Writer's Block: Once upon a time…
"It was a nice day."
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman.
Gosh, that's a boring first line, even if it is my favorite book. Here, have some more I can knock out by heart:
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
"All children, except one, grow up."
"It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips."
"When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen."
"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition, and Astrology."
"Lyra and her dmso-fareast-font-family:PMingLiU;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
ZH-TW;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">æmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
There, now *those* are some first lines. And I shall be very disappointed if you are unable to identify every single one of them. Also, it's apparent where my literary tastes lie from this entry...