#sentence

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. ↗

— Peter Straub

#henry #henry james #i #i write #james

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#fair #fair trial #had #high #high office

It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#first-lines #first-sentence #beauty

What else exhausts like sustained deception? ↗

— Leif Enger

#deception

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#humor #humor

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. ↗

— Nick Cave

#opening-lines #opening-sentences #death

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister. ↗

— Adam Rapp

#first-sentence #murder #death

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#first-sentence

Happy endings aren't for cowards. ↗

— Jill A. Davis

#first-sentence