#sentence

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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I might be the villain of this story. ↗

— Rebecca Makkai

#villains #first-sentence

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. ↗

— Robert Bloch

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At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him. ↗

— Susan Cooper

#first-sentence

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture. ↗

— José Saramago

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Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#first-sentence

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#first-sentence

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences. ↗

— Gary Soto

#poetry #first-sentence