10 favorite first lines

"our dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley."

— uprooted by naomi novik

“in the myriad year of our lord – the ten thousandth year of the king undying, the kindly prince of death! – gideon nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the house of the ninth.”

— gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

"on the second sabbat of twelfthmoon, in the city of weep, a girl fell from the sky."

— strange the dreamer by laini taylor

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