First sentence of current book

[Inmortalbooklover]

I hate First Friday
Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

[Ben Moore]

Albert, fleshy, sallow, blue chinned, breathing hard, sweating a little, fitted an iron bar into sockets on either side of the wooden shutters he had just closed across the final window of the stable-block.

The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell

[Redlegs]

The best thing would be to write down everything that happens from day to day.

Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre

[paraphelion]

"You ever have one of those Magic 8 Balls as a kid?"

The American Girl by Kate Horsley

[Nym182]

The brown ant had already forgotten its home.

The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu

[Reynaa]

There is a skill to driving a car whilst towing a trailer.
-A Way Back Home, by Allison Sherlock

[Reynaa]

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
Jane Austen
Emma

Love Jane Austen! And Mr. Knightly

[Noosh]

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
Jane Austen
Emma

Love Jane Austen! And Mr. Knightly

Austen is a fine novelist, and I’m still not that deep into the story to know mister Knightly enough to love him.
But I hope I’ll become a fan like you

[Falling4Ever]

"It was a nice day."

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

[Jyockel08]

This book is in your hands because I don’t want you-or anyone-to feel the way I feel.
Why Meadow Died
Andrew Pollack and Max Eden

[Redlegs]

'That n___ going down the street', said Dr Hasselbacher standing in the Wonder Bar, 'he reminds me of you Mr Wormold.'

Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene

"I'll take the odds against Caravan."

Sybil; or the Two Nations, Benjamin Disraeli

[LizAnne]

"Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold this opinion: that no two things have less in common or differ more from each other than a civil and a military life."
~The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli

[Inkroverts]

"I had the fortune of meeting Lauren Powers at a St. Jude's Oscar Party Charity event in Hollywood six years ago."
--- Lisa Lockwood, foreword in Beneath the Muscles by Lauren Powers

[ValerijaJ]

I TELL FOLKS TO CALL ME POMEROY.

Call Me Pomeroy by James Hanna

[HeatherEi]

Becoming Michelle Obama

"I spent much of my childhood listening to the sound of striving"