I’ll start:
“The two thirty-eights roared simultaneously.”
I, the Jury?
“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”
Nope.
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
“It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”
The Princess Bride
“Willie McCoy had been a jerk before he died.”
Tapioca got it.
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
this is an easy one…
“Last night I dreamt I went to Mandalay again.”
Shea & Wilson: Illuminatus (technically The Eye in the Pyramid)
Rebecca
DeVena’s is “REBECCA”–mine is “It was love at first sight.”
Rebecca
How 'bout something a wee bit more challenging?
I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
Okay, now I’ll go:
“The idiot lived in a black and gray world, puntuated by the white lightning of hunger and the flickering of fear.”
The Left Hand of Darkness
“More Than Human”
“The primroses were over.”
“Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring!”
Watership Down by Richard Adams
And now for something completely different, from one of the coolest writers who ever lived:
“The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers.”
This one has a few different possible answers, but I have a specific one in mind…
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
And it’s a Newberry Award winner, too, I think.
The Long Goodnight by Raymond Chandler