What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[Konnie]

Stupid me--I fell right into the old pattern and spent a week pretending I was a moving target.

Mr X by Peter Straub

 

[Valo]

"A thousand suppliants stand around thety throne,
Stricken with love for thee, O Poesy."

- Wilfred Owen, 'To Poesy'

 

[Konnie]

Homer opened the door.

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

 

[revkajewel]

The nearer we came to the rumbling wagons, the more my heart pounded.

When Breaks the Dawn by Janette Oke

 

[futuredoc]

Pathology is literally the study (logos) of suffering (pathos).
Robbin's Pathologic Basis of Disease

 

[Konnie]

In the darkness, he touched her arm and said "Stay here."

State of Fear by Michael Crichton

 

[Ellesar]

"'They won't be taking blood or anything, will they?' Callie Hayes looked up from the clipboard in her hands to the dimpled youth behind the receptionist's counter."

~Arena by Karen Hancock

 

[Konnie]

Jessie could hear the back door banging lightly, randomly, in the October breeze blowing around the house.

Gerald's Game by Stephen King

 

[Hackett]

A by-the-numbers approach to warmth. The Lands End Catalog.

 

[Konnie]

In the wee hours of February 2, a cold steady drizzle drenched the concrete spires of New York City, shrouding them in a dense swirl of purplish-pink fog (From the Prologue)

The sound of the dripping was metronomic (From Chapter 1)

Marker by Robin Cook

 

[haya]

Ooh what a neat idea for a game.

The line from the book closest to where I'm sitting:

Sudoku is fun and easy to play!

heh... a sudoku book!

 

[ModernDaySpyridon]

"There was snow everywhere- the world was white."

Otherland: River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams

 

[Konnie]

After decades of patient managenent, The Ford County Times went bankrupt in 1970.

The Last Juror by John Grisham

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

Modern masturbation can be dated with a precision rare in cultural history.

-- Solitary Sex - A Cultural History of Masturbation, by Thomas W. Laqueur

 

[MyHeartIsAllForU]

Old Mother West Wind had just come down from the Purple Hills and turned loose her children, the Merry Little Breezes, from the big bag in which she had been carrying them.

(The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad - Thornton W. Burgess)

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

In the English language, the words "tumour" and "demon" have at least one thing in common: when unspecified, we must assume them to be malignant.

- The Theology of Demons in Mesopotamia and Israel - Popular Belief and Scholarly Speculation

 

[SiobhanClancy]

I remember the day it began,for I was impatient for an important letter to arrive.

The Poe Shadow~Matthew Pearl

 

[ZiSunka]

"Wheeeeee!" said Flip. "Look at me! I can stand on one leg!"

Flip and Flop, Dawn Apperly

 

[Konnie]

Raymond Steele's mind was on a woman he had never touched.

Left Behind by Tim Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

 

[ModernDaySpyridon]

"We'd ridden for many days out the coast highway toward Mauretania, the part of Algeria where I had been born."

A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger