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I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston.


Michael Patrick MacDonald


#family

In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in the newspapers: that she had, without knowledge of the cause, come to find herself in a certain situation; that she would like the father of the child she was expecting to disclose his identity to her; that she was resolved, out of consideration to her family, to marry him.


Heinrich von Kleist


#pregnancy #family

The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.


James Carlos Blake


#first-sentence #fugitive #family

There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch.


Vladimir Nabokov


#family

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.


Jason Schwartzman


#dots #end #i #indescribable #myself

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.


Yann Martel


#life

It was Wang Lung's marriage day.


Pearl S. Buck


#opening-lines #marriage

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.


J.D. Salinger


#holden #parenting

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.


Jhumpa Lahiri


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