Beginnings...
30 Day Book Meme: - Day 18 - Favorite beginning scene in a book
I love "Opening Gambit: Threat to a Castle" in The Game of Kings; if you look at the scene at Mungo Tennant's place, that has to be my favourite opening scene ever.
The funeral scene in the first chapter of It Had to be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips also comes to mind.
The opening scene of Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett was wonderful and heartbreaking.
I like the first scene of Jane Eyre, where Jane is reading in the window-seat.
Then there's the famous, "To me, my X-Men!" from X-Men #1.