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kspenmoll
Great first lines | Celina Spiegel, Peter Kupfer
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#firstlines
1. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice – not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother‘s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God, I‘m a Christian because of Owen Meany.
2.It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Dr. Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter.
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kspenmoll 🔼 3. I‘d like to think I know what death is. 4. Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.5. I have two names, which is one whole name more than most people have. 3mo
CBee #1 ♥️♥️♥️♥️ 3mo
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Leniverse
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1.In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
2The Island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
3."I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?" said my brother's wife
4.Harriet Vane sat at her writing-table and stared out into Mecklenburg Square
5.When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake - not a very big one.

Leniverse The Hobbit, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Prisoner of Zenda, Gaudy Night, Lonesome Dove 3mo
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Branwen
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#firstlines @monalyisha

⭐ "Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."

⭐ "There is a pirate in the basement."

⭐ "The stranger came out of the sea like a water ghost, barefoot and wearing the scars of his journey."

⭐"The story that follows is one I never intended to commit to paper."

⭐"Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints."

Branwen *Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 3mo
thegirlwiththelibrarybag What intriguing opening lines! Of these, I‘ve read only Priory - I knew when I read the line that it was from a book that I‘d read but I couldn‘t place it. 3mo
monalyisha Mrs. Dalloway 💓🌷 3mo
vivastory So many favorites listed 💙 3mo
Branwen @monalyisha YES! 🩷💐 @thegirlwiththelibrarybag And what did you think of Priory? Did you read the prequel too? I loved the prequel, but not as much as Priory! 🤭💕 @vivastory Which of my selections would you say you like best? 📖 2mo
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JessClark78
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Thanks for the tag @Eggs #FirstLines

1. Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened...although he called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life.

2. First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

👇🏻

JessClark78 3. Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. 3mo
JessClark78 4. The blinds, which were down, filled the room with the yellow colour of the inside of a peach. 3mo
JessClark78 5. The palace still shook occasionally as the earth rumbled in memory, groaned as if it would deny what had happened. 3mo
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JessClark78 1. Pet Sematary by Stephen King 3mo
JessClark78 2. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 3mo
JessClark78 3. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 3mo
JessClark78 4. Heart-Beast by Tanith Lee 3mo
JessClark78 5. The Eye Of The World by Robert Jordan 3mo
Eggs 🩷🥳❤️ 3mo
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Yuki_Onna
Dare Me: A Novel | Megan Abbott
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After Dark - Haruki Murakami: Eyes mark the shape of the city.

Bunny - Mona Awad: We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny.

Dance, dance, dance - Haruki Murakami: I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

Dare me - Megan Abbott: “Something happened, Addy. I think you better come.“

Play it as it lays - Joan Didion: What makes Iago evil? some people ask. I never ask.

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IndoorDame
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1. A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:
"Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi!
That's all right!"
2. “Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.
3. If this typewriter can‘t do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.
4. There is a pirate in the basement.

IndoorDame 5. At half past six on the twenty-first of
June 1922, when Count Alexander
Ilyich Rostov was escorted through the gates of the Kremlin onto Red Square, it was glorious and cool.
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Eggs ❤️🩵🩷 @IndoorDame (edited) 3mo
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AnnCrystal
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Thank You @monalyisha For Creating This Play & Share Card.

1- It was little more than three miles from the Wall into the Old Kingdom, but that was enough.

2- They say the first of my kind was a woman named Alasdair, a human raised by hawks.

3- A boy went missing the night of the storm.

4- I remain committed to my goal of saving humanity from itself, but my latest efforts are meeting with mixed results.👇

AnnCrystal 5- Matilda Pages pushed open the door of Pages & Co. and breathed in deeply, taking in the familiar scent of just-blown-out candles, dark chocolate, and, of course, books. 3mo
AnnCrystal 1- Garth Nix's Sabriel, part one of the Old Kingdom series. 3mo
AnnCrystal 2- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes's Hawksong, part one of The Kiesha'ra series. 3mo
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AnnCrystal 3- Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw. 3mo
AnnCrystal 4- Novelization of Batman Begins.
3mo
AnnCrystal 5- The Bookwanderers by Anna James (Pages And Co. Book One).

Note: I'm still reading this one 📙💝.
3mo
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TheSpineView
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#FirstLines @monalyisha

"How well I remember." ~ A Gentleman In Moscow

"In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit." ~ The Hobbit

"The first place I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it." ~ Black Beauty

"People disappear all the time." ~ Outlander

"Light came through the window, trickling morning all over the room." ~ The Bronze Horseman

monalyisha The Bronze Horseman is one I‘ve been meaning to read forever! 3mo
TheSpineView @monalyisha Great book! 3mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 3mo
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Faranae
Shade of Blossoms | Ooka Shohei
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1. Apparently Yoko had not been listening to the man from the start.
2. Call me Ishmael.
3. Piping down the valleys wild
4. The one thing everyone in Wychcomb St. Mary agreed on was that Mildred Hoggett was up to no good.
5. This is Oscar Fox with Outfoxing the Paranormal!

#firstlines @monalyisha

Faranae 1. Shade of Blossoms by Ooka Shohei
2. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
3. Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
4. Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian
5. The Forgotten Dead by Jordan L. Hawk

And yes I'm aware I spoiled one by tagging it but I refuse to repost. 😂
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monalyisha I mean…at least I got Moby Dick. 😆 3mo
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Born.A.Reader
Mirror Image | Danielle Steel
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1. The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice.
2. Everything in the house shown as the sun streamed in through the long French windows.
3. My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down.
4. The sound of the birds outside was muffled by the heavy brocade curtains of Henderson Manor as Olivia Henderson pushed aside a lock of dark hair and continued her careful inventory of her father's china.
@monalyisha #firstlines
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Born.A.Reader 5. The first time I saw the demon was in a vision, a vision brought on by chewing the drug hazia. 3mo
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