Top Ten Tuesday: killer Opening Lines

Hey guys! Back with a Top Ten Tuesday article, it has been a while (I was not super inspired by previous prompts!) but this week’s theme really inspired me: Opening lines! I love a good opening line, that can hook me into a book right away! And looking for which ones I could choose for the challenge, I realize I do have a type of favorite opening lines… I will let you discover it :p Also, I could not choose only 10 opening lines, so you will get 15!
Oh, and if you do not know what TTT is, you can read all about it at That Artsy Reader Girl.

1. « Victor readjusted the shovel on his shoulder and stepped gingerly over an old, half-sunken grave » Vicious – VE Schwab. I mean, how not to be intrigued ????
2. « People often shit themselves when they die. » Nevernight– Jay Kristoff. What a line to start a book with, very promising…
3. « They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. » The Shadows Between us – Tricia Levenseller. I do not need to read more, I am sold!
4. « By the time Alex managed to get the blood out of her good wool coat, it was too warm to wear it. » Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo.  Another murder-implying first line, all I’m asking for!
5. “Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love.” The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater. That sounds like a story like no other, I just wanted to dive in the first time I read it!
6. « We must, by law, keep a record of the innocents we kill. » Scythe – Neal Shusterman. That sets the tone for the rest of the book!
7. « Later, they would blame what happened on the little wooden horses » Wild Beauty – Anna-Marie Mclemore. This one is lighter on the murderous vibe than the other but one can’t help but imagined what did happen?
8. « 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… » The Color of Magic – Terry Pratchett. It just sounds too crazy, you have to keep reading right?
9. « We were all villains in the beginning. » Renegades – Marissa Meyer. I imagine this line said by a storyteller, whispered as old stories take shape in the smoke of a camp fire… and I am hooked!
10. « Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well ». Daughter of smoke and bone – Laini Taylor. One of my favorite series, and just rewriting these opening lines gives me chills!
11. « I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war. » Red Rising – Pierce Brown. I know, I know, this is actually two sentences, but they need to be together to deliver their full potential! And what a start for a book!
12. « Asha lured the dragon with a story. » The Last Namsara – Kristen Ciccarelli. With this first line I’m like « a dragon? ok I’m gonna read that!! And a story with magical powers? Yes please! »
13. « Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood. » The Lightning Thief– Rick Riordan. This is the kind of line that becomes stronger after you have read the book for the first time. Now, rereading it, I have all the anticipation of what will come after flowing through me, making it an amazing first line!
14.  » In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit. » The Hobbit– JRR Tolkien. 
    I feel that this one is a mythical one, and that it will be in a lot of lists. But because it is so popular, just hearing it brings the memories of the movies and of Middle Earth and I can’t resist it!
15. « It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. » The Name of the Wind– Patrick Rothfuss. Again, such a storyteller vibe, I can’t resist!

And of course, the best first line of them all, is simply « Once upon a time…« , just a few words, carrying centuries of storytelling! 

What about you, what are some of your favorite first lines? What do you think of these? Kind of makes me want to have a notebook to mark them all!

See you for a cup,

Elise