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First Line Quotes

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Frederick Forsyth
“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”
Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

Kami Garcia
“There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck."
Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

J.D. Robb
“[First line]

“The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.”
J.D. Robb, Vengeance in Death

George Orwell
“The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.”
George Orwell, Coming up for Air

Kyoko M.
“It was one-thirty a.m. when all hell broke loose.”
Kyoko M., Of Fury & Fangs

Becky Albertalli
“It's a weirdly subtle conversation, I almost don't notice I'm being blackmailed.”
Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.”
Jonathan Barnes

Perry    Moore
“I never thought I'd have a story worth telling, at least not one about me.”
Perry Moore , Hero

Thomas Hardy
“The rambler who for old association's sake should trace the forsaken coach-road running almost in a meridional line from Bristol to the south shore of England, would find himself during the latter half of his journey, in the vicinity of some extensive woodlands, interspersed with apple orchards.”
Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders

Nikolai Gogol
“In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department.”
Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

Bernardine Evaristo
“Anima
is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by”
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

Andrew O'Hagan
“Tully Dawson made himself new to the world, and ripe for the glories of that summer, by showing he was unlike his father.”
Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

John Banville
“I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?”
John Banville, Snow

Mercedes Lackey
“Your Grandfather," said Vanyel's brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, "was Crazy.”
Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

Harvey Fierstein
“Damned Elmer's Glue! Just let me finish emasculating this eye and I'll be right with you.”
Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy

Bill Konigsberg
“I was in the closet... with Tamera Muncie.”
Bill Konigsberg, Out of the Pocket

Dina Nayeri
“We became refugees.”
Dina Nayeri

William McIlvanney
“The year came and receded like any other leaving its flotsam of the grotesque, the memorable, the trivial.”
William McIlvanney, Docherty

“I was six years old when I last peed my pants.”
Matt Bellassai, Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations

Samuel Beckett
“I am in my mother's room. It's I who live there now. I don't know how I got there.”
Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Billy O'Callaghan
“The air out here is mean with cold.”
Billy O'Callaghan, My Coney Island Baby

David Goodis
“At three in the morning it was dead around here and the windows of the mansion were black, the mansion dark purple and solemn against the moonlit velvet, green of gently sloping lawn.”
David Goodis, The Burglar

Brent Hartinger
“I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the enemy camp.”
Brent Hartinger, Geography Club

Elizabeth McCracken
“They found a body in the Salford cemetery, but aboveground and alive.”
Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway

Katy Birchall
“Important Bridesmaids notes: Harrison only allowed one beer before the service and one whisky for courage before the speech. When drunk has a tendency to a)Ramble b)Do the robot dance c) Take off his shoes and swing them around his head by the laces. Michelle only allowed one glass of champagne before the service and one gin and tonic for courage before her speech a) Slur b) burst into a spontaneous rap c) Prank call her boss pretending to be Kermit the Frog”
Katy Birchall, The Secret Bridesmaid

C.M. Martens
“She imagined it was like getting hit by a freight train. In that nano-second, before thoughts vanished, as pain flared, she wondered just how strong she'd become that a train hadn't killed her on impact.”
C.M. Martens, Killing Game

Alex Diaz-Granados
“[First Line} It’s quiet here. But then again, it’s supposed to be quiet.”
Alex Diaz-Granados, Reunion: A Story: A Novella

“The summer before the Great Library...burned, the air was hot and thick with whispers.”
Zohra Nabi, The City Beyond the Stars

Laney  Williams
“Some sounds can be both triggering and exciting at the same time.
For Lorelei, that was the sound of her email notification.”
Laney Williams, His #1 Fan

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