First sentence of current book

[Redlegs]

I lost my father at 12 yr. of age and I know what it is to be raised on a lie and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.

True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey

[fifthmayfly]

"The owl hooted in a hemlock tree, cornstalks shook their arms in the wind, and Indus Stone's footsteps crunched beside mine on the gravel drive as we walked away from the main house." -Starbird Murphy and the World Outside, by Karen Finneyfrock

[starcrunch61]

The Waystone Inn lay in silence, it was a silence of three parts.
- The Wise Man's Fear... Patrick Rothfuss

[Lydia]

Margie Vernon was in a foul mood.
Secrets in the Shadows (Shadows Collection/Leroy's Sins #1), T. L. Haddix

[Redlegs]

An evening mist, salted by the western sea, was gathering on the low hills - reed splattered rises running up from the rocks - then back into the gorse and bracken-covered country and on to the roads that joined the villages, where lamps and candles flickered behind the shutters of the grey stone houses.

Human Traces, Sebastian Faulks

[michelewhite0068]

On the second day of December in a year when a Georgia peanut farmer was doing business in the White House, one of Colorado's great resort hotels burned to the ground. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

[CataclysmicKnight]

I'm sure plenty of people have posted this one since it's the book of the month:

The funeral is supposed to be a quiet affair, for the deceased had no friends.
- The Miniaturist

[HoneyB]

It's no wonder rich people are always going on about their shrinks.
~Tattoo Thief by Heidi Joy Tretheway

[spablo_94]

"This mansion never felt like home, no mater how many years he lived in it."

-Genocide of One : A Thriller by Kazuaki Takano

[NothingOkGrey]

"Standing in a crowded elevator in midtown Manhattan with a cello strapped to your back is no way to win a popularity contest."

The Late Starters Orchestra - Ari L. Goldman

[fritzycaptain]

"Maud? Was I boring you so much that you'd rather stand outside in the dark?"

Elizabeth is Missing A Novel by Emma Healey

[Lydia]

It was strange how a day could go south quicker than a steam locomotive on a downhill slope.
Texas Mail Order Bride (Bachelors of Battle Creek #1), Linda Broday

[Fran]

"On a rainy morning in early December, an 82-year-old woman sat in her front room at 42 Pepys Road, looking out at the street through a lace curtain".
- Capital by John Lanchester

[lincolnp]

Its a great art, is rowing. Quote of George Yeoman Pocock in The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

[toshilou]

The circus arrives without warning.

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern