I'd have to say that this is my favorite, but then I've always been partial to geeks.

"When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing." --Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

100 Best First Lines from Novels. (via ko)