Quotes about First lines

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My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. — Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Who is John Galt? — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. — Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Hi. I'm here to enlist.You can't. You aren't human.You see, little fella, we don't do sociological stuff like "interspec — Howard Tayler, The Tub of Happiness
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost — William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed — James Joyce, Ulysses
In darkness there is death. — Bob Mayer
After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper. — Michael Cox, The Meaning of Night
Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature — Anita Brookner, A Start in Life
What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? — Erich Segal, Love Story
It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me — Joaquin Lowe, Bullet Catcher
I am remembering something. At first it comes to me as a feeling. It is comforting. It is a place I want to be. It is ho — Richard Payment, For Want of Wonders
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her — Emmy Laybourne
When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. N — Cormac McCarthy, The Road
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the — David Morrell, First Blood
If you want to know the age of the Earth—look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reveal the heart of a ma — Joseph Conrad
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imag — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a cons — Lyda Morehouse, Fallen Host
I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close — Graeme Shimmin, A Kill in the Morning
This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to sta — Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven