"We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge."

(John D. MacDonald, Darker than Amber, 1966)

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

(Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Volume 1: The Gunslinger, 1982)

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"I wasn't thinking about the man who had blown himself up. Earlier I had. Now I was putting him together."

(Kathy Reichs, Deja Dead, 1997)

Erste Sätze

"There is a similarity, if I may be permitted an excursion into tenuous metaphor, between the feel of a chilly breeze and the feel of a knife's blade, as either is laid across the back of the neck."

(Steven Brust, Jhereg, 1983)

Erste Sätze

"Some things start before other things."

(Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men, 2003)

Erste Sätze

"Half her face is porcelain."

(Alan Moore, The Hypothetical Lizard, 2007)

Erste Sätze

"There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife."

(Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, 2008)

Erste Sätze

Nachtrag:

Hier kann man sich diesen Satz - und das ganze erste Kapitel - original von Neil Gaiman vorlesen lassen: