"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."
I love that this is the way Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White begins. The first narrator of this creepy, sensational story lets the reader know in the first sentence that when it's all over, everything will turn out okay. But still the reader reads on, compelled to turn the page and shudder every time Count Fosco enters the scene. Genius!
