The Great Opening Lines Group Collection

[Jody]

"It was a pleasure to burn." - Fahrenheit 451

(Which I just started this evening!)

[Jody]

"They said I must die." - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent.

(Just started it & it the first line is anything to go by, I'm going to love it.)

[Aglaea]

Andrea wrote: "The opening line of Sabatini's
Scaramouche
is among my, if not my most, favorite.

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”"

For some reason I think of Queen lyrics :) Those are fantabulous.