What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[luvmydaughters]

It was a meatball, a really big meatball, and it was rolling out of her closet.

(From: Sugar Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke)

 

[Jennie726]

It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince"

 

[Tricia4Jesus]

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, Jane Austen

 

[Hackett]

When calling 9-1-1 it is extremely important that you tell the dispatcher what type of emergency you are reporting.
Telephone directory

 

[Phoenixtears1]

I'm so excited about this thread! I love to say "famous first lines", and then open up a book and judge its opening sentence.... anyway......

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

[Bachi234]

"Sometimes, Ben wondered whether the whole thing hadn't been a dream." -Spy High:Blood Relations, AJ Butcher

 

[HisJavajunkie]

I exaggerate.

[entire Chapter 1]
Lying -- Lauren Slater

 

[LeeLeeMarie]

The film looks and sounds fabulous...it's an extraordinarily fine document of the show.

-Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack

[Tank]

 

[HisJavajunkie]

America...so much can be said about her: The world's great superpower.

Wisdom Made in America

 

[InTheGarden]

Dear Reader,
It is with some trepidation that I have decided to give in to the pleas of my public and create the definitive work on modern social behaviour."

Keeping Up Appearances: Hyacinth Bucket's Book of Etiquette for the Socially Less Fortunate

 

[Mandrake]

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way.

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (trans. Constance Garnett)

 

[meh]

One evening in the spring of 1936, when I was a boy of fourteen, my father took me to a dance performance in Kyoto.

Memoirs of a Geisha

 

[HisJavajunkie]

The Acceptance letter that you've been waiting for finally arriveds.

1001 Ways To Pay For College -- Gen and Kelly Tanabe

 

[bookluvr9]

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Bible.

 

[Yahweh Nissi]

"The palace still shook occasionally as the earth rumbled in memory, groaned as if it would deny what had happened."

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan - first in the Wheel of Time series.

 

[Hackett]

This New Testament of the New International Version of the Holy Bible is a completely new translation made by over a hundred scholars working directly from the best available Greek texts. NIV New Testament

 

[bammertheblue]

"The life of Dante is such a tangle of public and private passions and ordeals experienced over the fifty-six years he lived that it has always been a source of inexhaustible fascination"

Cambridge Companion to Dante, ed. Rachel Jacoff

(I'm in grad school by the way)

 

[kelco]

I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if i had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.~The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

 

[stephwalker1971]

I first saw the house in the summer of my fifth birthday.
(Mariana by Susanna Kearsley)

 

[bookluvr9]

"It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest traces of meaning behind."

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K Rowling