Top Ten Tuesday–Favorite First and Last Lines of Books

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Top Ten Favorite Beginnings/Endings In Books
 
Beginnings
 
1. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
 
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“Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.”
2. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
 
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“Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love.”
3. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
 
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"It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure."
4. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
 
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“There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.”
5. The Rules by Stacey Kade
 
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“I have a dead girl’s name.”

Endings
 
1. 1984 by George Orwell
 
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“He loved Big Brother.”
 
2. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
 
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“The rest you have to find out for yourself.”
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
 
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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
4. The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
 
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“I turned from the window, and I didn’t look back.”
5. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
 
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“Now this is my life.”

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