Lyricality

Book Meme
(snatched from piscaria)
List the first sentence of ten of your favorite novels, without revealing the title or author.
Then see if your friends list can guess what they are.

One of these is always an immediate giveaway.

1. Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons.
2. The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle. Guessed by andersenmom!
3. Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, "That afternoon when I met so-and-so...was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon."
4. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.
5. On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge.
6. Bishop Farm lay a mile northeast of Litchfield in a long, slow valley easy with oaks and meadows.
7. There is a silence that cannot speak.
8. Rain. It fell steadily on the city of Hypprux, a promise of the coming spring, but a cold, grudging one to be sure.
9. We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Guessed by trigeekgirl!
10. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

I admit that I had a little trouble finding ten, and I'm sure some of them are too obscure to recognize (I added the second line of 8 for just that reason). There are a lot of books I LIKE, but very few books that I love, which is indicative of my personality as a whole, I think. I shall post the answers to those numbers unguessed in a day or two, for the curious. ^_^

I also think that though it isn't my favorite book, I should really include my favorite first line of all time:

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

From The Gunslinger, by Stephen King. ^^