First Sentences Meme

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The Rules:
1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.

These seem really easy to me...

1. What would happen if I wrote some pages for you? | Pages For You - Sylvia Brownrigg, guessed by jailbaitjello

2.  It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock. | The Passion - Jeanette Winterson, guessed by tangledtale

3.  The red-brown leaf ceased its struggle to hang on; surrendered instead to the pull of gravity, to the flow of the wind.

4.  My name is Ruth.

5. Why is the measure of love loss? | Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson, guessed by tangledtale

6.  Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. | The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, guessed by jailbaitjello.

7. Lest anyone should suppose that I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I must say that I am House-born and rared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me. | Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey, gussed by jailbaitjello

8.  He was the subject of a conversation he never even knew about.

9. "Later!" The word, the voice, the attitude. | Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman, guessed by tangledtale

10.  I told her not to choose pink.