Posted 12 years ago
It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.
Posted 12 years ago
and this is followed by a sigh, then a slight shrug and another sigh, and above one of the doors covered by red velvet drapes in Harry’s is a sign and on the sign in letters that match the drapes’ color are the words THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.
Posted 12 years ago
By then I may no longer believe I heard anything in Miri’s room.
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Posted 12 years ago
This is a GREAT project firstly. I was wondering if you take submissions. If yes, I have a few FIRST sentences that I'd like to submit.
Oh yes, we love submissions!
But if you have FIRST sentences, I hope you’ll redirect them over to Novel First Sentences instead. :)
Posted 12 years ago
How do you actually gain access to the sentences? Jacquelyn Mitchard
People submit them from books they have lying around the house or library or bookstore. :)
Posted 12 years ago
I’ve put down my scrivener’s pen. These days I prefer not to.
Posted 12 years ago
All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
The Chronicles of Narnia - The Last Battle by C.S.Lewis
Submitted by tacosandtrumpets
Posted 12 years ago
For I honestly do believe that in the fat-dripping, gummy, eat-and-let-eat regime just ended…in such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest – without asking to be paid.
A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
Submitted by eriniee
Posted 12 years ago
A nurse came out then to fetch me, and I turned and followed her inside, and it was as if I were walking into the sea.