lemming? not me!
I really like this idea. I've seen it spreading stealthily to people's LJs. These are the first lines to the books I'm reading currently, and have around my desk and in the vicinity. Some of these I would consider favorites, some just happened to be there.
Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of my cause with arms. (Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare)
In eighteenth-centry France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. (Perfume, Patrick Suskind)
Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling.)
For Oscar Wilde, posing as a sodomite. (Velvet Goldmine Screenplay, Todd Haynes)
The reason Weetzie Bat hated high school was because no one understood. (Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block)
Mostly out of laziness, I decided to start my low wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, with a population of 25,000 elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city. (Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich)
I was stunned by Mary Karr's memoir, The Liar's Club. (On Writing, Stephen King.)
"Begin at the beginning" is the phrase. (What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson)
Homer Simpson does not fare well when evaluated morally. (The Simpsons and Philosophy, William Irwin, ed.)
The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home. (The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame)
Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of my cause with arms. (Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare)
In eighteenth-centry France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. (Perfume, Patrick Suskind)
Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling.)
For Oscar Wilde, posing as a sodomite. (Velvet Goldmine Screenplay, Todd Haynes)
The reason Weetzie Bat hated high school was because no one understood. (Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block)
Mostly out of laziness, I decided to start my low wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, with a population of 25,000 elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city. (Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich)
I was stunned by Mary Karr's memoir, The Liar's Club. (On Writing, Stephen King.)
"Begin at the beginning" is the phrase. (What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson)
Homer Simpson does not fare well when evaluated morally. (The Simpsons and Philosophy, William Irwin, ed.)
The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home. (The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame)