From Jack Gantos' Joey Pigza Loses Control
“We were on our way to Dad’s house and Mom was driving with both hands clamped tightly around the wheel as if she had me by the neck.”
“Greetings, initiate!”
From Rick Riordan's Brooklyn House Magician's Manual
“Okay, so when you’ve just moved to a new town and are still a total outsider…”
From Svetlana Chmakova's Awkward
“Brian Robeson stared out the window of the small plane at the endless green northern wilderness below.”
From Gary Paulsen's Hatchet
First Sentence of a New World 