First Lines

"I don't know a lot of things."

"I was seventeen years old when I saw my first dead body."

“I’m a senior at Cesar Chavez High in San Francisco’s sunny Mission district, and that makes me one of the most surveilled people in the world.”

“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.”

“The demon exploded in a shower of ichor and guts.”

"Prague, early May. The sky weighed gray over fairy-tale rooftops, and all the world was watching."

“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”

"I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather. This is where the bed I shared with my sister, Prim, stood."

"Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive."

"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."

“Looking back, none of this would have happened if I’d brought lip gloss the night of the Homecoming Dance.”

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”

Brian Robeson stared out of the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.

“They say death aims only once and never misses, but I doubt Ty Yorkshire thought it would strike with a scrubbing brush.”

“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”

“It’s midnight, it’s sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy—that guy right over there—that’s him. The him.”

"I am Mary Iris Malone, and I am not okay."

"How does one describe Artemis Fowl? Various psychiatrists have tried and failed."

"Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache."

"Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my a

"There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair."

. “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.”

“One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke.”

“12th June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”

"I've been locked up for 264 days."

"There were things Dillard Wayne Early Jr. dreaded more than the start of school at Forrestville High."

"I have no idea how to write this stupid book."

“Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love.”

“The rain poured down on London so hard that it seemed that it was dancing spray, every raindrop contending with its fellows for supremacy in the air and waiting to splash down.”

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

"The first time I killed a man it was an accident."