From Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
“It’s a widely known fact that most moms are ready to kill someone by eight thirty A.M. on any given morning.”
“It was 118 degrees in Silver Springs, Arizona, and the Gila River was thick with algae.”
Tehlor Kay Mejia's Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the woods of Wisconsin.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie
“The dream was changing.”
From Kristen Simmons’ Article 5: Three
“This is how Kyle Keeley got grounded for a week.”
From Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
“Now is the time in our interview when you can ask any nagging questions you might have for us.”
From Adrianne Finlay's Cut Off
“Flora Belle Buckman was in her room at her desk.”
From Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses
“Tom is getting water from the well.”
From Josh Malerman's Malorie
“The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say.”
From Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“People often say that humans don’t adopt cats; it’s more a case of them adopting us.”
From James Bowen's The Little Book of Bob
“If my kids had been with me, it wouldn’t have happened.”
From Heather Chavez's No Bad Deed
“A tracer round sliced a bright red streak through the black night in front of me.”
From Trent Reedy’s Divided We Fall: Burning Nation
“A bank robbery.”
From Fredrik Backman's Anxious People
“The longest day of my life began tardily.”
From John Green's Paper Towns
“My wife, Megan, wrote an e-vite to our dinner party that was like Megan herself: funny, sharp, and a touch mysterious.”
From James Patterson and Richard DiLallo's The Store
First Sentence of a New World 