Novel First Line Meme Answers

( As promised, here are the answers to my Novel First Line meme. )

And now, a quote for the day.

"There is a cyclone fence between
ourselves and the slaughter and behind it
we hover in a calm protected world like
netted fish, exactly like netted fish.
It is either the beginning or the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing."

from "Ourselves or Nothing," Carolyn Forche