books, Read these books.
(April 12, 2009 - 5:23 pm)
OMG Percy Jackson is one of my favs too!
(August 9, 2021 - 2:28 pm)
"Who's there?"
From Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. How can you not love that?
Just kidding. On such short notice, I pulled four of my favorite books off the shelf and couldn't decide between the opening sentence of three of them. Here they all are, from Emily of New Moon, Emily's Quest, and The Story Girl, respectively, all by L.M. Montgomery.
"The house in the hollow was 'a mile from anywhere' -- so Maywood people said."
"'No more cambric tea' had Emily Byrd Starr written in her diary when she had come to New Moon from Shewsbury, with her high school days behind her and immortality before her."
"'I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it.'"
I especially like the last one, but there's something charming about the first one, and the second one is kind of cool. If you didn't notice, I like L.M. Montgomery. No doubt, if I pulled my other favorite books off the bookshelf there would be eight or nine more to add to these, but I'll stop here, as it's getting late.
-Emily
(April 12, 2009 - 10:21 pm)
I like L.M. Montgomery too! I like The Story Girl.
(April 13, 2009 - 7:25 am)
I love L.M Montgomery. I've read all of the Anne books, and might start the Emily ones two!
(June 27, 2021 - 7:52 am)
One of my favourite opening sentences is, quite simply,
"Thud..."
From Thud! by Terry Pratchett.
(April 13, 2009 - 9:48 am)
"In a hole in a ground there lived a hobbit."
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The Hobbit. This is most likely one of the most memorable first sentences of all, ever.
(April 13, 2009 - 8:05 pm)
OOOHHHH!!!! I'm still reading The Hobbit!! It is so good!!
(May 22, 2009 - 6:56 pm)
I never thought about how I would die, but going in the place of someone I loved seemed likea good way to go.
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Twilight. I mainly thought of it because I hear it so often, thanks to twiight fans, but it's purdy cool all the same. Twilight, Meyer
(April 16, 2009 - 9:46 am)
Okay, I think the Admin modifies my posts sometimes, because once I made a thread, and it started "Okay, so remember..." but the click-on thingy for it said "Audition: Okay, so..." and I DIN'T PUT THE AUDITION THERE! and now this says "First Sentences, Favorite..." and I would never ever word it like that.
Admin, is it you, or what??
Yes, Brynne, sometimes we do that, stating the subject at the beginning of the comment, so people scanning can easily see what the topic is. Does that make sense to you? Hope you don't mind.
Admin
(April 25, 2009 - 6:42 pm)
Okay, I think the Admin modifies my posts sometimes, because once I
made a thread, and it started "Okay, so remember..." but the click-on
thingy for it said "Audition: Okay, so..." and I DIDN'T PUT THE AUDITION
THERE! and now this says "First Sentences, Favorite..." and I would
never ever word it like that.
Admin, is it you, or what??
Yes, Brynne, sometimes we do that, stating the subject at the
beginning of the comment, so people scanning can easily see what the
topic is. Does that make sense to you? Hope you don't mind.
Admin
(April 25, 2009 - 6:42 pm)
(May 1, 2009 - 3:27 pm)
Some of my favorite first sentences are...
"I was fifteen in the year the king's men came to take me away from my home." from Flight of the Dragon Kyn by Susan Fletcher
"A long, long time ago, long before bears walked the earth, a frozen sea shattered into pieces, scattering tiny bits of ice across the darkness of the sky" from Seekers:The quest begins by Erin Hunter.
And my last favorite sentence isn't a sentence, so I guess I'm just telling you my favorite first chapter name...
"The Gates of Death" (the name of the first chapter in) Brisingr by Christogher Paolini
(May 6, 2009 - 6:12 pm)
"Eva nine was dying."
Since when did the main character die first thing?!
(June 8, 2014 - 10:12 am)