This one ought to be fun.
| 01. | It is a truth universally acknowledged
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice |
06. | It was the best of times
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities |
11. | In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby |
16. | They say when trouble comes close ranks
Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea |
21. | My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale |
26. | Of man's first disobedience
John Milton
Paradise Lost |
| 02. | When shall we three meet again? William Shakespeare
Macbeth |
07. | A screaming comes across the sky
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow |
12. | It was a bright cold day in April
George Orwell
1984 |
17. | The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new
Samuel Beckett
Murphy |
22. | This is the saddest story I have ever heard
Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier |
27. | It was a dark and stormy night
Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time |
| 03. | It was a wrong number that started it
Paul Auster
City of Glass |
08. | I had the story, bit by bit, from various people
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome |
13. | It was love at first sight
Joseph Heller
Catch 22 |
18. | The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L.P.Hartley
The Go-Between |
23. | A voice comes to one in the dark
Samuel Beckett
Company |
28. | It was a nice day.
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Good Omens |
| 04. | Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven |
09. | I have done it again
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus |
14. | Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
Samuel Beckett
Endgame |
19. | You're dead to me.
Sarah Kane
Crave |
24. | My suffering left me sad and gloomy
Yann Martel
Life of Pi |
29. | There is a curse
Terry Pratchett
Interesting Times |
| 05. | There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation
Trudi Canavan
The Magician's Apprentice |
10. | Death, in this forsaken place, could come in countless forms
Dan Brown
Deception Point |
15. | Something monumental was about to happen; possibly the most monumental thing ever to happen anywhere, ever.
Doug Naylor
Last Human |
20. | The demon howled its outrage
Raymond E.Feist
Rides a Dread Legion |
25. | In the beginning, I behaved badly.
Jesse Kellerman
The Brutal Art |
30. | I would not if I could undo my past
Christina Rossetti
They Desire a Better Country |