Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Memorable Opening Sentences from Novels

Namaku Salmon, seperti nama ikan, dan nama depanku Susie. Umurku empat belas saat dibunuh pada tanggal 6 Desember 1973. Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Where's Papa going with that ax? E.B. White. Charlotte's Web

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. Ha Jin, Waiting

Aku tak pernah terlalu memikirkan bagaimana aku akan mati---meskipun aku punya cukup alasan beberapa bulan terakhir ini---tapi kalaupun memiliki alasan, aku tak pernah membayangkan akan seperti ini. Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

What can you say about a twenty-year old girl who died? Erich Segal, Love Story

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

It was a nice day. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Di taman ini, saya adalah seekor burung. Terbang beribu-ribu mil dari sebuah negeri yang tak mengenal musim, bermigrasi mencari semi, tempat harum rumput bisa tercium, juga pohon-pohon yang tak pernah kita tahu namanya atau umurnya. Ayu Utami, Saman

(Disebarkan oleh Hetih. Februari 2009)

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