First sentence of current book

[CamillaMilla]

While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.
Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

[Cyndel Maria]

A dog - it was a dog I saw for certain.

The Sweet Hereafter -- Russell Banks

[Cowgirl888]

It was a clear, calm, lazy April morning, the day the worst week of my life began.

3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross

[cherlyn]

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

[matildajay]

"Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence."

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

[Redlegs]

I wakened quickly and sat up in bed abruptly.

The Country Girls, Edna O'Brien

[Fyrerescue29]

Margaret stood all alone at her first witch burning.

Let Me Tell You
Shirley Jackson

[Redlegs]

I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this royal slave, to entertain my readers with the adventures of a feigned hero whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure; nor in relating the truth, design to adorn it with any accidents but such as arrived in earnest to him.

Oroonoko, Aphra Behn

[Fran]

Don't know if I am in the Pound grave, or the Fifteen Shilling grave?
- The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain (translated by Alan Titley)

[Lydia]

Silence fell over the crowd in Dancing Serpent as the six grey-clad soldiers marched into the room.
Cenotaph Road (Cenotaph Road #1), Robert E. Vardeman

[Redlegs]

I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.

Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett

[Scerakor]

Her name is Melanie.

"The Girl With all the Gifts" - M.R. Carey

[MeTime]

On the night of may 6, 1915, as his ship approached the coast of Ireland , capt william thomas turned left the bridge and made his way to the first class lounge, where passengers were taking part in a concert and talent show , a customary feature of Cunard crossings.

Dead Wake
By Erik Larson

[Redlegs]

It was terribly hot that summer that Mr. Robertson left town, and for a long time the river seemed dead.

Amy and isabelle, Elizabeth Strout

[ande-ny]

I'm reading quite a few books at the moment so I figured I'd just go with the one that sounds the most interesting of them all

"I am not who you think I am. If you love me, you love me for all the wrong reasons."

This is from Midnight by Sister Souljah.