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Writer's block - opening lines
What is your favorite opening line of a book, and why?
"The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of each other during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living."
from Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons because it shows exactly the tone and style of the book to come, light and breezy, and how could anyone not want to know what happens to Flora after that introduction?
"The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of each other during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living."
from Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons because it shows exactly the tone and style of the book to come, light and breezy, and how could anyone not want to know what happens to Flora after that introduction?