"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"💐
That's the famous #firstsentence of #MrsDalloway by #VirginiaWoolf
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"A sparse snow was falling."

#FirstSentence of Han Kang, *We Do Not Part*

(Starting running thread for any notes here)

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"That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."

-- #FirstLines from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk

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(This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)

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"This is a history of three or four thousand people, who lived in agitated times. It is a story -- or ninety-eight stories -- about a small town, and an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard, who lived there throughout her life. It is the story, too, of an extended family over space, and over the historical time of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Marie Aymard's family, over five generations, and over the course of their unlikely lives, ending with the death of her great-great-granddaughter in 1906. It is an inquiry into the changing possibilities of historical investigation in our own times, and into the infinity of sources or evidence about past lives."

- Emma Rothschild, *An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries*

(Started this morning, will keep running notes here)

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"Sie war ein Wechselbalg, und ihr Entschluss, einen Drachen zu stehlen und dann zu fliehen, wurde in jener Nacht geboren, als die Kinder sich trafen und den verschwörerischen Plan fassten, ihren Aufseher zu töten."

Michael Swanwick: Die Tochter des stählernen Drachen

#Zitatemontag #FirstSentence

#FirstSentence #LastSentence
"It was getting hotter."

"Because we never really come to the end."

The Ministry of the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson

The #FirstSentence

Shooting Butterflies
Chapter 4: Carnations

He was dead.

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The #FirstSentence

Shooting Butterflies
Chapter 3: Imbodla’s Race To Survive

‘Please, Daddy,’ Tara begged as she batted her blue eyes at her father.

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