[ISLMA-Share] Great First Lines

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My personal favorite is from Tuesdays at the Castle. I don't have it in
front of me, but it's something like "Whenever the castle gets bored, it
grows another room or two."

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> "Someday you will beg for the honor of licking my feet."
> - I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President
> by Josh Lieb
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> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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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
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> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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> 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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