What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[wanderingone]

I learned to breathe this way when I left that body made of ashes, river water, copal and huisache flowers.
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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos

 

[ZiSunka]

That was the end of it for Edith.

It's All a Lie by Jenna Booker

 

[Ellesar]

"The first time Jude Allman died, he was eight years old."

Waking Lazarus by T.L. Hines

 

[MrJim]

"It's what always happens to the saints and prophets who are dangerous: we bronze them, we drain them of their pasion and life and trap them in stained-glass windows and icons, confining them safely in memories of the past."

The Irresistible Revolution Shane Claiborne

 

[ZiSunka]

"It's what always happens to the saints and prophets who are dangerous: we bronze them, we drain them of their pasion and life and trap them in stained-glass windows and icons, confining them safely in memories of the past."

The Irresistible Revolution Shane Claiborne

Have you ever read The Cost of Discipleship by D. Bonhoeffer? "When Christ calls a man, he calls him to come and die."

 

[Abiel]

All this happened, more or less.

Slaughterhouse-5
Kurt Vonnegut

 

[wanderingone]

"From the beginning I believed whatever I was told, downright lies even, about how best to behave, although I had my own inclinations."

Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta

 

[MrJim]

Have you ever read The Cost of Discipleship by D. Bonhoeffer? "When Christ calls a man, he calls him to come and die."

Only bits & pieces-it's on the shelf...maybe ought to check it out again for the first time

 

[dinkime]

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

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Bible, NIV, God

 

[MrJim]

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

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Bible, NIV, God

I've heard that's a good read

 

[Konnie]

The event that came to be known as The Pulse began at 3:03 P. M., eastern standard time, on the afternoon of October 1.

Cell by Stephen King

 

[kiwimac]

Nothing moved but the wind and only a few last, lingering drops of rain, only a blowing of water off the ruined wall. The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour

 

[Konnie]

"I see . . ." said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window.

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

 

[KellyLeigh]

"Naomi, come! schnell - quickly!"

The Storekeeper's Daughter - Wanda E. Brunstetter

 

[Konnie]

Even before the events in the supermarket, Jim Ironheart should have known trouble was coming.

Cold Fire by Dean Koontz

 

[GrinningDwarf]

My father was a Chrisitan who believed in prayer but I knew and understood little of his praying until after my own conversion at the age of seventeen. (From the introduction)

Following as it did so closely upon the Refromation it is not surprising that the Puritan movement in England believed so firmly in revivals of religion as the great means by which the Church advances in the world. (From Chapter One)

The Puritan Hope: Revivals and the Interpretation of Prophecy by Iain H. Murray

 

[QuoVadisNation]

Hitherto men have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. - The German Ideology (abbriged), by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.

heh. It was this or Bellemy.

 

[Morghaine]

Fire girdles the wicker bars of the cage, wind-whipped ribbons of crimson and coquelicot twining in a woman's hair.

The Merlin of St. Gilles' Well by Ann Chamberlin (Book one of the Joan of Arc Tapestries)

 

[Ellesar]

"I see darkness. I'm lying spread-eagle on my back, ankles and wrists tied tightly to the bedposts so that I can't pull free." ~Saint by Ted Dekker

(ok...so that was technically the first 2 lines of the book. lol)

 

[soblessed53]

The Questions.Some years ago,I began searching the journals and diaries of early western explorers,mountain men,and other pioneers for certain wildlife information(I'm a wildlife biologist by profession). In the process,I noticed that many of these trailblazers not only favored mules as pack and draft animals,but were also commonly riding mules.
The Mule Alternative:The Saddle Mule in the American West by Mike Stamm