Quotes #002: Famous First Lines
1
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
2
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
3
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
4
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
5
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
6
Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure.
7
I am an invisible man.
8
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
9
I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.
10
All children, except one, grow up.
2 Comments
The first one is Wide Sargasso Sea, that's probably the only one I've read. I guess the last one is Peter Pan. And that's all I know, quite sad. :)
ReplyDeleteHey Petra - haven't seen you round these parts for a bit :) Two is good, although I reckon you might get 5, 6, or 7 too.
ReplyDeleteI always welcome comments...