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Mélanie Berliet

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6,037 quotes curated by Mélanie Berliet:

“The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent.”
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)
Tagged: Elevators, first lines of books, Slow Elevators
“When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.”
— Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: first lines of books, World War I, WWI, Amazing Lines, Tragedy, War, WW1
“Here, and also south of us, the beaches have a yellow tint, but along the Keys of Florida the sand is like shattered ivory.”
— Denis Johnson, Fiskadoro
Tagged: Sand, first lines of books, Florida, Florida Keys, Ivory
“The Nellie, a crushing yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails and was at rest.”
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Tagged: first lines of books
“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Tagged: first lines of books, Flowers
“During the predawn hours of the twenty-third, the Tokyo Police began to arrest those vagrants trying to avoid the cold of the approaching winter by camping in and around the underground passage of the Keisei Line, Ueno Railway Station, Ueno Park, Daito Ward, in the hopes of preventing further shootings by the long-sought criminal no. 109.”
— Kobo Abe, The Box Man: A Novel
Tagged: first lines of books, Box man
“It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known.”
— Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark (Norton Paperback Fiction)
Tagged: Things Change, Hidden, Curtains, lost, first lines of books
“Sometimes you're walking through the woods when a stick leaps into the air and strikes you across the back and shoulders several times, then flies away lost in the underbrush.”
— Peter Rock, My Abandonment
Tagged: first lines of books, Woods, Leaves
“The two boys walked the high ridge at the center of the wood road, avoiding the muddy ruts along the sides.”
— Phil LaMarche, American Youth: A Novel
Tagged: First Line of Books
“My job title is medical actor, which means I play sick.”
— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
Tagged: first lines of books