From Lisa Tawn Bergren's The Northern Lights: The Captain's Bride
“It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”
From Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders
“Coriolanus released the fistful of cabbage into the pot of boiling water and swore that one day it would never pass his lips again.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Ok–answer me this: why would anyone want to wear an overcoat in San Francisco in the middle of summer?”
From Michael Scott's The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
“I was eighteen years old, give or take a fairy-tale century, when I had my first kiss.”
From Melissa Albert's Hazel Wood: The Night Country