From James Patterson's Ali Cross: Like Father, Like Son
“Ali Cross, where are you???”
“I was in fifth-period science class when I heard these noises outside.”
From Rick Riordan's The Demigod Files
“Lucy and Andy live in a cave with their mom and dad and little brother, Danny.”
From Jeffrey Brown's Lucy & Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones
“Teresa dribbled past me, switching hands as I’d taught her.”
From S. A. Bodeen's The Compound
“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
From Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
“I emerge from the simulation with a yell.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Four
“To be honest, I’m not great with words, so I wasn’t keen on writing anything for this book.”
From Rick Riordan‘s Hotel Valhalla: Guide to the Norse Worlds
“Big Ed is about to tell it again.”
From Leslie Connor's All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
“The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal.”
From Matthew Quick's Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
“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
“My life in Taiwan is sweet.”
From Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu's Measuring Up
“Kitty lives in a barn.”
From Meika Hashimoto’s Kitty and Dragon
First Sentence of a New World 