Best First Lines

hipdeep: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

aethercowboy: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

aethercowboy: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it

aethercowboy: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

hipdeep: This is my favorite book in all the world, though I've never read it.

hipdeep: Marley was dead, to begin with.

aethercowboy: 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.

aethercowboy: It was a pleasure to burn.