The first sentence in the book you're reading

[Peder]

"The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant."

Grendel - John Gardner (translator)

 

[Robert]

"The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."


Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

 

[shadforth]

"No point being eighty,is there? said Liza. "If you can't be a bit outrageous?"

Liza's England by Pat Barker

 

[Eva]

"South Sea travellers are strikingly different from all other kinds of tourists."

Love in the South Seas, Bengt Danielsson.

 

[JCMoney218]

"It all simply comes down to good guys and bad guys."

A Salty Piece of Land - Jimmy Buffett

 

[Peder]

"On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago."

Harlot's Ghost - Norman Mailer

 

[Robert]

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.


Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

 

[angerball]

'Watch your step.'

- The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber.

 

[Autumn_Ghosts]

"The legends say that when the blood of the Wide Valley wolves mingles with the blood of the wolves outside the valley, the wolf who bears that blood will stand forever between two worlds."

 

[bookwormfae]

Sovay rode out early while the dew was still wet on the grass.
- Sovay by Celia Rees

 

[Sleepy]

"It was already starting to get boring. I mean how many times can you do the same thing ?"

The Suicide Club by Gayle Wilson

 

[Sliver Slave]

Observe now your own epoch of history as it appears to the Last Men.

From Last and Forst Men. by Olaf Stapledon.

 

[Chasing_Strange]

"On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut Public Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable."

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

 

[shadforth]

The old man tailboned down in the car seat and rolled the cinnamon ball over to his other cheek.

Skywater by Melinda Worth Popham

 

[JCMoney218]

"In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, A Thousand Times Great Grandemere existed."

From The Dust Returned- Ray Bradbury

 

[shadforth]

There was a square of cardboard in the window where the glass had been smashed.

Union Street by Pat Barker

 

[Robert]

They were both lying, propped up by an elbow, on the bristling carpet of short, coarse grass which was fighting for its life on top of the cliff, the roots clinging desperately to the thin layer of earth and finding cracks in the rock beneath.


Ramage's Devil by Dudley Pope

 

[Nepenthe]

A great city is nothing more than a portrait of itself, and yet when all is said and done, its arsenal of scenes and images are part of a deeply moving plan.

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

 

[Koda]

Pusan South Korea, 1952

After dark the rain began to fall again, but he had already made up his mind to go and anyway it had been raining for weeks.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by David Wroblewski

 

[Robert]

Southwich walked slowly across the quarterdeck to where Ramage stood trying to find some shade from a small awning which, having done so much service in the Tropics, now comprised more patches than original cloth and in places was so threadbare from the sun and wind that it provided only a lttle more shade than a piece of muslin.


Ramage's Trial by Dudley Pope