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[Gisbelle]

Please post the first line and the title of the book you are currently reading.

Please stay on the topic

Posts that are not following the topic shall be deleted to make sure that everything is not getting messy.

Thanks!

April 8, 2014
Please use Links instead of Covers as there are many posts in this thread. Covers will make the thread slower to load and also they are not consistent with the previous posts.

June 5, 2014
First lines from ARCs should not be posted here as they are not the published version of the books.

July 12, 2014
English only, please.

[Gisbelle]

But I think it only fair to warn you, all those songs about California lied. ~ Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

[Vicki]

"The shard through her skull was her welcome to consciousness." Flame Moon

[Gisbelle]

"I know I'm not an ordinary ten-year-old kid." ~ Wonder

[Diana]

"Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?"Matched

[Katie]

"The screw through Cinder's ankle had rusted, the engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle" - Cinder

[Jacquelyn, thebrunettebooknerd]

"I was sitting at the edge of the clearing, trying not to stare at the body on the ground in front of me." The Eleventh Plague

[Janie]

"Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love." The Raven Boys

[Bunny]

"I didn't tell Dad about Granmama's white owl." Strange Angels

[Birdie]

"I woke three times in the dark predawn." Dragonfly in Amber

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

"She stands on the cliffs, near the old crumbling stone house." Tiger Lily

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

"It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure." - Delirium

[Gisbelle]

"You should be dead," the ER nurse stated as she adjusted something on my IV. ~ My Life As a White Trash Zombie

[Deepika]

But I think it only fair to warn you, all those songs about California lied. ~Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

[Katie]

"I'd try to hold onto my stass dreams as long as I could" - A Long, Long Sleep

[Vicki]

I am so sorry but I didn't post the books I read while on vacation so here they are:

"That Saturday I woke before dawn to the sounds of sirens, the doorbell ringing, and Mattie crying." 34 Pieces of You

"Hello, my name is Claire Morgan and I never want to have children."

Seduction and Snacks

"'If you don't sit your stinkin', useless butt back down in that shopping cart, I swear I'll bust your greasy face in!'" Forged by Fire (Hazelwood High, #2)

"My name is Stephanie Plum and I have a strange man in my kitchen." Visions of Sugar Plums

[Vicki]

What I am currently reading:

"My father was peering at me over his newspaper, watching in disgust as I sprinkled yet another spoonful of sugar on my grapefruit." Life of the Party

"'Are you scared?' Jay murmured." The Treeman

"Mauricio had not slept well; he played with the collar rubbing against the skin on his neck." The Priest

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"Here's the thing." Zero

"Walking to school overt the snow-muffled cobbles, Karou had no sinister premonitions about the day." Daughter of Smoke and Bone

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

"Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were innapropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum." - The Dark Unwinding

[Kathryn]

In the midst of a dark,forest, haunted by the winter's chill, I found my self running for my life - The Fallen Star

[Jacquelyn, thebrunettebooknerd]

But I think it only fair to warn you, all those songs about California lied. ~Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

[Merryn]

1801-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. Wuthering Heights

[Beatrice]

I could feel everyone looking at me, but I was used to it.
- Beastly

[Jalyn]

The fingers of the thorn-apple tree clawed at the windowpane behind Harrison Grey, and he dog-eared his page, no longer able to read through the racket. ~ Crescendo

[Gisbelle]

They called the world beyond the walls of the Pod "the Death Shop." ~ Under the Never Sky

[Diana]

My mother thinks I'm dead -Legend

[Gisbelle]

My father is going to kill me. ~ 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

[Diana]

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me - Before I Fall

[Deepika]

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me - Before I Fall

[Lyndsey]

A hundred and two days, thats probably about average, but it didnt seem close to that long, especially in the begining, the first month or so.- Stay With Me, By Pual Griffin

[Jalyn]

The sleek black Audi rolled to a stop in the parking lot overlooking the cemetery, but none of the three men inside had any intention of paying respects to the dead. ~ Silence

[Vicki]

"As my clothes hit the floor, I thought, here I go again, another day at work, another day with men." Sold to the Highest Bidder

[K.C.]

"This is really Earth?" Angels at the Table

[Katie]

"I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather." - Mockingjay

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

They called the world beyond the walls of the Pod "the Death Shop." - Under the Never Sky

[Vicki]

I am also reading Under the Never Sky and Trisha already posted the first sentence, so I'll post sentence 2:

"A million ways to die out there."

[Mehsi]

Rayne woke screaming - Consumed

[Katie]

I am thinking of an apple when the streetcar hits and my leg severs and my ribs crumble and my arm is no longer an arm but something unrecognizable, wet and red. Eve and Adam

[Jasmine]

I don't know how I ended up on the side of Hollister Road, lying in this ditch. Ditched: A Love Story

[Gisbelle]

Anyone who's had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It's all about Before and After. ~ The Beginning of After

[Vicki]

"Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick." The Shining

[Jojobean]

First came the crows- Fated

[Gisbelle]

Josh has lost it. ~ To Be Honest

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

There are only two kids of people in our town. "The stupid and the stuck," my father had affectionately classified our neighbors. - Beautiful Creatures

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

"Stol's laid out on this strange bed-trolley thing. He might as well be waiting for his funeral." - Up on Cloud Nine

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

"I was under the table with my head on my girls' shoes." - A Dog and His Girl Mysteries #1: Play Dead

[Jacquelyn, thebrunettebooknerd]

There were only two kinds of people in our town. - Beautiful Creatures

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

"He's fighting a nightmare when they come for him." - UnWholly

[Gisbelle]

Kel and I load the last two boxes into the U-Haul. ~ Slammed

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

"My mother is a wench. It says so right on her W-2." - Scrambled Eggs at Midnight