Favorite Opening Line of a Novel

Tell what you think of the previous person's choice, then add your own. My favorite is the opening line from Stephen King's The Gunslinger.

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Just sounds so epic.

That is pretty awesome sounding. ^^

Maybe not my favorite one, but my favorite one at hand.
"It's funny, Vasher thought, how many things begin with my getting thrown into prison."

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. c:

Sandra Brown:

"The grave was substandard."

"I was eight years old when I fell head-over-heels in love with myself."
-From "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang" by Chelsea Handler

"Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often." Roderick Townley, The Great Good Thing.

I remember reading that opening line in gunslinger. I thought right then and there that this was going to be an awesome novel.....but it was probably his worst one ever.

There are some pretty cool opening lines already here, but my two (current) favourites are

"A screaming comes across the sky." Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

"Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning" The Trial by Franz Kafka