The first sentence in the book you're reading

[Libra]

The Known World-Edward P. Jones


"The evening his master died he worked gain well after he ended the day for the other adults,his own wife among them,and sent them back with hunger and tiredness to their cabins."

 

[Robert]

I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning.


Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

 

[Robert]

The Known World-Edward P. Jones


"The evening his master died he worked gain well after he ended the day for the other adults,his own wife among them,and sent them back with hunger and tiredness to their cabins."

Getting an early start, Libra?

 

[Skylark]

"The sun came in at a slant and hit all the rings and marks on the bar counter."

Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy.

 

[Robert]

The blow catches him from the right, sharp and surprising and painful, like a bolt of electricity, lifting him up off the bicycle.

Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee

 

[Robert]

'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says.'

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

 

[page turner]

All our attempts at subterfuge had been in vain.

 

[shadforth]

It starts and ends with the knife.


Jackdaw Summer by David Almond

 

[booktin]

Do forgive me for bothering you again, but I simply had to see you today - I want you to hear my side of the stroy, from beginning to end.

Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki

 

[Sleepy]

There is an hour known intimately to all who rouse to meet it, a time when darkness sheds fully the cloak of twilight and the streets fall still and silent, a time when shadows convene, become one, dissolve.

The Rosary Girls by Richard Montanari

 

[shadforth]

Cain had been awakened by the frenzied whinnying of a horse below his window in the street.

Soul Catcher by Michael White

 

[Robert]

My Lord, when you ask me to tell the court in my own words, this is what I shall say.

The Book of Evidence by John Banville

 

[Eurydice]

Everyone thought she had made it up, and she had tolerated more taunting and teasing from other children, more lectures and punishments from grown-ups, than any eleven-year-old should have to bear

The Looking Glass Wars By Frank Beddor

 

[shadforth]

In the springtime the old people come back.


Revenant by Tristan Hughes

 

[brookiedawn]

Whoever said, "Dead men tell no tales," obviously wasn't listening very hard.

-Dead Girls are Easy by Terri Garey

 

[Eurydice]

it was morning, and a new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

 

[Libra]

Timothy Findley-The Last of the Crazy People


On the last day of school,in June,Hooker had looked at the crowded,busy schoolyard,and he had sighed with relief.

 

[Eurydice]

The dream began with the sound of wings

Hunted by P.C. and Kristen Cast

 

[shadforth]

The pig was young and wary,a yearling boar timidly testing the wind for strange scents as it ventured out into the honey-coloured light of a fast-fading day.


Hood by Stephen Lawhead.

 

[Hazra]

"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."

-The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett