Words Are Weapons: Reblog with the first line of your favourite book

blackpoison17:

A gentleman was strolling down a side street in Paris, on his way back from the house of one Madame de Verchoureux. He walket mincingly,for the red heels of his shoes were very high.

Georgette Heyer- These old shades

lumidanslaneige:

maudelynn:

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

To Kill A Mockingbird~ Harper Lee

gothiccharmschool:

“The seller of lightening rods arrived just ahead of the storm” - Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

stunthusband:

lifeofkuma:

‘I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.’

“When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.”

Better not have been a surprise to anyone.  And yes, I have that memorized.

“Lorsque j’avais six ans j’ai vu, une fois, une magnifique image, dans un livre sur la forêt vierge qui s’appelait Histoires Vécues.” 

“When I was six years old I saw once a magnificent picture in a book about the rainforest called True Stories.”

The little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

 ’I am a twenty-five-year-old junkie, sleeping in an abandoned garage in one of the worst parts of Baultimore City.’ -Dreamseller by Brandon Novak


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    my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta:...the tongue taking
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    my… Last night...at Manderly again.
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    is it ok if it’s nonfiction? Our universe is an amazing and humbling place.
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    It was a special pleasure to see things burn, to see things blackened and changed
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    On the cover, what did that say? Did that say there will be a MONSTER at the end of this book???
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