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The first sentence in the book you're reading

August 1938
The candlelight flickered unevenly in the darkness, push and pulled by the warm night breeze that wafted fitfully through the open windows.

Sins of the Flesh: Don Davis & Jay Davis
 
An oblong puddle inset in the coarse asphalt; like a fancy foorprint filled to the brim with quicksilver; like a spatulate hole through which you can see the nether sky.

Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov
 
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
 
Kenny Mumford's wide, sightless eyes gazed up out of his shroud of wet, green rockweed, on the beach at Prince's Cove

Triple Witch - Sarah Graves
 
It begins as most things begin, with a song.

Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman


-:D I have been dying to start this - I am so excited...
 
"At daybreak Billy Buck emerged from the bunkhouse and stood for a moment on the porch looking up at the sky."

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
 
Sarah Mason had always thought that when Death finally came calling for her, he would be better-looking.


Vanished, Karen Robards
 
Dear Franklin,

I'm unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you.

We need to talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
 
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen:
The classic (at least in Norway) Peer, du lyver!/Peer, you're lying!

Macbeth by Shakespeare:
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
 
Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
"A child wants to see. It always begins like this, and it began like this then. A child wants to see"


Lani
 
The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm.

Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
 
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