Literary Quotes

Hey everyone. Today I wanted to share some literary quotes with you... but I couldn't figure out which to use, so I decided to use some opening lines from several stories. Enjoy!

 

 

First, let's start with some classics:

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." - The Bible.

"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.

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."  - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

"The surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate." - The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.

 "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and his schoolmasters called him Scrubb. I can't tell you what his friend called him, for he had none." - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis.

"They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say." - The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit.

Now, for some of my own works  :)

"A cool summer breeze wafted into my room bringing with it the memory of my mother. She loved summer. She said it always made her think of the journey her family made every year to the castle."  - The Shards of Ailevon by Catrina Hawley.

"Jair shut his eyes and tried to block the mental images that poured into his mind. His dream still haunted him. The dream he had been having for over a year. The dream that reminded him of his cousin."  - Dark fire by Catrina Hawley (currently in progress).

Do you have any favourite opening lines?