From James Dashner's The Mortality Doctrine: The Game of Lives
“When Michael woke up, he had the not-so-pleasant sensation of bile rising in his throat.”
“Septimus Heap tipped six spiders into a jar, screwed the lid down tight and put them outside the door.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Flyte
“How do you say good-bye to a friend?”
From Elana K. Arnold's Bat and the End of Everything
“Are you sure you’re all packed?”
From Raina Telgemeier's Sisters
“Reporting to work that fateful morning at my office (that is to say, the office of Dr. Leslie T. Ragostin, Scientific Perditorian, my fictitious employer), I wore a perfectly fitted princess-style dress of mistletoe-green faille, with wide organza collar and matching hat on my tasteful russet coif (wig), and, on the appropriate finger, a wedding ring.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye
“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
“There was a town, and there was a train, and there was a murder.”
From Lemony Snicket's All the Wrong Questions: Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
“Hilda carefully wiped the dishes that Papa had washed.”
From Matilda Nordtvedt's Secret in the Maple Tree
“Silas Heap pulled his cloak tightly around him against the snow.”
From Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Magyk
“Rosalind was happy.”
From Jeanne Birdsall's The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
“Michael was not himself.”
From James Dashner's The Mortality Doctrine: The Rule of Thoughts
“Hey, you!”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride Forever
“This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
“Erik’s heart hammered in his chest as though Thor himself were tunneling out of his rib cage.”
From Christina Uss’ Erik Vs. Everything
First Sentence of a New World 