ThoughtCo. When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. Heres the opening line: Like Alison Carter, I was born in Derbyshire in 1950. Not exactly a wow line, right? After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. At dusk they pour from the sky. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Lombardi, Esther. ", "'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on the remarkably smogless Detroit day January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Full of a babys venom. the Perfect First Line We just dont know it at the time. The claim website notes that they could be awarded up to 25% of the settlement or $181.3 million. You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. 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. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. To engage them. It is immediately followed by paragraphs expanding on the war, its casualties, and who is buried/imprisoned (dark lord, who'd have guessed it), but with that one line it perfectly sets the overall tone for the Fionavar Tapestry. ", "The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored. Click here for instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, If on a winters night a traveler (1979; trans. The Color Purple by Alice Walker You better not never tell nobody but God. In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that Ive been turning over in my mind ever since. ", "It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it." When he woke in the woods in the dark and cold of the night hed reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. And when the story becomes a classic, the first line can sometimes become as famous as the novel itself, as the quotes below demonstrate. In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. WebThat is the very first line of The Summer Tree.