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The first line

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SunPhoenix:
Blood? My Blood? Why am I laying in a pool of my Blood?

Shecky:
One of my favorite first lines isn't even from a real book. It's from Jubal Harshaw's Stonebenders book that he's dictating in Heinlein's The Number of the Beast: "Uncle Tobias we kept in a bucket. He preferred it that way, of course."

Tasmin21:
Here's mine:


--- Quote ---There’s a certain sound the human head makes when it hits the trunk of a tree. 
--- End quote ---

blgarver:
I think opening lines are very important.  But I don't think they should always be hooks.

My favorite opening line of all time comes from Stephen King's first book of his Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger:

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Still gives me shivers.

meg_evonne:
Personally, I'm a blurb girl.   ;D

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