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Today, I am writing the opening sentence to my debut novel entitled Make Ready: Tales from the Bottom, and here it is: "Did you cry?"

Just for fun, here are some famous first lines:

• "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• "Mother died today." The Stranger, Albert Camus
• "Now, what I want is, facts." Hard Times, Charles Dickens
• "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter." Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain.
• "...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." The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
• "Call me Ishmael." Moby Dick, Herman Melville
• "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis, Moses.
• "Gaius Julius Caesar lost his father at the age of fifteen." The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius

Feel free to:

1. Add your favorite famous first line.
2. Tell the plot for my debut novel.
3. Create your own first line for your debut novel.