First lines meme

1. Two o'clock in the morning, A thursday morning, the first bit of water broke through the ground of George Clatterbuck's back pasture in Habit, Kentucky, and not a living soul saw it.

2. My wound is geography.

3. On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother Thomas entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut PUblic Library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. ( I know this much is true Wally Lamb. guessed by tsgeisel)

4. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.

5. What about a teakettle?

6. "The amendment that protects..." Sharp voice falling on muffled ears.

7. The Salinas Valley is in Nothern California.

8. Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.

9. The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years--if it ever did end--began, so far as I can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. (It by Stephen King guessed by goblin_11)

10. This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet that was dying fast.