Top Ten Tuesday ➛ Opening Lines From My Favorite Romances

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week is a new bookish category in which we get to brag about our favorite books that fit with the week’s category. You can pick your top 5, 10, 15…or so on. I tend to keep my list to ten!

Today’s category:
Opening Lines (Best, favorite, funny, unique, shocking, gripping, lines that grabbed you immediately, etc.) 

I’ve decided to do the opening lines for a few of my top favorite books.

Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

“Everything in the room screamed that I didn’t belong. The stairs were crumbling, the rowdy patrons were shoulder to shoulder, and the air was a medley of sweat, blood, and mold. Voices blurred as they yelled numbers and names back and forth, and arms flailed about, exchanging money and gestures to communicate over the noise. I squeezed through the crowd, following close behind my best friend.”

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Real by Katy Evans

“Melanie has been shouting in my ear for the past half hour and my nerves are so frazzled by what we’re witnessing, I can barely even hear anything. Only my heart. Beating like crazy in my head as the two fighters in the underground boxing ring lunge at each other, both men equal in height and weight, both extremely muscled as they pound each other’s faces in.”

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Complicate Me by M. Robinson

” “You look beautiful, Alex.” Lucas whispered from behind me, his voice broken and torn. The errors of his ways finally catching up with him, it was evident in his tone. It pained me to hear him sound like that, no longer the carefree boy I grew up with”

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Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens

“It was the longest drive I had ever been on. That really wasn’t saying a whole lot, since I had never driven more than sixty miles away from my hometown. Still, by anyone’s standards, the drive was absurdly long. According to MapQuest, it was roughly thirty-seven hours and eleven minutes long. I’m assuming that’s if  you’re superhuman and never need a pit stop, of course.”

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Backstage Pass by Olivia Cunning

“A stack of handouts tumbled from Myrna’s laptop case to the floral-patterned carpet. Un-freakin’-believable. She’d forgotten to zip the compartment in her haste to flee the seminar room. With a loud sigh, she bent to gather the scattered papers. Could this day suck a little more, please?”

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Fallen Crest High by TIJAN

“It was a Friday night, two in the morning, and my two best friends were shrieking in drunken laughter behind me. I sighed as I pulled into the gas station.”

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Fighting For Flight by JB Salsbury

“I have a brief moment to catch my breath before it’s time to push again. My head lolls to the side, eyes fixing on the shape of a man. It’s hard to tell through the blur of tears and sweat clouding my vision. The bright light illuminating my body is no help. Everything outside of it’s glow is darkness. But, even in the dark, I know who it is.”

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Lick by Kylie Scott

I woke up on the bathroom floor. Everything hurt. My mouth felt like garbage and tasted worse. What the hell had happened last night? The last thing I remembered was the countdown to midnight and the thrill of turning twenty-one, legal at last. I’d been dancing with Lauren and talking to some guy. Then Bang! Tequila.

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Moonshot by Alessandra Torre

“When my foot first stepped up, high and hesitantly, onto a team bus, I was seven. I liked My Little Ponies and Hanson. A brand-new coloring book was tucked under my skinny arm, a Lisa Frank backpack high on my back, full of my Most Important Items.”

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Black Swan Affair by K.L. Kreig

“My gown sells false truths. Makeup covers the lies. Fake smiles and false words divert and deceive. Three carats on my left hand blind all, except me.”

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What are some of your favorite opening lines?

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Peace Love and Happy Reading,

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