"It was a dark and stormy night." - A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle,

"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book." - The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis

"At the beginning of the third attack, Hazel almost swallowed a rock." House of Hades, Rick Riordan

"Jason hated being old." Mark of Athena, Rick Riordan

"Xxxx xxxx x xxxx, xxxxx xxx x xxx xxx x xxxx." - The Name of this Book is Secret, Pseudonymous Bosch 

"All children, except one, grow up." ~Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie

"Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and gasoline and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday." ~Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, by Ian Fleming

"Once upon a time, a girl named September told a great number of lies." --The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, Catherynne M. Valente

"The train station at Pebbleton, dark and sooty though it was, glistened in the mist."--The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, Trenton Lee Stewart

""How much for this boy?" asked the man, prodding Thorn hard in the chest."--Shadow Magic, Joshua Khan 

"Once upon a time, fairy tales were awesome." --A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz.

It's probably been submitted before, but that book deserves it. 

I'm just gonna grab some books sitting next to me that I've read and write the first sentences... Here goes nothing! :)

"Daniel Collins had never been to a hanging before." - The Man with the Silver Oar - Robin Moore 

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." - The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien 

"It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened." - The Giver - Lois Lowry 

"'Best if you was dead.'" - By These Ten Bones - Clare B. Dunkle 

"The copper-haired rider looked at the black sky and swore." - In the Hand of the Goddess - Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce 

"When I was little, my uncle Pete had a necktie with a porcupine painted on it." - Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli 

"'Chores, chores, chores and more chores,' Forrest complained, as he threw the contents of his family's chamber pot over the moat wall." - The Ravenmaster's Secret - Elvira Woodruff 

"A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin." - Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder 

"It was dawn in Celestial Valley." - Unicorns of Balinor - The Road to Balinor - Mary Stanton 

Okay, I'm done now. 

Just-Just two more...

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning." - Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt 

"The stream of molten gold flowed smoothly from the crucible, reflecting in its surface the cloudless blue of the Egyptain sky." - The Golden Goblet - Eloise Jarvis McGraw 

I don't know what a 'crucible' is, but it's a good first sentence.

A crucible is the container that holds liquid molten metal. It's a great word-- and this is a great first sentence!

-Admin