From Matilda Nordtvedt's Song of the Brook
“Wake up, Hilda, it’s almost time to get off the train.”
“Ryan.”
From David Bell's The Request
“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
“My story starts with a dream.”
From Aaron Reynolds' The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter
First Sentence of a New World 