From Beth Revis' Star Wars: Rebel Rising.
“The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and the wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats.”
From Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern Reach: Annihilation
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
From Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
“The day after my mother died, the priest and I wrapped her body in a gray shroud and carried her to the village church.”
From Avi's Crispin: The Cross of Lead.
“Hello, friend.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Murder of an Angel