First Line Of Your Favorite Book?

[Rastinon]

Killer_Cactus23

"Look where you will, bold adventurer, for as far as the eye can see, there is nothing." Rose of the Prophet 1: The Will of the Wanderer, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Not my all-time favorite book, but one of them, and definitely my favorite opening line.

indian_horse2003

"The crudely built cart lurched and bounced over the rough coralite terrain, it's iron wheels hitting every bump and pit in what passed for a road." - Dragon Wing, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

^THAT is my favorite book (well, series, actually).

I like Weis & Hickman, though perhaps my favorite series of their's is the Darksword Trilogy. I read the first five books of the Deathgate Cycle and then quit because of my ex-wife (long story - don't ask).  

[Hellflutterby]

''Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's cloak.''
-Lord of the rings, return of the king.  

[Lhia Dunwaith]

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."

-Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte  

[Sita Harker]

"Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was
never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in
discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and
yet somehow lovable."
-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  

[twilightem]

"Ive heard it said that girls can't keep secrets."
-Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Mariller(not the best opening line but a great book)

"In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three."
-Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning."
-Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

"It was autumn in Venice when Victor first heard of Prosper and Bo."
-The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke  

[Nadri]

Laying aside Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, I'm tempted to offer up

Bernardo. Who's there?
Francisco. Nay, answer me; stand, and unfold yourself.

but I'm not certain if Hamlet, being a play, quite counts. I therefore provide the following, instead:

'Don't talk to me about town gardens,' said Elinor Rapsley; 'which means, of course, that I want you to listen to me for an hour or so while I talk about nothing else.'
-'The Occasional Garden' by Saki (a.k.a. H. H. Munro)

'The siege was in its seventh month.'
-The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, by which I mean the book of the 1986 Terry Gilliam film rather than the original stories by Rudolph Erich Raspe

I also love the opening two or three paragraphs of The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison, but I don't have the book on hand.  

[lhkmdfom]

'It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow city streets because it is grieved by what it finds there. '

The Magician's Guild bu Trudi Canavan-rli like the entire black magician's trilogy to be honest  

[Sita Harker]

"I am a vampire, and that is the truth."
-The Last Vampire, Christopher Pike  

[beaulolais]

My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a great deal of his materialist friend.


The Screwtape Letters  

[Lady Whispers]

"THe funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective."
Maximum ride,James Patterson

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Wester Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Or
The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village.
(I'm not sure which, because the second says chapeter one, but the ather bit helps the story)
The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

A Lone red deer was grazing across the glen, swaying through the deep tangle of heather that coverd the hillside.
Fire Bringer, David Clement-Davies  

[Techno Wielder]

"Ho Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering by anyone's standards. Needless to say, Artemis Fowl would not have been willing to put up with such discomfort if something extremely important had not been at stake. Important to the plan." ~ Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. I love this series to death.  

[Kaila_C]

A drop of sweat trickled slowly down Hem's temple. -- The crow  

[Gallivespian]

This isn't exactly the first sentence. It is the first couple of sentences, but I love them. Oh, I also love the chapter title which is "Death and Chocolate"

First the colors.
Then the humans.
That's usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.

* * * HERE IS A SMALL FACT * * *
You are going to die.

"The Book Theif" by Markus Zusak. To understand the beginning I guess I will have to tell you that it is narrated by Death. This book is amazing. I LOVE IT!!!!!!! mrgreen  

[Ceffyl Dwr]

"There was a dead guy standing at my locker."

Marked by P.C. Cast  

[Sita Harker]

I would rather share one lifetime with you

"I found the note taped to my door when I got home from work."
-Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

than face all the ages of this world alone