What is your favourite opening line you ever read in a book? For me, it’s in “IT” by Stephen King. And the line is:
“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years — if it ever did end — began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.”
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“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”
A little wordy and cumbersome for my taste, but I do like the image it paints. I’ll submit another opening King line that I like better.
“Jack Torrance thought: officious little prick.”
and, of course, “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”