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Position:Home>Books & Authors> What is one of the greatest first opening lines you've read in a story or noQuestion: What is one of the greatest first opening lines you've read in a story or novel!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "Since Rosario had been shot at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of death with that of love!." from the novel Rosario Tijeras!.!.!. i think it sounds better in spanish though at least that first line!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Once upon a time!.!.!. It was the best of times,it was the worst of times!.!.!. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife!.!.!. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter!.!.!. Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm!.!.!. From these lines,some,I remembered,some I got from the websites below Www@QuestionHome@Com "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed!." Stephen King's The Dark Tower!. I think you have to read the books to understand!. It's not all literary, but I really like it!. I'll have to add the first line in Cien A?os de Soledad, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez!. "Muchos anos despues, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendia habia de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevo a conocer el hielo!." "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice!."Www@QuestionHome@Com "They're all dead now!. [!.!.!.] Here's a picture of their house as it was then!. [!.!.!.] Here's a picture of her the day she died!." It goes on, describing photos of the family members who lived in that house!. Then it describes how each of them died!. All on the first page! Definitely the most chilling introduction I have ever read!. From the novel "Fall On Your Knees" by Anne-Marie Macdonald!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Once Upon a Time!.!.!.!. A long, long, time ago!.!.!.!. In a Galexy far, far, far, away!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way!. - Anna KareninaWww@QuestionHome@Com "Gregor Samsa awoke to find that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach"!. Metamorphosis, Franz KafkaWww@QuestionHome@Com "I am born!." From "David Copperfield" by the great Charles Dickens!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It was the best of times, it was the worst of times!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Call me Jonah!. My parents did, or nearly did!. They called me John!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It was a dark and stormy night!.Www@QuestionHome@Com All children, except one, grow up!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |