P.S. I think I got 3 or 4 - shameful.
1. “Call me Ishmael.”
2. “Happy families are all alike;
every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
3. “A screaming comes across the
sky.”
4. “It was the best of times, it
was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it
was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of
hope, it was the winter of despair.”
5. “It was a bright cold day in
April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
6. “If you really want to hear
about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and
what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all
before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t
feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
7. “Whether I shall turn out to
be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody
else, these pages must show.”
8. “I am a sick man … I am a
spiteful man.”
9. “All this happened, more or less.”
10. “It was about eleven o’clock
in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet
rain in the clearness of the foothills.”
11. “It was a pleasure to burn.”
12. “Miss Brooke had that kind of
beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”
13. “Once upon a time, there was
a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.”
14. “You better not never tell
nobody but God.”
15. “To the red country and part
of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not
cut the scarred earth.”
16. “It was a queer, sultry
summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I
was doing in New York.”
17. “In the town, there were two
mutes and they were always together.”
18. “Time is not a line but a
dimension, like the dimensions of space.”
19. “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were
proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
20. “They say when trouble comes
close ranks, and so the white people did.”
21. “It is a truth universally
acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in
want of a wife.”
22. “They shoot the white girl
first.”
23. “The sky above the port was
the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
24. “It was love at first sight.”
25. “All children, except one,
grow up.”
I won't enter since I'm here to collect my prize, but during my first read through I know 9. There are a few others I could probably get given some time :)
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean you won't enter. If you can win multiple contests, why not? Please enter.
ReplyDeleteEither I'm bad at remembering opening lines or I haven't read enough classics. I only know four of them. 1, 9, 15, 23. Probably everyone knows #1, I'm a fan of #9, I had to read #15 in high school and hated every minute of it - depressing, depressing, depressing and while I enjoyed #23, I had a horrible time following the plot and never did read the next two in the series.
ReplyDeleteI knew 1,4,15, and 19. Pretty sad, I agree.
ReplyDeleteI'm terrible! I only knew 1, 4, and 15. Of course, others were familiar, but I couldn't quite place them. Bad, bad, bad! I think Stacy needs to jump in since she knew 9!!
ReplyDeleteStacy, you heard Jasmine. You need to enter.
ReplyDeleteI'll send my guesses right now!
ReplyDeleteWe have a winner, people. Hannah Nielsen got 11, 1 more than Stacy. Nicely done. Hannah, pick your book and tell me where to send it.
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