From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Insurgent
“I wake with his name in my mouth.”
“It was 5 o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria.”
From Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
“The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Titan's Curse.
“At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time–between 12:37 P.M. and 1:14 P.M.–by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them.”
From John Green's Turtles All the Way Down.
“The cabdriver used both of his big fat feet when he drove, jamming on the brakes and the gas at the same time, making me sick.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Private School Murders.
“Torren was out at the edge of the cabbage field that day, the day the people came.”
From Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember: The People of Sparks.
“I can’t remember the last time I cried.”
From Suzanne Young's Program: The Adjustment.
“The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.”
From John Green's Looking for Alaska.
“When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games.
“‘Swing us back around!’ Herb yelled.”
From Eric Walter's Rule of Three: Fight for Power.
“My entire life is a lie.”
From Suzanne Young's Program: The Epidemic.
“It’s time to say good-bye.”
From Suzanne Young's Program: The Remedy.
“James stares straight ahead, with no immediate reaction to what I’ve just told him.”
From Suzanne Young's Program: The Treatment.
“The air in the room tastes sterile.”
From Suzanne Young's The Program.
First Sentence of a New World 