First-lines Quotes

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is ...

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

Who is John Galt?

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sl...

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purs...

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and...

If you want to know the age of the Earth—look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reve...

This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may...