#OpeningSentence

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

— Space Dragons by Veo Corva (Space Dragons, #2)

She ran from the gods, and fetched up under a tree.

— Wicked Problems by Max Gladstone

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

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

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.

— Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

Long after the House is gone, it’s there.

— Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Manny smiled at the way the British journalist’s face blanched as the old Toyota hit the pothole.

— After The Revolution by Robert Evans

For all the danger in that forest with its tumbling-down ruins, the beauty pulled me back one last time.

— Interference by Sue Burke (Semiosis Duology, #2)

There were not so many places to lurk in the scholars’ residence on Thanma Street.

— The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #3)

The portable surgery unit hulked at the edge of a tract field, ringed by four-byfours and a lone Jeep.

— Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

Damira followed the blood down the hill.

— The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother’s house.

— A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created.

— Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel

A sentient space station should have perfect temperature, Mallory Viridian thought.

— Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty

Let’s go to the baths today, Miss Ikuko said, so we all got ready.

— Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi KAWAKAMI