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Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss. — Dennis Sharpe

I am a vampire, and that is the truth. — Christopher Pike

It was a hot sticky night in Barcelona and all the good whores had the summer flu. — Dan Jenkins

If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund. — Susan Wittig Albert

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. — Christopher Moore

They murdered him. — Robert Cormier

There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing... — Robert Mayer

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. — Rafael Sabatini

Who is John Galt? — Ayn Rand

I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings. — Jennifer Archer

One burst after another as my wife turned in her sleep. I was a single monkey trying to type the opening lines of my Hamlet, — Billy Collins

That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here. — Sachin Kundalkar

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man. — Richard Stark

Maniac Magee was not born in a dump. — Jerry Spinelli

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. — John D. MacDonald

The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor. — Daniel Quinn

First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. — Richard Ford

Call me Ishmael. — Herman Melville

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

She'd be lucky if she got out of this alive . . . and she'd never been lucky in her life. — Dorian Paul

If gardens are created to tell stories, which I believe they are, then garden gates are the crucial opening lines that can make or break a tale. — Vivian Swift

Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla. — Eden Robinson

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it. — Kurt Vonnegut

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. — Diana Wynne Jones

Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. — Ernest Hemingway,

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. — Alice Sebold

It was Wang Lung's marriage day. — Pearl S. Buck

We all have been founded by the universe for only one purpose - To competitiveness. — Sushil Singh

When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks — Molly Harper

To say the least, it was inconsiderate of Diana's almost-dead husband to show up at her engagement party. — Robin Lee Hatcher

The chances of anyone colonizing Mars are a million to one!" Or so the newspapers said. But still we came. — G.H. Finn

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was not used to feeling intimidated. It was rather his job in life to intimidate others. — Mark Ellis

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. — Neil Gaiman

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. — William Faulkner

The great fish moved silently through the night water. — Peter Benchley

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. — Lois Lowry

...people can say all kinds of things without ever opening their mouths... — Noah Hawley

The small boys came early to the hanging. — Ken Follett

The boy shot Wild Bill's horse at dusk, while Bill was off in the bushes to relieve himself — Pete Dexter

There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart. — Josh Aterovis

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. — Louis Sachar

This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed. — Melina Marchetta

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. — Charles Dickens

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. — Samuel Beckett

I know your secret. — Jennifer Estep

It was a pleasure to burn. — Ray Bradbury

If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin. — Magda Szubanski

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful. — Rae Hachton

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. — Rick Riordan

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked. — Greg Nagan

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Dust rained in the halls of Mechanical; it shivered free from the violence of the digging. — Hugh Howey

The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door. — Peter S. Beagle

Carol Druze Was A Stone Killer. — John Sandford

There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. — Joshilyn Jackson

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. — James Joyce

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. — Charlotte Bronte

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. — Kurt Vonnegut

After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper. — Michael Cox

It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house. — Mark Haddon

Indian summer is like a woman. — Grace Metalious

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday. — James Patterson

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads. — P.L. Travers

Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect. — Emanuel Lasker

I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool. — Anne Bishop

At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland... — Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. — William Golding

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. — J.K. Rowling

Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run. — Tara Conklin

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. — Norman Mailer

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. — Philip Reeve

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song. — Judy Collins

In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together. — Carson McCullers

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

Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary — Paul Hoffman

She turned into a tree. It was a Mystery. It must have been. Nothing else made sense, because I didn't understand it. — Jo Walton

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. — Franz Kafka

I was looking for a quiet place to die. — Paul Auster

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. — George Orwell

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be — Tea Obreht

A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud. — Gary Corby

I get the willies when I see closed doors. — Joseph Heller

If you're going to read this, don't bother. — Chuck Palahniuk

I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me. — Christopher Pike

I did it! I stopped time.

[Hampton Green] — Tim Tharp