Favorite opening sentence?

[mattig89ch he/him]

1 hour ago, AngelEy3 said:

You beat me to that one. I'm a little late to this party though for sure. Have an upvote. 

Whats that line from?

[AngelEy3 he/him]

58 minutes ago, mattig89ch said:

Whats that line from?

It's the opening line to Stephen King's Dark Tower series. From book 1, The Gunslinger. 

Edit: The Man in Black is Stephen King's Hoid. If Hoid was ever featured as a main antagonist. He's featured in the The Dark Tower, The Stand, and Eyes of the Dragon as far as I know, but may make more appearances than that. 

Edited November 18, 2016 by AngelEy3
Info Spren

[Who Sharded?]

The Gunslinger one pops up in every topic like this I've seen on various forums.  Anyone else besides me not in love with it?  It sounds kind of cool but I think it gives a false impression.  It makes it sound like the Gunslinger is quickly chasing the MIB, which is not the case at all. Plus I don't think the line sounds quite cool enough to be as popular as it is.

I also think the Dresden Files series has many opening lines that are better than the one in Blood Rites, but that line always seems to be the most popular.  I don't mean to be contrary.

[AngelEy3 he/him]

3 minutes ago, Who Sharded? said:

The Gunslinger one pops up in every topic like this I've seen on various forums.  Anyone else besides me not in love with it?  It sounds kind of cool but I think it gives a false impression.  It makes it sound like the Gunslinger is quickly chasing the MIB, which is not the case at all. Plus I don't think the line sounds quite cool enough to be as popular as it is.

I also think the Dresden Files series has many opening lines that are better than the one in Blood Rites, but that line always seems to be the most popular.  I don't mean to be contrary.

I knew it before it was cool to know it? lol. I read that line in the bookstore at 14 years old and had to get it. I could see it as being 'overplayed' I guess though.

[Iarwainiel I she/her]

"Five friends I had, and two of them snakes." (FYI - They are real snakes, not a metaphor.)

(This is the first sentence of "Godric" by Fredereck Buechner.)

Edited December 8, 2016 by old aggie

[Delightful]

Aubrey Fitzwilliam hated being dead. It made things much harder than they needed to be.

[PlanetReelo she/her]

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say.

About anything.

"Need a poo, Todd."

"Shut up, Manchee."

"Poo. Poo, Todd."

"I said shut it."

A bit longer then a sentence, for full effect! It's from 'The knife of never letting go'. It was one of my fave YA Sci-fi books from back in the day.

[StormingTexan he/him]

"I’m pretty much f'd."

 

Abbreviated a little. 

[Exalted]

23 hours ago, StormingTexan said:

"I’m pretty much f'd."

The Martian?

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." -Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

"I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages." -The Hero of Ages

"This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history." -The Fellowship of the Ring

"Sadie Kane here. If you're listening to this, congratulations! You've survived Doomsday." -The Serpent's Shadow

"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose up in the ________. That wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turnings of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning." -The Wheel of Time series

[Yezrien]

"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct."

From the Manual of Muad'Dib, by the Princess Irulan.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

"There once was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." -Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

[C. M. Hayden he/him]

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

 

[+Extesian he/him]

"IT WAS NIGHT AGAIN. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts."

(Totally one sentence, with a full stop in the middle.)

[StormingTexan he/him]

On 12/31/2016 at 0:11 PM, Exalted Dungeon Master said:

The Martian?

Correct. I think it pretty much summed up the situation in the fewest amount of words possible. 

Lot's of good ones here! 

[PallonianFire he/him]

This is cheating a little bit, but:
 

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Fragments...
...all around, fragments of my work, my life, my love and my pain, scattered in this bleak season...

And in the darkness, shards of time.

 

 

[+Extesian he/him]

"It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future. The locked and rusted gate that stood before us, with wisps of river fog threading its spikes like the mountain paths, remains in my mind now as the symbol of my exile."

Cheating a little, but for merging fantasy and scifi, and for utter beauty of prose and layered narrative, it doesn't get better than Book of the New Sun. I can't recommend it enough to Sanderfans.

[PallonianFire he/him]

 

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"It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future. The locked and rusted gate that stood before us, with wisps of river fog threading its spikes like the mountain paths, remains in my mind now as the symbol of my exile."

YEESSSSSS

[Eki]

"I am born! Hello!

Many things happen.

The end!" - The Awakened Kingdom, by N. K. Jemisin

[dorkspren]

I'm late to this thread, but - 

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

[Flynn]

'whispered are the days when Elantris was beautiful.'

'No, no.'

'Marsh struggled to kill himself.'

'you might not want to buy this book.'

Edited February 5, 2017 by Flynn
I had new ideas

[Briar King]

The sunrise was the color of bad blood.