Section A brainstorming by Alice Mumby https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j Find some example novel openings en-us 2017-02-24 00:50:10 UTC 2025-11-18 07:19:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png Add some examples of lines from books and openings from books alice_mumby https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935108 In your own post]]> 2017-02-24 00:54:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935108 In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935277 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

]]> 2017-02-24 00:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935277 “I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” 14leinsterholtm1 https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935575 —W. B. Yeats, “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”]]> 2017-02-24 00:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935575 Call me Ishmael. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935599 —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)]]> 2017-02-24 00:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935599 "I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined." https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935600 Unwritten By: Natasha Bedingfield]]> 2017-02-24 00:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935600 “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” 14leinsterholtm1 https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935684 —L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables]]> 2017-02-24 01:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935684 It was love at first sight. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935717 —Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)]]> 2017-02-24 01:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935717 “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” 14leinsterholtm1 https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935827 —Nicole Krauss, The History of Love]]> 2017-02-24 01:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935827 In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935853 — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)]]> 2017-02-24 01:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935853 “Journeys end in lovers meeting.” https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935871 —William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night]]> 2017-02-24 01:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155935871 Once upon a time two or three weeks ago, a rather stubborn and determined middle-aged man decided to record for posterity, exactly as it happened, word by word and step by step, the story of another man for indeed what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal, a somewhat paranoiac fellow unmarried, unattached, and quite irresponsible, who had decided to lock himself in a room a furnished room with a private bath, cooking facilities, a bed, a table, and at least one chair, in New York City, for a year 365 days to be precise, to write the story of another person—a shy young man about of 19 years old—who, after the war the Second World War, had come to America the land of opportunities from France under the sponsorship of his uncle—a journalist, fluent in five languages—who himself had come to America from Europe Poland it seems, though this was not clearly established sometime during the war after a series of rather gruesome adventures, and who, at the end of the war, wrote to the father his cousin by marriage of the young man whom he considered as a nephew, curious to know if he the father and his family had survived the German occupation, and indeed was deeply saddened to learn, in a letter from the young man—a long and touching letter written in English, not by the young man, however, who did not know a damn word of English, but by a good friend of his who had studied English in school—that his parents both his father and mother and his two sisters one older and the other younger than he had been deported they were Jewish to a German concentration camp Auschwitz probably and never returned, no doubt having been exterminated deliberately X * X * X * X, and that, therefore, the young man who was now an orphan, a displaced person, who, during the war, had managed to escape deportation by working very hard on a farm in Southern France, would be happy and grateful to be given the opportunity to come to America that great country he had heard so much about and yet knew so little about to start a new life, possibly go to school, learn a trade, and become a good, loyal citizen. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936012 — Raymond Federman, Double or Nothing (1971)]]> 2017-02-24 01:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936012 6. “Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936333 2017-02-24 01:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936333 Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936370 — Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye (1988)]]> 2017-02-24 01:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936370 The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936493 — Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)]]> 2017-02-24 01:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936493 They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936561 —Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)]]> 2017-02-24 01:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936561 I would always rather be happy than dignified. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936975 Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

]]> 2017-02-24 01:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155936975 “For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.” 14leinsterholtm1 https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155937122 —Langston Hughes, The Big Sea]]> 2017-02-24 01:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155937122 Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155937782 — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)]]> 2017-02-24 01:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155937782 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155937842 — George Orwell, 1984 (1949)]]> 2017-02-24 01:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155937842 I am an invisible man. https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155937900 — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)]]> 2017-02-24 01:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/alice_mumby/eimjv7u5fz7j/wish/155937900