[ISLMA-Share] Great First Lines

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I have a bulletin board of first lines up right now--just a few more
possibilities:

"Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.  It did not end
well."    Daughter of Smoke and Bone--Laini Taylor

"The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs
don't got nothing much to say.  About anything."   The Knife of Never
Letting Go--Patrick Ness

"The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney
World."   Going Bovine--Libba Bray

"I've confessed to everything and I'd like to be hanged.  Now, if you
please."  Chime--Franny Billingsley

"You stop fearing the Devil when you're holding his hand."   Between the
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea--April Tucholke

"They say death aims only once and never misses, but I doubt Ty Yorkshire
thought it would strike with a scrubbing brush."   Under a Painted
Sky--Stacey Lee

"Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would
kill her true love."   The Raven Boys--Maggie Stiefvater

Deb Bachfischer
Metamora High School






On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I'm looking for great first lines for a bulletin board from books that are
> middle school/high school level. Anyone have any favorites to share? Here's
> a few examples I have:
>
> *“My mother thinks I’m dead. Obviously I’m **not dead, but it’s safer for
> her to think so.” – Legend by Lu*
>
> *"Sophie had waited all her life to be kidnapped." – School of Good and
> Evil by Chainani*
>
> *“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when
> extraordinary things began to happen.”*–– *Miss Peregrine’s Home for
> Peculiar Children*
> <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9460487-miss-peregrine-s-home-for-peculiar-children?ac=1> by
> Ransom Riggs
>
> --
> Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library.
> The only entrance
>  requirement is interest. - Lady Bird Johnson
>
>
>
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