What are some of you favorite first sentences of books?
One of my favorite openers is from A Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz: "On the morning of the best day of her life, Maud Flynn was locked in the outhouse, singing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic.'"
By the way, that's an awesome book. Read it!
You can share last sentences too if they don't give away the plots at all.
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The best one ever is from Jeremy Fink and The Meaning of Life. Ready?
*DRUMROLL*
Here it is:
My sweat smells like peanut butter.
That's actually what it said XD
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scmb1 wrote:
What are some of you favorite first sentences of books?
One of my favorite openers is from A Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz: "On the morning of the best day of her life, Maud Flynn was locked in the outhouse, singing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic.'"
By the way, that's an awesome book. Read it!
You can share last sentences too if they don't give away the plots at all.
I read that. It was okay.
The first sentence of this book isn't entirely epic, so I'll go with the last one: 'And that's a fact.' Who knows which book this is
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
End:
I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer ...
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gbear605 wrote:
Beginning
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
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End:
I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer ...
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Best book ever written
As well as HP2 through 7.
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Wickimen wrote:
gbear605 wrote:
Beginning
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
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End:
I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer ...
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Best book ever written
As well as HP2 through 7.
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"It was a pleasure to burn" -Fahrenheit 401 (cant remember the numbers...)
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I don't expect a lot of you to fully understand this but:
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Also:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (IDK if it's one or two sentences)
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Wickimen wrote:
brettman98 wrote:
"It was a pleasure to burn" -Fahrenheit 401 (cant remember the numbers...)
Farenhiet 451, I think
Oh ok thanks! I stopped reading it after like chapter 3 because it got very weird...
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"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." ~The Hobbit or There and Back Again, J.R.R Tolkien
Doesn't sound memorable, but what's great is that Tolkien doesn't explain at all what a hobbit is until one and a half pages later. He describes the hole instead. Such clever, subtle wit.
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brettman98 wrote:
Wickimen wrote:
brettman98 wrote:
"It was a pleasure to burn" -Fahrenheit 401 (cant remember the numbers...)
Farenhiet 451, I think
Oh ok thanks! I stopped reading it after like chapter 3 because it got very weird...
Yeah...It was a thoughtful book, but rather poorly written.
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gbear605 wrote:
Beginning
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
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End:
I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer ...
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YES. Harry Potter!

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AtomicBawm3 wrote:
I don't expect a lot of you to fully understand this but:
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Also:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (IDK if it's one or two sentences)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
It's all one sentance
My favorite:
“I hope you’re reading this Mark. Heck, I hope anybody’s reading this because the only thing that’s keeping me from going totally of my nut right now is getting this all down on paper so that someday, when it’s all over, it’ll help prove that I’m not a total whack job. You see, two things happened yesterday that changed my life forever…”
From Pendragon Book 1: The Merchant of Death

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"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip"
"I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her."
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From Eragon:
Christopher Paolini wrote:
Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.

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lilacfuzz101 wrote:
AtomicBawm3 wrote:
I don't expect a lot of you to fully understand this but:
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Also:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (IDK if it's one or two sentences)"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
It's all one sentance![]()
My favorite:
“I hope you’re reading this Mark. Heck, I hope anybody’s reading this because the only thing that’s keeping me from going totally of my nut right now is getting this all down on paper so that someday, when it’s all over, it’ll help prove that I’m not a total whack job. You see, two things happened yesterday that changed my life forever…”
From Pendragon Book 1: The Merchant of Death![]()
lol, I knew the pendragon from the 'I hope you're reading this Mark'
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lilacfuzz101 wrote:
From Eragon:
Christopher Paolini wrote:
Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.
Brillant start to a book.
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Wickimen wrote:
scmb1 wrote:
What are some of you favorite first sentences of books?
One of my favorite openers is from A Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz: "On the morning of the best day of her life, Maud Flynn was locked in the outhouse, singing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic.'"
By the way, that's an awesome book. Read it!
You can share last sentences too if they don't give away the plots at all.I read that. It was okay.
The first sentence of this book isn't entirely epic, so I'll go with the last one: 'And that's a fact.' Who knows which book this is![]()
The report card.
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AtomicBawm3 wrote:
I don't expect a lot of you to fully understand this but:
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Also:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (IDK if it's one or two sentences)
I understand that.
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slapperbob wrote:
Wickimen wrote:
scmb1 wrote:
What are some of you favorite first sentences of books?
One of my favorite openers is from A Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz: "On the morning of the best day of her life, Maud Flynn was locked in the outhouse, singing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic.'"
By the way, that's an awesome book. Read it!
You can share last sentences too if they don't give away the plots at all.I read that. It was okay.
The first sentence of this book isn't entirely epic, so I'll go with the last one: 'And that's a fact.' Who knows which book this is![]()
The report card.
Yes, she's always saying that
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lilacfuzz101 wrote:
From Eragon:
Christopher Paolini wrote:
Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.
A fart to wipe out the world out?
Umm, lemme think. I think I have read some funny one's trying to remember . . .
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