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Hemingway was a jerk. - [Authors] It was five o'clock in the afternoon when I woke up. The room stank of stale cigarettes and cheap sour red wine. I rolled out of bed and almost fell as I stumbled over the boy sleeping on the floor beside my bed. I stared down at him in surprise. He was naked and I couldn't remember how or when he got there. Even worse, I didn't recognize him. - Dreams Die First (book 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] He was nervous. She could see that in the way he paced around the room, occasionally going to the window and lifting the lace curtain to look out at the rain-swept Geneva street. - Goodbye, Janette [Books (First Lines)] The last time I saw my father, he was lying quietly on his back in his coffin, his eyes closed, an unaccustomed blandness on his strong features, his thick white hair and heavy eyebrows neatly brushed. - Memories of Another Day [Books (First Lines)] In the last quarter of the twentieth century, at a time when Western civilization was declining too rapidly for comfort and yet too slowly to be very exciting, much of the world sat on the edge of an increasingly expensive theater seat, waiting--with various combinations of dread, hope, and ennui--for something momentous to occur. - Still Life With Woodpecker (phase I, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It was ten years after the violence in which he died. And his time on this earth was over. - The Adventurers [Books (First Lines)] I was sitting up in bed, sipping hot coffee, when the nurse came into the room. The English girl with the big tits. - The Betsy [Books (First Lines)] The sun was beginning to fall from the sky into the white Nevada desert as Reno came up beneath me. I banked the Waco slowly and headed due east. I could hear the wind pinging the biplane's struts and I grinned to myself. The old man would really hit the roof when he saw this plane. But he wouldn't have anything to complain about. It didn't cost him anything. I won it in a crap game. - The Carpetbaggers, (used pseudonym of Harold Rubin) [Books (First Lines)] I was on my third cup of coffee when the telephone began to ring. I let it ring. You wait three years for a phone call, you can wait thirty seconds more. - The Inheritors [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK She sat at the top of the stairs and cried. - The Lonely Lady (bk. 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The needlepoint spray of the shower on his scalp drowned out the sound of the four big jet engines. Steam began to fog the walls of the narrow shower stall. Quickly, he rubbed the rich soap into a perfumed lather over his body, then rinsed and cut the water from hot to ice cold. Instantly, fatigue left him and he was wide awake. He turned off the water and stepped from the shower stall. - The Pirate (book 1, ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It was the eighth day of the storm. There had never been a storm like this one before. Not even in the memory of old Mustapha, the camel keeper, who himself an old man when all the others in the caravan were boys. - The Pirate (prologue) [Books (First Lines)]
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