From Matthew Quick's Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
“The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal.”
“I stared down an overconfident Sherlock Holmes, begging him to so much as twitch.”
From Heather W. Petty's Lock & Mori: Mind Games
“Gayle!”
From Ira Marcus' Shark Summer
“My mom says worry is like a leaky faucet–every drip makes you imagine something bad on the way… trouble… trouble… trouble… do something… do something… do something.”
From Gennifer Choldenko’s No Passengers Beyond This Point
“It was autumn in Venice when Victor first heard of Prosper and Bo.”
From Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord
First Sentence of a New World 