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I waited and watched for seven years. I saw him come and go--Dolan. I watched him stroll into fancy restaurants dressed in a tuxedo, always with a different woman on his arm, always with his pair of bodyguards bookending him. I watched his hair go from iron-gray to a fashionable silver while my own simply receded until I was bald. - Nightmares & Dreamscapes [Books (First Lines)] Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened . . . although he called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life. - Pet Sematary (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] She sits in the corner, trying to draw air out of a room which seemed to have plenty just a few minutes ago and now seems to have none. - Rose Madder (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] This is what happened. On the night the worst heat wave in northern New England history finally broke--the night of July 19--the entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen. - Skeleton Crew (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The May 23rd issue of People magazine was pretty typical. - The Dark Half (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The two things Sarah remembered about that night later were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune and the mask. But as time passed, years of it, it was the mask she thought about--when she could bring herself to think about that horrible night at all. - The Dead Zone (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons. Delain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of Kings, perhaps even thousands; when time goes on long enough, not even historians can remember everything. Roland the Good was neither the best nor the worst King ever to rule the land. - The Eyes of the Dragon (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon [Books (First Lines)] This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course. - The Green Mile (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. - The Gunslinger [Books (First Lines)] Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. - The Shining [Books (First Lines)] Hapcomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston. Tonight the regulars were there, sitting by the cash register, drinking beer, talking idly, watching the bugs fly into the big lighted sign. - The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] For want of a nail the kingdom was lost--that's how the catechism goes when you boil it down. In the end, you can boil everything down to something similar--or so Robert Anderson thought much later on. It's either all an accident . . . or all fate. Anderson literally stumbled over her destiny in a small town of Haven, Maine, on June 21, 1988. That stumble was the root of the matter; all the rest was nothing but history. - The Tommyknockers (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Tian was blessed (though few farmers would have used such a word) with three patches: River Field, where his family had grown rice since time out of mind; Roadside Field, where ka-Jaffords had grown sharproot, pumpkin, and corn for those same long years and generations; and Son of a Bitch, a thankless tract which mostly grew rocks,blisters and busted homes. - The Wolves of Calla (The Dark Tower V) (prologue--Roont, one) [Books (First Lines)] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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