First Line

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

This story would never have been written if I hadn't become pregnant.

Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer

[Suz]

MR JARDIM: Thank you for the opportunity to speak with my client over the lunch adjournment, Your Honour.

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[Mish]

'Once there was a hard-working bloke who lived in a small Victorian country town with his wife and their three young sons'

This House of Grief by Helen Garner -

[Suz]

The first time I saw her again, I felt like I'd been hit.

[Mish]

'He was found in the shrubbery in front of the Word of God House in Albatross Road, West Five.'

He Died With His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond

[Suz]

Winter-gaunt elms clawed at the air like they wanted to escape.

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[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Even in high summer Tintagel was a haunted place.

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

[Sally906]

Suzanne wrote: "Winter-gaunt elms clawed at the air like they wanted to escape.

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That's IT - with an opening like that will have to drag the book to the top of the TBR pile!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

You'll enjoy it Sally:)

[Sally906]

Brenda wrote: "You'll enjoy it Sally:)"

:)

[Suz]

Yes, great opening line from Dale there!

[Suz]

I sat in the back pew and watched the only woman I would ever love marry another man.

Six Hours

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

A winter night, screaming out of Edinburgh. The front car was being chased by three others.

Let it Bleed by Ian Rankin

[Adriana]

"I'm pretty much f***ed."

[Anabelee]

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" from The Dark Tower

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Anabelee wrote: ""The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" from The Dark Tower"

That is my favourite line of all time from my favourite series. Have you read to the end yet?

[Ryan]

I'll be reading The Drawing of the Three this year.

[Carolyn]

Her name was Caitlin, she was eighteen, and her own heart would sometimes wake her - flying away in that dream race where finish lines grew farther away not nearer, where knees turned to taffy, or feet to stones.

Descent by Tim Johnston

[Anabelee]

Phrynne wrote: "Anabelee wrote: ""The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" from The Dark Tower"

That is my favourite line of all time from my favourite series. Have you re..."

Yes :) Not in order, but yes. I'm enjoying the comics now

[Ryan]

The first line of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is also very good. I believe the same line opens the movie via Depp's monologue.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Ryan wrote: "The first line of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is also very good. I believe the same line opens the movie via Depp's monologue."

What is the first line in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Ryan? Can you tell us? :)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Anabelee wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "Anabelee wrote: ""The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" from The Dark Tower"

That is my favourite line of all time from my favourite ser..."

Then you know that the last line is every bit as good as the first one:)

[Suz]

Didi Wood was walking to the mall from her car when her pregnant belly began to tighten until it felt like a taut basketball.

Eleven Hours by Paullina Simons.

[Ryan]

Brenda wrote: "Ryan wrote: "The first line of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is also very good. I believe the same line opens the movie via Depp's monologue."

What is the first line in [book:Fear and Loathing in..."

Sorry Brenda I was away from my computer all day. The opening line goes:

"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."

It's not so much that first line but the entire first two paragraphs that are brilliant, as the narrator - driving to Vegas - hallucinates an attack by giant bats.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Wow! OK thanks Ryan!!!

[Anabelee]

@Phyrenne yes, yes :)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Copper flashes like shards of aventurine glass on top of the old brick wall behind our house.

Amazingly this is the poetic start of Flesh and Blood by Patricia Cornwell

[Anabelee]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities[

[Anabelee]

"Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing" Don Quixote

[Carolyn]

Two classic first lines there Anabelee!

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Anabelee wrote: ""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Ligh..."

Brilliant!!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Killing was easier than I thought it could be, and a lot more rewarding.

Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sounds good already Phrynne:)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Oh it is. No disappointment here.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

"There was a wall."

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
She doesn't give much away with that line !

[Sally906]

The Room by Jonas Karlsson opens: The first time I walked into the room I turned back almost at once


A Small Madness by Dianne Touchell – opens: He’d eaten an orange.

[Anabelee]

Phrynne wrote: ""There was a wall."

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
She doesn't give much away with that line !"

The book improves at each line, I guess :)

[Anabelee]

"Vine a Madrid a matar a un hombre al que no conocía" / "I came to Madrid to kill a men who I did not know" at Beltenebros (I'm not very sure about the translation)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Anabelee wrote: "Phrynne wrote: ""There was a wall."

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
She doesn't give much away with that line !"

The book improves at each line, I guess :)"

It certainly does:)

[Anabelee]

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Anna Karenina I really like this one

[Suz]

"Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was kidnapped by a gang of fearless yet terrified young men with so much impossible hope beating inside their bodies it burned their very skin and strengthened their will right through their bones."

by Roxane Gay. Amazing opening.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Well that makes me want to read it! Let me know if it is as good as its opening line:)

[Suz]

I will Phrynne! It's heavy but I'm ok with it thus far..

[Sally906]

Here are some 1st lines from the 3 books I am reading:

Tell the Truth by Katherine Howell
Opens: Rowan Whylie drove into Playland car park just after ten on a Monday morning in early April, his granddaughter, Emelia, wriggling in her car seat in the back.

Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis
Opens: Brady Miller’s ideal Saturday was pretty simple—sleep in, be woken by a hot, naked woman for sex, followed by a breakfast that he didn’t have to cook. I hasten to add he was only getting two out of his 3 ideals - a sleep in and a breakfast in a cafe so he didn't have to cook it ;)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

The body lay naked and face down, a deathly grey, spatters of blood staining the snow around it.

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Ewww!!! Sounds...wonderful;P

[Liam || Books 'n Beards]

Love that book.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Liam wrote: "Love that book."

I can tell:)

[Khione]

I felt her fears before I heard her screams.
-Vampire Academy

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

The sun spread on the horizon, bleeding colour like a broken yolk.

After Darkness by Christine Piper