From James Dashner's Maze Runner: The Death Cure
“It was the smell that began to drive Thomas slightly mad.”
“Here we go again.”
Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, Not Buddy
“We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be.”
Ransom Rigg's Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Hollow City
“Hello, friend.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Paris Mysteries.
“I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.”
R. J. Palacio's Wonder.
“‘Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…'”
Camille Regholec's Look on the Heart.
“The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian.
“It was the night before Christmas.”
From Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle’s Let It Snow.
“The peculiars in the village of Swampmuck lived very modestly.”
From Ransom Riggs' Tales of the Peculiar.
“Snap.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Seizure.
“My god, Mae thought.”
From Dave Eggers' The Circle.
“‘I… I killed them,’ I stammered.”
From Eric Walters' Rule of Three: Will to Survive.
“I stare down at my shoes, watching as a fine layer of ash settles on the worn leather.”
From Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
“The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth.
“I spent the last afternoon of Before constructing a 1/10,000-scale replica of the Empire State Building from boxes of adult diapers.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
First Sentence of a New World 