First Lines I Like

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. 

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice -- not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

Harriet and David met each other at an office party neither had particularly wanted to go to, and both knew at once that this was what they had been waiting for. 

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. 

A thing that is no fun?  Stomach trouble.

I went to Paris after graduation but it was too late to do me any good.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. 

I once heard a country and western song called "Faster Horses." 

Her doctor had told Julian's mother that she must lose twenty pounds on account of her blood pressure, so on Wednesday nights Julian had to take her downtown on the bus for a reducing class at the Y. 

My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:

I am thinking of asking the servants to wax my change before placing it in the Chinese tank I keep on my dresser. 

I am sitting in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. 

Let's start indoors.

The order to abandon ship was given at 5 P.M.

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction -- what has that got to do with a room of one's own? 

Floyd Elgin Dominy raises beef cattle in the Shenandoah Valley. 

The sea which lies before me glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine. 

Had I known what high school would be like I would have asked my parents to set me adrift on an ice floe at puberty. 

All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. 

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[Dylan]

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

[SombreroFallout]

In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

A screaming comes across the sky.

I was born in San Francisco, California.

-Money ...? in a voice that rustled.

I am distinguished by my penmanship. [first sentence by proxy]

[memorable, but not literarily at the top of my list]:
We were halfway across the desert to Barstow when the drugs started to take hold.

[kitty]

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

[Puma Shoes]

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