First sentence of current book

[Redlegs]

Oh yes, we're here.

The Glass Room, Simon Mawer

[Kris5911]

"Christmas won't be Christmas without presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

(1947 Edition )

[VitsyST]

"When I was six, Dad told me something really true; everyone has a to-do list."

Love Me Never by Sara Wolf

[Scrubs]

"when I was born, the name for what I was did not exist."

CIRCE- Madeline Miller

[GC50]

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[RachelRovere]

The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

[Noosh]

"These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket."
Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[Noosh]

"One evening just lately, as I was coming back from town to Engenho Novo on the Central line train, I met a young man from this neighborhood, whom I know by sight: enough to raise my hat to him."
Dom Casmurro
by Machado de Assis

[janelwhite]

“I gave myself a fifty-fifty chance of getting out alive.”
Executive Hoodlum by John Costello

[md_taylor0215]

“In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret.”

Of Beast and Beauty
Stacey Jay

[Dave Manny]

Hands on his hips, impatience growing, Jett Sutter placed the length of his living room while his youngest sister, Betts, blathered on about God-knows-what.


The guy next door

[Redlegs]

Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of Lincoln, had the honour to be the seat of Christopher Glowry, Esquire.

Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock

[Noosh]

“The last time we saw Charlie, he was riding high above his home town in the Great Glass Lift.”
Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

[Gathoni1991]

"Oren emerged from the tree line onto the North road". The Elf Accord by Jordan David.

[Gift25]

As humans, we have this story that if something we perceive to be wrong happens, we immediately want to fix it.

The Answer Is Energy
By Jarrad Hewett