Great last lines make you remember a story, great first lines make you want to read it. Some of my favorites are posted below. Have fun guessing and post your own.
- “To you, the third-level intellect who has been guided to this imperishable container and who is able to break the Seal and to read this tape, and to your fellows, greetings.”*
“There are dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden”
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
(note that this line is now outdated: To a whole generation, a television, tuned to a dead channel is a very pretty shade of blue) :eek:
<Character’s name> played by ear, which would have been all right if he had been a musician–but he was a scientist.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
It walked in the woods.
It was never born. It existed.
According to their biographies, Destiny’s favored children had their lives planned out from scratch. Napoleon was figuring how to rule France when he was a barefoot boy in Corsica, Alexander the Great much the same, and Einstein was muttering equasions in his cradle.
Maybe so. Me, I just muddled along.
This is my favorite book in the whole world, although I have never read it.
A burning woman stalks the streets. Ten stories tall, her naked body a whirling holocaust of fire.
“It is blood, Doctor?”
The Axe Boy lived downstairs.
The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory.
Fenris
