name that first line

[zarahemla]

Even though I'm not a member of hate_ball, it has inspired me.

Name the titles of the books that these first lines come from! Two hints:

#7 is not a book, but a short story.
And all of these books are considered SF/F, either YA or adult.



1. The gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image; that of the Sailor in the Tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt (or purported to deal) the gunslinger's own moaning future. "The Drawing of the Three" by Stephen King (vivien529)

2. It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." "The Long Dark Tea-Time Of the Soul" by Douglas Adams (spectralbovine)

3. In an unremarkable room, in a nondescript building, a man sat working on very non-nondescript theories.

4. Polly cut off her hair in the mirror, feeling slightly guilty about not feeling very guilty about doing so.

5. Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke (vanzetti)

6. Only one newspaper carried the story in detail, under the headline: TREASURES STOLEN FROM MUSEUM. "Greenwitch," by Susan Cooper (annakovsky)

7. Limp, the body of Gorrister hung from the pink palette; unsupported -- hanging high above us in the computer chamber; and it did not shiver in the chill, oily breeze that blew eternally through the main cavern.

8. On this day of days there was an unfamiliar stirring deep inside the dozing heart of the Hayholt, in the castle's bewildering warren of quiet passages and overgrown, ivy-choked courtyards, in the monk's holes and damp, shadowed chambers.

9. No one would deny that I have known hardship in my time, brief though it has been for all that I have done in it.

10. She could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it. "The Hero and the Crown" by Robin McKinley (spicedrum)



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[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

Yep! Good guess :)