Great first sentences.


Best first sentence you can think of off the top of your head. is the 5th prompt on http://nablopomo.blogher.com/

Ok my head needed a little bit of help with this as I remembered the first couple of words of the sentence I’m about to write but for the life of me I couldn’t remember the rest. So I turned to the book & got the next bit…

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

Of course it is from Pride & Prejudice. I have no idea why that sentence sticks in my mind but I know that when I hear it or read it I know it’s the beginning of what I believe is one of Austen’s best novels.

I love the book & how that first sentence leads you straight into the story. I think it’s a widely known quote & one that speaks for the novel at that time. It lets us into the story from the offset; it grips us, holds our attention & we escape into the Elizabeth/Mr Darcy saga from then on.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

GBE2 Dancing.

Image
Dancing During my time at school (which feels like a long time ago now) I took dance as a subject. I loved it & still love it. But I no longer do it. There were always more girls than boys in the class & in fact at one point we only had 1 boy amongst about 15+ of us girls. It was unfair on him, he however loved it & actually was a good dancer. We would start by doing our stretches then we’d move on to the set pieces we either had to learn & perform in front of the others or we would study techniques of other dancers & then have to choreograph our own piece of dance. It was good fun, interesting & in the end important for our grading & exams. I continued to dance at various times…mainly when I’d had a few drinks…but I have never joined a dance class. I know I would actually feel shy dancing in front of others even after doing it for 3-4 years. I get stage fright badly & this effects the things I would love to do. Dancing being
Read more

Eggs

Image
Scrambled? Fried? Sunny side up? Boiled? Poached? Omelette? Scotch egg? Oh how I despise eggs! I have never eaten them & never will eat them. The smell gets to me first, then the texture, then the sight of them looking all kind of rubbery like especially fried & boiled ones. Ewww. My family loves them though & throughout the years had tried to encourage me to at least taste them…let’s just say they never tried again! I remember my grandparents loving boiled eggs with slices of toast or fried eggs on slices of ham with chips. My mum liked hers boiled or poached & my sister would eat them anyway but especially liked omelettes. It wasn’t until I started waitressing that they really got to me. People would request omelette upon omelette or fried egg with ham upon fried egg with ham. All I saw were eggs, eggs, eggs. They taunted me as I delivered someone’s dinner that had a wobbly fried egg on top where I’d place it down with a smile on face cursing at th
Read more

I'm back

I've noticed recently that my passion has begun to be awakened again. My love of the written word has been slowly creeping back into mind. I have fallen behind so much with my writing & my blog. I wanted to share my story of surviving domestic violence, but I guess at the time it was all still to raw for me. I had so much to say but my confidence had sunk so much, I just couldn't get those words out. But now I can. I've worked on myself, I've become the strong, confident woman I used to be many moons ago. It's taken time but that time has given me such amazing experiences. So my story will be shared. My written words will come alive again & I shall use these pages to talk to everyone again.
Read more