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"Bunny Sue was nineteen."

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

They call me Ishmael.

Do not do this. Don’t belittle literature by reducing a work to a line.

Does it? I seldom read fiction, but I believe in sucking the reader in, and writing sentences that make the reader need to read the next one. I’ll give this a try just because I want to read the second sentence.

“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.” - Terry Pratchett, “Hogfather”

"As my cab pulled off FDR Drive, somewhere in the early Hundreds, a low-slung Tomahawk full of black guys came sharking out of lane and sloped in fast right across our bows.” Martin Amis - Money

“Officious little prick” from The Shining. I read The Shining when I was 11 years old (I’m now 60) and I’ve never forgotten that first line.

With the article behind paywall, may we ASSUME they went for the easy cliche’ of CS Lewis’ Voyage of the Dawn Treader? “There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“I live in Montecito, California, one of the most beautiful places in the world.” —Friday Evening; Creating La Dolce Vita, one bite at a time

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." William Gibson, Neuromancer 1984

The man in black fled through the desert and the gunslinger followed.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984

"It was the day my grandmother exploded" From "The Crow Road" by Iain Banks

1801 I have just returned from a visit to my landlord, the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with - Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë (Thank you Miss McMillan I knew reading this would come in handy one day 👍)

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Excellent! I read that book on my honeymoon. My husband was not pleased.