First Lines

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink." -I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." -Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." -Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

"The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living." -Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

"All children, except one, grow up." -Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie