THE BEST OPENING LINES FROM BOOKS

When you start reading a good book, it´s difficult to stop.

As you know, next 23rd April, we are celebrating the Book Day all over the world. Although book lovers don´t need any special day to read, we think that it is a fantastic occasion to make everybody aware of how lucky we readers are. Those people who like reading know that a reader can live a thousand lives before he/she dies. However, a person who never reads only lives one.




Here you have some famous quotes about books

 

 

 As a tribute to so many books that have made us fly with their magic, we are presenting you the opening lines of ten famous novels written in English. We hope that they will also be the beginning of a long friendship between you and, at least, some of them.




-The Catcher in The Rye, JD Salinger

 

 

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you´ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don´t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."



-Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

 

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man, in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."



-A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

 

"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."




-The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald

  

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I´ve been turning over in my mind ever since."





-Moby Dick, Herman Melville

"Call me Ishmael."

-1984, George Orwell

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."






-Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

"It was a pleasure to burn".

-2001 A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke

"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."

 

 

 

 

 

-Harry Potter and The Philosopher´s Stone, J.K. Rowling

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four of Privet Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much".





-Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

 

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the riverbank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book", thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation"?"