From Roald Dahl’s The Witches
“In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks.”
“Someone must have bitten off her nose.”
From Lex Thomas' Quarantine: The Loners
“Niko’s eyes flashed to our faces, one by one.”
From Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14: Savage Drift
“After his family had finally fallen asleep, Alex slung the backpack over his shoulder and snuck out of the apartment, easing the front door gently home so it didn’t slam shut.”
From J. A. White's Nightbooks
“It was a lovely moment.”
From Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14: Sky on Fire
“Screw you, Bing Crosby.”
From Taylor Adams' No Exit
“Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking.”
From Josh Malerman's Bird Box
“Maybe the machine could see the words she never spoke.”
From Zoje Stage's Baby Teeth
“Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed.”
From Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors
“I am afraid.”
From Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah
“A sharp, undulating tone – drilling into his brain.”
From Chris McGeorge's Guess Who
“Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.”
From John Bellairs' The House with a Clock in Its Walls
“In Control’s dream it is early morning, the sky deep blue with just a twinge of light.”
From Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach: Authority
“My Mother was raised on fairy tales, but I was raised on highways.”
From Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood
“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
First Sentence of a New World 