allwildgirl
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Tell us the first and last line of your favourite book.
Limecat's Wednesday Wondering
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nancy324
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I don't have the last line, but here are the first two lines:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."
What are yours, Shell?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."
What are yours, Shell?
RunnerGirl
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I am gonna have to think on this one. More coffee please.
Jacque1038
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First Line"
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know why I was in New York"
Last line:
"The eyes and the faces all turned themselves toward me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room".
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know why I was in New York"
Last line:
"The eyes and the faces all turned themselves toward me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room".
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buffettgirl
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Nancy, is that Jane Austin?
I'll have to wait till I get home to dig out the book.
How about if I post a line from my favorite poem, while you all wait with baited breathe for my favorite book lines?
Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
and sings the tune without the words
and never stops at all.
I'll have to wait till I get home to dig out the book.
How about if I post a line from my favorite poem, while you all wait with baited breathe for my favorite book lines?
Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
and sings the tune without the words
and never stops at all.
Miss Lee
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Well, Nance got one of mine, so I thought I better hurry and post before someone else takes my other choice.
First line: "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
Last line: "He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."
First line: "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
Last line: "He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."
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buffettgirl
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Oh, oh, I know Michele's. Only because of the name Jem.
Liann, I haven't a clue. Or Jacque.
Liann, I haven't a clue. Or Jacque.
Liann
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Well, I still cannot find the last line, but here are a few good quotes from the book:
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
First line: "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."
Last line (s): "'And how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going?' he asked. Florentino Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said."
Last line (s): "'And how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going?' he asked. Florentino Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said."
allwildgirl
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I'll have to get the lines of my all-time fave when I get home, but here's one that has recently become a fave.
"The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane."
"All was well."
"The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane."
"All was well."
allwildgirl
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Okay, I found the first line of my all-time fave:
"Time is not a line, but a dimension, like the dimensions of space."
"Time is not a line, but a dimension, like the dimensions of space."
Beavs
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The first line:
At the age of twenty four I was more prepared for death than for life.
And the last line:
In an age when the clear cut truths of our ancestor's generation have been largely discarded, the Vietnam War--that most morally ambiguous undertaking--both reflects and illuminates our larger predicament; it is, finally, a perfect metaphor for our times.
At the age of twenty four I was more prepared for death than for life.
And the last line:
In an age when the clear cut truths of our ancestor's generation have been largely discarded, the Vietnam War--that most morally ambiguous undertaking--both reflects and illuminates our larger predicament; it is, finally, a perfect metaphor for our times.
allwildgirl
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Miss Lee, which one of mine do you know? The first one?
Miss Lee
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Yes, that would be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!