Book Opening Lines (No Context We Die Like Hugo Hawkhurst)

Here they are in order, some of the opening lines most heavily quoted in the comments of the last video! :D
The Dark Tower - Stephen King @stephenking
Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett @terrypratchett6025
Monster Hunter International - Larry Correia @WriterDojo
The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
1984 - George Orwell
Blood Rites - Jim Butcher
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Martian - Andy Weir @PenguinRandomHouse
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson @BrandSanderson

[JillBearup]

Here they are in order, some of the opening lines most heavily quoted in the comments of the last video! :D
The Gunslinger - Stephen King @stephenking (The Dark Tower series)
Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett @terrypratchett6025 (Discworld)
Monster Hunter International - Larry Correia @WriterDojo (The Monster Hunters(?) series, IDK man, I just read them)
The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson)
1984 - George Orwell
Blood Rites - Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files)
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Martian - Andy Weir @PenguinRandomHouse
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson @BrandSanderson (don't even ask me what the series is, IDK)

[syaif]

“It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure you bring an army of sufficient size”

[tiffanychen]

“Look I didn’t want to be a half-blood” I GASPED I LOVE IT!!!

[EmoNightDragon]

"it was a nice day. All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and the rain hadn't been invented yet."-Good Omens

[theollygamiking]

I cannot believe this didn't include the best opening line of all; "The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[denisdrozdoff]

No context, we die like Hugo Hawkhurs

LOL. We got our No Beta Tag for AO3. That's decided.

[tarajaleel]

"I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life." one of my favorite opening lines!

[captainconway]

I knew basically none of these and out of nowhere you hit me with the, "Look, i didn't want to be a half-blood, " and instantly i jumped up and was like "I understood that reference!"

[random_cricket]

'My name is Magnus Chase. I'm sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed. '

Not one sentence but whatever.

[bananamilkimissyou]

Joost had two problems, the moon and his moustache.- Six of Crows

[nightcoresubliminals]

Fahrenheit 451's "It was a pleasure to burn" grabbed me by the throat and still hasn't let go

[Kingkent]

My favourite is: “It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murder.” H. P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep

[BaileyNisse]

Sam Vimes is such a perfectly Terry Pratchett character. Love seeing him appreciated

[Miggie]

“Dear You,
The body you are wearing used to be mine.”

[Duckter_Grey]

My all-time favorite opening to a novel has to be from Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book "There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor."

[quicksilveryt]

Eyy! Percy Jackson! Jumpscared the crap outta me tho lol

[User]

“ you know when you’re in excellent hands when, in the midst of some nutty didactic dialogue, the author disarms you“ the phantom tollbooth by Norton juster

[Sembazuru]

"It was a dark and stormy night" - anything written by Snoopy.

[megmurry]

"It was a dark and stormy night" -A Wrinkle in Time

[josephlongbone]

"In those days, those ancient days, before there was bread..."
-The epic of Gilgamesh.

It's quite telling that the oldest written story known to man begins with "in the old days", how old? Well, older than civilisation itself, older than bread....