There really is something to be said about a good first line, and I'm going to be using this tag from now on to showcase my current read's first lines.
For this week's First Line Friday I have the first line from The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
"You start out as potential energy and then you fall.
Before Nathalie emailed and offered to take me back, before I killed anyone, I saw variations of the same quotation everywhere: Paris is always a good idea. On mugs, on throw pillows, on Instagram. Always attributed to Audrey Hepburn, always in pink. I couldn’t escape it; everywhere I went, there were those fucking words."
I love this first line, it's a bold attention grabber.
At the time of writing this I'm only about 13% through this book but so far I am in love with the writing and I can't wait to see how the story develops.
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