What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[Theogonia]

"I need..."

Dean Koontz - Mr. Murder

 

[symphonyb]

It was raining the day that Mark first heard about Hitler's daughter.

Hitler's DaughterJackie French {daughters book}

 

[Jehane]

The motto was 'Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
Rumour Godden - In this House of Brede.

 

[Hackett]

To the members of the board, the people who ask the questions that keep me searching for answers.

 

[FireRock]

"A girl could get killed on j ob like this."

Be My Neat-Heart by Judy Baer
(my roommate's book...a romance-type of book, but she' says it's good)

 

[whimzgirl]

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

Gone With The Wind -- Margaret Mitchell

 

[iamangelicangel]

The closest book to me has already been said by whimzgirl above, so I cheated and picked the second closest book.

"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were aroused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the remnants of the earliest patents; there are unwelcome sensation, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt."

- Persuasion - Jane Austen

 

[jenptcfan]

The house on Old Reservoir Road appeared to be in the final phases of construction.

P is for Peril by Sue Grafton

 

[FireRock]

"When I was growing up, one of my mother's favorite expressions was 'You never know.'"

Life Is Short-Wear Your Party Pants by Loretta LaRoche

 

[Abiel]

The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock.

Song of Solomon. Toni Morrison

 

[jenptcfan]

In the middle of my marriage, when I was above all, Hugh's wife and Dee's mother, one of those unambiguous women with no desire to disturb the universe, I fell in love with a Benedictine monk.

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

 

[elf_lady_9]

"O, for a muse of fire that would ascend
the brightest stage of invention!"

-Henry V

 

[Hackett]

'Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible.'

The Diet Alternative by Diane hampton

 

[Ellesar]

"She ran, tree limbs and brambles scratching, grabbing, tripping, and slapping her as if they were bony hands, reaching for her out of the darkness."

~The Oath by Frank Peretti

 

[Lessien]

"Whilst every one at court was busily engaged upon his own affairs, a man mysteriously entered a house situated behind the Place de Greve."

--The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

 

[dinkime]

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."


JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

 

[Arwen Undomiel]

They met Mathias on a day trip to Cozumel.

The Ruins, Scott Smith

Funny, it seems like such a simple sentence, but after reading the book that sentence speaks volumes.

 

[ZiSunka]

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

 

[Arwen Undomiel]

What is systematic theology? Many different definitions have been given, but for the purposes of this book the following definition will be used: systematic theology is any study that answers the question, "What does the whole Bible teach us today?" about any given topic.

Systematic Theology, Wayne Grudem

 

[HiredGoon]

"Puritanism is most accurately defined as the outlook that characterized the radical Protestant party in Queen Elizabeth's day, who regarded the Reformation as incomplete and wished to model English church worship and government according to the Word of God."

The Worship of the English Puritans, by Horton Davies.