The Truth-Teller’s Tale by Sharon Shinn
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First Lines Fridays: August 31, 2018
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First Lines:
Ingridan was an ancient city. Memory ached in its stone arches, crept down its narrow alleys, sluiced through its seven rivers. And its newest memory still burned, raw and sore — a failed war, a nation shamed, and an army dishonored.
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Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, page 285
Version:
Paperback, 336 pages
Published January 28th 2003 by Penguin Books
Knowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn’t know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, page 255-256
Version:
Paperback, 336 pages
Published January 28th 2003 by Penguin Books
What Are You Reading Wednesday: August 29, 2018
What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:
- What’s the name of your current read?
- Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
- Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?
- The Truth-Teller’s Tale (Safe-Keepers, book 2) by Sharon Shinn
- I believe strangers who were sent looking for us were also told to use this password, and I know our parents generally warned their overnight guests to ask us something of the sort before they began to pour out their hearts. So after a while we had fewer incidents of mistaken identity and interesting conversations at cross-purposes.
- Sure, living in this world would be kind of interesting. And it would be nice to always have someone to tell your secrets to and someone to ask about the truth.
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, page 249
Version:
Paperback, 336 pages
Published January 28th 2003 by Penguin Books
Dedication Spotlight: The Truth-Teller’s Tale by Sharon Shinn
Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all.
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, page 242
Version:
Paperback, 336 pages
Published January 28th 2003 by Penguin Books
I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, page 184
Version:
Paperback, 336 pages
Published January 28th 2003 by Penguin Books
Looking at her eyes, I could see a fire inside them. It was a hearth fire you could depend on, you could draw up to and get warm by if you were cold or cook something on that would feed the emptiness in you.
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, page 181
Version:
Paperback, 336 pages
Published January 28th 2003 by Penguin Books
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