First sentence of current book

[LarissaRunamuck]

"The servants called them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke's house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal the last of the summer peaches."

-Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

[TheTrueNyree]

Mike Boudreaux’s gloved hands worked quickly and decisively to finish a gallbladder in operating room five.

The Surgeon's Wife -William H. Coles

[bclayton13]

"Superior Glokta stood in the hall, and waited."
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law: Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie.
Conveniently, this book starts with my favorite character!

[WonderfulWonder17]

MILLIE GERDAVEY CHEATED ON HER boyfriend again.

A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

[Samantha2442]

"It was a pleasure to burn"

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

[Songbird413]

It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.

The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie

[Jacki Mac Iver Hill]

The Italian and Irish sides of our family can argue about almost anything—the thickness of porridge, how much people can drink before they’re officially alcoholics, and which side acts more like “bloody foreigners.”

Dodging Satan by Kathleeen Zamboni McCormick

[domibarq]

"You smell like a summer garden. All sweet and sultry and made for love."

One Way or Another
Mary J. Williams

[Jmar_la]

From "The Altitude Journals" by David Mauro
"People ask me why I dId It. they want to know why I chose to risk my life so many times, why, at age forty-four, after living a comfortable, safe life as a financial planner, I suddenly declared myself a mountain climber and took on the highest summit of each continent—the Seven Summits"

[kgloving]

"Though I looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris."
- The Paris Wife, Paula McLain

[readingislit]

“Keeping a secret can be very exciting.”

The Black Notebook, Isabelle Snow

[Book Bear]

"Would he be there that evening?"

The Runaway Wife by Rosie Clarke.

[ccranston]

"This is how it begins."

The Last Time I Lied By Riley Sager

[Redlegs]

Since the passenger train connecting the icebound estates of the southern lowlands, which extend from the banks of the Tisza almost as far as the foot of the Carpathians, had, despite the garbled explanations of a haplessly stumbling guard and the promises of the stationmaster, rushing nervously on and off the platform, failed to arrive ('Well, squire, it seems to have disappeared into thin air again...' the guard shrugged, pulling a sour face), the only two serviceable old wooden-seated coaches maintained for just such an 'emergency' were coupled to an obsolete and unreliable 424, used only a a last resort, and put to work, albeit a good hour and half late, according to a timetable to which they were not bound and which was an approximation anyway, so that the locals who were waiting in vain for the eastbound service, and had accepted its delay with what appeared to be a combination of indifference and helpless resignation, might eventually arrive at their destination some fifty kilometres further along the branch line.

The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai

(Krasznahorkai is renowned for his long and complex sentences, and this is by no means the longest!!)

[julessawyer]

"On November 11, 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had—at last!—arrived."
Veronika Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho