Writing A Story with My Read Books

From all my read books in 2025 I have collected the first sentences and added them together in chronological order to a new story. Does it make sense. Absolutely not. Is it fun. Yes.

1. I am not a very grateful person by nature.
2. Joel hid in the woods until he saw them drive away in the preacher’s white Chevrolet.
3. Kohei Araki had devoted his entire life – his entire working life – to dictionaries.
4. A good pilot doesn’t show sweat.
5. They say it takes a life of virtue to unlock the gates of heaven, but a small plane will carry even a tarnished soul to the Bahamas.
6. Dear Kurt Cobain, we are currently in English and are supposed to write a letter to a famous person who has already passed away.
7. It’s not easy to see inside.
8. The dreamers gathered.
9. Day 1299 of my captivity: Darkness suits me.
10. The following text as faithfully transcribed from Navarrian into the modern language by Jesinia Neilwart, Curator of the Scribe Quadrant at Basgiath War College.
11. It was the morning after my thirtieth birthday party, and I was lying on the cold tiles in the upstairs bathroom of my house.
12. Before the lost word, there was another.
13. There is always some consolation. I may be dreaming the following:
14. If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different. 
15. As the aircraft descended, I pushed my ten-year-old face up against the tiny window, in thrall to the light: flicking orange, yellow and red.
16. I myself never got to know the honey man.
17. The knock on the door of the studio in Korte Barteljorisstraat came with a muffled sound.
18. At home, we were on top of the world.
19. The bed is empty.
20. I was upstairs folding laundry when I heard the horn.
21. Most of the time, fate deals out blows.
22. They’re like worms.
23. When I was eleven years old my father decided he needed a new wall on the front of his shop.
24. What is will power.
25. The first time I watched someone die, I was five.
26. Looking back, it still fascinates me how a single, seemingly ordinary phone call changed my life.
27. That summer I fell in love and my mother died.
28. In the back-left corner of the Days gone Funeral Home, underneath a loose floorboard, there was a metal box with a bunch of old journals inside.
29. Burkhard walks slowly through the knee-high grass, Frank follows him, his head bowed, his hands in his trouser pockets.
30. Amid all the other homes on the suburban streets – white, beige, gray, pale blue, light yellow – this two-story saltbox stands out.
31. I was packing for my flight to London when my driver called to say he was waiting outside.
32. Dear Camilla. I haven’t seen you since the week in October when you visited me.
33. 6 a.m. Portland, USA – The thumb of her face hitting the floor woke Clara instantly.
34. Scott Carey knocked on the door of the Ellis condo unit, and Bob Ellis (everyone in Highland Acres still called him Doctor Bob, although he was five years retired) let him in.
35. Rotating about the earth in their spacecraft they are so together and so alone that even their thoughts their internal mythology at times convene.
36. One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me.
37. He came into my life in February 1932 and never left again.
38. In a world where our phones never stop buzzing, delivery boxes pile up at our doors, and our calendars look like a game of Tetris, it’s easy to feel like life is running us instead of the other way around.
39. From late summer to early spring, I lived at the Morisaki Bookshop.
40. A bank-robbery.
41. Making a difference in the world and changing someone’s life doesn’t require a person to be rich, or even smart – all it takes is live in caring.
42. It was actually my younger cousin Zeynep who gave me the idea for this novel.
43. The same question kept going through my head: How did I get here.
44. The hotel looks exactly as Phoebe hoped.
45. What if I jumped?
46. I like racists.
47. It’s 6:03am, and I am already failing.
48. They met in the cemetery every night at midnight.
49. Joan Godwin gets to the Johnson Space Center well before nine, and Houston is already airless and muggy.
50. Suddenly, she is back.
51. Unseen and untrodden under their spotless mantle of ice the polar regions slept the profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time.
52. So that’s where they live, the dreams.
53. no words
54. On vacation, you can be anyone you want.
55. There is a place, hidden among the sweeping sandy swaths of southern desert, where all you can see is red.
56. Perhaps he’ll die this time.
57. October 28 – 11:00 a.m., departure from Curacao – canceled
58. I have a fatal flaw.
59. Ronnie Childers was tripping his balls off in Jackson Square when an angel of the Lord appeared before him.
60. Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name.
61. Since I barely venture outside these days, I spend a lot of time in one of the armchairs, rereading the books.
62. It was on a beautiful, sunny morning in May when I, just fifteen years, three months, and four days old, left my parents’ house in Altona holding my father’s hand and walked with him across Heiligengeist-Feld toward Dammtore.
63. Today is September 4, 2022. I am Lieutenant Brent Shoegy, S-H-O-E-G-Y, and with me is Corporal Adam Falm, F-A-L-M.
64. It’s the third moon since the sun disappeared behind the horizon – and the first time in my life that I’ve had such stomach pains.
65. My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club.
66. You were a child the first time the Saint of War came to you.
67. I’ve often been asked what it feels like when you miss half an arm.
68. A body that’s been submerged in water undergoes a different kind of decomposition: harsher in some ways, kinder in others—or so I’ve been told.
69. Robert, what are you doing?
70. The end is near.
71. While love is universal, it is not easily defined.
72. Dear reader, your mango juice contains passion fruit, and your sheep’s cheese comes from cows.
73. Welcome to The Eloise Inn.
74. The farmer is back.
75. She’s an angel. | Jitters danced through my fingertips as I smoothed the fabric of my sweater. | I am pregnant.
76. Alex Gray sat alone in his chilly observatory, staring at the faint glow of his computer screen.
77. Charlie Goodwin drew a shaky breath and tapped furiously on her phone, the screen illuminating her face in the otherwise dark store room.
78. What the …?
79. If you want to teach a child about God, you read Bible stories to them or take them to a children’s church service.
80. I lie on the bed I used to share with Clemens and think about the names of our children.

Can you guess which book belongs to the quotes? Do you have a favorite first sentences? Which book would you be intrigued picking up? – I’ll answer with the title.