[It's been a while since I quit school.
My mother kept urging me to go back, "Don't you care about your own future?" she said.
Honestly, I never liked school in the first place.
If I truly love school, I'd go there when I'm depressed, instead of quitting.]
the opening of my first chapter.
though it's more of collection of short stories.
for the most part, i don't feel that my first sentences and paragraphs matter that much. they're mostly just to set the tone so it'd be easier to write further. the most important bits for me often went in the middle or the end.