First sentence of current book

[Wanja Hannah]

Since the time Adam met Eve there has been a struggle between Man and Woman.

[NancyLopez47]

Fire became in heat and smoke and light.

Prologue to Nora Roberts' "Blue Smoke'

[Africana123]

They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz.

[Redlegs]

'And then say what?'

The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe

[MaybeFoxtrot55]

"I've been at Ellis Station Academy for exactly twenty-four hours."

The Disasters, M.K England.

[grace crawford]

"Everything ready?"
The Smoke of Thieves- sally green

[AnnaLibri]

"Snowman wakes before dawn."

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

[Ellie6us]

“People seemed to know without being told.” This is the first line of Echoes by Maeve Binchy.

[KatiesReading]

"My name is Colin Martin, but that's not so important"

Welcome to Hell - Colin Martin

[Hd_whales]

“The village of Ievoli, wedged into the cliff face on the highest plateau of a moderately sized mountain in central Calabria, was never very large.” - page 4 of “The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna” by Juliet Grames.

[Noosh]

“When farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.”
Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd

[Sophia Orduna]

When kids don't feel right, they can't behave right.
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen
Joanna Faber and Julie King

[Corina Elena]

“No, no, NO!!!” I jerk awake, my heart ripping out of my chest. ”

Excerpt From: Heidi M. Simone. “Music to My Ears.”

[Madeline Keys]

India wasted no time with me.

Sentance from "The Leaving of Things" by Jay Antani

[jkropp1121]

Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father’s house.

Small Fry. - Lisa Brennan-Jobs