What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[jenptcfan]

Blame the bump on Copernicus.

Until Copernicus came along in 1543, we earthlings enjoyed center stage. Fathers could place an arm around their children, point to the night sky, and proclaim, "The universe revolves around us."

From Max Lucado's It's Not About Me

 

[laurabethiom]

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 Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling

 

[texmex]

Outside the ornate facade of the Far East Cafe, the neon lights of San Francisco's Chinatown blinked and shimmered a bright reflection on the rain-slick street.

'Jerusalem Interlude' by Bodie Thoene

 

[moonkitty]

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. –The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

 

[Mandrake]

When Zarathustra was thiirty years old he left his home and the lake of his home and went into the mountains. - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[The_Evelyonian]

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. - Dante's Inferno

 

[Lessien]

He had lived for thirty-four years and had never noticed how many shades of color streaked the early morning sky. Prague Counterpoint

 

[Thankful75]

I have a dream of a spiritual awakening sweeping the world through this emerging generation, the millennium generation.

Why Not Women ~~ By Loren Cunningham, David Joel Hamilton with Janice Rogers.

 

[HisJavajunkie]

"I exaggerate." -- Lying - Lauren Slater

 

[Ellesar]

"The office had no windows, only electric lanterns to light the hundreds of spines standing in their cherry wood bookcases." Thr3e by Ted Dekker

 

[DharmaBum]

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

It's my favorite opening of any book I've ever read.

 

[Heartbreaker]

"Rayford Steele's mind was a woman he had never touched."

Left Behind

 

[chick_for_Christ]

The electricity was out.

The Protector - Dee Henderson

 

[Ellesar]

"It's starting again, Bill."

Thunder of Heaven by Ted Dekker

 

[Lessien]

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

The Bible

 

[iamangelicangel]

"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realised it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were."

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell.

 

[elf_lady_9]

"How white the moonlight is tonight!" said Anne Blythe to herself, as she went up the walk of the Wright garden to Diana Wright's front door, where little cherry-blossom petals were coming down on the salty, breeze stirred air."

Anne of Ingleside- L.M. Montgomery

 

[jenptcfan]

I was born beautiful. A C-section baby, I started life right by avoiding the misshapen head and battle scars that come frtom being forced through a birth canal.

Something Blue by Emily Giffin

 

[mothcorrupteth]

"Heinrich Gimpel glanced at the report on his desk to make sure how many Reichsmarks the United States was being assessed for the Wehrmacht bases by New York, Chicago, and St. Louis."

In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove

 

[elf_lady_9]

"One Saturday morning early in September, Shelley Latham sat at the breakfast table with her mother and father."

The Luckiest Girl, Beverly Cleary