Booking Through Thursday: Beginnings

I don’t do memes regularly, but yesterday’s Booking Through Thursday (BTT) touched on first lines of books, which I am planning to use on the site when I get around to doing all the things I mean to be doing to the site (that’s another post). Specifically, this week’s BTT was:

What are your favourite first sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its first sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the first line?

I don’t have a long list at the moment, but the first line that sticks in my mind at the moment is the one from Marjorie M. Liu’s The Iron Hunt (Hunter Kiss, Book 1) because I picked up the book to see what it was like and the next thing I knew I had finished it instead of doing what I should have been doing. How can you put down a book that starts with:

“When I was eight, my mother lost me to zombies in a one-card draw.”

Anyone else get caught up in a book because of the first line?