“Name and cabin number, please?” the efficient-looking porter asked, reaching for the large green suitcase sitting on the dock beside me.
Curse of the Arctic Star, by “Carolyn Keene”
The ticking of the conference room’s antique clock was deafening as the Hereditary President of the People’s Republic of Haven stared at his military cabinet.
On Basilisk Station, by David Weber
“I knew when I married Bob, I would divorce him one day, because men are like lawyers. They can’t be trusted.”
The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose.
“Heroes can be found in the most unlikely of places.”
Doctor Who: Time Lord Fairy Tales, by Justin Richards (From “Jak and the Wormhole”.)
“I am always surprised by the strange misconceptions that most urban dwellers seem to have about cows.”
How Soon Can You Get Here, Doc?; by David Wynia
“Man has conquered Space before.”
Northwest Smith, by C. L. Moore (Note: This is a collection of SF short stories, and the quote is from “Shambleau”.)
“She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window.”
-- The Running Man, by Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman
“Come on. Hurry up and let’s go!”
Once Upon a Thriller, by Carolyn Keene
“Blood is a liquid filled with various cell types, one type being the red blood cells.”
Forensics and Fiction: Clever, Intriguing, and Downright Odd Questions from Crime Writers, by D. P. Lyle, M.D.
“Once there was a poor peasant girl named Andrea who lived in a little cottage at the edge of the forest.”
Gather Round, by John R. Aurelio (Note: This is a collection of fantasy stories. The quote is from “The Patient Princess”.)
“Disciples came in flocks that sun-bake May afternoon in 1957, packing the pews at St. Mary’s and spilling onto the streets outside the Irish parish in Appleton, Wisconsi, where Joseph Raymond McCarthy had been baptized and now, just forty-eight years later, he was being eulogized.”
Bobby Kennedy - The Making of a Liberal Icon, by Larry Tye
“My grandchildren surge through our kitchen door like a tumbling stream, laughing and calling excitedly, as though visiting Amma’s house is the best thing in the world.”
Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars: A Grandma’s Bag of Tricks, by Sharon Lovejoy
“We didn’t always live on Mango Street.”
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros.
“Austen’s canonical status is so unassailable that she’s not just included in the list of great novelists: she tops it.”
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, by Rebecca Romney
“I didn’t know best friends could die.”
All the Blues in the Sky, by Renee Watson
“Is that her?” I asked, shading my eyes against the glare of the afternoon sun.
Mystery of the Midnight Rider, by Carolyn Keene
Dame Honor Harrington dropped her long, rolled bundle and removed a hat someone on Old Earth of two millennia past would have called a fedora.
The Short Victorious War, by David Weber
“He was healthy yesterday,” said Maude.
Three Bags Full, by Leonie Swann, translated by Anthea Bell. This is the book The Sheep Detectives was based on.
“‘This is the life,’ Iris Rafferty exclaimed, taking a long pull on her glass.”
For Duck’s Sake, by Donna Andrews
“‘Quite simply, the answer is–because they are there!’”
The Ballad of Beta 2, by Samuel R. Delany.
“Fifty miles down a dirt road in Wyoming one time, the old bus suffered two flat tires, which was one flat tire too many.”
-- On the Road with Charles Kuralt, by Charles Kuralt
“Late one Thursday morning at the beginning of July 1914, a young woman with dark wet hair strode long-legged from the Serpentine in Hyde Park along Oxford Street towards Marylebone.”
Precipice by Robert Harris
“The child had been trained well - not by her family, but by life.”
Mate by Ali Hazelwood
“The poignant lyrics of “Desperado” filtered through the cobwebs crocheted across the scratchy speaker in the ceiling.”
Blood Moon by Sandra Brown
“I was born in the winter of 1898 at Belfast, the son of a solicitor and of a clergyman’s daughter.”
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, by C. S. Lewis
“On a mild autumn morning in September, 1837, two friends, Charles Lewis Tiffany, age 25, and John Burnett Young, age 22, opened the doors of their small stationery and ‘fancy goods’ store at 259 Broadway in lower Manhattan, New York, for the first time.”
Little Book of Tiffany and Co.: The Story of the Iconic Brand, by Tamara Sturtz-Filby.
Admiral of the Green Hamish Alexander, Thirteenth Earl of White Haven, sat on HMS Queen Caitrin’s flag deck and gazed into his display.
Flag in Exile, by David Weber
They didn’t say anything about this in the books, I thought, as the snow blew in through the gaping doorway and settled on my naked back.
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot.
Good stuff! I need to re-read those books.
“The Morris dance is common to all inhabited worlds in the multiverse.”
Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett
“To see a World in a grain of sand…”
Imagination’s Other Place: Poems of Science and Mathematics, edited by Helen Plotz. (This is the first line of “Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake.)