#OpeningSentence

The other day, we’re standing in the repository; it’s evening already, nothing left to do but dump the lab suits, then I can head down to the Borscht for my daily dose of booze.

— Roadside Picnic by Борис Стругацкий, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

The trick is remembering that it’s all a game.

— Atlas Alone by Emma Newman

By all accounts, I should be scared.

— The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui

The protesters outside are getting louder.

— Ghost Station by null

Acting Captain Virika Sameroo abandoned her seat and stood ramrod stiff behind the Oestra’s navigator after it jolted through the Invictan region skip gate.

— Countess by Suzan Palumbo

He didn't like beating people.

— Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I am not on this beach.

— Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)

It's times like these, when I’m hunkered in a doorway, waiting for a food market of dubious legality to be set up, that I find myself wishing I could eat like everyone else.

— After atlas by Emma Newman (A Planetfall novel)

Every time I come down here I think about my mother.

— Planetfall by Emma Newman

I hadn’t seen Juan in years, not since I left the commune.

— These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein

Light. The light of that murdered sun still burns me.

— Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio (The Sun Eater, #1)

They call me Mr. Scales because I’m a snake.

— Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

When the multiverse was confirmed, the spiritual and scientific communities both counted it as evidence of their validity.

— The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Loret had spent the voyage braced for pirates.

— Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky

It is a vision of hell.

— House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)