“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.

From James Dashner's Maze Runner: The Death Cure

From Dave Eggers' The Circle.

From Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.

From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Insurgent