Great First Lines Quotes

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Samuel Beckett, Murphy

“Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero. That's just how it is.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“Who let the dogs in? ...This, we fear, is going to be the question. Who let the dogs in? Who let the dogs in? Who? Who?”
― Martin Amis, Lionel Asbo: State of England

“Alicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient