This was a really hard one! For once, I read a lot of books from the library thus, I don't have all the books I read; also, I listen to books in audio books which is a lot harder to remember! Some classics and some not so much, this is what I came up with:
Beginnings
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. “ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“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. “ Charles
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were
proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“The goat was in the tree again.” Rosemary Clement-Moore, Texas Gothic
“On the sixth of April, in the year 1812 – precisely two
days before her sixteenth birthday – Penelope Featherington fell in love.”
Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Endings
"After all, tomorrow is another day." Margaret
Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“And then we continued blissfully into this small but
perfect piece of our forever.” Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
“Then with a flick of its tail, it boinded into the
undergrowth, a streak of gray furn in the sun, and the light swallowed it
completely.” Julie Kagawa, The Iron
Knight
“I take the plant out of its pot, shake the dirt off the
roots, get a good grip, reach my arm back, take one deep breath before I pitch
my arm forward, and let go.” Jandy Nelson, The
Sky is Everywhere
What are your top ten book beginnings and/or endings?
