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Mélanie Berliet

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6,037 quotes curated by Mélanie Berliet:

“This car doesn’t feel like ours,’ I said.”
— Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel
Tagged: First Line of Books
“I’m thinking of ending things.”
— Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Tagged: First Line of Books, Ending Things, Leaving You
“You’ll like my daughter,’ Peter told Emma, ‘no matter what she does to you. If she bites you.’”
— Roxana Robinson, This Is My Daughter: A Novel
Tagged: First Line of Books
“What if no one wants to mate with me?”
— Cherise Sinclair, Eventide of the Bear
Tagged: Scared, first lines of books
“She didn’t know what woke her, and no matter how many times she relived that night, no matter where the nightmare chased her, she never would.”
— Nora Roberts, The Obsession
Tagged: first lines of books, Scary Sentences
“Three long days without a word.”
— Jennifer Ryan, At Wolf Ranch: A Montana Men Novel
Tagged: First Line of Books
“I gaze out the window at thousands of snowflakes fluttering to the ground.”
— Calia Read, Unhinge: A Novel
Tagged: First Line of Books, Snow, Snowflakes, Winter
“I dreamed I awakened in a valley where no life stirred, no cry of a fox sparked up out of stillness; a night of ashes.”
— John Gardner, JASON AND MEDEIA
Tagged: first lines of books, Dreaming, Skies, Ashes, World of Ashes
“A thick drizzle from the sky, like a curtain’s sudden sweeping.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: first lines of books
“The Swede: during the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athlete.”
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Tagged: first lines of books, The Swede