A new first line of current book

[rach.at.the.disco]

I was six years old the first time I disappeared.

 

Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult

[lexiepiper]

It had been raining since possibly the beginning of time.

 

Alexandra Sokoloff - The Harrowing

[Charm]

I am Night.

 

Nightswallow ~ Bronwen Winter Phoenix

[Johnny Carson Whit]

The event that came to be known as The Pulse began 3:03pm eastern standard time, on the afternoon of October 1.

 

Cell - Stephen King

[AbielleRose]

"A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind's forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air."

 

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

[Sedge]

Pedron Niall's aged gaze wandered about his private audience chamber, but dark eyes hazed with thought saw nothing.

 

The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordan

[lexiepiper]

I have been arrested.

 

Vikas Swarup - Slumdog Millionaire

[ticchan]

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

 

Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling

[SueK]

"Sire, a fresh despatch from Tomsk".

 

Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne

[chesilbeach]

I felt her fear before I heard her screams.

Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

[chrysalis_stage]

Veldt to scrub to fields to farms to these first tumbling houses that rise from the earth.

 

Perdido Street Station - China Mieville

[chesilbeach]

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

 

Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater

[Charm]

Harold Gaynor's house sat in the middle of intense green lawn and the graceful sweep of trees.

 

The Laughing Corpse ~ Laurell K Hamilton

[dave165]

Carver paced in the control room, watching over the front forty.

 

The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly

[Skírnir]

"Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork."

 

Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic.

 

Ahh, it was about time I tried one of his books.

Though I really should be devoting all my time to my studies because I have a lot of exams ahead of me... but who can stay away from fiction for full 22 days? Anyway...

[iamnotreal]

The seller of lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm.

 

Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury

[chesilbeach]

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

 

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

[Peacefield]

I sat in a hotel room, across from two thirty-something witches in business suits, listening as they said all the right things.

 

Industrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong

[rach.at.the.disco]

It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first.

 

The Echo - Minette Walters

[MountainGirl]

"At first glance, she looked like a saint: Dorothea Puente rented out rooms to the elderly and disabled in Sacramento, California, in the 1980's."

 

House Rules by Jodi Picoult

[Jessi]

'Kalona lifted his hands.' - Burned, PC and Kristin Cast

[lexiepiper]

My mother used to tell me about the ocean.

 

Carrie Ryan - The Forest Of Hands & Teeth

[chesilbeach]

Harold Gaynor's house sat in the middle of intense green lawn and the graceful sweep of trees.

 

The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

[lexiepiper]

So she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

 

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson.

[vinay87]

"A few months after the accident I had an idea for a short film about a quadriplegic who lives in a dream"

 

- Still Me by Christopher Reeve