Great first lines have the power to draw in a reader. A lot of thought goes in to the first sentence; when I finish a novel, I like to go back and reread the words that started it all. Often times, you’ll find greater meaning than before.
“The door slide open, and Clark knew it was time to die.”
“I’ve never understood why the heart always reacts.”
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“There were only two kinds of people in our town. “The stupid and the stuck,”
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“I’ve been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.”
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“I felt her fear before I heard her screams.”
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“There will be no awakening.”
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“The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice.”
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“The newborn wailed as the midwife wrapped her in a receiving blanket and quickly handed her to Sister Ruth.”
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“It has been sixty-four years since the President and Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure.”
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“Ironically, since the attacks, the sunsets have been glorious.”
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“When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.”
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“I hate First Friday.”
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“Everyone thinks it was because of the snow.”
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“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, are infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death.”
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“Scarlet Thomas has been my best friend for as long as I can remember.”
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“I never knew moving out would feel so good.”
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“Even in retrospect, it’s difficult to pinpoint where we went wrong.”
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