Books w the best Opening Lines

I love how like 80% of the comments are “Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.” PJO forever 🔱

oh, i just commented in one if your other videos asking if you’ve the read the shatter me series! How did you like them?

‘The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it “the Riddle House,” even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.’

Omg I love holocaust stories. I know it was terrible and should’ve never happened, but I love history sm, and I find comfort in sadness sometimes. Def buying that now ❤

“I’ve never given much thought to how I would die “

I love all the percy jackson and heroes of olympus fans here <3

there is so many peopel doing the percy jackson opening line

"Look i didnt want tobe a half blood"-the line that started the percy jackson series

“Your still alive in alternate universes Theo, but I live in the real world, where this morning your having and open casket funeral”
-History is All You Left Me

I coyld smell 👃 the pjo comments from a mile away


(No hate I love pjo to)

“Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.”

Percy Jackson is life

Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.
Percy Jackson
I thinks this is one of my favorite quotes from a book but Rick Riordan is si good for add beatiful quotes.

“my mother thinks i’m dead”

"Among all the deities of heaven, there was one famous laughingstock of the three realms" Heaven Official's Blessing, my current obsession

"Alicia Berenson was thirty three years old when she killed her husband."
~The Silent Patient❤❤❤

I have been locked up for 264 days….
I remember that one, I was to read the other books

Shatter me is suchhhh a good book 🫶🏻🫶🏻

I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air - catching fire

I though this was about chess XD

“Fear arrived at five o’clock.”


I Must Betray You❤️‍🩹

coughs because my name is nora

Who’s the second one by? Shatter me? I’m making a book list and I love it already

“I can turn invisible.” -When You Trap a Tiger
“I walk to the jeep in the middle of a cold, dark desert night.” -The Canyon’s Edge
“The Gravedigger’s children were trouble.” -The Bone Houses
“It was 118 degrees in Silver Springs, Arizona, and the Gila River was thick with algae.” -Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
“When I was a kid, my mom constantly invented games. The Quiet Game. The Who Can Make Their Cookie Longer? Game.” -The Inheritance Game
“It’s not fun riding to school with Stepmonster- not with Chauncey screaming his lungs out in the back seat.” -The Unteachables
“He was seventeen the first time he saw her. A February dusk in 1943 on the cold plains of Manzanar.” -This Light Between Us
“You don’t own your truths to everyone.” -The June Boys
“This is my first podcast, and I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing.” -Dress Coded

Rip, Mrs. Trumble. You were a great librarian and a wonderful person. Glad we could go out with a win.

The midnight library is amazinggg

“The end of the world started when a Pegasus landed on the hood of my car.” - PJO the last Olympian

everyones doing percy jackson but we cant forget the iconic kane chronicles first line, the series needs so much more recognition:

'We have only a few hours, so listen carefully. If you’re hearing this story, you’re already in danger.'

Will forever be one of my favourites <3

i could smell the percy jackson comments the moment i read the title

“the love of my life wants to die”

- i fell in love with hope by lancali 🫶🏻

im currently reading it but that’s what made me wanna read it

Can someone judge mine? I’m writing a book lol “People always say their afraid of the dark, I don’t think they’d say that if they saw what’s hiding in it.”

“They found professor Howdy spread across the field. What was left of him, anyway.” - whisper down the lane

❤❤

"All her life Sophie waited to be kidnapped" -The School for good and Evil, im pretty sure this was the first line its been awhile since I've read it😅

"Veronyka was gathering the bones of the dead"
- Crown of feathers, Nikki pau preto"

I want an English novel that is nice and has a nice idea❤

“Guilt is my hunter”

-salt to the sea (my fav book ever)

“12th June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support…”

-Anne Frank’s Diary

“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.” - The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

“Szeth Son Son Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king.” - The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson

“It was a pleasure to burn.” - Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.” - All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

“They call me ‘Jane Doe’”

-Whisper, Lynette Noni

The young elites by Marie Lou had a good opening line too.

“Pip knew where they lived”

the love of my life wants to die - i fell in love with hope (this books so fucking tragic)

“Look i didn’t want to be a halfblood” - Percy Jackson (TLT)

"the love of my life wants to die"

“I have just taken an overly large bite of iced bun when Callum slices his finger off”
-The Lady’s Guide To Petticoats And Piracy

the shatter me series is amazing! I'm currently on the third book- ignite me, highly recommend.

Why is there like a million PJO fans 😭

"Welcome to Taco Bell. Order when ready." It's such a funny line! I love it, it's the first line from the book The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartel

"The love of my life wants to die" -I Fell In Love With Hope

The first line of the book I’m writing



“The first day I ate a McDonald’s cheeseburger, I was under prosecution for a murder I didn’t commit, although the evidence clearly suggests the contrary”

“Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.”
—Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief
OR EVEN BETTER
“Look, I didn’t want to be a high school senior.”
—Percy Jackson, Chalice of The Gods