First Lines

[A]

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[A]

Howard Roark laughed.

- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

[Shilpa]

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Nicholas Sparks

[Andrea]

Donald MacAlister didn't die easy.
by Julie Garwood

and

The fairies flew suspended on wires despite their tendency to get tangled together.
by Lisa Mantchev

[Ipshita]

I FELT HER FEAR BEFORE I heard her screams.- Vampire Academy

'You know something?' Elaine Fairmont announced. ‘I’m really going to miss Mexico.'-Counterfeit Bride

[Aparajita]

the fault in our stars by john green

[Andrea]

Mom’s hand shook when she put the cigarette to her mouth and sucked in a pull of the toxic waste.
by Brooke Moss

[Ipshita]

There are so many ways it could have all turned out differently.
by Jennifer E. Smith

[btwthesepages]

"According to The Itty Bitty Pocket Guide (Secrets of the Heart edition), Cupid is the god of erotic love."

by Anna Humphrey

[btwthesepages]

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy
lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

by Douglas Adams

[Shilpa]

First the colors.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.

by Markus Zusak

[Aishee]

Ruchi wrote: "Howard Roark laughed.

- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand"

I have heard a lot of praises about this book. How is it going?

[A]

Aishee wrote: "Ruchi wrote: "Howard Roark laughed.

- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand"

I have heard a lot of praises about this book. How is it going?"

I read it a few weeks back...it was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. Easily one of the best and most inspirational books I've read. You should totally read it!

[A]

Darius looked around the club, taking in the teeming, half-naked bodies on the dance floor.

Dark Lover, J.R. Ward

[Ipshita]

Vienna has always been a city of myths. - The Morning Gift,Eva Ibbotson

[enaven]

so much can change in 36 hours- 'strange bedfellows'part 1 by Kasey Michael..

[Aishee]

Ruchi wrote: "Aishee wrote: "Ruchi wrote: "Howard Roark laughed.

- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand"

I have heard a lot of praises about this book. How is it going?"

I read it a few weeks b..."

I've been dying to read it actually!

[Andrea]

What if Shakespeare had it wrong?
To be, or not to be: that is the question.

by Gayle Forman

[Ipshita]

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want
of more brains. - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,Seth Grahame-Smith

[Carol]

Ipshita wrote: "IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want
of more brains. - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,Seth Grahame-Smith"
What a lovely first line!

[Ipshita]

LOL! It is lovely, that is if one likes lots of blood and gore and of course 'brains'!

[Carol]

It is difficult to imagine Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
Although P. and P. is a classic novel, for me, like thousands of other women, the image of Colin Firth swimming through the lake in the film, is one of my favorite images ever!

[Paulina]

"When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold." - The Hunger Games

[Misha]

I remember the day I died.

Gene by Stel Pavlou

[Andrea]

I’ve long dreamed of my fairy tale wedding, but it wasn’t until I met Damien Stark – who captured me with his kisses and undid me with his touch – that I began to believe it was my destiny. - Take Me by J. Kenner

[Paulina]

❝Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.❞ ~ The Fault in Our Stars

[Andrea]

I just punched a girl in the face. - by Colleen Hoover

[Paulina]

"Reinsenb stood looking over the Nile." ~ Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie.

[Misha]

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

[Johanna]

When a man reaches ninety years of living, he is tempted to look back on his life, to evaluate, to consider his triumphs and his mistakes..... The Macgregor brides by Nora Roberts.

[Ipshita]

Cinderella screwed me over. And really, she doesn’t deserve all the blame. Jasmine, Ariel, Belle, Sleeping Beauty—whatever her real name was, she had, like, three of them—they all added to it. This idea of happily ever after. Of finding Prince Charming.
- Cinderella Screwed Me Over by Cindi Madsen

[Edacheeky]

Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive.

[Andrea]

“Remy? I think something bad has happened,” I whisper into the phone.
by Amity Hope

[A]

'I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem' - Don Tillman, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.

[Ipshita]

"I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear." - Cammie
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

[Ishi]

“You're late.” - The ABC's of Kissing Boys by Tina Ferraro.

[A]

'Jeeves', I said, 'may I speak frankly?'

Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

[Phanindra]

"To the bravehearts of this country who took a stand and refused to suffer in silence "Your Dreams Are Mine Now by Ravinder Singh

[Shilpa]

"I think I killed a girl who looked like this once."

-Girl of Nightmares, Kendare Blake

[Chrissy_Mae]

"The demon exploded in a shower of ichor and guts."
Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare

[Ipshita]

A recent New York Times article said that “new love can look like mental illness.” - Scot On The Rocks: How I Survived My Ex-Boyfriend's Wedding With My Dignity Ever-So Slightly Intact

[Vivi]

"I was eight when I figured out what being in love was like."

For3ver by M. Dauphin