I thought this might be a good companion to the What is the first sentence from the book you are currently reading? thread.
The classic, of course, is:[SUP]1[/SUP]
Most recently finished new book:[SUP]2[/SUP]
Most recent reread:[SUP]3[/SUP]
[SUP]1[/SUP]Lord of the Rings
[SUP]2[/SUP]Cast in Oblivion
[SUP]3[/SUP]The Suffering
**“Tell me,” he says, “have you ever heard of something called a moon?”
**
The Fifth Season by NK Jemison.
King’s family, which had gathered in part to celebrate Father’s Day, is in seclusion tonight.
Song of Susannah
The coin turns.
The coin turns.
And we are gone.
“When I think of you, and Aunt Ruth and Grandam all being young together … how I wonder what you were all like! I can’t imagine it somehow….”
“I don’t suppose you can,” said Miss Marple. “It was all a long time ago….”
Agatha Christie, of course: They Do It With Mirrors
“And they hooked their fingers around its slender spurs, and pulled.”
Dreams of Gods and Monsters, by Laini Taylor. The “it” referred to is a wishbone.
It’s the last book in a trilogy. The first line of the first book is good too: “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.”
And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
Yes.
“And thus did the rule of the regents come whimpering to an end, as the broken reign of the Broken King began.”
Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
Big spoiler potential, this thread has.
I’ve been rereading Neil Asher’s Polity novels. The latest is Orbus, with the last sentence being:
“And hopefully, in a few years, I’ll have another story to tell.”
Donohue was a racing driver in the 60’s and 70’s and a trained engineer, known for his ability to develop his cars as well as drive them. He died after crash in an F1 practice session less than a year after the book was first published.
“True, they are unlikely to have to pay the high price Canaris paid for following the dictates of his conscience but, at the same time, it would be a rare member of that tiny breed who would not express some faint nod of admiration, if not envy, for the way the little admiral wove his independent path through the thorny maze of the most deadly crisis of modern times.”
— Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
Regardless of how nebulous, and often flimsy such considerations tend to reveal themselves to be, over the centuries since the troubadours heralded the great Romantic era dallying with this thing *love *while at the same time juggling this thing *freedom *is a practice that has not abated. Rather, it has only increased.
The Panda’s Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould (1980).
“Then let the bastards come,” I told them. “We will fight them – with fae, with shifters, with a Wizard and the Powers of the High Court. If they want to burn the High Court down, then let them come.”
(Not exactly as deep as some of the others here, but a fun read)
“Because nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.”
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
“Your increasingly, and ravenously affectionate uncle,
Screwtape”
Kind of beats my sign off.
Regards,
Shodan
“His sacrifice for religion gained for him the lasting respect of the Catholic Church, and he carried with him into lifelong exile an air of royalty and honour.”
I wouldn’t like to spoil by giving the name of the book.
So she held him, crouched at her knees, against her breast, huddling his head in her arms that he might not hear eight o’clock strike.
“So much blue.”
So Much Blue by Percival Everett
And the spoiler is… …that there is no spoiler. We never get to see what’s so blue.