The 1st Sentence of the Book You Are Reading:

[Tensor]

The noonday sun blazed down from the fiery dome of the sky.
-- Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague De Camp and Lin Carter, Conan The Wanderer

[Brother Faust the Elder]

" Nyarlathotep … the crawling chaos … I am the last … I will tell the
audient void… "

—H. P. Lovecraft, Nyarlathotep

[Erudite Malefactor]

"The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault."

—Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

[high G]

"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one."
-- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game