Wednesday's Game: Famous first lines

[Carci]

I'll start with the one that came to my mind immediately.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

You tell us what book that is from and give another first line for the next person to identify.

[Sono]

I liked The Story of Edgar Sawtelle too!

[tnbopeep]

And I was one who just didn't get it!

[rapa]

I'm with bopeep!  Maybe when I grow up will try it again.  ;)

[Carci]

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood...

Next:

The small boys came early to the hanging.

[CaliforniaNow]

The Pillars of the Earth

 

"When he was thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

[Ursula]

To Kill A Mockingbird

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

[rapa]

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J. D. Salinger

 

"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975."

[Mandy Muffin]

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. 

"When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold."  Hint: This is a trilogy. 

[rapa]

THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins

 

"The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there.""

[Mandy Muffin]

"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."  Hint: Lived in Florida at one time. 

[tnbopeep]

"In Cold Blood" scared the bejeezers out of me - and still does!

[Carci]

A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemmingway

 

Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery.