Question of the Day

Today’s QotD was requested by Shaker Leslie, who notes that anyone who answers “It was a dark and stormy night” will be chastised severely.

What’s your favorite opening line from a novel?

I’ve noted before that mine is the first line from A Tale of Two Cities: “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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so.” Mr. Shakes’s favorite is from Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So…what’s yours?

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