Strong First Sentence

Rule: Write a strong first sentence for a novel idea.
Catch: It has to be 20 words or less.
(I borrowed the idea from Writer's Digest

Here's mine:

Pranks were meant to be funny, but nothing was amusing about the hole in my empty pocket sans car keys.

If you are reading this, then you are dead.

Showtime, thought the blackbird.

"Ready?" I didn't wait for her to respond. I simply pulled the gear and that's where it began.

It was a going to be a fateful day, and I knew it the moment I saw the darkly clad man peering at me from across the street in downtown Wildavon as I got on the subway, noticing his pale purple eyes penetrating through my core.

Waves crashing against themselves softly faded into scope of consciousness as the warm water lazily drifted around me.

I held my eyes open, lying there on the ragged, hard concrete knowing that if I fell asleep I wouldn't wake up and would be forgotten, by everyone and myself.

YWS has some fantastic writers on here.

"Dad would teach me to make my sincerest promises not to take food without asking- then he'd leave me to starve until I learned to break them."

A strong first sentence for a novel idea.

Just kidding! Hmm...

The darkest hour isn't before dawn, it's before death.

Aubriel's turn!....

"I have always been grateful for surviving what we did, but no second has passed by where I haven't wished, so deeply, that we never had to."

Wow, got some great ones on here.

"Every city has something to hide."

(From my current novel, Third Line Pulse)

Every rose has its thorns, and every bald man has his hair cream.