I’m that girl who picks up a book in bookstore and turns to the first page, not the back blurb, first. If the book gets me with the first line, I’m sold. Here are my 7 favorite opening lines in books. ( I really have about 1,000 but this is Saturday Seven not Saturday 1,000, so…heehee)
The seven best opening lines in books.
- Call me Ishmael – Moby Dick by Hermann Melville
2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
—Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. “It was a bright, cold day in April. And the clocks were striking thirteen.” 1984 ~George Orwell
4. “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electricuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.” The Bell Jar ~ Sylvia Plath
5. “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
6. “We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.”
—The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. “It was a dark and stormy night” Snoopy via Peanuts & Charles Shultz
Since this is a progressive blog hop, let’s see what some of the other authors’ seven favs for the week are: SaturdaySeven
Peggy Jaeger, Author 