From Jojo Moyes' Me Before You.
“There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home, but it can stretch to 180 if you aren’t in a hurry, like maybe if you’re wearing platform shoes.”
“I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
“Your Majesty, there is a message for you.”
From Kathleen Bird's Katherine's Kingdom: To Love in Peace.
”My nightmare started like this.”
From Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters.
”From his perch behind the clock, Hugo could see everything.”
From Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
“This is my body.”
From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Last Star.
“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.”
From Louis Sachar's Holes.
“It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.”
From Lois Lowry’s The Giver.
“A man named Daryl walked into a pawnshop in Los Angeles with a guitar.”
From Levi Lusko's Through the Eyes of a Lion.
“There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word ‘stop’ written entirely in capital letters STOP.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital.
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village.
“Tony Stark paced the lacquered wooden floor outside his father’s office, chewing one stick of gum after another.”
From Eion Colfer's Iron Man: The Gauntlet.
“The book you are holding with your two hands right now–assuming that you are, in fact, holding this book, and that you have only two hands–is one of two books in the world that will show you the difference between the word ‘nervous’ and the word ‘anxious.'”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator.
“If you were going to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn’t give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy.
“Today I’m five.”
From Emma Donoghue's Room.
First Sentence of a New World 