The topic for Top Ten Tuesday this week is “Opening Lines”. You can find the host of top ten Tuesday here. So this is just a list of ten opening lines that I thought were memorable or funny, basically just ones that really drew me in from the start. So maybe one of these might intrigue you and you’ll want to read the book. These are in no particular order and there are probably more but I just pulled from the books that I owned physical copies of because that was just the easiest for me to do. I hope you find these as interesting as I do!
- “At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time– between 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m.– by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them.”- John Green, Turtles All The Way Down
- “The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”- John Green, Paper Towns
- “Carl Sagan said that if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”- Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star
- “The first time I saw the Bionic Man I was covered in sparkles.”- Susin Nielsen, Optimists Die First
- “I didn’t choose the wench life. The wench life chose me.”- Jen DeLuca, Well Met
- “I’m dreaming of the boy in the tree and at the exact moment I’m about to hear the answer that I’ve been waiting for, the flashlights yank me out of what could have been one of those perfect moments of clarity people talk about for the rest of their lives.”- Melina Marchetta, Jellicoe Road
- “Sybil Davison has a genius I.Q. and has been laid by at least six different guys.”- Judy Blume, Forever…
- “I don’t care what any of the assholes I live with tell you.”- Mary H. K. Choi, Permanent Record
- “I might have to kill somebody tonight.”- Angie Thomas, On the Come Up
- “You’ve got to say this for desperation: It makes you much more open-minded.”- Beth O’Leary, The Flatshare
