"I have been here before," I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were creamy with meadowsweet and the air heavy with all the scents of summer; it was a day of peculiar splendour, and though I had been there so often, in so many moods, it was to that first visit that my heart returned on this, my latest.
Brideshead Revisited - Waugh
OK, strictly speaking the above is the first line from Chapter 1 rather than the first line from the book...
When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.
Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Heh. I agree with maybe one or two of this list. What are your
favourite first lines?
http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html
Udhay
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