From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Code
“The reel screeched, nearly jerked the pole from my fingers.”
“It was the smell that began to drive Thomas slightly mad.”
From James Dashner's Maze Runner: The Death Cure
“Here we go again.”
Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, Not Buddy
“We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be.”
Ransom Rigg's Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Hollow City
“Hello, friend.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Paris Mysteries.
“I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.”
R. J. Palacio's Wonder.
“‘Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…'”
Camille Regholec's Look on the Heart.
“The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian.
“The peculiars in the village of Swampmuck lived very modestly.”
From Ransom Riggs' Tales of the Peculiar.
“Snap.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Seizure.
“Natasha Romanoff hated pierogies– but more than that, she hated lies.”
From Margaret Stohl's Black Widow: Forever Red.
”From his perch behind the clock, Hugo could see everything.”
From Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
“This is my body.”
From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Last Star.
“There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word ‘stop’ written entirely in capital letters STOP.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital.
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village.
First Sentence of a New World 