“I could start this true story right in the middle of the bad business, as there certainly was plenty of that, much worse than we could have expected, and it came at us from an angle that damn near defied geometry.”
Sugar On the Bones, by Joe R. Lansdale
I’m glad to have read this, I didn’t know another one was out.
Mr. Grenfall Lorry boarded the east-bound express at Denver with all the air of a martyr.
Graustark, by George Barr McCutcheon
“The sky was overcast, the air thick with humidity.”
Eagle in Exile, by Alan Smale
I’m on a Stephen King kick recently, rereading his 90’s stuff.
“She sits in the corner, trying to draw air out of a room which seemed to have plenty just a few minutes ago and now seems to have none.”
-Rose Madder
As usual, it’s very good. Albia finally has her face-to-face meeting with Florius Oppicus, and there’s a lovely twist at the end of the book (as in the last three pages).
“Hell is empty, Armand,” said Stephen Horowitz.
All the Devils Are Here, the 16th Chief Inspector Gamache mystery by Louise Penny
« Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely? »
— Trent’s Last Case, by E.C. Bentley
“The two suspects sat on mismatched furniture in a white and almost featureless lounge, waiting for something to happen.”
The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
“‘Your mother is going to be a star,’ said the man in the gray uniform.”
Counterweight, by Djuna, translated by Anton Hur.
“When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.”
You forgot to say the book! 
“There’s a very particular kind of hot, coarse pain in the lungs that can only really be experienced after running from something that’s trying to kill you.”
Wilderness Reform, by Matt Query and Harrison Query
“The first camel spider I saw failed to impress me.”
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite, edited by Dr. Chris Balakrishnan and Matt Wasowski. (Note that this is an anthology of essays, and the above sentence is from the first one, “Camel Spiders: The Rumors of My Size Have Been Greatly Exaggerated”, by Forest Ray, PhD.)
“There was a fly walking on Cordelia’s hand and she was not allowed to flick it away.”
A Sorceress Comes To Call, T. Kingfisher
“The town is Galloway.”
– The Town and the City, by Jack Kerouac
“Sol, seen at a distance of sixteen light years, is a little fainter than the star at the tip of Orion’s sword, and it could not have been contributing much to the sparkle in the diamond lenses of the strange machine.”
Close to Critical, by Hal Clement
“When Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness and loped off with the Republican nomination on the memorable May day, 1860, the Wigwam had been resonant with whispers.”
Chicago, by Studs Terkel
It’s cold at 6:40 in the morning of a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
The Day of the Jackal. Frederick Forsyth
“THE AIVAS FELT its sensors responding to a renewal of power from the solar panels on the roof above it.”
All The Weyrs Of Pern, By Anne MacCaffrey
I read this years and years ago. As I recall, it was a great read.
“The quickest way to a man’s heart,” the instructor said, “is proverbially through his stomach, but if you want to get into his brain, I recommend the eye socket.”
Said by a fencing instructor at the opening of The Escapement, book three of K.J. Parker’s Engineer Trilogy. One of many novels set in his fantasy world, like the Saevus Corux trilogy among several others. Or you can dip into the novels written under his real name, Tom Holt. – there’s a bunch of links at the bottom on his Wikipedia page if you want to explore more, including links to some free on the web stories.