personally, I like
'it was the summer they executed the rosenburgs'
- sylvia plath, the bell jar.
thanks!
2007-01-13 15:02:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
“Every happy family is alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2007-01-13 15:17:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not an opening, but it's in the first 5 pages of the book The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd:
"She was all I wanted. And I took her away."
2007-01-14 16:52:11 · answer #2 · answered by Peridot_22 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until
misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands
the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the
pity of heaven!
(Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas)
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was
mad.And that was all his patrimony.
(Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini)
2007-01-14 05:32:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Dark spruce forest frowned both sides of the frozen waterway"
Opening of White Fang by Jack London.
Sets the mood for what happens next even before the main character is born.
2007-01-13 23:36:14 · answer #4 · answered by wolface6999 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last night I dreamed I was at Manderlay again. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
2007-01-13 23:14:30 · answer #5 · answered by Cmytoes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Howard Roark laughed. "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.
2007-01-14 19:50:36 · answer #6 · answered by hotdoggiegirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby ...classic
2007-01-13 23:33:18 · answer #7 · answered by -lazydog- 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. "
"Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
2007-01-14 00:09:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2007-01-14 13:20:24 · answer #9 · answered by margaret k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Call me Ishmael." Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
"It was a sunshine day, a plain day. In short it was was a day just like any other day." Tale of Two Cities.
2007-01-13 23:26:28 · answer #10 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋