From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Power of Six
“My name is Marina, as of the sea, but I wasn’t called that until much later.”
“‘You sure about this?’ Rachel asked again, blowing softly on the surface of her steaming cup of tea.”
From Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians
“Ravi Chandra was going to be a rich man.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears
“There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always.”
From Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
“Dear Sidney, Susan Scott is a wonder.”
From Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
First Sentence of a New World 