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Some of the best first sentences of books in history. Inspiring!

“The war in Zagreb began over a pack of cigarettes.”
—Girl at War by Sara Nović

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.”
—The Stranger by Albert Camus

“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.”
—Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

“The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.” 
—The Gunslinger by Stephen King

“It was a pleasure to burn.”
—Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

“All this happened, more or less.”
—Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

“It was a nice day. All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn’t been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one.”
—Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

“It was late in the spring when I noticed that a girl was following me, nearly the end of May, a month that means perhaps or might be.”
—Dietland by Sarai Walker

“My father is gone. I’m slouched in a cast-aluminum chair across from two men, one the manager of the hotel we’re staying and the other a policeman. They’re both waiting for me to explain what’s become of him, my father.”
—The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

“My brain was drowning in grease.”
—The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

“‘You’ve no choice. Look back.’”
—The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’”
—The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me.”
—The Lover by Marguerite Duras

“Quietly, like a shadow, I watch this drama unfold scene by scene. I am the lucid one here, the dangerous one, and nobody suspects.”
—Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych by Marie Vieux-Chauvet

“It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.”
—A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”
—Kindred by Octavia Butler

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.”
—The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

“The final dying sounds of their dress rehearsal left the Laurel Players with nothing to do but stand there, silent and helpless, blinking over the footlights of an empty auditorium.”
—Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates