From Ransom Riggs' Tales of the Peculiar.
“The peculiars in the village of Swampmuck lived very modestly.”
“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.
“Today I’m five.”
From Emma Donoghue's Room.
“Sometime in your life– in fact, very soon– you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill.
“He stood motionless in the entryway, staring at his own shadow splayed before him like a stain upon the floor.”
From Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker's House.
“The office had no windows, only electric lanterns to light the hundreds of spines standing in their cherry wood bookcases.”
From Ted Dekker's Thr3e.
“If you didn’t know much about the Baudelaire orphans, and you saw them sitting on their suitcase at Damocles Docks, you might think that they were bound for an exciting adventure.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window.
“He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner.
”The world is a clock winding down.”
From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Infinite Sea.
“The whole thing started with a dog tag.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals.
First Sentence of a New World 