#OpeningSentence

She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline.

— The Border Keeper de Kerstin Hall (Mkalis Cycle, #1)

While the sisters of the Our Lady of Impossible Constellations argued themselves in circles, the Reverend Mother sat silently in her chair at the head of the chapel as she always did, listening to the arguments twist and double back on themselves.

— Sisters of the Vast Black de Lina Rather (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

The first time Isabel heard a voice in her head, she’d tried to talk back.

— The Colours of Death de Patricia Marques (Inspector Reis, #1)

Dr. Bharadwaj told me once that she thought I hated planets because of the whole thing with being considered expendable and the possibility of being abandoned. I told her it was because planets were boring.

— System Collapse de Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

There was a grim determination Maritza found, sometimes, when there was nothing to be done about how wrong the world had slid.

— Rose/House de Arkady Martine

Basit Deniau's greatest architectural triumph is the house he died in.

— Rose/House de Arkady Martine

Now, standing in front of the tower, it was far too real.

— The Warden de Daniel M. Ford (The Warden, #1)

Her name was Dumai, from an ancient word for a dream that ends too soon.

— A Day of Fallen Night de Samantha Shannon (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

I’m really not supposed to be doing this, but a girl’s gotta get paid.

— The Library of the Dead de T. L. Huchu

Raindrops slapped the cowl of Rafe’s cloak as he followed Jassa through the trees.

— Viscera de Gabriel Squailia

Stella Wallace met her family’s god when she was nine years old.

— Revelator de Daryl Gregory

The war had begun long before we arrived because war was their way of life.

— Semiosis de Sue Burke, Sue Burke (Semiosis Duology, #1)