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(I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Hannah Green/Joanne Greenberg)

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

(The Fault in Our Stars, John Green)

Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.

(The Fifth Season, Nora K. Jemisin)

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. 

(Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling)

I am dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

(Warm Bodies, Isaac Marion)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

(1984, George Orwell)

Khadgar clutched the crimson-sealed letter of introduction and desperately tried to remember his own name.

(The Last Guardian, Jeff Grubb)

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide—it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese — the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

(The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides)

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有时候故事的第一句话就像黑礼帽里的兔子，一个接一个地蹦出来，尖叫：“选我！选我！”逼得你不得不挑一个，然后狠下心来敲碎其他兔子的脑壳。有时候它又像与你擦肩而过的路人身上美味的香水一般捉摸不定。这时候你酝酿的故事情节和场景就是蒙马特小酒馆里灌多了马尿啤酒的流氓无赖：推搡着嘶嚎着，如果不能立刻马上现在夺门而出，下一秒他们就倒地来个尸横遍野。

哪位如果记得无论什么地方看到某个故事令人印象深刻，或者引人入胜的第一句话，不忙的话在评论里留一句，算做一个收集吧。（尤其当代中文读物，我很久没读过了，实在惭愧。）