“Last night’s amateur astronomers got a treat in the form of clear skies, a new moon, and Comet Sakamoto.” Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
“My uncle Herman once packed a year’s course on metaphysics into a single short sentence: ‘Everything that happens just happens because everything in the world just happened.’”
Fluke: The Math & Myth of Coincidence, by Joseph Mazur
“Harriet Lee’s gingerbread is not comfort food.”
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
“Keokuk is a place name that elicits chuckles, like Peoria or Ketchikan.”
Introducing Elsa Maxwell: How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World, by Sam Staggs.
“If this discourse appears too long to be read at one sitting, it may be split into six parts”.
- Discourse on Method and the Meditations, by Descartes.
“We need more peacocks!”
Round Up the Usual Peacocks, by Donna Andrews.
“The road to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, runs through a pocket square of a town tucked between two interstates in the northeastern United States.”
Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence, by Karen Crouse.
“There is just one hymn left to practice.”
Mad Blood Stirring, by Simon Mayo
“This is the day the world changes” (The Mirage, by Matt Ruff)
“We have to talk,” said Kate quietly, sitting almost unseen in the shadows under the awning which sheltered the Airstream caravan which had been Richard’s home for almost 5 years. (Luna City 11th Inning Stretch, by Celia Hayes & Jeanne Hayden)
“The future is a wild fantasy.”
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future: What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow, by Steven Novella, with Bob Novella and Jay Novella.
“No one could say he hadn’t been warned.”
Sewer, Gas, & Electric, by Matt Ruff
“Chad Hurley wanted to create something; he just wasn’t sure what.”
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, by Mark Bergen
“Hey.” “Hey.”
The Orville: Season 1.5: New Beginnings by David A. Goodman, David Cabeza and Michael Atiyeh
“A great stone face stares silently from a South Dakota mountainside, unable to express the genius, warmth, and humor of the man it depicts.”
The Unexpected George Washington by Harlow Giles Unger
“Night. District Three of the Ho Chi Minh Autonomous Trade Zone. The plastic awning of the cafe streamed with rain.”
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
“Francis Marion Tarwater’s uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Savior at the head of the grave and enough dirt to keep the dogs from digging it up.”
from “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead” by Flannery O’Connor.
“In the summer of 2004, Hurricane Charley roared out of the Gulf of Mexico and swept across Florida to the Atlantic Ocean.”
From “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” by Michael J. Sandel
“Da! Da! Wake up!”
Flynn’s World, by Gregory McDonald
The sun was falling toward the distant western end of the narrow land bridge – barely three miles wide in places – connecting the convoluted coastlines of Persia and Arabia.
Pass of Fire (Destroyermen #14), by Taylor Anderson
“The socialite was dragged into the street and attacked by a homicidal homeless man, until another man in a giant bunny costume came to her rescue.”
The Maltese Iguana, Tim Dorsey