Yuletide Inspired: First Lines Meme

Reading all these lovely Yuletide book suggestions has made me think of books, books, and favorite books. Thus, this meme ganked from redbrunja some weeks ago:

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.

I'll strike off the prompts and credit the guessors as this goes on ... and I'm giving a round 12 lines, because 10 wasn't enough.

ETA: Now with answers to those not guessed!!

1. Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. - Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, guessed by hikari_mibu
    
2. I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. - Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart, guessed by telophase
    
3. Her kiss burnt his forehead. Keyed senses, distracted by the powdery odour of shampoo, didn't at once register that the fire was frozen.  One Foot in the Grave by Peter Dickinson
    
4. It was gala night at the Royal Theatre, London.   Thursday's Children by Rumer Godden
    
5. July had been blown out like a candle by a biting wind that ushered in a leaden August sky.   My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
    
6. Prime Predictor Tae ran-Kaeil was long dead, but he lived in the bellies of his aggressive progeny. - Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury, guessed by smillaraaq
    
7. Night, near the eastern edge of the walled, sloping grounds of the estate, with these walls, perhaps a quarter-mile from the house itself, at the small stand of trees, under a moonless sky, listening, he stands, absolutely silent.   Eye of Cat by Roger Zelazny
    
8. The plump young man with the ginger hair caused something of a sensation as he entered the inn. It was not intentional.   Cyrion by Tanith Lee (actually, the Young Lady guessed this one, looking over my shoulder. She has an LJ, but declined to log in and answer online ...)
    
9. The people in this book might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California. - Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin, guessed by smillaraaq
    
10. The [ship's] small galley table was was awash in data printout, paperfaxes ringed and blotched with brown gfi-stains, arrowed, circled, crossed-out, and noted in red and green ink till they were beyond cryptic. - Chanur's Homecoming by C.J. Cherryh, guessed by theloomofmoira
     
11. The hills rolled up to the moon on slopes of wind-bent grass, crested, swept down into tangled brier shadows. - God Stalk by P.C. Hodgell, guessed by estara
     
12. It began one day in the summer about 30 years ago, and it happened to four children. - Half Magic by Edward Eager, guessed by flemmings

Happy hunting!