1. “He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.”

2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

3. “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it if you want to know the truth.”

4. “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

5. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

6. “Mother died today.”

7. “All this happened, more or less.”

8. “The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.”

9. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

10. “What’s it going to be then, eh?”