First Lines

[Colleen]

I've seen this before and I think it's fun to have a thread of all the first sentences in the books you're currently reading, as we all appreciate fine literature (IMHO) and the effort that goes into it. It will be great to read the first lines of all our novels, books you've read and others you may want to try. Write out the sentence with the name of the book. I'll go first:

As a child Trudi Montag thought everyone knew what went on inside others.

Stones from the River

[Sarah]

Mjodahult is one of Ljuder's most ancient homesteads. -Vilhem Moberg, The Emigrants

[Neenee]

Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.

[Colleen]

It was love at first sight.

Catch 22

[Karen]

Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.

The Maltese Falcon

AND

I am what they call in our village "One who has not yet died" - a widow, eighty years old.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

[Colleen]

Snow Flower is one of the oldest books on my TBR list. I have to get to it hopefully this year. If other books don't get in the way! Which they will.

[Karen]

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

[Colleen]

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

Dark Places

[Julia]

"The Circus arrives without warning."

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern