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Quotes Tagged "first-lines"

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
— Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones
Tags: opening-lines, life-and-death, inspirational, first-lines
Who is John Galt?
— Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Tags: taggart, philosophy, opening-lines, objectivism, galt, first-lines
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.
— Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Tags: truth, iowa, first-words, first-lines
Back before there was time, I lived with my father on an island, tucked away in an endless archipelago that reached up out of the cold salt water, hungry for air.
— Erica Bauermeister The Scent Keeper
Tags: time, setting, salt-water, island, first-lines, father, childhood
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