Arvin Ahmadi's Down and Across
“I inhaled deeply, then exhaled.”
“Okay, okay, okay.”
From R.J. Palacio’s Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
“Night came quickly to Skeleton Key.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Skeleton Key
“One afternoon, when Bruno came home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the family’s maid — who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet — standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates, even the things he’d hidden at the back that belonged to him and were nobody else’s business.”
John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“It was mid afternoon in early July and the world was, in general asleep.”
From Patricia St. John's Twice Freed
“I bounded over the gray, dusty terrain toward the huge dome of Conrad Bubble.”
From Andy Weir's Artemis
“Michael J. Roscoe was a careful man.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Point Blanc
“The monster stood not a tongue’s length away, eyes fixed on our throats, shriveled brain crowded with fantasies of murder.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Library of Souls
“Jyn Erso hid in the dark.”
From Beth Revis' Star Wars: Rebel Rising.
“The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and the wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats.”
From Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern Reach: Annihilation
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
From Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
“The day after my mother died, the priest and I wrapped her body in a gray shroud and carried her to the village church.”
From Avi's Crispin: The Cross of Lead.
“Hello, friend.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Murder of an Angel
“The reel screeched, nearly jerked the pole from my fingers.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Code
First Sentence of a New World 