Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

“First sentences are doors to worlds.” - Ursula K. Le Guin Just that all-important first line of novels, new and old. 📚 #OpeningLines Joined April 2014

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"The residents of Wakarusa, Indiana, could spin gossip faster than a spider spins its web." #AllGoodPeopleHere, Ashley Flowers @Ash_Flowers #OpeningLines

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3 years ago

"Rose and I moved to New York to be motherless." #GirlsTheyWriteSongsAbout, Carlene Bauer #OpeningLines

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3 years ago

"Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worthwhile." #ThisSideofParadise, F. Scott Fitzgerald #BornOnThisDay #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

“What goes through the mind and body of a man accustomed to triumphing over the odds when one September evening his worst fears are confirmed?” #TheVineyard, María Dueñas @MDuenasOficial #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"It is true that before moving to New York City in May of 1985, I turned my back on a six-figure trust fund." #MyGovernmentMeanstoKillMe, @RasheedNewson #OpeningLines

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3 years ago

"It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times." #Autumn, Ali Smith #OpeningLines

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3 years ago

"From where she sat at the back of the bus, the driver's death was a confusing spectacle to Emily Jackson." #TheChase, Candice Fox @candicefoxbooks #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"Faye Moy signed a contract stating that she would never marry." #TheManyDaughtersofAfongMoy, @JamieFord #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"I was eleven years old when I saw my future." #WhenYouAreMine, @michaelrobotham #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"Her smell sends me tumbling back through time to 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦." #TheChildrenontheHill, @jennifermcmahon #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"When I saw my first palm tree, I almost died of disappointment." #CarolinaMoonset, Matt Goldman @goldman_matthew #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"The day that changed my life was like every other day before it, except that it changed my life." #BlackBuck, Mateo Askaripour @AskMateo #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"My first memory is of the three of us, still inside, impatient to be born." #OneTwoThree, @Laurie_Frankel #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"The clouds over Lahore were purple as a gossip's tongue the day my mother told me I would wed." #AllMyRage, @sabaatahir #OpeningLines

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Novel Opening Lines 📚 @ThatOpeningLine

3 years ago

"The thing about Los Angeles is that it's awful and I hate it, but when I'm there, nowhere else exists, and I can't imagine leaving." #NSFW, Isabel Kaplan #OpeningLines

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3 years ago

"A girl steps through a sun-beat field, singing while she picks dandelions, dingy things, wild, but her mother's favorite." #MotherintheDark, @kaylamaiuri #OpeningLines

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3 years ago

"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically." #LadyChatterleysLover, D.H. Lawrence #BornOnThisDay #OpeningLines

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3 years ago

"Six months ago, if you had asked me what I thought I'd be doing today, the answer would 𝘯𝘰𝘵 have been transporting a drugged skunk to the house where my soon-to-be ex-husband lived with his much-younger fiancée." #OutoftheClearBlueSky, @Kristan_Higgins #OpeningLines