From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Never Say Die
“Fifty thousand people had come to Suffolk Air Show on the east coast of England.”
“A sharp, undulating tone – drilling into his brain.”
From Chris McGeorge's Guess Who
“Dolly Rawlins stood in her kitchen ironing the shirt collar and cuffs she had carefully starched, just the way Harry always liked them.”
From Lynda La Plante's Widows
“‘Yasha!'”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Russian Roulette.
“On a bitter November day in Washington, D.C., when everything felt metallic—when the sky was gray and the wind stung and the dry leaves were making death-rattle sounds in the alleys—thirteen-year-old Arthur Owens picked up a brick from the corner of a crumbling building and threw it at an old man’s head.”
From Shelley Pearsall’s The Seventh Most Important Thing
“It’s been exactly a year to the day–today is my fifteenth birthday, by the way, and I like my cake chocolate with white icing, in case anyone cares–since I started running away, and about two and a half weeks since I’ve been on the run full time.”
From Hollis Gillespie's Unaccompanied Minor
“In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.”
From Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
“6A.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Rise of Nine
“The year is 2016.”
From Gina Damico's Waste of Space
“Petey’s sweaty little hand wriggled in mine.”
From Jenny Goebel’s Fortune Falls
“I was a normal kid as far as I knew.”
From Chip Gaines' Capital Gaines
“Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.”
From John Bellairs' The House with a Clock in Its Walls
“There were two ostriches, a water buffalo, and a flock of wild turkeys between me and the registration desk.”
From Alison Cherry, Lindsay Ribar, and Michelle Schusterman's The Pros of Cons
“Suddenly the helicopter was level with him, filling his vision.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Scorpia Rising
“My name is Marina, as of the sea, but I wasn’t called that until much later.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Power of Six
First Sentence of a New World 