The first sentence in the book you're reading

[kuroc]

August 1938
The candlelight flickered unevenly in the darkness, push and pulled by the warm night breeze that wafted fitfully through the open windows.

Sins of the Flesh: Don Davis & Jay Davis

 

[bren]

An oblong puddle inset in the coarse asphalt; like a fancy foorprint filled to the brim with quicksilver; like a spatulate hole through which you can see the nether sky.

Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov

 

[Fantasy Moon]

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

 

[SFG75]

Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead.
-Brad Meltzer; The Book of Fate.

 

[zoe08]

Shelby knew Washington was a crazy town.

-All the Possibilities (in the Macgregor series) by Nora Roberts

 

[Concetta]

There is no mystery to happiness.

The Interpretation of Murder
Jed Rubenfeld

 

[bluecaffeine]

Edward Wozny stood squinting at the sun as crowds of people excused themselves past him in both directions

Codex by Lev Grossman

 

[Lily]

Kenny Mumford's wide, sightless eyes gazed up out of his shroud of wet, green rockweed, on the beach at Prince's Cove

Triple Witch - Sarah Graves

 

[Thickney]

I was born in the city of Bombay... once upon a time.

Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Two tired men looked at Antonia Gallo with resentment and hostility in their eyes.

Whiteout - Ken Follet

 

[Concetta]

It begins as most things begin, with a song.

Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman


- I have been dying to start this - I am so excited...

 

[Clementine13]

"At daybreak Billy Buck emerged from the bunkhouse and stood for a moment on the porch looking up at the sky."

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

 

[Jeanne-Marie]

Sarah Mason had always thought that when Death finally came calling for her, he would be better-looking.


Vanished, Karen Robards

 

[xmissyo]

Down the rows of the dead they came.

The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

 

[Fantasy Moon]

"The day broke gray and dull."
~ Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham

 

[Devilgirl]

Dear Franklin,

I'm unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you.

We need to talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

 

[isilien]

Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen:
The classic (at least in Norway) Peer, du lyver!/Peer, you're lying!

Macbeth by Shakespeare:
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

 

[wilderness]

Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
"A child wants to see. It always begins like this, and it began like this then. A child wants to see"


Lani

 

[dancingreader]

the funnies by j. robert lennon

"Dad's dead," said my brother, as if it were my fault.

 

[bren]

The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm.

Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith