358 Points
"All this happened, more or less."
344 Points
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million..."
365 Points
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa..."
244 Points
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much...
295 Points
"'What's it going to be then, eh?'"
252 Points
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
183 Points
"Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse."
230 Points
"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."
199 Points
"Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus."
225 Points
"The primroses were over."