Young Writers Society

okay. what kind of line here?

it's the 'that certain line' you read at the ever beginning of the first chapter of a book you read, be it the authors put popular sayings/quotes or simply sentences.

so, what are the 'first line' you have came across so far?? that really give an impression that the book you're going to read probably would be sooo awesome??

i give one...

"In silence the knight prepared for battle."
from: Chapter 1,paragraph. Gentle Warrior, by Julie Garwood.

I don't know if this counts, but I'm going to mention Banksy (graffitti revolutionist,) because he's awesome.

On the back cover: ' 'There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to put on the cover of your book' - Metropolotician police spokeperson.'

Probably one of my favorite opening lines ever is from Christopher Moore's You Suck: A Love Story. I mean when you open a story with:

"You bitch, you killed me! You suck!"

You have to know that a story is going to be awesome, right?!

"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die."
-Fight Club

I also like the response the Narrator gives in response to what Tyler says, which goes something like "I tongue the gun barrel in my mouth and say, no Tyler, you're thinking of vampires."

"You bitch, you killed me! You suck!"

This makes me want to go find this book!

'In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game.'

From Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. It only gets better from here.

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."


Kafka's first line of The Metamorphosis. Gotta love that stuff, utter brilliance.


Camus' in The Stranger is pretty good as well:

"Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure."

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. - Less Than Zero

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First... - American Psycho