First Line: The Impossible Us

 

The first line of the Impossible Us by Sarah Lotz is

Listen you tight-fisted pea-brained grouse-shooting rweedy twat, you may own half the countryside but you don't own me.

Lotz's book is an impossible romance. It impossible because the two would be lovers exist in different ... . Writing the rest of the sentence would give away the story, and I will not do that. I recommend you read the book for yourself.