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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#331  Postby laci_baby » 16 May 2012, 17:09

" I am dead, but its' not so bad. I've learned to live with it. I'm sorry i cant properly introduce myself, but i dont have a name anymore. Hardly any of us do. We lose them like car keys, forget them like anniversaries. Mine might have started with an "R", but thats all i have now. It's funny because back when i was alive, I was always forgetting other peoples names. My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you cant smile because your lips have rotted off." -Warm Bodies, Isaac Marion.

Yes, i did the whole first paragraph. Your welcome. :mrgreen:
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#332  Postby Gannon » 23 May 2012, 20:41

"I opened my wrist with one firm stroke of the knife, watching with interest as the blood leapt out of the vein."

Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn.
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Post Number:#333  Postby Fran » 24 May 2012, 06:01

"Petrograd smelt of carbolic acid" ..... We The Living by Any Rand
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#334  Postby Carla Hurst-Chandler » 24 May 2012, 06:31

Why is this happening to her? The Lilac House: Anita Nair
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#335  Postby RuqeeD » 24 May 2012, 17:07

At the time unknown, unnamed, the individual who was to throw himself into the Horseshoe Falls appeared to the gatekeeper of the Goat Island Suspension Bridge at approximately 6:15 am.

The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#336  Postby Maud Fitch » 25 May 2012, 07:35

"I was a boy of twelve when I watched a dragon die."

The Fire Ascending by Chris d'Lacey ~ seventh book.
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Post Number:#337  Postby Bighuey » 25 May 2012, 19:20

My family is American,and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral.

Memoirs of U.S. Grant
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#338  Postby Gannon » 26 May 2012, 17:37

It happened every year, was almost a ritual.

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson.

-- Mon May 28, 2012 8:42 pm --

She lay on her back fastened by leather straps to a narrow bed with a stell frame.

"The Girl who Played with Fire" by Stieg Larsson.
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Post Number:#339  Postby Maud Fitch » 30 May 2012, 22:16

"My mother did not tell me they were coming."

Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier.
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Post Number:#340  Postby literarylover+1 » 30 May 2012, 22:54

"We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead."

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#341  Postby Fran » 31 May 2012, 05:33

"Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me."
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#342  Postby literarylover+1 » 31 May 2012, 12:19

Fran wrote:"Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me."
........................ The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass



THAT is intriguing alone!! =) What wonderful wording in the very first sentence! It is now on my want list! Thank you! The shade of brown that can never see through....... awesome!! :D
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#343  Postby Carla Hurst-Chandler » 31 May 2012, 13:20

literarylover+1 wrote:
Fran wrote:"Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me."
........................ The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass



THAT is intriguing alone!! =) What wonderful wording in the very first sentence! It is now on my want list! Thank you! The shade of brown that can never see through....... awesome!! :D


I agree...makes me want to read it!
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#344  Postby LoniJo » 01 Jun 2012, 05:47

Sssshhhh. Half consciously, she made the sound out loud.

Hunting Fear, Kay Hooper
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#345  Postby Carla Hurst-Chandler » 01 Jun 2012, 13:12

She awoke. Blinked in the pitch darkness.

TheLeopard by
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