The sun was high and bright when Kai rode into Benais-arik in Bashasa’s wake, their cadres on horseback around them.

#OpeningSentence

"Maybe it’s fucked up, but I prefer literally running from things to figuratively running."

— Veo Corva: Space Dragons

#OpeningSentence

"At first Jace thought he’d chosen well."

— Karen Conlin, L. J. Cohen, Chris Howard: Litany for a Broken World

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"Faven Sythe was told two lies on the day her mother’s organs finished crystallizing."

— Megan E. O'Keefe: The Two Lies of Faven Sythe

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"In Kellner Books on the Upper East Side of New York City, a few minutes before his death, John Webber was reading The Count of Monte Cristo."

— Gareth Brown: Book of Doors

#OpeningSentence

"This isn’t the forest guardian’s usual haunt."

— Veronica Roth: When among Crows

#OpeningSentence

"Her son dies in a childsized bed, big enough for him but barely enough to hold her and her husband who cling to the edges, folding themselves small so they fit one on each side of him."

— Gerardo Sámano Córdova: Monstrilio

#OpeningSentence

"Today is the anniversary of Little Girl With Popsicle."

— Catriona Ward: The Last House on Needless Street

#OpeningSentence

"My head is throbbing again, a white-hot line of pain from the back of my skull down to the right side of my jaw, and a dead man is signaling me from across the common room."

— S.A. Barnes: Dead Silence

#OpeningSentence

"The plastic awning of the café streamed with rain."

— Ray Nayler: The Mountain in the Sea

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