The first sentence in the book you're reading

[eclair]

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.

 

[Will]

Ah, James Joyce...

 

[eclair]

Yes. Are you a fan?

 

[eldog]

The Girl Who Kicked A Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson

It is estimated that some six hundred women served during the American Civil War.

 

[domani]

"Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation" - John Fowles, Daniel Martin

 

[Ephiny]

I'd worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of the killers ever mailed me a human head.

 

[SFG75]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of a braans must be in want of more brains. Never was this truth more plain than during the recent attacks at Netherfield Park, in which a household of eighteen was slaughtered and consumed by a horde of the living dead.

Pride And Prejudice And Zombies; Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith

Just had to throw in the second sentence, as it was a cool paragraph.

 

[Fate]

"Before she became the Girl from Nowhere--the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years--she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy."

The Passage - Justin Cronin

 

[Fate]

"When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange because
it began before I even knew what a city was."

The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham.

 

[Ephiny]

It pissed him off royally, but Commander Bronse Chapel couldn't help stumbling once again as the sand shifted from under his fast-paced footing.

 

[kundan]

I HAVE AN engineering problem.

The LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch

 

[shadforth]

The titmice are banging against the window.

 

[linda_sportgirl]

"What?"
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

 

[anu]

"All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"


Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

 

[readandlearn]

"My suffering left me sad and gloomy."

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

 

[trueboredom]

"But sometimes the sounds-like the pain-faded, and there was only the haze."
Misery, By Stephen King

 

[jasmine99]

When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim I briefly put aside my reading preference for fiction and history and bought one of those how-to books: How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan Lakein.

My Life-Bill Clinton

 

[shadforth]

How he would do it,he didn't know.


The Five by Robert McCammon

 

[Peder]

"Why is the measure of love loss?"

-Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

 

[shadforth]

Rosso was alive and ashamed of it.



The Monkey House by John Fullerton