Greatest Opening Lines...of Books

What are the best opening lines in lterature? Your Genre? Your all time favorites?

I personally struggle the most to create compelling opening and closing sentences.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped a girl off the bridge" John D. McDonald, Darker Than Amber

What is your favorites? In your genre?

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