Great first and last lines from various works

[Schuyler]

These sound so pedestrian compared to some of the great quotes listed above, but anyway.

beginning line:

Listen:
Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

ending line:

One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, “Poo-tee-weet?”

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

beginning lines:

They didn’t say anything about this in the books, I thought, as the snow blew in through the gaping doorway and settled on my naked back.
I lay face down on the cobbled floor in a pool of nameless muck, my arm deep inside the straining cow, my feet scrabbling for a toe hold betwen the stones.

All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot

[scareyfaerie]

My favourite opening line:

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.” from Iain Banks, The Crow Road