From Sarah Zettel's The Other Sister
“Twenty-five years ago, I killed my mother.”
“Beth and Ryan were holding hands.”
From Kristen Simmons' Article 5
“Mark shivered with cold, something he hadn’t done in a long time.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner: The Kill Order
“Eli sat on the front porch steps, crammed in with his brothers, while Papa fiddled with the camera.”
From Dana Alison Levy's The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
“Happy was not a word often used to describe Artemis Fowl’s bodyguard.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
“Frederick Frederickson was thinking about strawberry daiquiris when the dodgeball slammed into his face.”
From Kate Beasley's Lions & Liars
“MacGyver caught the silver tab between his teeth and slid the zipper free.”
From Melinda Metz's The Secret Life of Mac
“This story was going to begin like all the best stories.”
From Jason Reynolds' Look Both Ways
“‘Did you see her?’”
From Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl
“The pale light of the newly risen sun made the dew shimmer on the nearby grass as Jared, Mallory, and Simon trudged along the early morning roads.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wrath of Mulgarath
“All right, let’ get the boring stuff out of the way.”
From Stephan Pastis’ Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
“There was only orange juice in the fridge.”
From Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk
“By midnight the snowfall would reach a foot, just shy of breaking Aspen’s one-day record set more than forty years before.”
From Trish Harnetiaux's White Elephant
“Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair from Puget Sound to San Diego.”
From Jack London’s The Call of the Wild
“My name is Apollo.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle
First Sentence of a New World 