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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#391  Postby Fran » 16 Jul 2012, 04:19

"His children are falling from the sky"
............. Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#392  Postby AmandaRose » 16 Jul 2012, 12:43

"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy is asleep on the floor."
Fifty Shades Freed- E.L James
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#393  Postby Connie_88 » 18 Jul 2012, 06:24

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere ~ Jean Rhys
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#394  Postby maryam » 19 Jul 2012, 00:50

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#395  Postby GoranIve » 19 Jul 2012, 05:43

"According to Saint Augustine, woman is a frail and fickle creature, and the great obscurantist and misogynist was right a thousand times over" -Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#396  Postby primrose777 » 19 Jul 2012, 18:34

"When the earths axis tilts away from the sun and we slide down into the narrow pit of gray winter months, Madame Savin moves from Chatillon-Coligny to Rogney and parks her gray Renault 21 in fornt of our Presbytery on the Place de l'Eglise."

French Spirits by Jeffrey Green.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston.
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#397  Postby cmacy1989 » 19 Jul 2012, 23:30

Moral Killing on Amazon and iTunes

As I was laying there face down in a pool of my own blood beaten and battered, I realized this is not how I want to die.
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#398  Postby Gannon » 23 Jul 2012, 15:45

"The smoke carried up from the Cahuenga Pass and flattened beneath a layer of cool crossing air."

The Black Ice - Michael Connelly
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#399  Postby Maud Fitch » 23 Jul 2012, 21:16

"Everything comes to an end."

The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde
"Every story has three sides to it - yours, mine and the facts" Foster Meharny Russell
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#400  Postby Fran » 24 Jul 2012, 05:30

"As usual, at five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staff quarters".
......... One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#401  Postby stufrey » 25 Jul 2012, 06:11

To judge by the few portraits preserved at the Chateau de Lourps, the family of the Floressas des Esseintes had, in days of old, been composed of muscle-bound troopers and grim-faced mercenaries.
- Against Nature, J.K. Huysmans.
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#402  Postby laci_baby » 26 Jul 2012, 11:59

Long, long ago in a sad galaxy far far away, i was dating this stone cold superfox.
It's Called a Breakup Because Its Broken.
(Again, not going through any breakups. The cover is a pint of ice cream, and i'm pregnant so it caught my attention very quckly..)
I dont know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ~ Fellowship Of The Ring.
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#403  Postby inspira7ional » 27 Jul 2012, 10:19

"A hundred years from now almost every single human being inhabiting planet earth will be none of us."

The Life Experience of Joe Jackson.
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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#404  Postby Fran » 27 Jul 2012, 14:00

@inspira
I love your avatar :)

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Re: First sentence of current book

Post Number:#405  Postby Gannon » 27 Jul 2012, 15:22

"With the good help of the Gods may success crown our work. "

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