First Sentence Quotes

“It's a weirdly subtle conversation, I almost don't notice I'm being blackmailed.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire of light and commerce that the adults called the Golden Hour, for a reason I did not yet grasp.”
― Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns

“I'm as restless as the ghosts today.”
― Erica Waters, Ghost Wood Song

“Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.”
― Stefan Bachmann, The Peculiar

“It began the night we died on the Kamikaze.”
― Neal Shusterman, Full Tilt

“I never thought I'd have a story worth telling, at least not one about me.”
― Perry Moore , Hero

“All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.”
― S.L. Viehl, Blade Dancer

“I didn't suspect the day Grandfather came out and got me and my sister, Lula, and hauled us off toward the ferry that I'd soon end up with worse things happening than had already come upon us or that I'd take up with a gun-shooting dwarf, the son of a slave, and a big angry hog, let alone find true love and kill someone, but that's exactly how it was.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Thicket

“Onaj koji kaže da novcem ne možeš kupiti sreću očito nikada nije bio u knjižari.”
― Melissa Hillis

“The floating market takes shape amid a flutter of torches and spellfire, each pinprick of light tailed by its glittering reflection in the river beneath.”
― Amie Kaufman, The Other Side of the Sky

“Your Grandfather," said Vanyel's brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, "was Crazy.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“Damned Elmer's Glue! Just let me finish emasculating this eye and I'll be right with you.”
― Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy

“I was in the closet... with Tamera Muncie.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket

“Llego a la cima del monte Tibidabo y veo a unos cincuenta huérfanos en su uniforme verde aceituna alineados frente al mirador que se abre a la ciudad. Los niños tiritan de frío y ansia bajo los arcos de la oficina del parque de atracciones. Los parques de atracciones... Algún original dice que esos lugares son un negativo burlesco del Infierno, brillo de emoción en aristas de azogue; el Leteo discurre por túneles donde chillan las parejas y el tobogán de la montaña rusa es un precipicio de hierro que lanza condenados a las llamas. Todo es posible.”
― Francisco Casavella, El día del Watusi

“The water began to run out.”
― Jonathan Heatt, AnonMan

“Enchantments and Dreams: I suspect they are made of the same stuff. They each beguile the mind and confuse the senses with wonder and strangeness so all that was familiar becomes freakish, and the most bizarre of things intimate and natural.”
― Leife Shallcross, The Beast's Heart

“The first line of a novel is the pinhead upon which the great structure will stand or fall.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Birds danced in an emerald sky.”
― Jesse R Page, The Darkest Night

“Es heißt oft, alte Behausungen hätten eine Seele. Auf der Arche Anima, wo Dinge ein Eigenleben führen, neigen die alten Häuser vor allem dazu, furchtbar schrullig zu werden.”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Fiancés de l'hiver

“Poniedziałek
Ja.
Wtorek
Ja.
Środa
Ja.
Czwartek
Ja.

Piątek”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Dziennik 1953-1958

“Eris got the call from the commander while she was killing a man.”
― Elizabeth May, Seven Devils

“I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the enemy camp.”
― Brent Hartinger, Geography Club

“Novo Mynsk reeked of death.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress

“Jem Carstairs und Kit Herondale passierten das Portal gemeinsam - aus dem samtigen, mitternachtsdunklen Schwarz der britischen Waldlandschaft hinein in das von orangefarbenen Lichtern durchsetzte Abendblau einer New Yorker Straße.”
― Cassandra Clare, Para Sempre Caídos

“Das heißt also, du hast keinerlei Anzeichen für Dämonenaktivität oder andere übernatürliche Energien gespürt, die von diesem Bergsee ausgehen?", fragte Ty.”
― Cassandra Clare, O Mundo Perdido

“Zitronenkuchen! Als Erstes Zitronenkuchen", sagte Catarina.”
― Cassandra Clare, A Deeper Love

“Jeder wusste, dass Sophie Beckett ein Bankert war.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“Anthony Bridgerton hatte schon immer gewusst, dass er jung sterben würde.”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

“Tränen strömten über mein Gesicht, während ich mich durch den Schmerz kämpfte.”
― Stephanie Kate Strohm, Prince in Disguise

“Es war einmal ein Junge in einem nicht allzu entfernten Land, der nicht zur Welt hätte kommen dürfen.”
― Cassandra Clare, Through Blood, Through Fire