Sometimes you can flick open a book and by the time you've reached the first full stop you've got a friend for life! Here are my favourite opening lines (all subsequent lines are worth reading too) from books read/revisited in 2014.
"It all started with a hymen." (Hello Kitty Must Die, Angela S. Choi)
This book is HILARIOUS! I read it nearly in one sitting! Our heroine is witty, smart and desperately trying to escape her mother.
"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin." (Winnie the Pooh. A.A. Milne)
Even as a child that I loved that image, the slow descent of two best friends into a domestic haven...bliss
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board." (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston)
This immediately struck a cord, as a child I remember chasing planes and shouting "Take me with you." As an adult reading this line, I found it so simple, so heartbreaking and so true that I fell in love with this novel almost immediately. There's great comfort in knowing you're not alone. Also Zora is a dynamo!!
"All children , except one, grow up." (Peter Pan. J.M. Barrie)
One the possibilities! I very much wanted to be Peter Pan!
"It was the day my grandmother exploded." (The Crow Road, Iain Banks)
Was it really? I have so very many questions you need to answer!
"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea." (The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James)
Yes I quite agree. One lump or two?
"On the map, their destination had been a stretch of green, as if they would be living on a golf course." (California, Edan Lepucki.)
I sense impending doom. In this novel, dystopian fiction has grown up, and its voice is beautiful.
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