First Line Of Your Favorite Book?

[Sita Harker]

Post the first line of your favorite book.

"Hssst! Nest!"
-Running With The Demon

Not very exciting, but it IS my favorite book.

I got this idea from Yahoo! Answers, when someone asked people to post the last word from their favorite book.

Interesting, no?

P.S. I just rolled the die for the heck of it, I have no idea what it does.  

[The Raven King]

"Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians."
-Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell  

[Lady Pole]

My favorite is "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice but since this is a fantasy guild


"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien  

[ButterscotchLion]

"I may as well start with some of our deep secrets because this account will not be easy to understand without them." Deep Secrets by Diana Wynn Jones.  

[Aeliara]

"Yes. I stole this. This book. I don't know why. It looked...nice, I suppose, and nothing has been nice for year. Well, not often."

Wolf Tower book I of The Claidi Jounals by Tanith Lee  

[Fuzzy Niffler]

"The Minotaur had been causing trouble far in excess of his literary importance-first by escaping from the fantasy-genre prison book Sword of the Zenobians, then by leading us on a merry chase across most of fiction and thwarting all attempts to recapture him."
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde  

[Roxas_23]

Lavan Chitward hated his mother's parties at the best of times, and this one was no exception.
Brightly Burning by Mercedes Lackey  

[DragonLover]

"If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride."

Its not form a book but a Harry, Draco fanfiction I read today, I cant remember what it was called or who did it.. But it made me laugh! ^^  

[Sita Harker]

"It began the night we died on the Kamikaze."
-Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman.

OMG you guys have to read this book! (ooh, I think I'll start a Neal Shusterman thread...)  

[Simon Wells]

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

[ice eyes4478]

"Jessica Blakely didn't believe in Fate."
-The More I See You, by Lynn Kurland  

[The Raven King]

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.
The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien  

[Roshanara]

"Lashing rain, driven by harsh biting winds from the sea, scoured the land from the bleak salt marshes to the stunted scrub forest."

-Loamhedge from The Series of Redwall, by Brian Jacques. You have to read them!  

[Anakoreta]

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

Man, I was about to say that, it always somehow manages to crack me up xd