A Novel Opening

Word nerd, here to share literary first impressions within the confines of a single tweet.

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Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.
—THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP #JohnIrving

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A busy and crowded station. Full of people trying to go somewhere.
—HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD @jk_rowling @jackthorne #19yearslater

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His face was as pitted as the moon.
—THE ORCHARDIST #AmandaCoplin

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They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days.
—MY COUSIN RACHEL #DaphneduMaurier @MyCousinRachel @samclaflin

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Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely remarkable in every way.
—THE VEGETARIAN #HanKang

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I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read.
—EVERYTHING EVERYTHING @NicolaYoon @everythingmovie

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First of all, I'm sorry. Second of all, you're welcome.
—THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO @AmySchumer

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Tendrils of raw fog floated up from the ice like agonized spirits departing their bodies.
—I AM HALF-SICK OF SHADOWS #AlanBradley

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I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte.
—RED HARVEST

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"Dragons," said Mollander. He snatched a withered apple off the ground and tossed it hand to hand.
—A FEAST FOR CROWS @GRRMspeaking

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We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
—TRACKS #RobynDavidson

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Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.
—THE STRANGER #AlbertCamus

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I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.
—THE SYMPATHIZER #VietThanhNguyen

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A spring of no spring.
—THE STARS ARE FIRE #AnitaShreve

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My god, Mae thought. It's heaven.
—THE CIRCLE #DaveEggers @WeAreTheCircle @EmmaWatson @TomHanks

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In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.
—THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR #EricCarle

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A fug of tobacco smoke and damp clammy air hit her as she entered the café.
—LIFE AFTER LIFE #KateAtkinson

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"Someone bloody famous," said the hoarse voice at the end of the line, "better've died, Strike."
—THE SILKWORM @RGalbraith

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.@HandmaidsOnHulu @hulu @MargaretAtwood #ElisabethMoss #JosephFiennes @SamiraWiley #HandmaidsTale https://t.co/Y0gtbje7Hv

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We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. — THE HANDMAID'S TALE @MargaretAtwood

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I found Borne on a sunny gunmetal day when the giant bear Mord came roving near our home.
—BORNE @jeffvandermeer