Amazing First Lines

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Great first lines have the power to draw in a reader. A lot of thought goes in to the first sentence; when I finish a novel, I like to go back and reread the words that started it all. Often times, you’ll find greater meaning than before.


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“The door slide open, and Clark knew it was time to die.”


a-thousand-letters

“I’ve never understood why the heart always reacts.” 

To Read: https://amzn.to/2pOcEFA


beautiful-creatures

“There were only two kinds of people in our town. “The stupid and the stuck,” 

To Read: https://amzn.to/2QK0JnT


sookie

“I’ve been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar.”

To Read: https://amzn.to/2RA5UYN


vampire-academy

“I felt her fear before I heard her screams.”

To Read: https://amzn.to/2A38lMx


1-5-wave

“There will be no awakening.” 

To Read: https://amzn.to/2ycLwVi


a-court-of-thorns-and-roses

“The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice.”

To Read: https://amzn.to/2A3FgRj


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“The newborn wailed as the midwife wrapped her in a receiving blanket and quickly handed her to Sister Ruth.”

To Read: https://amzn.to/2ybO4mG


delirium

“It has been sixty-four years since the President and Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure.”

To Read: https://amzn.to/2RGTjDa


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“Ironically, since the attacks, the sunsets have been glorious.” 

To Read: https://amzn.to/2pO9nq2


hungergamescover

“When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.”

To Read: https://amzn.to/2pNpiF6


red_queen_large

“I hate First Friday.” 

To Read: https://amzn.to/2QEQukD


if-i-stay

“Everyone thinks it was because of the snow.” 

To Read: https://amzn.to/2QK29yJ


the-fault-in-our-stars

“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, are infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death.”

To Read: https://amzn.to/2RDH0aC


someone-like-you

“Scarlet Thomas has been my best friend for as long as I can remember.” 

To Read: https://amzn.to/2RA7A4x


being-brooke

“I never knew moving out would feel so good.” 

To Read: https://amzn.to/2yxVS1k


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“Even in retrospect, it’s difficult to pinpoint where we went wrong.” 

To Read: https://amzn.to/2EoHAGT


“CALL ME ISHMAEL” 

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