I forgot to add an opening line:
News item from the Westover (Me.) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: RAIN OF STONES REPORTED.
Oh yeah, you got it! 
I love it. If/when I have kids, that’s their bedtime story every Christmas Eve. Thanks, Mr. Burns, for making me read that in 6th grade.
Carrie by Stephen King
I really think I am probably right, so here’s my line:
“It begins, as most things begin, with a song.”
Yep. I thought I’d throw everyone off by delving into pop culture, but you’re too clever for that!
I’m drawing a blank on the others, but I’ll toss in some more anyway.
“She was born a thing and as such would be condemned if she failed to pass the encephalograph test required of all newborn babies.”
“Death came for him by mistake.”
“The first facet was purpose.”
That’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote.
Yay, one I know!
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey.
That’s it !
Winter Moon, Dean Koontz. (I’m not a big fan of his stuff. :()
“The primroses were over.”
" ‘There are dragons in the twins’ vegetable garden.’ "
“I went down to the Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon, son of Ariston, to pray to the goddess; and, at the same time, I wanted to observe how they would put on the festival, since they were now holding it for the first time.”
Two of my favorite opening lines are very similar, even though the authors are two very different writers.
“This all started because of a clerical error”
&
“It began as a mistake.”
More :
*‘The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.’ *
“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had bourne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.”
“In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part . . .”
That must be “The Cask of Amontillado”.
[I recognized the Dean Koontz opening even though I’ve never read the book.]
Yup !
Is that The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis?
[Oh, Poe wrote 'The Cask of Amontillado?]
No sorry. I may have chosen a novel a little too innocuous, but it is one of my favorite’s with a well-known author (hint, he’s not well known for being an author).
Yes.
H. P. Lovecraft’s THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD…
of course.
Is this A Wind in the Door?
And, right or wrong, I will add one:
“THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself,
and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about
how bad we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.”
Yog Sothoth is pleased with your perceptiveness.