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The first sentence in the book you're reading

In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just the opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee.

Capote by Gerald Clarke
 
"I may as well start with some of our deep secrets because this account will not be easy to understand without them."

Diana Wynne Jones Deep Secret
 
"Chill out." "It's totally cool." "Get a life." Our children at times speak a languate that we may not, at first, fully unerstand. - The Five Love Languages of Children Dr. Gary Chapman.

I'm a sucker for self-help books!!!!!!
 
"Ranskassa eli 1700-luvulla mies, joka kuului aikakautensa nerokkaimpiin ja vastenmielisimpiin hahmoihin, vaikka moisista ilmestyksistä ei noihin aikoihin ollutkaan minkäänlaista pulaa."

From Perfume by Patrick Süskind.

Sorry, I'm not going to try to translate it ;)
 
Terry said:
It was to have been a quiet evening at home.
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That was from The Deep Blue Good-by by John D MacDonald

When the sun rose high enough to clear the slate roofs on the other side of the street, it crept through a chink in Sally Lumb's curtains and lit on a strand of gold-blonde hair that curled over her cheek. - A Dedicated Man by Peter Robinson
 
Right here and now, as an old friend used to say,we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect vision.

Black House : Stephen King and Peter Straub.
 
"Even as a little girl, I had thought that the swamp was a magical place where new lives began and old ones ended, where enemies and heroes weren't always what one expected, and where anything could happen, event o a clumsy princess." -The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker
 
Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. Animal Farm By George Orwell
 
'The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon'
 
'The man who ruined my life was dressed as Father Christmas.'

My Body My Enemy By Claire Beeken with Rosanna Greenstreet
 
"Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while."
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
When I first came to fully understand what effect members of the World War II generation had on my life and the world we occupy today, I quickly resolved to tell their stories as a small gesture of personal appreciation.

The Greatest Generation - Tom Brokaw
 
opening line

"It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance."

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
 
Keva had bought his NME twenty five minutes ago, but only now could he bring himself to look at it.

Powder- Kevin Sampson
 
A cage of steel...
It is a cruel thing to do, to cage such a beautful, passionate animal as if it was only a dumb beast, but humans do so all too often. They even cage themselves, though their bars are made of society, not of steel.

In the Forests of the Night - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
 
Irony Can Be a rich dessert, so when the contents of the van were publicized, some people gorged.

Dr. Death Jonathan Kellerman.
 
The other night, at dinner, Sheba talked about thefirst time that she adn the Connolly boy kissed.
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-Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller

I am Misha Borisovich Vainberg, age thirty, a grossly overweight man with small, deeply set blue eyes, a pretty Jewish beak that brings to mind the most distinguished breed of parrot, adn lips so delicate you would want to wipe them with the naked back of your hand.
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-Absurdistan by Gary Shtyengart
 
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