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Lorraine
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Feb 25, 2012 09:09AM
You are quite right, J.P. - I took that from a webpage and it was only a quote, not the first line. My apologies!
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Not a problem. It keeps the players on their toes.
"It happened every year, was almost a ritual. And this was his eighty-second birthday."
Girl With a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson."People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day."
True Grit by Charles Portis"Ten minutes to midnight: a pious Friday evening in May and a fine river mist lying in the market square."
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré"On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton"We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin"Mr. Mayherne adjusted his pince-nez and cleared his throat with a little dry-as-dust cough that was wholly typical of him."
The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen".
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs (I will be reading this soon)"The sun is setting, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy."
Lorraine wrote: "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs (I will be reading this soon)to Lorraine - I'm reading this right now!
"The sun is setting, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital an..."
The Descendants by Kaui Hart HemmingsI'm not saying part of the first sentance as it gives the book away!
When (gives the book away) was sent to (gives the book away)to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable looking child ever seen. It was true, too.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettHere's an easy one:
"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip."
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickensline: “Are You There, Satan? It’s Me, Madison”
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk"The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended."
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke"Due to travel restrictions placed on major league baseball by the War Department, the World Series of 1918 was played in September and split into two home stands."
This isn't a book about baseball, even though Babe Ruth is in it briefly. And it was written much later than 1918. Think of where Babe Ruth started his career.
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane"Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift."
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny"In a way they were born to be aunts. Emancipated, eccentric and brave, the Norchester sisters lived in a tall grey house in Bloomsbury, within a stone's throw of the British Museum."
'A Song of Summer' by Eva Ibbotson"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis"The Secret Service holds much that is kept secret even from very senior officers in the organization."
The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming"They didn't say anything about this in the books, I thought, as the snow blew in through the gaping doorway and settled on my naked back."
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot"In those days the station in Janvilliers had an arched glass roof over the southbound platform as if in imitation of the big domes in St Lazare."
The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks"Major Pettigrew was still upset about the phone call from his brother's wife and so he answered the doorbell without thinking."
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (thank you for the tip from Title Game :) )
"I am old now and have not much to fear from the anger of gods."
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."
A quote simular to this comes from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It begins with "What I need is perspective." Safe to rule that out?
I'll give the answer since it's been so long - it's the first line of I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella.Here's a new one:
"A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a PEI farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil."
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut"It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores."
Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery"The granite was cold and rough against the gray-cloaked man's palms."
Green Rider - Kristen Britain"People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day."
True Grit by Charles Portis"The Austrian horses glinted in the moonlight, their riders standing tall in the saddle, swords raised."
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld"The routine when I get home at the end of the day is always the same."
Death in a Turkey Town - Melanie Jackson"I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house."
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson"In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D__."
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo"One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot."
Room by Emma Donoghue"In the afternoon sky, the sound of the approaching aircraft rose above the sea breeze, a steady drone."
Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon"I was sitting outside the Commodore's mansion, waiting for my brother Charlie to come out with news of the job."
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell"When i was a child, I had a personal conflict over my beliefs."
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