Quick Quiz - First lines

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The following are all first lines from books I have enjoyed. Hopefully, these first lines may inspire you to read the rest of the book, or if you've already read them, what are you thoughts? You get 1/2 point for title and 1/2 point for author. I will post the answers in a couple of days Good Luck 1. It was love at first sight 2. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. 3. Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable. 4. I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support. 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. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. 7. It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws, one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. 8. I will not drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week. 9. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. 10. Jack Torrance thought: officious little p%$£k