From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Farmer Boy
“It was January in northern New York State, sixty-seven years ago.”
“Sweeping, swooping, soaring.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever
“I believe in returning dead bodies.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant's Tomb
“Look, nobody’s ever accused me of being a good boy.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Bob
“If a person wants to murder any member of a family, then it is very important that the entire family also be done away with, or the distraught survivors might very well decide to take bloody revenge, or at the least make a detailed report at the local police station.”
From Eoin Colfer's The Fowl Twins
“Someone must have bitten off her nose.”
From Lex Thomas' Quarantine: The Loners
“Danny Malooley was four years old when he learned the hard way that lemon-scented soap tasted nothing like lemons and everything like soap.”
From James Gould-Bourn's Bear Necessity
“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
“I am Ivan.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan
“No.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze
“The Wayland Inn was behind the slums, on the west end of Knoxville.”
Kristen Simmons’ Article 5: Breaking Point
“It was that last piece of his father’s advice that March McQuin found himself contemplating at three in the morning on a picturesque bridge over a dark canal in Amsterdam.”
From Jude Watson's Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods
“She’s sitting at the bus stop checking the likes on her Instagram feed and doesn’t even notice the man with the gun until he’s almost next to her.”
From Adrian McKinty's The Chain
“So in order to understand everything that happened, you have to start from the premise that high school sucks.”
From Jesse Andrews' Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
First Sentence of a New World 