What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

Gentle · Jan 2, 2007

The newest girl had finally cried herself into exhaustion at last and slept, her tear-streaked face half hidden in her disordered hair, head cradled in the silken folds of Jeanette's midnight-colored skirt.

HiredGoon · Jan 2, 2007

"Pietism is today considered to have been one of the most influential Protestant reform movements since the Reformation itself." -Pietists: Selected Writings

texmex · Jan 2, 2007

"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman."
-The Adventures of Sherlock Holes: A Scandal in Bohemia-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Da_Funkey_Gibbon · Jan 2, 2007

Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork.
Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter

ZiSunka · Jan 3, 2007

By the Shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.

From Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

stefanoi12 · Jan 4, 2007

"Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time."

From Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.

Athene · Jan 5, 2007

'Flavour' is a word which, although used routinely in conversation to describe our food, is often not very well defined nor properly understood. (Family Food - Heston Blumenthal)

ditzi · Jan 16, 2007

Renowned curator Jaques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's grand gallery.

(The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown)

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YamiB · Jan 16, 2007

As the bus entered the prefectural capital of Takamatsu, garden subrubs transformed into city streets of multicolored neon, headlights of oncoming cars, and checkered lights of office buildings.
-Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

A great book, though I wasn't sure if I should take it from the prologue, the introduction, or the first actual chapter. The one I put up is from the first chapter.

Ellesar · Jan 18, 2007

"Are ye sure ye won't ride all the way into the city?"

~Dragonspell by Donita K. Paul

ShineForever · Jan 20, 2007

"The French Revolution was bloody, violent, theatrical, and populated with characters who rivet the imagination."
(The French Revolution, by Owen Connelly and Fred Hembree)

I have to read this book for my World Civ. II class.

CarrieAg93 · Jan 20, 2007

"The little book you're holding is about what happens when ordinary Christians decide to reach for an extraordinary life - which, as it turns out, is exactly the kind God promises."
(The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson)

thatgirliknew · Jan 21, 2007

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice

HiredGoon · Jan 22, 2007

"In our former book we dealt fully enough with a few of the chief points about heathen worship of idols, and how those false fears originally arose." - De Incarnatione Verbi Dei, Athanasius.

KristyAnne · Jan 22, 2007

"Parents are generally agreed on what they want most for their children".
Cooking For Your Baby the Natural Way, by Laraine Toms

krick · Jan 24, 2007

Cheyenne Mountain sits on the eastern slope of Colorado's Front Range, rising steeply from the prairie and overlooking the city of Colorado Springs.

Ecwody · Jan 24, 2007

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

BookwormPrincess · Jan 25, 2007

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

(no surprises which book that's from!)

HiredGoon · Jan 25, 2007

"i (I) 'You are great, Lord, and highly to be praised (Ps. 47:2): great is your power and your wisdom is immeasurable' (Ps. 146:5)." Confessions, St. Augustine.

Da_Funkey_Gibbon · Jan 25, 2007

Ecwody said:
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

"He did not wear a scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed."

-Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol

What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

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