What is the 1st line of page 33 of your current book?

[Heena]

Now this is something random and fun.
Just open page 33 of the book you're reading currently and share the first line.
Please mention the name of the book.

Eg:

"I remember wondering if I could get a job in those parts."
-The Thirty-Nine Steps

[Heena]

Dagny wrote: "I could barely hear KDED, the all-vampire radio station, playing in the background: Clapton's version of "After Midnight."
Definitely Dead"

"all-vampire radio station".... now that's interesting! Nice one Dagny :)

[Heena]

"Frau Richter need have no fears for her husband's virtue from this quarter, at least."
-The Lupane Legacy

[Stefani]

My current read is an e-ARC on my Kindle (which has no pages), so this is from my next read: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

"'To where I live,' she says, then rushes on. 'It's just that with your accent, I figured you--'
'Were a London street urchin?'"

I know you said first line, but that made no sense if I didn't finish it! :)

[Heena]

"He kept up the patter while he worked, one short-fingered hand sliding the meat-slicer smoothly backwards and forwards, silky-fine slices of ham rippling into the cellophane held below, a wink ever ready in his round blue eyes, his chins wobbling with easy laughter."

-The Casual Vacancy

[Manaswin]

"....come on a broken village lit by green flare light that the French had inexplicably abandoned after seizing it from the Australians..... "
The Narrow Road to the Deep North

[Steve]

"You should see the tombs tomorrow," she said. "Or soon, anyway, because each day the heat gets worse across the river. It is all desert where the kings are buried, no shade of any kind." -- Thieves Fall Out (This is actually the first line at 33%: no page numbers in this Kindle edition.

[Steve]

"Dudley and I were in the alleyway between Magnolia Crescent and Wisteria Walk," said Harry, speaking fast, fighting to control his temper. -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

[Steve]

"Solos like me didn't care much for the clans, either, but we still respected them as fellow gunters--unlike the Sixers, whose goal was to hand the OASIS over to an evil multinational conglomerate intent on ruining it." -- Ready Player One

[Cheryl]

"I can kill for you too."
The Archer's Tale

[Cheryl]

"She left a forwarding address - the Ambassador, Los Angeles."
The Maltese Falcon

[Grace]

"His sister, Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone." - A Game Of Thrones.

[Spandana]

"Margot filled her satchel with schoolbooks, fetched her bicycle, and rode off behind Miep into the unknown, as far as I was concerned."

From- 'The diary of a young girl' by Anne Frank

[Heena]

"Thank you, m'lord," Dunk said before he could go. "M'lord, has the king come?"
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin

[Cheryl]

I haven't done this in awhile.

"I guess there'll have to be a police inquiry, right?"

- White Heat by M. J. McGrath

[Heena]

'Geels smirked. "Kaz Brekker, the great escape artist. How are you going to wriggle your way out of this one?"
Going out the same way I came in."'

- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The last line is the first line of Page 33, but I added the previous line for context.

PS: I am really, really loving this book!!

[Marjorie]

"As far as Myrtle was concerned the Lord could go jump if He was the one that took her father away."

Whisper My Secret

[Cheryl]

"The printed document was attached to a photograph of a man so enormous that he barely fitted into the frame."
Forever and a Day (a James Bond prequel)

[Steve]

‘What on earth am I to do?’ she murmured. --
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

[〰️Beth〰️]

This is a fun random challenge.

How does a girl like me figure out the weight of what it means to love a boy?

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

[Alejandro]

Langdon heaved a sigh and climbed out. It's your circus.

Poor Langdon being dragged throughout Paris for a crime he didn't commit lol

The Da Vinci Code