Minneapolis | Nick Hornby

A celebration of great opening lines in literature.

“They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet. The simple truth of this only struck Annie when they were actually inside it: apart from the graffiti on the walls, some of which made some kind of reference to the toilet’s importance in musical history, it was dank, dark, smelly and entirely unremarkable.”
— Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (Riverhead Books, $26)