20 Classic Opening Lines In Books (According to Entertainment Weekly)

( The first thoughts that last in our memory from Jane Austen, Hunter S. Thompson, J.K. Rowling, Ray Bradbury, and othersCollapse )
Source - EW.com
What are your favorite first lines (or favorite lines in general), ONTD? What did this list miss? I think they should have included Peter Pan's opener: "All children, except one, grow up." Pretty classic. :)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Anyways, the first line is pretty amazing and I almost gave up right there when I read it :
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."
I mean WFT man.
I had an extremely difficult time getting through it.
Though I have been told it is much easier to listen to an audiobook, and follow on the page. Depends how you are with Irish accents though.
I love his short stories, but Potrait nearly did me in. Luck with that!
"Steve got his dick caught in the window. He blames me, of course." - Mammon Inc.
"Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days." - The Children of Men
"The primroses were over." - Watership Down
that book changed me in so many ways, idk
"Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof."
Aeneid
Edited at 2012-11-22 11:17 pm (UTC)
Love in the Time of Cholera
But I love that Harry Potter made it on the list, although I think it should be in the top ten