QUOTE AT START OF BOOK

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1, The Bible

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Call me Ishmael.” – Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – George Orwell, 1984

“It was a pleasure to burn.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.” – Iain Banks, The Crow Road

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” – William Gibson, Neuromancer

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.” – Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers RELAX AT WORK QUOTES

“The sky was a tortured grey, the color of anguish.” – Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – George Orwell, 1984

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“In my younger and happier years, my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A screaming comes across the sky.” – Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Here is a small fact – you are going to die.” – Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” – Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” – L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.” – Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary