Amph post the opening line of a novel

They shoot the white girl first.

 

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar, and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thoughts, and they were with him before aught else was made.

 

The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn’t dropped dead at Taunton races, Jim would never have come to Thursgood’s at all.

 

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

 

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

 

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

 

"It was love at first sight."



... But it works better if you include the second line, "The first time Yossarian saw the chaplin, he fell madly in love with him."

 

"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

From the beginning, it's clear that this writer makes great characters.

 

"On February 24, 1815, the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples."

 

When he woke in the woods in the dark and cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.

 

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

 

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

 

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

 

"The lights went out in the Nameless Bar just after nine."

 

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

 

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

 

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

 

Dp4m one page ago, VLM! Read the damn thread!

 

Oh, I did. Liked a bunch. Missed that one.

I'll make up for it:

I, Lucifer, Fallen Angel, Prince of Darkness, Bringer of Light, Ruler of Hell, Lord of the Flies, Father of Lies, Apostate Supreme, Tempter of Mankind, Old Serpent, Prince of This World, Seducer, Accuser, Tormentor, Blasphemer, and without a doubt Best **** in the Seen and Unseen Universe (ask Eve, that minx) have decided - oo-la-la! - to tell all.

 

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

 

Rorschach's Journal, October 12, 1985: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach.