From Shannon Hale's Real Friends
“Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.”
From Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
“You’d have to be nuts to trust a magician.”
From Paul Griffin's When Friendship Followed Me Home
“The young under-librarian awoke drenched in sweat.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Last of the Sky Pirates
“Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.”
From Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess