May 14, 2015 14:00
I'm going to do the SPN 30 Snapshots challenge and I'm claiming table 15: The Story Begins. Snapshots will be linked here as I complete them.
01. It is a truth universally acknowledged
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
06. It was the best of times
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
11. 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
16.They say when trouble comes close ranks
Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea
21. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
26. Of man's first disobedience
John Milton
Paradise Lost
02. When shall we three meet again?
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
07. A screaming comes across the sky
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
12. It was a bright cold day in April
George Orwell
1984
17. The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new
Samuel Beckett
Murphy
22. This is the saddest story I have ever heard
Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier
27. It was a dark and stormy night
Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
03. It was a wrong number that started it
Paul Auster
City of Glass
08. I had the story, bit by bit, from various people
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
13. It was love at first sight
Joseph Heller
Catch 22
18. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L.P.Hartley
The Go-Between
23. A voice comes to one in the dark
Samuel Beckett
Company
28. It was a nice day.
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Good Omens
04. Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
09. I have done it again
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus
14. Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
Samuel Beckett
Endgame
19. You're dead to me.
Sarah Kane
Crave
24. My suffering left me sad and gloomy
Yann Martel
Life of Pi
29. There is a curse
Terry Pratchett
Interesting Times
05. There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation
Trudi Canavan
The Magician's Apprentice
10. Death, in this forsaken place, could come in countless forms
Dan Brown
Deception Point
15. Something monumental was about to happen; possibly the most monumental thing ever to happen anywhere, ever.
Doug Naylor
Last Human
20. The demon howled its outrage
Raymond E.Feist
Rides a Dread Legion
25. In the beginning, I behaved badly.
Jesse Kellerman
The Brutal Art
30. I would not if I could undo my past
Christina Rossetti
They Desire a Better Country
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