Pick Up Artists

Can the first lines of these books get you to check them out?

	“Looking back, none of this would have happened if I’d brought lip gloss the night of the Homecoming Dance.”		“We do not know why we came from the sea to this hard and dusty earth, but we know that we are better than it.”
	“They say death aims only once and never misses, but I doubt Ty Yorkshire thought it would strike with a scrubbing brush.”		“I’m not a shitty person, but I’m about to do a shitty thing. And you will hate me, and some other people will hate me, but I’m going to do it anyway to protect you and also myself.”
	“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”		“I wake up. Immediately I have to figure out who I am.”
	“One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke.”		“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.”
	“After Anne’s father died, her mother often said that sorrow was the only sun that rose for them. Her mother had since followed him into the darkness of death, leaving Anne to face the dawn alone.”		“It doesn’t start here. You’d think it would: two terrified girls in the middle of nowhere, cowering together, eyes bulging at the gun in his hand. But it doesn’t start here. It starts the first time I almost die.”
	“Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love.”		“First the colors. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.”
	“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”		“You stop fearing the Devil when you’re holding his hand.”
	“Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache.”		“Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that’s true.”
	“I’m a senior at Cesar Chavez High in San Francisco’s sunny Mission district, and that makes me one of the most surveilled people in the world.”		“There is nothing more humiliating than being topless in the backseat of your boyfriend’s car when someone decides to throw an egg at the windshield.”
	“There was a hand in the darkness and it held a knife.”		“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”