First sentence of current book

[Lydia]

Crimson rained down from the skies as the giants hacked and sawed their way through mortals and immortals alike in their war to seize Olympus and oust Zeus from his throne.
Stealing Fate (Unspun #2), Berinn Rae

[most ardently]

"I hadn't so much forgot as I couldn't bring myself to remember."

I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

[amullins516]

"Hudson could hear the car's engine from blocks away."

Let's Get Lost, Adi Alsaid

[ylisa7]

"Some people run toward life, arms flung wide in anticipation."

Looking For Me by Beth Hoffman.

[ktfrank04]

"Sally."

lol from Stephen King's "The Stand"

[Karlareads]

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice
that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

[Redlegs]

I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I threw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train...

Naked Lunch, William S Burroughs

[Maud Fitch]

"Christmas Eve we had a rape."

Deadly Friends by Stuart Pawson, fifth book in the DI Charlie Priest series.

[MatthewAlexander]

Fifty years ago, every American girl wanted to be a European princess.

-Splendor, Anna Godbersen

[kimcar12]

"In the beginning..." Genesis, New King James Version

[thereadingpanda]

"The eunuchs said the windows were ceiling in height to allow the concubines their privacy, but Jin Lian knew it was also a way to keep them trapped." - The Silver Phoenix, by Cindy Pon

[Lydia]

They were an ancient race descended from the great Tuatha De Danann, a tribe from the Goddess Danu.
Dragon Knight's Sword, Mary Morgan

[Linda7228]

"For someone who is set to play such a pivotal role in each of our lives, it seems strange that we know so little about Death" Death a Life by George Pendle

[RebekaV]

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."
Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

[booksandlatte]

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the bourg of Meung, in which the author of the "Romance of the Rose" was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second Rochelle of it. ~ The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas