From Beth Revis' Star Wars: Rebel Rising.
“Jyn Erso hid in the dark.”
“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
“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.
“The reel screeched, nearly jerked the pole from my fingers.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Code
“It was the smell that began to drive Thomas slightly mad.”
From James Dashner's Maze Runner: The Death Cure
“We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be.”
Ransom Rigg's Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Hollow City
“The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian.
“The peculiars in the village of Swampmuck lived very modestly.”
From Ransom Riggs' Tales of the Peculiar.
“The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth.
“I spent the last afternoon of Before constructing a 1/10,000-scale replica of the Empire State Building from boxes of adult diapers.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
First Sentence of a New World 