Fuck Yeah 1st Sentences

"The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:17:43 -0400

“The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue and I wondered whether I would have chosen differently if I had known that these were the last books, the ones which would stand forever on our kitchen shelf.”

- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

"The citadel was dark, and the heroes were sleeping."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:11:35 -0400

“The citadel was dark, and the heroes were sleeping.”

- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

"Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:08:28 -0400

“Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion.”

- Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

"Henry the Eighth, the unconquered King of England, a prince adorned with all the virtues that become..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:03:11 -0400

“Henry the Eighth, the unconquered King of England, a prince adorned with all the virtues that become a great monarch, having some differenced of no small consequence with Charles the most serene prince of Castile, sent me into Flanders, as his ambassador, for treating and composing matters between them.”

- Sir Thomas Moore, Utopia

"‘Curious affair, isn’t it?’"

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:10:05 -0400

“‘Curious affair, isn’t it?’”

- William Le Queux, The Place of Dragons

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and..."

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:05:32 -0400

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”

- James Joyce, Ulysses

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Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:24:55 -0400

"Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner from our district, Fyodor Pavlovich..."

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:22:08 -0400

“Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner from our district, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, well known in his own day (and still remembered among us) because of his dark and tragic death, which happened exactly thirteen years ago and which I shall speak of in it’s proper place.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be..."

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:15:00 -0400

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning."

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:13:35 -0400

“Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.”

- George Elliot, Daniel Deronda

"The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst..."

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:04:16 -0400

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of lilac, or the most delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”

- Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Grey

"They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname."

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:59:58 -0400

“They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.”

- Elie Wiesel (with Marion Wiesel), Night

"The date was April 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite..."

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:50:29 -0400

“The date was April 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course the man in suite 63-65, shelter deck C, did not know it yet.”

- Erik Larson, Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America.

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Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:14:00 -0400

"Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, sued jacket, sneakers and a big cowboy hat,..."

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:13:10 -0400

“Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, sued jacket, sneakers and a big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia.”

- Thomas Pynchon, V.

"It was only later that he realized the reason they had called him, but by then it was too late for..."

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:10:47 -0400

“It was only later that he realized the reason they had called him, but by then it was too late for the information to do him any good.”

- Brian Evenson, Last Days, “Brotherhood of Mutilation”

"The first time that Jean-Claude Pelletier read Benno von Archimboldi was Christmas 1980 in Paris,..."

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:02:25 -0400

“The first time that Jean-Claude Pelletier read Benno von Archimboldi was Christmas 1980 in Paris, when he was nineteen years old and studying German literature.”

- Roberto Bolano, 2666

"All children, except one, grow up."

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:56:52 -0400

“All children, except one, grow up.”

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan, “Peter and Wendy”

"The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling."

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:47:30 -0400

“The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling.”

- Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

"At that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the..."

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:05:27 -0400

“At that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor…twelve foot ceilings…two wings, one for the white Anglo Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help…Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachshund.”

- Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities