Quotes

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First Lines Fridays: September 13, 2019

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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:

When Gregor opened his eyes he had the distinct impression that someone was watching him.

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First Lines Fridays: September 6, 2019

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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:

Gregor had pressed his forehead against the screen for so long, he could feel a pattern of tiny checks above his eyebrows.

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The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? IF a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?

– Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, page 7

Version:
Paperback, 139 pages
Published August 21st 2007 by Square Fish

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My whole life, I always thought that I was the only imposter. That everyone else was certain they were real in some way that I could never understand. But what if they’re all just faking too?
Maybe none of us know who we really are.

– Scott Westerfeld, Imposters, page 262

Version:
Paperback, 405 pages
Published April 30th 2019 by Scholastic Press

First Lines Fridays: August 30, 2019

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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:

I taped the commercial back in April, before anything had happened, and promptly forgot about it. A few weeks ago, it had started running, and suddenly, I was everywhere.

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History books say that kings and dukes and general start wars. Don’t believe them. We start them, you and I. Every time we turn away, keep quiet, stay out of it, behave ourselves.

– Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister, page 46

Version:
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published May 14th 2019 by Scholastic Press

First Lines Fridays: August 23, 2019

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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:

Welcome Friend,

Congratulations on your purchase of this American-made genuine book. Each component of this book was selected to provide you with maximum book performance, whatever your reading needs may be.

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First Lines Fridays: August 16, 2019

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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:

Silence. Except for her footsteps, except for the soft thunk of mussels dropped onto the rocks by gulls, except for the wind that moved murmuring through the distant trees above her, there was silence.

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