Best opening lines of novels by Michelle Terret https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels Made with a taste for creativity en-us 2018-02-26 00:28:55 UTC 2020-10-27 03:05:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png 'He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.' https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235678573 The Maze  Runner - James Dashner
Jess

]]> 2018-02-26 23:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235678573 Hunger Games alaws64 https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235678969 When I wake up, the other side of my bed is cold. - Angus]]> 2018-02-26 23:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235678969 Wonder alaws64 https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679114 I know I'm not an ordinary 10-year-old kid. - Angus]]> 2018-02-26 23:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679114 alaws64 https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679400 IT, Stephen King, 1986
The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. - Angus]]> 2018-02-26 23:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679400 'THERE IS ONE mirror in my house.' https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679552 Divergent- Veronica Roth
Jess

]]> 2018-02-26 23:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679552 “The magician’s underwear has just been found in a cardboard suitcase floating in a stagnant pond on the outskirts of Miami.” —Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679594  
LILLY


]]> 2018-02-26 23:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679594 “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.” —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679832 LAURYN]]> 2018-02-26 23:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679832 “Sir?” she repeats. “How soon do you want it to get there?” https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679983 "Thirteen Reasons Why"
Written by Jay Asher
- Adam]]> 2018-02-27 00:00:36 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235679983 Middlesex “I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.” —Jeffrey Eugenides https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680041


LAURYN

]]> 2018-02-27 00:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680041 "Here is a small fact: You are going to die." https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680329 -The Book Thief,  Markus Zusak
Felix]]> 2018-02-27 00:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680329 The Fault In Our Stars by John Green https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680572 There will come a time, I said, when all of us are dead.

- cara 

]]> 2018-02-27 00:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680572 Anna Karenina “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”—Leo Tolstoy, https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680590 RUBIN]]> 2018-02-27 00:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680590 Mist-born chapter 1 https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680742 Branden sanderson 
''I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions “moral” after a fashion. 
Louis

]]> 2018-02-27 00:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680742 https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680876

''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.'' - A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859), Charles Dickens]]> 2018-02-27 00:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680876 Underworld https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680896  
“He speaks in your voice, American, and there’s a shine in his eyes that’s halfway hopeful.”
—Don DeLillo, Underworld
RUBIN

]]> 2018-02-27 00:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680896 https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680939  ''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.'' 
 - A TALE OF TWO CITIES Charles Dickens ]]> 2018-02-27 00:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680939 "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680950 To Kill a Mockingbird
Written by Harper Lee
- Adam]]> 2018-02-27 00:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680950 Invisible man, Ralph Ellison https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680971  'I am an invisible man.'
- Adele]]> 2018-02-27 00:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235680971 https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681018 2018-02-27 00:05:46 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681018 "LET ME SAY THIS: BEIN A IDIOT IS NO BOX OF CHOCOLATES" https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681274 Forrest Gump
Written by Winston Groom
- Adam]]> 2018-02-27 00:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681274 The Stranger by Albert Camus https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681400 ''Mother died today''
-Adele]]> 2018-02-27 00:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681400 https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681419
''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.'' 
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE , J.D. Salinger 
]]> 2018-02-27 00:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681419 Paper Towns by John Green https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681428 The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. 

- Cara]]> 2018-02-27 00:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681428 https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681429 2018-02-27 00:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681429 The End of the Affair (1951) https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681623  
“A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” —Graham Green

]]> 2018-02-27 00:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681623 The Crow Road by Ian M. Banks https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681700 'It was the day my grandmother exploded'
-Adele

]]> 2018-02-27 00:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235681700 The Last Time You Say Goodbye, Cynthia Hand https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235683667 Mom is crying again this morning]]> 2018-02-27 00:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/terret_learning/BestOpeningLinesinNovels/wish/235683667