Opening Lines Flashcards

1

If youare interested in stories with happy endings,you wouldbe betteroff reading someother book

2

The sun did not shine.It was too wet to play.So we sat in the house all that cold,cold,wet day

3

There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs.

4

First the colors. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things.

5

Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive.

6

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

7

All children, except one, grow up.

8

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed...

9

I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather.

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