#ten

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man. ↗

— Joe Haldeman

#first-sentence

On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican. ↗

— Mary Doria Russell

#first-sentence

Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism. ↗

— Mary Doria Russell

#first-sentence

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. ↗

— Amy Tan

#first-sentence

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is. ↗

— James Carlos Blake

#self-knowledge #tragedy #first-sentence

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#first-sentence

There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#sentence #music

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#embarrassment #jane-austen #jennifer-paynter #love #mary-bennet

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#guidance #inner-guidance #listening #self-awareness #music

When you're young, you say what you feel. When you're adult, you speak what you think. When you grow old, you listen to what nature says. ↗

— Toba Beta

#feel #listen #old #think #young