Reader's Paradise discussion

Please share the first line on the book you are currently reading so that those first few words intrigue others to read it!

Please DO NOT post first lines of ARCs as they are advance copies and aren't publised.
To maintain the uniformity of the thread, post only the first line (post till you reach the first fullstop) and post the link to the book and not the book cover.
Finally, please do not spam, again to maintain the uniformity! :)

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"It was in my fifty-third year of practicing law, and my eightieth year of life here on this earth, that I was to undertake an odyssey that would change my life forever." ~ The Ultimate Gift

I wake with his name in my mouth - Insurgent

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. - The Old Man and the Sea

"I looked through the scope of the sniper rifle, scanning down the road of the tiny Iraqi town." - American Sniper

"THE CROWDED RED double-decker bus inched its way through the snarl of traffic in Aldgate." - To Sir, With Love

"It was a pleasure to burn"- Fahrenheit 451

But more intriguing was the line in the title page:
"Fahrenheit 451-The temperature at which paper catches fire and burns..."

"IN A DISTANT and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part..."

The Colour of Magic

There was a harsh gale blowing on the night Yarvi learned he was a king. - Half a King

My sweater was new ,stinging red and ugly - Sharp Objects

The summer of 1947 was not like other Indian summers. - Train to Pakistan

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. --The Shadow of the Wind

"I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below." - Poirot Investigates

"Eyes mark the shape of the city." - After Dark

There are only so many hours Grace can stay away from home. - Saving Grace

Moros might have been horn of darkness but that didn't mean he shied away from light. - Fated (IF you are intrigued about this book I recommend reading Marked and Claimed, books 1 & 2 of the Servants of Fate series)

"Toronto, December 2000—I visited my parents a few weeks before Christmas." - Eulogy

"She only stopped screaming when she died." - Kane & Abel

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984

The day started off all wrong. - Every Big & Little Wish

"Drop the panties, or the octopus gets it." - It's In His Touch (LOL when I read that line.)

When you and I are together, you often ask me questions about many things and I try to answer them. - Letters from a Father to his Daughter

There was a boy in her room. - Fangirl

Winter's toes had become ice cubes. - Winter by Marissa Meyer

"The Signora had no business to do it", said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all". - A Room with a View

"Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone." - Xingu

Although it was impossible to judge direction cleanly from these depths, far below Groom Lake, Donald Stephenson knew the tunnel ran southwest. The Second Ship

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

You are about to begin reading Italo Cavino's new novel, "If on a winter's night a traveler". If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. - If I Stay

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. - Paper Towns

Barrett English. Emily's heart kicked into a gallop as she looked down at the caller ID on her buzzing phone. - Breaking up with Barrett.

This was getting old- DUFF

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. - Dark Places

When he emerges from the bathroom she is awake, propped up against the pillows and flicking through travel brochures that were beside the bed. Me Before You

I was assaulted by the smell of exhaust and rancid garbage as I stepped off the bus. Becoming Calder

Holly held the blue sweater to her face and the familiar smell immediately struck her, an overwhelming grief knotting her stomach and pulling at her heart. - P.S. I Love You

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sleeping in Flame

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

"Can't I be left alone?" cried young Prince Abderian as the rock slammed into his desk. -- The Curse of Sagamore

(cheated a bit and used the first line of a book I want to read for a third time!)

When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.- To Kill a Mockingbird

Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook and a bundle of palmyra writing.
- Malgudi days

What about a teakettle? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"At Windsor it was the evening of the state banquet and as the president of France took his place beside Her Majesty, the royal family formed up behind and the procession slowly moved off and through into the Waterloo Chamber."
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Shadow Market nights were Kit's favourite. - Lady Midnight

"The circus comes without warning" - The Night Circus

London that historic summer was almost unbearably hot.
-The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers
(Can we write lines of a book written in language other than English(along with the english translation of course?)

Is today a good day to die? - All the Bright Places

"At dusk they pour from the sky." - All the Light We Cannot See

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it wast the age of foolishness... -A Tale of Two Cities
(This first line goes on for a while, so I'll just leave it there!)

On Friday, June 12th , I woke up at Six o'Clock and no wonder ;it was my birthday
The Diary of a Young Girl