A new first line of current book

[Dimitra]

I first met Dean a little while after me and my wife got divorced.

 

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

[page turner]

On the morning of her last day in Aelenium, Jolly went to see the Hexhermetic shipworm.

 

The water weavers - Kai Meyers

[frankie]

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.

 

 

Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck

[Nightwish]

"I could hear a roll of muffled drums."

 

The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory

[busy91]

Hay, verbena and mignonette scented the languid July day.

 

--Old New York by Edith Wharton

[atticjnr]

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

 

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

(It's so good!)

[chesilbeach]

A full moon rises at sunset as waters from three oceans mingle at our feet.

 

A Year in Green Tea and Tuk-Tuks by Rory Spowers

[Ceinwenn]

"Derek figured, when the time came, the crawlspace would be the best place to hide." - Too Close to Home ~ Linwood Barclay

[Sedge]

CLARE: It's hard being left behind.

 

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

[sadya]

'De kamers van het Kelly-blok lagen direct boven de hal.'

 

Dutch translation of the first sentence of 'The Tenko Club' by Elizabeth Noble, meaning something like (roughly, badly translated:

 

'The rooms of the Kelly-building-block, were situated directly above the hall.'

 

This however is the first sentence of the prologue and remembering a former discussion on this board about accepting prologues as part of a novel or not, here is the first sentence of when the actual story itself begins:

 

'Er zou een wet moeten zijn die het autorijden terwijl je huilde verbood.'

 

Meaning something like:

 

'There should be a law which prohibited crying while driving.'

[chesilbeach]

The Hammerhead's mouth was jagged as a knife-wound.

 

Black Butterfly by Mark Gatiss

[Purple Princess]

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.

 

Twenties Girl ~ Sophie Kinsella

[future_perfect]

"Once upon a time" said Abraham Setrkian's grandmother, "there was a giant"

 

The Strain - Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

[page turner]

Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar.

Dandelion Fire - N.D.Wilson

[Ceinwenn]

Tibet has always called to me ~ A Year in Tibet by Sun Shuyun

[lexiepiper]

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

 

The Hound Of The Baskervilles

[Charm]

Dead things had always been special to him.

 

Cold Granite ~ Stuart MacBride

[rach.at.the.disco]

Andy Bellefleur was as drunk as a skunk.

 

Living Dead In Dallas - Charlaine Harris

[Weave]

'Its only life. We all get through it' ~ Odd Hours by Dean Koontz

 

'One night in November, another that had somehow become morning while she sat there, Georgie Jutland looked up to see her pale and furious face reflected in the window' ~ Dirt Music by Tim Winton

[Ta'veren]

The man who called himself Bors, at least in this place, sneered at the low murmuring that rolled around the vaulted chamber like the soft gabble of geese.

 

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

 

In the early nineties (it might have been 1992, but it's hard to remember when you're having a good time) I joined a rock-and-roll band composed mostly of writers.

 

On Writing by Stephen King

[chesilbeach]

Clayton doesn't do "unobtrusive" well.

 

Broken - Kelley Armstrong

[Chrissy]

The door was the first thing.

 

'The Safe House' by Nicci French

[chesilbeach]

Brendan struggled to stay awake.

 

No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong

[Kylie]

Once upon a time there were three children, Jo, Bessie and Fanny.

 

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

 

 

'Moggle', Aya whispered. 'You awake?'

 

Extras by Scott Westerfeld

[page turner]

The stable door slammed in the ind, startling Kira.

 

The cry of the marwing - K.S.Nikakis