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Favorite First Sentences
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What are your favorite first sentences? They do this in the Cricket mag sometimes, and I'm curious as to which are yours.
My favorite's got to be from Tale of Two Cities by Dickens:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
My runner-up is from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak:
"Here is a small fact: You are going to die."
submitted by Hex, age aeons, in darkness for a spell
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not necessarily my favorite -- I couldn't possibly choose a favorite -- but I quite like
"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."
-Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
(the whole opening paragraph is great, actually -- I love the descriptions)
(and I love the Nevermoor one that Jay posted :D)
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"Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day."
-The lost hero, Rock Riordan
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My favorite has gotta be:
The story so far: In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
-The Restaurant At the End of the Universe
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"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit." - The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Twilight breaking dawn-
Life sucks and then you die.
Yeah, I should be so lucky
(May 12, 2024 - 7:36 am)
for the sake of the sake--
classic: Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. (from what, i'm sure you know. if you don't then i am fearful for humanity and please go read a book)
classic-er: when mr. bilbo baggins of bag end announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. (from lotr <3)
classic-er-er: see Hex's line
not classic but I love it: ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity—Good. (from bridge to terabithia by katherine paterson)
(May 14, 2024 - 1:14 am)
That book was soooo sad! :(
(May 14, 2024 - 11:46 am)
"Look,I didn't want to be a half-blood.If you're reading this because you think you might be one,my advice is:close this book right now.Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth,and try to lead a normal life.Being a half-blood is dangerous,it's scary.Most of the time it gets you killed in painful,nasty ways."-Percy Jackson and the lightning thief
okay,so that was way more than one sentence but I think that that whole first page is just amazing,and you should read these books.
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