Favourite first lines from book?

Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

"Marley was dead."

Ah, I'm treating this like a quiz, and 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is I Capture the Castle - semi-biographical novel by Dodie Smith - hope I'm correct as I haven't looked it up!
And kittylester, one of mine would be 'Once there was a soft brown toy called.......'

Sorry missed out the word - like (a fluffy pink grenade ).

Callistemon - I enjoyed A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian because Valentina burst into their lives a " fluffy pink grenade "

Casdon

‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.’

This!

'We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.'

And I'm there ?

Casdon

‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.’

I capture the castle - Dodie Smith

Ragtime the line I quoted is from 'Cider With Rosie'.

' When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm broken at the elbow' - To Kill a Mockingbird.

Some fab ones...I also like

"Lieutenant Dunbar wasn’t really swallowed." I didn't understand it at first but it's great book...dance with wolves Michael Blake

Ps I wish people would put the book the line is from as I don't know them all!

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York."

PS: I love this thread.

'The sun hit me smartly in the face like a bully'

it's not the first sentence of my favourite book but at the end of the first paragraph and since reading the line at 13yrs old, I've never forgotten it.

From the start, she had known what she wanted, and proceeded single-minded, with the force of a steam engine towards her goal.

(approximate) The boys arrived early for the hanging - Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth - one of my most repeatedly read novels!

Ps: you can forget the filmed version!

Mine is 'Two Shoes, New shoes, Bright shiny blue shoes' Shirley Hughes.

I know - pathetic. But it makes me think of children and grandchildren snuggled up before bed.

“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents”. Little Women - The first book I read as a youngster.

"Life is difficult" The Road Less Travelled

Not sure about favourite but it's the one that sticks in my head.

“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

"The mole had been working very hard all morning, spring -cleaning his little home."
Wind in the Willows

"It is a truth universally acknowledged..."

"Take my camel dear" said my aunt Dot as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

Something so quirky about this ?

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
I'm also a fan of 'Rebecca'.

On the day that his grannie was killed by the English, Sir William Scott the Younger of Buccleuch was at Melrose Abbey, marrying his aunt.