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and I loved how the author portrayed her and how he used his creative flair to fill in time gaps in the story.</p><figure id="f891"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*hBdeREe38WxfItA5EJYxsA.jpeg"><figcaption>Image from<a href="https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/donna-tartt-2/the-secret-history/9781405529631/"> Hachette UK</a></figcaption></figure><p id="f3cf" type="7">“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” – The Secret History, Donna Tartt</p><p id="7d6b">This is one of my all-time favourite books, and this opening line is just so iconic. Doesn’t it just make you think — who is <i>Bunny</i>? Why was he dead? Who is <i>‘we’</i>? A compelling opening line to kickstart what may be possibly one of the best books I ever read.</p><figure id="91e8"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*KHnKPdMM2Shngy-KR3zDLg.jpeg"><figcaption>Image from <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/pride-and-prejudice-overview-4179034">Thoughtco</a></figcaption></figure><p id="c567" type="7">“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen</p><p id="ffa3">Another line forever engraved into the lines of my mind; it gives me epistolary butterflies just thinking about it. Quote this book line to any bookworm out there, and you might give them a deadly wave of nostalgia.</p><p id="bbb9"><i>Check out this poem from <a href="undefined">J Oliver Dempsey</a></i>:</p><div id="3885" class="link-bloc

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My Favourite Book Opening Lines

Some of the best first-lines in literature

Recently, over on my Instagram, I was tagged to do a challenge called #openinglinechallange. It was about listing some of my favourite opening lines, and I enjoyed going through my previously read books to scrounge for them. I tagged some friends on Instagram to do it as well, so I thought it would be fitting to bring this challenge here. I would like to nominate everyone who is currently reading this. If you do this challenge, please tag me so I can read your favourites as well.

“I've been acquainted with the smell of death.” – House of Names, Colm Toibin

I liked this one as it was compelling to me — it struck my interest, and I wanted to find out more. It would have been less intriguing if I had read the synopsis for this book actually; it is about the Greek figure, Clytemnestra, the wife who killed her husband. I read her tale extensively, and I loved how the author portrayed her and how he used his creative flair to fill in time gaps in the story.

“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” – The Secret History, Donna Tartt

This is one of my all-time favourite books, and this opening line is just so iconic. Doesn’t it just make you think — who is Bunny? Why was he dead? Who is ‘we’? A compelling opening line to kickstart what may be possibly one of the best books I ever read.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Another line forever engraved into the lines of my mind; it gives me epistolary butterflies just thinking about it. Quote this book line to any bookworm out there, and you might give them a deadly wave of nostalgia.

Check out this poem from J Oliver Dempsey:

There Used to Be Sacred Things

There used to be sacred things, Like a sister’s underwear drawer And a father’s top drawer, Or even the teacher’s desk…

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