Best Pick-Up the Book Lines...

They say breakfast is the most important meal, and that you only get one first impression. With that in mind, check out these 100 Best First Lines from Novels [via SG]:

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6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)

15. The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
—Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)

22. It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. —Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

31. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864; trans. Michael R. Katz)

43.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
—Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)

47. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
—C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)

58. Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
—George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)

98. High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour. —David Lodge, Changing Places (1975)

I like number 1, but no way can I steal their thunder and quote it to you.

Now, what about last lines? But does anyone care? If there's any climax the last few pages are going to hang around making small talk like the last guests at a party. If the novel is unfortunately fashionable and there's no real point, well, those last few pages are going to suffer from the realization that noway is the author going anywhere good with this, and so you might not even read them. Any suggestions?