Novel First Sentences

Just as the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, every story ever written began with just one sentence. Novel Last Sentences

[ithelpstodream]

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

so is Victory

[ashermajestywishes]

LOVE TRIANGLE

[bsparrow]

Don’t forget Truth (Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind)

[justrollinon]

This must be why the Trump administration hates them all 

[acciowine]

The Four Horsewomen of the Trumpocalypse.

[krustybunny-deactivated20221129]

I’ve never reblogged anything so quick

[spectrometon]

The Ultimate Squad, comin’ to wreck your shit and save the world

[quentineliot]

Rb for that art doe

[novelfirstsentences]

I am thinking of an apple when the streetcar hits and my leg severs and my ribs crumble and my arm is no longer an arm but something unrecognizable, wet and red.

Eve & Adam by Michael Grant & Katherine Applegate

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At the time, when the statue, caught suddenly in the beam of the headlights, practically leaped out at me from the dark bushes behind it, at the time I thought I knew what it meant.

The Broken Goddess by Hans Bemmann

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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

[novelfirstsentences]

I rise into darkness, away from the garden they watered with the blood of my friends.

Morning Star by Pierce Brown

[novelfirstsentences]

Once upon a time, a man came from the sky and killed my wife.

Golden Son by Pierce Brown

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I would have lived in peace.

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

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The figure in the fine gray suit materialized in the nursery and stood over the sleeping infant, inhaling the sweet, milky night air.

The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough

[novelfirstsentences]

Once there was, and one day there will be.

The Reader by Traci Chee

[novelfirstsentences]

The wind howls, the rain comes down in sheets, and Patty is still dead.

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire

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When Patricia was six years old, she found a wounded bird.

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

[novelfirstsentences]

It is dark, dark seven A.M. on Christmas Eve Eve.

2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino

[novelfirstsentences]

Joost has two problems: the moon and his mustache.

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

[novelfirstsentences]

I am going to be flogged, and I don’t know why I’m so surprised about it.

The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

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On our wedding day I was forty-six, she was eighteen.

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

[novelfirstsentences]

What kind of maniac travels in time?

The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn

[novelfirstsentences]

War was declared at eleven-fifteen and Mary North signed up at noon.

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave