a resigned sigh, yet all of this taken together still settled onto the room as a kind of silence. An imperfect, unraveling, restless silence, which had more to do with the living noises of life than with the inhuman perfection of flawless quiet.’
#openingsentence
#NYRBWomen25 “A woman who had never kept any animals was given a cat.” #OpeningSentence #Borghesia
📷 Natalia Ginzburg & her Siamese cats
"Aaron Conners always told himself he was just an ordinary teenager who, in that moment, found himself racing through an unknown forest on four very large ash grey paws."
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“Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage…”
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Born on this day 249 years ago.
Love that she opened her novel with a man who didn’t read widely.
#OpeningSentence #JaneAusten #Fiction
“The boy crept stealthily through the low bushes, eyes darting right and left for any sign of the enemy.”
Caligula, by Douglas Jackson, 2008.
Simple, effective, action begins this brilliant novel. A favourite #HistFic story.
#OpeningSentence #WritingCommunity
“Winter bites hard in Rogaland. Sodden thatch shudders under its blanket of snow.”
Not all openings are dramatic. This is gorgeously descriptive and atmospheric. The first paragraph is all like this, building detail. Then in para 2, we meet Eyvind fixing a roof.
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“I awoke to terror because I heard them singing.” Druids, by Morgan Llewellyn (1991). Love this line because of the juxtaposition of terror and singing. The author gets away with the ‘waking up’ cliche because of this strangeness. #OpeningSentence #WritingCommunity
“I awoke to terror because I heard them singing.”
Druids, by Morgan Llewellyn (1991).
Love this line because of the juxtaposition of terror and singing. The author gets away with the ‘waking up’ cliche because of this strangeness.
#OpeningSentence #WritingCommunity
