First Lines of Stephen King Novels

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• 01·The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
• 02·The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.
• 03·Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.
• 04·I have never been what you'd call a crying man.
• 05·Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened.
• 06·Nobody was really surprised when the investigation into the strange case of Carrie White was reopened.
• 07·Number one, you said.
• 08·Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son.
• 09·This is the story of a lover's triangle, I suppose you'd say—Arnie Cunningham, Leigh Cabot, and Christine.
• 10·You've been here before.