Post by Niki Savva

As an educator and mother, one of my goals is to create an environment (at home and at school) where children can experience the magic of books. Sometimes all it takes is an incredible first line to get you hooked.... What are your favourite first lines? I share with you a few of mine: ‌There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it" ~C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia ‌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 ‌As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ~Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis ‌Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice... ~Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude ‌All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ‌~Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina ‌'It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York' ~The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ‌It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife' ~Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ‌“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.” ~Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides As for the photo below, love the idea! 💛