Book meme

Stolen from
snarkyroxy

1) Select 5-10 (or so) favourite books.
2) Post the first line from them.
3) Don't mention the title or author. That's for everyone else to figure out.
4) After someone correctly identifies the book, update the original entry to reflect that fact. A few of these are ruddy obvious, I think. Others just might be considered slightly obscure.

• "Behavior Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth."
--The Silence of the Lambs Identified by snarkyroxy
• "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
• "I watched Josiah King pace in front of the witness stand."
• "The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being a cruise ship."
• "Let's get one thing straight up front."
• "This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain."
--The Green Mile Identified by ktstar1
• "The Opera ghost really existed."
--The Phantom of the Opera Identified by ktstar1
• "Will Graham sat Crawford down at a picnic table between the house and the ocean and gave him a glass of iced tea."
--Red Dragon Identified by gaipan
• "A man's alter ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself."
• "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."