#first-sentence

"They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me."

"Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe."

"The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H."

"Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?"

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."