First Lines, part 4

I just can’t get enough of those lines that set the tone

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Fifteen more opening lines, and they just keep coming:

1. “Back in 1961, when women wore shirtwaist dresses and joined garden clubs and drove legions of children around in seatbeltless cars without giving it a second thought; back before anyone knew there’d even be a sixties movement, much less one that its participants would spend the next sixty years chronicling; back when the big wars were over and the secret wars had just begun and people were starting to think fresh and believe everything was possible, the thirty-year-old mother of Madeline Zott rose before dawn every morning and felt certain of just one thing: her life was over.” — Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

2. “A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.” — Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

3. “Peter loved to hear the story of how his father tried to steal the sun.” — Life Between Seconds by Douglas Weissman

4. “On September 15th, 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come together, hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking out at the steady Atlantic.” The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub