A new first line of current book

[chesilbeach]

Kalona lifted his hands.

 

Burned by P.C. and Kristin Cast

[chesilbeach]

I would like to write down what happened in my grandmother's house the summer I was eight or nine.

 

The Gathering - Anne Enright

[Charm]

My name is William Cuyler Thorne, lately of Savannah.

 

The Vampire's Secret ~ Raven Hart

[dave165]

I was in the outer office, standing by the files, doing some research on a blackmailer, when he came in, all six feet of him.

 

Top of the Heap - Erle Stanley Gardner

[SueK]

"My mother and father did not have a happy marriage".

 

The House of Special Purpose - John Boyne.

[Charm]

I am William Cuyler Thorne, and I have been a vampire for five centuries or so.

 

The Vampire's Kiss ~ Raven Hart

[lauraloves]

Cassia Fallon was scrubbing the alter steps when she heard she had inherited half a million pounds.

 

Windfall - Penny Vincenzi

[chesilbeach]

The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of bubble gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard. It was pitiful.

 

Flush - Carl Hiaasen

[ethan]

One of the few things - perhaps the only one - that I know for certain is that my name is Mattia Pascal.

 

The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello

[Charm]

You now have one choice.

 

The End Of Mr Y ~ Scarlett Thomas

[fwi]

"It began with my father not wanting to see the Last Rabbit, and ended up with me being eaten by a carnivorous plant."

 

Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde

[Kreader]

Mountains shouldn't scream, but this one did.

 

A Darkness forged in Fire, Chris Evans

[rach.at.the.disco]

Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.

 

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

[Stephanie2008]

It happened every year, was almost a ritual.

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson.

[Chrissy]

Mountains shouldn't scream, but this one did.

 

A Darkness forged in Fire, Chris Evans

This has got to be the best first line EVER!

[green]

Theirs was a land ofawesome grandeur,a land of mountains and moorlands and cherished myths.

 

 

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

[Inver]

How lucky were they? 'Case Histories' by Kate Atkinson

[Jessi]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' Pride and Prejudice

[Heather]

Prologue.

 

As a child, there are things you learn not to talk about; that the very utterance of certain words send some people into a flat spin.

 

Unspoken by Sam Hayes

[Skírnir]

Hmm, I guess it'd translate as:

 

"One smile from a baby can change the entire world."

 

Sounds less corny in icelandic.

[Chrissy]

Moments when your life changes: there will always be a before and after, separated, perhaps, by a knock at the door.

 

'What To Do When Someone Dies' by Nicci French

[vinay87]

In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England States, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled "Harley College."

 

~ Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

 

This must be one of my favourite first lines. I can just picture the place with that one line!

[Pixie]

In the hospital of the orphanage-the boys' division at St. Cloud's, Maine-two nurses were in charge of naming the new babies and checking that their little penises were healing from the obligatory circumcision.

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

 

Huh. Interesting first line.

[Charm]

My name is Jack McShane, and I am a vampire in a world of hurt.

 

The Vampire's Betrayal ~ Raven Hart

[chesilbeach]

The newspaper headline glared at me from a little metal vending machine: SEATTLE UNDER SIEGE - DEATH TOLL RISES AGAIN.

 

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer