“On the night after the day she had stained the louvered window shutters of her new apartment on East 52nd Street, Beth saw a woman slowly and hideously knifed to death in the courtyard of her building.”— Harlan Ellison, amazon.com
“Pulling my goggles up, I stopped and blinked, looking out into the night with my own unaided eyes.”— Matthew Mather, amazon.com
“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“The Hegemony Consul sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamp below.”— Dan Simmons, amazon.com
“The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was no enjoying himself.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my other decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”— John Green, amazon.com
“He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“I wore a black suit and a white shirt, a black tie and black shoes, all polished and shiny: clothes that normally would make me feel uncomfortable, as if I were in a stolen uniform, or pretending to be an adult.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Patrick worked the day shift at Zoney's GoMart one Wednesday a month: sealed into the vacuum-packed chill behind the convenience store's dirty plate-glass windows, watching cars zoom by on the highway while he stood still.”— Kelly Braffet, amazon.com
“I pace in our cell in Erudite headquarters, her words echoing in my mind: My name will be Edith Prior, and there is much I am happy to forget.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“'There are places you can go,' Ariana tells him, 'and a guy as smart as you has a decent chance of surviving to eighteen.'”— Neal Shusterman, amazon.com
“So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell ring.”— Clive Barker, amazon.com