BEST OPINING LINES

“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and
life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity.”

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

2 “With everyone, I think, memories of early childhood consist of a series of

visual impressions, many very clear but lacking any sense of chronology.”

The Siren And Selected Writings, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

3“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a

good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

4"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the

Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

5“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found
himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

6The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Franz Kafka“It was 7 minutes after
midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of
Mrs Shears' house. Its eyes were closed.”
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon