First Line

[Suz]

I love reading the first sentence in a book. So please feel free to add yours here!

"Dad's dead", Wendy says offhandedly, like it's happened before, like it happens everyday.

This is Where I Leave You

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

“The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

"The word sounded alien in his mouth, as if spoken by someone else" - Angels Flight by Michael Connelly

[Sally906]

"...A birthday ending in zero was nothing to make a fuss about..."

Tumbledown Manor by Helen Brown

[Suz]

I thought I'd see you here Sally, I always like to see your updates where you add the first line :)

[Sally906]

Suzanne wrote: "I thought I'd see you here Sally, I always like to see your updates where you add the first line :)"

I always put the first line in my blog reviews - I also made the decision for the prologue NOT to be the first line for me - but the first line of the first chapter as that is when the story starts :)

[Kathryn]

Suzanne wrote: "I thought I'd see you here Sally, I always like to see your updates where you add the first line :)"

Sally wrote: "I always put the first line in my blog reviews - I also made the decision for the prologue NOT to be the first line for me - but the first line of the first chapter as that is when the story starts :)"

They're good ideas - I'd never thought of doing that before...

[Mish]

The first time I walked into the room I turned back almost at once.

by Jonas Karlsson

[Suz]

Sally906 wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "I thought I'd see you here Sally, I always like to see your updates where you add the first line :)"

I always put the first line in my blog reviews - I also made the decision for t..."

Yes! Makes sense Sally good idea.

[Suz]

It's 9 o'clock at night and I'm sitting in my office with a tearful 15-year-old girl.

The Secret of Happy Children: Why Children Behave the Way They Do--and What You Can Do to Help Them to Be Optimistic, Loving, Capable, and H

[Michael]

"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere." -- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

[Carolyn]

My favourite first line has to be that well used/ misused statement from Pride and Prejudice:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

It's wonderfully ironic and sets the whole tone of the book.

[Leonie]

'Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree."
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

[Kathryn]

Carolyn wrote: "My favourite first line has to be that well used/ misused statement from Pride and Prejudice:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune..."

That was the first one that sprang to my mind, Carolyn!!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Carolyn wrote: "My favourite first line has to be that well used/ misused statement from Pride and Prejudice:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune..."

One of the most famous first lines ever!

[Sally906]

Michael wrote: ""When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere." -- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Oh Michael I LOVE THIS BOOK, I have read it over, and over, and over again. I also reread The Chrysalids every couple of years. Those two are very well loved books on my bookshelf.

[Michael]

Carolyn wrote: "My favourite first line has to be that well used/ misused statement from Pride and Prejudice:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune..."

This is such a perfect line

[K]

1st line from the book I am reading right now:
'The beast appeared with a shrieking roar.'
Heeheeheeeee!

[Sally906]

Kiera wrote: "1st line from the book I am reading right now:
'The beast appeared with a shrieking roar.'
Heeheeheeeee!"

What's the title of the book Kiera?

[K]

Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Kiera wrote: "Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons."

Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons by Stephen Cole

[K]

Yeah, I can't tag the actual book like that through the phone app.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

It's a pain isn't it Kiera!

[Suz]

I do it thru my iPhone all the time, just via google though ;)

[Sally906]

I can use the internet version on my phone. But choose not to because I can't squeeze my eyes up enough to see. Is such a pain. When I am checking posts at night via the application I rarely name books. Save it for when I am online.

[Sally906]

"...I am not - and I say this with neither pride nor shame - a sensitive soul..."

After the Armistice Ball by Catriona McPherson

[Mish]

'YOU walk into the bookstore and you keep your hand on the door to make sure it doesn't slam.'
by Caroline Kepnes

[K]

"The light of the open sky is brilliant after the darkness of the inner rooms."

The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory.

[Lesley]

GR has two lists 'great first lines' and 'best opening sentence' for those who enjoy lists. Select 'listopia' under the 'explore' tab.

[★ Jess]

Fantastic thread idea tbh

"There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife."
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

"The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say."
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

"When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him."
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

[Andrea]

Love the thread!

"When the lights went off the accompanist kissed her."

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, one of my favourite novels.

[Carolyn]

Andrea wrote: "Love the thread!

"When the lights went off the accompanist kissed her."

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, one of my favourite novels."

One of my favourite novels too Andrea!

[Suz]

Tony's footsteps echoed as he hurried across the underground car park and into the lift.

Fractured by Dawn Barker

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Nurse Thornton dropped into the long-term-care ward a little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

[K]

No one- least of all Dr. Litchfield- came right out and told Ralph Roberts that his wife was going to die, but there came a time when Ralph understood without needing to be told.

[Sally906]

One of my current reads Natalia by Jenni Boyd opens:
“…Her hand trembled as she turned the doorknob, her punishment would be severe if discovered in the room, but it was what she came to see which frightened her most…”

[K]

I wake with his name with his name in my mouth.

[Anna]

"I wish to acquire a dragon."

[Suz]

I love that one of yours Anna!!

[Suz]

And Kiera's one too.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Anna wrote: ""I wish to acquire a dragon."
"

I wish to acquire a dragon too! That would be fantastic:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Nah! I want a Starcat;)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Brenda wrote: "Nah! I want a Starcat;)"

I only want Ember:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

LOL!!!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Actually I keep meaning to tell Leonie to make sure she looks after Ember in the next book. If anything happens to him I shall be very sad.

[Anna]

Trav Zander

I really, really wanted that dragon! Sigh. And the one in her other dragon book.

[Leonie]

Lol!

[Heather]

Are you her?
The Woman He Loved Before

[★ Jess]

"Mrs Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat."

From 'Chalvery', the first short story in Smoke and Mirrors

[Sapphire]

There are some great opening lines here. My personal favourite is.

“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S Thompson