100 Best First Pick-Up Lines from Novels

The American Book Review has published a list of the 100 Best First Lines from Novels. New Link

These opening lines are so good I want to read them all.

5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
—Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)

6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)

16. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
—J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

50. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
—Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)

Hot Monkey makes no guarantees that you will get lucky while using these opening lines. But if you do, Hot Monkey says, DO IT!