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Listopia > Leijette's votes on the list Great First Lines (6 Books)
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The Blind Assassin
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""Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.""
Leijette
rated it 5 stars
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Pride and Prejudice
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""It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.""
Leijette
rated it 5 stars
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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""I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice – not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.""
Leijette
rated it 5 stars
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Rebecca
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""Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.""
Leijette
rated it 4 stars
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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""All this happened, more or less.""
Leijette
rated it 4 stars
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The Poisonwood Bible
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""Imagine a ruin so strange, it must never have happened.""
Leijette
rated it 5 stars
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