From Eion Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
“Artemis Fowl was almost content.”
“It was a perfectly normal school morning in the Campbell household–disorganized, chaotic and at least one of my children was running around half-naked–right up until the moment the police arrived at our front door to question me in connection with the death of Howard Grant.”
From Margot Hunt's Best Friends Forever
“My adversary charged at full speed, intent on running me down.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Terminal
“The snake-haired ladies were starting to annoy Percy.”
From Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune
“There were five men sitting around the fire, huddled together in the Herat Mountains in the northwest corner of Afghanistan.”
From Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider: Secret Weapon
“Galer Street School is a place where compassion, academics, and global connectitude join together to create civic-minded citizens of a sustainable and diverse planet.
From Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette
“The late bus dropped Jared Grace at the bottom of his street.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Seeing Stone
“Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day.”
From Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero
“’Wow!’ I can remember saying as soon as Vivian stepped out of the bathroom and showed me the positive result of the pregnancy test.”
From Nicholas Spark's Two by Two
“So you’ve decided to have a child.”
From Bill Cosby's Fatherhood
“The loss of her husband had had a profound effect on Angeline Fowl.”
From Eion Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
“Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity–Good.”
From Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia
“If someone had asked Jared Grace what jobs his brother and sister would have when they grew up, he would have had no trouble replying.”
From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide
“‘Try it again,’ Percy told me.”
From Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Ship of the Dead
First Sentence of a New World 