Overall Rank: 443
40 points
"'Honestly, Mrs Hadley,' said Meggie McGregor, wiping her eyes.'Honestly, Mrs Hadley,' said Meggie McGregor, wiping her eyes. 'That sense of humour of yours will be he death of me yet!'"
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101 points
"One evening in the spring of 1936, when I was a boy of fourteen, my father took me to a dance performance in Kyoto.Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting..."
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82 points
"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..."
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52 points
"On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday."
Overall Rank: 454
36 points
"This is the bright candlelit room where the lifetimers are stored - shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for ever living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past."
Overall Rank: 415
46 points
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83 points
"I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that..."
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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68 points
"It was a nice day."
Overall Rank: 466
32 points
"This is where the dragons went."
Overall Rank: 20
537 points
"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."