A new first line of current book

[poppy]

'I think .....that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.'

 

Fragile Things ~ Neil Gaiman

[Kylie]

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realised it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

 

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

[Charm]

"The King must die"

 

Lover Avenged ~ J R ward

[lexiepiper]

Only three people were left under the red and white awning of the grease joint: Grady, me, and the fry cook.

 

Sara Gruen - Water For Elephants

[Rawr]

I never did this when I started it.

 

'From two thousand feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester's Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down.' Under The Dome, Stephen King.

 

I like that opening, the simile creates interesting imagery.

[Nightwish]

"The wine has been drunk, the pasta demolished, three-quarters of the tiramisu polished off" - Second Chance by Jane Green

[lexiepiper]

If she was still enough, quiet enough, he would not find her.

 

Tess Gerritsen - Bloodstream

[ethan]

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

 

My Name Is Red - Orham Pamuk

[chesilbeach]

It was a rainy afternoon in South Kerry - driving rain reminiscent of the opening credits of a Hollywood action or end-of-the-world movie, when, if given to fantasy, one might have expected a muscular, sinewy and scantily dressed male to power through the deluge with a damp and distressed girl in his arms and a gun in his back pocket.

 

No Way To Say Goodbye - Anna McPartlin

[chrysalis_stage]

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

 

My Name Is Red - Orham Pamuk

 

I like that!

[Johnny Carson Whit]

So far, apart from a couple of hitches, Plan A was working out fine.

 

Dead Simple - Peter James

[anisia]

"That was when I saw the Pendulum"

 

"Foucault's Pendulum" - Umberto Eco

[Purple Princess]

June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday.

 

The Brightest Star in the Sky - Marian Keyes

[pickle]

'We're going to hell for this'

 

Pandemonium by Christopher Brookmyre

[Chrissy]

"HELP! Someone - anyone - please, help me!"

 

'Witchfinder ~ Dawn Of The Demontide' by William Hussey

[Lumo]

Twenty past one in the morning on New Year's Day

 

Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

[Charm]

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town.

 

Practical Magic ~by~ Alice Hoffman

[rach.at.the.disco]

Last November I had a nightmare.

 

The House At Riverton - Kate Morton

[Brida]

''So you're all set for money, then?'' the boy named Crow asks in his typical sluggish voice.

 

Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami.

 

I know he's coming.

 

Shout down the moon by Lisa Tucker.

[AbielleRose]

You'll begin the story, as these stories often begin, like this: "Once upon a time, in a beautiful land far far away, there dwelt some lovely little Fairies."

 

Through the Faerie Glass by Kenny Klein

[Sedge]

I did it - I should have known better.

 

The Collected Short Stories of Saki - Hector Hugh Munro (from 'Reginald')

[chesilbeach]

After four nights on the run, I was finally safe, tucked into bed and enjoying the deep, dreamless sleep of the dead ... until the dead decided they'd really rather have me awake.

 

The Reckoning - Kelley Armstrong

[David B.]

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"

 

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

[Skírnir]

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[Jonathon]

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

 

Dune by Frank Herbert. This is the second time I've read Dune and I'm enjoying it all the more; I believe this to be a fascinating start to a fascinating book.