Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at
The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -
Top Ten Favorite Beginnings/Endings In Books
So this is an interesting one! I sat for hours trying to remember books with beginnings and/or endings that I had loved and came up with the following list, in no particular order.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink." - I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the
bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the
book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in
it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or
conversation?'" - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
"All was well." - Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
"Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love." - The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater
"A Last Note from Your Narrator: I am haunted by humans" - The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
"It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child
is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they
still think that he or she is wonderful." - Matilda, Roald Dahl
"When Mr Bilbo Baggins announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventyfirst birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton." - Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." - Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
What's on your list?
