First Lines
Submitted by persei on Fri, 12/09/2005 - 13:02
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- The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. - Uglies, Scoot Westerfeld
- Last Night I dreamt I went to Manderly again. - Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
- I'm immune to emotion. - Hard Love, Ellen Wittlinger
- If I could tell you one thing about my life it would be this, when I was 7 years old the mailman ran over my head. - The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
- Morgarth, Lord on the Mountains of Rin and Night, looked out over his bleak, rainswept domain and, for perhaps the thousandth time, cursed. - Ranger's Apprentice, John Flanagan
- Froggy Welsh the Fourth is trying to get up my shirt. -The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler
- We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. - Feed, MT Anderson
- You have to watch what you say around here because everything you say means something and somebody's always telling you what you mean. - America, E.R. Frank
- They shhot the white girl first. - Paradise, Toni Morrison
- Maggot said we should go up to Times Square to watch the ball drop and pick some pockets, but we never got around to it. - Can't Get There from Here, Todd Strasser
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possesion of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
That's a nice idea for a list, some cool choices too. A dozen first lines come to my mind. I will probably clone that one...