'Gigglings come from the two of them, or what would formally have been gigglings. Closer to squawking, or clucking or wheezings: sudden...

'She's not extravagant or greedy, she tells herself: all she ever wanted was to be protected by layer upon layer of kind, soft, ins...

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it. –Toni Morrison

"Dorrigo Evans kept steadily working on Jack's stump, his bare feet ankle-deep in the bloody mud below the makeshift bamboo operat...

"She couldn't read clock time very well, but knew when the hands were closed in prayer at the top of the face she was through for ...

'After situating herself on a huge flat rock, Baby Suggs bowed her head and prayed silently. The company watched her from the trees. The...

'People coming into the store frequently ask Shanita where she's from. "Right here," she says, smilling her ultra-bright ...

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk abo...

Following on from my post last week ( here ), here are more first lines that I admire: 1. 'The sea has many voices. The voice this...

These aren't necessarily the best first lines in books ever to be written, but I still think they're pretty accomplished and make yo...

"Baba Yaga lives in a forest [...] in a cramped little hut that stands on hen's legs and turns around on the spot. She has one ske...

" People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes " -Chri...

"Every generation get the end-of-the-world anxiety it deserves; it used to be transcendental, then it became elemental, and now it is ...

"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter  fully human  speech as possible. Powerless and silence go toge...

"Usually when a man calls a women a bitch [...] it's because she's doing something right."  - Patrick Ness, Monsters of...

"The unseen colossus of Charing Cross Station has discharged its most copious load of passengers for the day, and that flood of humani...

"all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhard...

"Accept who you are; and revel in it." -Mitch Alborn, Tuesdays with Morrie