First Impressions and Lingering Endings

A place for the first and last sentences in literature.

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Happy Birthday Jules Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905)

Monument to Jules Verne in Vigo, Spain, by Jose Molares (Lois Enrique)

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Orphans ~ Ben Tanzer

First: I am staring into the bathroom mirror and I am steadying myself.

Last: And then I paddle into the darkness.

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Divergent ~ Veronica Roth

First: There is one mirror in my house.

Last: I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

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The Falcon and the Flower ~ Virginia Henley

First: The young virgin lifted her arms high while the old woman adorned her naked form with a silvery robe as finely spun as a spider's web.

Last: He smiled into the darkness as he realized Jasmine was asleep in his arms.

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Dave at Night ~ Gail Carson Levine

First: From the start, I've always made trouble.

Last: Tell for you your fortune?

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The compendium is now complete. I'm getting some entries queued up, so this blog should be more active now. As always, please submit, I do need help. There's a lot of books in the world =]

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Midnight in Austenland ~ Shannon Hale

First: No one who knew Charlotte Constance Kinder since her youth would suppose her born to be a heroine.

Last: But first, she was going to learn to dance.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower ~ Stephen Chbosky

First: Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at the party even though you could have.

Last: Love always, Charlie

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Entwined by Heather Dixon

First: An hour before Azalea's first ball began, she paced the ballroom floor, tracing her toes in a waltz.

Last: It was the best dance they had ever done.

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

First: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Last:That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

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Austenland ~ Shannon Hale

First: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little, and Jane Hayes, pretty enough and clever enough, was certainly thought to have little to distress her.

Last: We're going to order in tonight.

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Dune - Frank Herbert

First: In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.

Last: "While we, Chani, we who carry the name concubine - history will call us wives."

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Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

First: It was a pleasure to burn.

Last: When we reach the city.

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The Dragon's Tooth ~ N.D. Wilson

First: North of Mexico, south of Canada, and not too far west of the freshwater sea called Lake Michigan, in a place where cows polka-dot hills and men are serious about cheese, there is a lady on a pole.

Last: LAWRENCE JOHN SMITH

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The Unwanteds ~ Lisa McMann

First: There was a hint of wind coming over the top of the stone walls and through the barbed-wire sky on the day Alexander Stowe was to be Purged.

Last: It was more than any Unwanted could ever hope for.