What's the first line of your current read?

[[deleted user]]

Thought I'd resurrect this thread. I love reading the first lines of books. So what's the first line of the book you're reading?

Before there was anything, there was the dream.

The Favored Child by Philippa Gregory

[Mermarie]

That's absolutely brilliant, too. Your shelves always make me giggle; knickers in a twist..? LOL!

The utter and absolute darkness smothered the tiny raft, totally disorienting the two half-conscious passengers.



Bound by the Heart by Marsha Canham

I have a tendency of letting a book lay unread for few days after I start, if I miss the characters, I'll start again. :] These two are coming up fast in my ole heart! You know, when Summer and her brother were floating about the ocean on that tiny raft and he started panicking about slithering things below them, then the moment Captain Morgan Wade rescues them, my imagination must have been ultra-sensitive, because all sorts of foreign, abyssal creatures dragging them to the bottom of the ocean, took shape in my mind. LOL

[[deleted user]]

I remember that first scene! She set the scene awesomely right out of the gate. Usually I don't recall the little things, but the way that opening scene was described, it burned into my memory. :)

[Tammy]

"I have never been one to become hysterical with great frequency, but I knew with a certainty that if this wretchedly sprung diligence hit one more bump I would scream at the top of my lungs."

[[deleted user]]

Dammit, Tammy, you quoted the Stuart and now I must read.... :P

[Tammy]

That's right, you dump that literary piece you're reading and pick up this bit of pulp RIGHT. NOW.

I'm waiting for you. :P

[Mermarie]

LOL Tammy...I do that CONSTANTLY!!! Hmmmm..opt for this richly written and eloquently penned masterpiece for a novella barely passed the 8th grade term-paper quality. *Download*

[[deleted user]]

Tammy wrote: "That's right, you dump that literary piece you're reading and pick up this bit of pulp RIGHT. NOW.

I'm waiting for you. :P"

Oh no, you're not getting me THAT easily, you vexatious vixen.

[Tammy]

Well, can't blame a girl for trying. ;D

[[deleted user]]

"Her green silk dress rustled as Morag Elliot leaned over to peer nervously back down the dark tunnel she had hurried through."

[Willow]

It was early morning, and the mists, like shredded gray guaze, hung over the still waters of the Golden Horn.

[Sandi *~The Pirate Wench~*]

Same line as above just a different cover :D