Favourite Opening Lines
These are some of my favourite first lines of books:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” - Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)
“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” - The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (J. K. Rowling)
“It was a pleasure to burn.” - Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
What are yours?
