#ten

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

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. ↗