The first sentence in the book you're reading

[Robert]

"Well Piotr, not in sight yet?" was the question asked on May the 20th, 1859 by a gentleman of a little over forty, is a dusty coat and checked trousers, who came out without his hat on to the low steps of the posting station at S--.


Fathers and Sons by Ivan S. Turgenev

 

[Sleepy]

"Mike Hughes thought: It's dead.

Eat The Dark by Joe Schreiber.

 

[angerball]

'Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.'

- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

 

[Leeny]

Once upon a time, I thought the cheerleaders at my high school were no more capable of intelligent thought or true athleticism than the average dachshund.

The Squad: Killer Spirit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

 

[Chasing_Strange]

"I wish Giovanni would kiss me."

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

 

[Hedwig]

There wasn't much time left.

The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan

 

[PerfectlyFlawed]

"It was a hot, steamy summer, and the mosquitoes swarmed everywhere, from their breeding grounds in the rotten, reedy shores of the Red Lake up to the foothills of Mount Abed."

-Lirael, by Garth Nix

 

[Robert]

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.


The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

 

[shadforth]

A man,failed and unfit,moved west and north.

Wolf And Iron by Gordon R. Dickson

 

[Sleepy]

"In the beginning, I behaved badly."

The Genius by Jesse Kellerman

 

[UncleReader]

I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street, waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping, when a girl got up from the table where she had been sitting with three other people and came over to me.

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

 

[OzBlackman]

He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf

I've not finished this yet, but I should be done with it tonight. Great novel.

 

[Robert]

The Atlantic entrance to the Straight of Gibraltar always reminded Ramage of a gigantic funnel lying on its side, its spout pointing towards the Mediterranean and forever replenishing the warm inland sea from the cold ocean.


Ramage's Challenge by Dudley Pope

 

[Robert]

The lawyer took the parchment from his worn leather case, carefully smoothed it out flat on the table and perched a pair of spectacles on his bulbous nose.


Ramage at Trafalgar by Dudley Pope

 

[mysteryREADER]

In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war.

- Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor

 

[Robert]

"The Signora had no business to do it,' said Miss Bartlett, 'no business at all.

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

 

[Aaron S.]

A secrets worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

 

[Sleepy]

"... and the government of the United States of America is herewith suspended, except in the District of Columbia, as of the emergency."

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

 

[angerball]

"The Signora had no business to do it,' said Miss Bartlett, 'no business at all.

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

Ahhh, one of my favourite movies.

 

[Robert]

Ahhh, one of my favourite movies.

I never saw the movie, but the book was excellent!