Favorite First Lines

[Carla42]

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

I agree, that line is good, but as I was reading the book I kept thinking that if he said it once more, I wanted to see García Márquez facing a firing squad! The 12th time I read it I understood why the novel was so long

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." - David Copperfield.