“There are no vampires in Japan,” said Baron Masamichi Higurashi. “This is the position of the Emperor.” - Anno Dracula 1899: One Thousand Monsters by Kim Newman
“Nothing ever begins.” Weaveworld, Clive Barker (I’m re-reading my Barkers. Soooo fucking good.)
“Our story begins on the ocean, with wind and rain and thunder and lightning and waves.” The Wild Robot by Peter Brown.
“It was the day the snow came.”
From “The Snowman”–by Jo Nesbo
“Kansas winked.”
A Barnstormer In Oz by Philip José Farmer
“There are a number of smells one expects to encounter in a dungeon. Fresh rosemary generally isn’t one of them.” Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher.
Damnit, how did you get that book so fast? Amazon says it hasn’t even shipped my copy yet, and I pre-ordered it!
And whoa, that’s quite an opening. Over on Twitter, several of her editors/advance readers have been enthusing about this book. I’m a trifle apprehensive, though, since one of the blurbs is that the reader cried so much at the end that her service dog brought all her toys over to try to cheer the reader up.
“Death came for them on electronic wings.” - The Albino Knife by Steve Perry.
Every novel in the Matador series starts with some variation on the “Death came for” line, in fact.
“The Air Force helicopter hovered a thousand feed above the ground.” Transplant by Leonard Goldberg.
Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.
“Without a tour guide to point them out, visitors to the College would have a hard time finding the classrooms.” Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites, by Mitchell L. Stevens.
Patreon. 
Also kindle version downloads fast.
Just finished that one this weekend. Long time fan of Ursula Vernon.
And the second story won’t be out until maybe February! (Faint echo of wailing and gnashing of teeth.)
That’s incredibly fast, you know. Most sequels take about a year.
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.”
– Travels with Charley in Search of America, by John Steinbeck
“This tells the human story of the last border of Europe”.
Border, by Kapka Kassabova
True. And yet I’d still rather have it available now.
“I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud”.
- Born To Run, by Bruce Springsteen
“At 8PM local Brazil time on the evening of May 31, 2009 Air France 447 pushed back from the gate at Rio de Janerio , Brazil for a 12 hour flight to Paris, France.”
Understanding Air France 447 by Bill Palmer. This is a very good book about what happened on that tragic flight when the experienced pilots stalled an A330 at nearly 38,000 feet. The resulting crash killed everyone on board. No need to be a pilot to understand the material.