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The first sentence in the book you're reading

"It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips."
~ The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

I'm really liking this book so far. Disney deprived me of so much! ;)
 
A beautiful spring day was drawing to a close. High aloft in the clear sky floated small rosy clouds, which seemed never to drift past, but to be slowly absorbed into the blue depths beyond.
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-Home of the Gentry; Ivan Turgenev
 
On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose colored hotel.-

Tender is the Night-F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
"You bitch, you killed me! You suck!"
hahaha its: You Suck by Christopher Moore
i really am not sure why im reading it... i just read the kite runner and that made me sad so i wanted something really light and funny....this book seems sort of stupid.....
 
"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." -- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
 
"Jude had a private collection."
- Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

After reading what some of the items in his private collection happen to be, I wonder if I wouldn't possess similar macabre collectibles had I the money to purchase them.
 
Welcome to your new life!
Or should that be....welcome to the first day of the rest of your life?
-CApacity by Tony Blallanyne
 
"Whenever I meet a man, I catch myself wondering what our child would look like if we were to make a baby."

Grotesque, Natsuo Kirino
 
"A fan is like the thighs of a woman: It opens and closes."
~ The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade by Rikki Ducornet
 
'Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime any peron does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into a pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one action.'

A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Penultimate Peril: Lemony Snicket

The longest sentence ever.
 
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler."

-If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino.
 
This is how it feels when you realise your child is missing: The pit of your stomach freezes fast, while your legs turn to jelly.

-The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
 
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