A new first line of current book

[bunnybooks]

Two years have passed, it is summer, and the weather has grown heavy with threatened thunderstorms.

 

Betty Burton-The girl now leaving

[Weave]

"Phoebe and her friends held their breath as the dead girl in the plaid skirt walked past their table in the lunchroom."

~ Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

[Stephanie2008]

Clare: It's hard being left behind.

 

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

[dave165]

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte.

 

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

[lexiepiper]

I wish Giovanni would kiss me. Oh, but there are so many reasons why this would be a terrible idea. - Elizabeth Gilbert ~ Eat, Pray, Love

[madcow]

Long ago on the shores of the Atlantic there lived a great Indian warrior called Strong Wind.

 

Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult

[Charm]

It was an October wedding.

 

Incubus Dreams ~by~ Laurell K Hamilton

[Pixie]

"Do your neighbors burn one another alive?" was how Fraa Orolo began his conversation with Artisan Flec.

 

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

[Brida]

''Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.''

 

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[Heather]

'Nicky Bennet Disappears', it says, the newspaper story that Anna has helpfully ringed in the fluorescent-yellow marker pen and handed to me.

 

Grievous Angel by Jane Hill.

[Weave]

'When he heard the noise Seth stopped and stared, as if trying to see through the front door of apartment sixteen, the teak veneer aglow with a golden sheen'

 

~ Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill

[bunnybooks]

The Irishman's shadow was cast long and black across the chapel's stone floor, and the colours around it, the blended reds, greens and blues that were reflected through the stained glass windows high in the wall behind him, were now less vibrant as the sun sank lower in the hazy sky outside.

James Herbert, The ghosts of Sleath.

[nursenblack]

I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.

 

Shiver ~ Maggie Stiefvater

[bookworm44]

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[dave165]

They put Foley and the Cuban together in the backseat of the van and took them from the Palm Beach County jail on Gun Club to Glades Correctional, the old redbrick prison at the south end of Lake Okeechobee.

 

Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard

[bunnybooks]

Alba was wrapped in a towel, having had a bath and washed her hair, and was painting flowers on her toenails when reed of the river's launch motored up.

Last voyage of the Valentina by Santa Montefiore.

[chesilbeach]

This morning I woke up and was fifteen years old.

 

The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy

[Inver]

'Cornwall is a great place to lose yourself, Mel reflected with a sense of unease as she turned off the crackling car radio and peered through the rain-lashed windscreen into pitch darkness.'

 

'The Memory Garden' ~ Rachel Hore (and it is good)

[Peacefield]

"It was as black in the closet as old blood."

 

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

[lauraloves]

Physisist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own. - Angels and demons - Dan Brown

[Charm]

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.

 

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

[Guest Eliza1]

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

 

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

[emelee]

"I have never seen such a summer" -- Hjalmar Söderberg "Doctor Glas"

[chesilbeach]

"Saturday evening," remarked Isabel Dalhousie. "A time for the burning of ears."

 

The Charming Quirks of Others by Alexander McCall Smith

[nursenblack]

"I see..." said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window.

 

Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice