First sentence of current book

[ValBookReviews]

Awesome titles still coming.

[Libs_Books]

Gravesend, England, Spring 1639.
The sea breeze whispers across the ancient waterway.

The Mathematician's Journey by Anthony Dalton

[Lgs1089]

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. -Walden, or Life in the Woods

[BDTheresa]

"Reverend, you have a visitor".
He couldn’t remember when he fell in love with the pain. When agony first turned to pleasure, and then to joy. Of course, it hadn’t always been like this. He remembered screaming all those years ago when first they put him in this cell; those memories were vague, though, like reflections in a dusty mirror.

[Redlegs]

The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are-you-in-trouble? - Do-you need-advice? - Write-to- Miss- Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.

The Collected Works of Nathanael West, (Miss Lonelyhearts)

[Simpfenderfer]

"Why so afraid?" we ask ourself.
The Fates Divide Veronica Roth

[Lover of Language]

"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip."
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[Gravy]

"Okay, this was going to be easy."

Reap the Wind by Karen Chance.


Yeah...nothing like cursing your characters from the beginning.

[Cate Mbevi]

Edna Montague looked thoughtfully out of her bedroom window, the lace curtain casing shadows on her face as it danced about in the gentle breeze. Randy Love at your Service by Shay Carter

[Tiny_Turtle]

"Why am I telling you this?"

Orb: Book 3 of the Nightlord Series
By Garon Whited

(I just had to giggle when I wrote that )

[Shrabastee]

"In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."
Perfume: the story of a murderer by Patrick Suskind

[Redlegs]

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[PlanetHauth]

It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me.

Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, book one of The Great Book of Amber. This one is technically the first sentence of the physical book as my copy contains the whole series in one book.

However, I've just started book two, so here's that opening line as a bonus!

I stood there on the beach and said, "Good-by, Butterfly," and the ship slowly turned, then headed out toward deep water.

The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny, book two of The Great Book of Amber.

[Jonida]

I'm here, I'm... sorry I came to you unnanounced...
"Keys to Tetouan" by Mois Benarroch

[inkoncedar]

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.
The stranger by Albert Camus.