#irs

Women have always been spies. ↗

— Harriet Rubin

#women #first-sentence

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#first-sentence

I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #wem #will-herondale #will-herondale

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#fantasy #first #follow #learn #open

If you're going to read this, don't bother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#opening-lines #first-sentence

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #will-herondale #will-herondale

Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#family-relationships #flash-fiction #hint-fiction #six-word-memoirs #women

Call me Ishmael. ↗

— Herman Melville

#introduction #opening-lines #sobriquet #first-sentence

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#opening-lines #first-sentence

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#first-sentence