What’s your favorite paragraph from a book?

Gideon staggered to the barn doorway. Instantly, he felt the strong southwest wind blowing his hair.In the distance,someone cried, "It's DeKoven Street, Annie Murray's shed or the O'Leary barn, I don't know which."

The beginning of the Chicago Fire, October, 1871 - John Jakes, Kent Family Chronicles, Volume Seven.