Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Scorpia
“The room had no windows, and that in itself was strange as it was situated in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.”
“All you had to do was smile and wear the right clothes, and everyone would think you were special.”
From Joelle Charbonneau's Time Bomb
“Dewey Kerrigan sits on the concrete front steps of Mrs. Kovak’s house in St. Louis, waiting for her father.”
From Ellen Klages’ The Green Glass Sea
“My Mother was raised on fairy tales, but I was raised on highways.”
From Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood
“Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.”
From Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“We only have a few hours, so listen carefully.”
From Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid.
“Alex Rider lay on his back, drying out in the mid-day sun.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Eagle Strike
“‘Beep, beep,’ Lindsay calls out.”
From Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall
“’What I’d like from you is the truth, Miss Brennan.’”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Exposure
“So, all went as planned– actually better.”
From Lauren Allbright's Exit Strategy
“I inhaled deeply, then exhaled.”
Arvin Ahmadi's Down and Across
“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
First Sentence of a New World 