First Lines

[Marilyn]

"The smoke from ships and the exhalations of the river left a haze that blurred the world and made the big liner seem ever bigger, less the product of human endeavor than an escarpment rising from a plain."

"Dead Wake - The Last Crossing of the Lusitania"
- by best selling author ERIK LARSON

[Trish]

"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

[Deniz]

"One summer night i fell asleep,hoping the world would be different when i woke."

Aristotle And Dante Discover the Secrets Of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

It's such a beautiful book, highly recommended by me :)

[Melinda]

The last thing a bride needs to fret over on her wedding day is whether the ceremony will take place.

A Sparrow in Terezin by Kristy Cambron

[Jenni]

The cruise ship towered over the dock in San Pedro like an enormous white layer cake, or a floating apartment building.
Day Four.

[Debbie M]

Ove is fifty-nine. A Man Called Ove

[Melinda]

When I was seven winters of age, my mother caught me in the hearth stacking red-hot coals with my bare hands.

Of Fire and Stars

[Kris]

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.
The Kite Runner

[Debbie M]

In my dream, the girl was drifting, far, far below the crashing waves and the cries of gulls in the cold, sunless depths of the North Sea.