From Nancy Springer’s The Case of the Missing Marquess
“I would very much like to know why my mother named me “Enola,” which, backwards, spells alone.”
“It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning.”
From Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
“It was 118 degrees in Silver Springs, Arizona, and the Gila River was thick with algae.”
Tehlor Kay Mejia's Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the woods of Wisconsin.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie
“The dream was changing.”
From Kristen Simmons’ Article 5: Three
First Sentence of a New World 