Twenty Beginnings
In no particular order are the first lines of twenty of my favorite books. If you want to, you can guess which book each line is from. Some are easier than others because I had to use names. I stole this from stormysprite and have had a difficult time not replicating very many of her choices.
Since I don't have many of my fun books with me, I must give props to Amazon for their "look inside" feature, which I discovered while looking for excerpts from one of the books on this list.
1. When the lights were off, the accompanist kissed her.
2. On the ninth of Augst, 1964, Rome lay asleep in afternoon light as the sun swirled in a blinding pinwhrrl above its roofs, its low hills, and its gilded domes.
3. It's hard being left behind.
4. My wound is geography.
5. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason that I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
6. Charles Howard had the feel of a gigantic crushing machine: You had to either climb on or leap out of the way.
7. The messenger said I was to come at once.
8. Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."
9. I don't think my stepfather much minded dying.
10. Food consonsumed today:...
11. My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:...
12. "I have been here before, " I said; I had been there before;...
13. The unicorn lived in a little wood, and she lived all alone.
14. Many, many years ago, in Sorrento there lived a small boy named Giovanni who had no mother and no father.
15. He understood what they were thinking and saying: Old man that he is, what's to become of him?
16. What can I say about love?
17. Strange thing, time.
18. The wind being fierce and the tides unobliging, the ship from Harwich has a slow time of it.
19. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.
20. He was dead.
Since I don't have many of my fun books with me, I must give props to Amazon for their "look inside" feature, which I discovered while looking for excerpts from one of the books on this list.
1. When the lights were off, the accompanist kissed her.
2. On the ninth of Augst, 1964, Rome lay asleep in afternoon light as the sun swirled in a blinding pinwhrrl above its roofs, its low hills, and its gilded domes.
3. It's hard being left behind.
4. My wound is geography.
5. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason that I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
6. Charles Howard had the feel of a gigantic crushing machine: You had to either climb on or leap out of the way.
7. The messenger said I was to come at once.
8. Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."
9. I don't think my stepfather much minded dying.
10. Food consonsumed today:...
11. My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:...
12. "I have been here before, " I said; I had been there before;...
13. The unicorn lived in a little wood, and she lived all alone.
14. Many, many years ago, in Sorrento there lived a small boy named Giovanni who had no mother and no father.
15. He understood what they were thinking and saying: Old man that he is, what's to become of him?
16. What can I say about love?
17. Strange thing, time.
18. The wind being fierce and the tides unobliging, the ship from Harwich has a slow time of it.
19. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.
20. He was dead.