Sau cele mai bune fraze de început din romanele noastre favorite.

La fel cum primele impresii sunt cruciale atunci când cunoști pe cineva, tot așa cuvintele de debut dintr-un roman te pot fermeca pe loc. Fie că te seduc prin puterea de sugestie, poezia exprimarii, umorul discret sau excentricitatea lor, aceste prime propoziții funcționează ca un cârlig care te face brusc prizonierul poveștii.

Le-am lăsat în engleză fiindcă așa găsiți și cărțile pe okian.ro, sperăm să nu vă supărați pe noi (@_@).

“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 (1813)

'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1878)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way." Charles Dickens: A Tale Of Two Cities (1859)

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York." Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (1963)

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticising any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis (1915)

“Call me Ishmael.” Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (1851)

"It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him." Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961)

"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress." George Eliot: Middlemarch (1871)

"All children, except one, grow up." J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan (1911)

"Under certain circumstance there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea." Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady (1880)

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955)

"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love." Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

"Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure." Albert Camus: The Stranger (1946)

"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 (1952)

"All this happened, more or less." Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

Nouă această listă ne-a deschis pofta să recitim câteva dintre romanele de mai sus și ne vedem deja așezați confortabil într-un fotoliu cu cartea în brațe și-un ceai cald alături. Ceea ce vă dorim și vouă. Iar de acest Crăciun, nu uitați: #givebooksnotsocks.