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Frankie followed the moving van down the short driveway and watched it head off down the road; then she turned to look at the house. The difference between the half-gutted structure that had stood there when she bought the place and what was there now was phenomenal. - Greenmantle (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] MALTA, AUGUST 1983 By the time Eddie "the Squeeze" Pinelli was five hours dead, Valenti was on a Boeing 747 halfway across the Atlantic. He sipped the beer that the steward had brought him and stared out the window into the darkness. - Greenmantle (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] September 1992 Katharine Mully had been dead for five years and two months, the morning Isabelle received the letter from her. - Memory and Dream (footprints in the dust) [Books (First Lines)] Sara Kendell once read somewhere that the tale of the world is like a tree. The tale, she understood, did not so much mean the niggling occurrences of daily life. Rather it encompassed the grand stories that caused some change in the world and were remembered in ensuing years as, if not histories, at least folktales and myths. - Moonheart (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Janfri Yayal watched his house burn down without expression. - Mulengro (pt. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Newford, Late August 1996 The streets were still wet but the storm clouds had moved on as Hank drove south on Yoors waiting for a fare. Inhabited tenements were on his right, the derelict blight of the Tombs on his left, Miles Davis's muted trumpet snaking around Wayne Shorter's sax on the tape deck. The old Chev four-door didn't look like much; painted a flat gray, it blended into the shadows like the ghost car it was. - Someplace to Be Flying (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] There were two things Janey Little loved best in the world: music and books, and not necessarily in that order. - The Little Country [Books (First Lines)] If dreams can be portents of what is to come, then I had my fair share if forewarning before my life was stolen away. - Trader (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Old ghosts lived behind Cat Midhir's eyes, memories that had no home until they came to haunt her. - Yarrow (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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