From Eion Colfer's Iron Man: The Gauntlet.
“Tony Stark paced the lacquered wooden floor outside his father’s office, chewing one stick of gum after another.”
“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.
“Sometime in your life– in fact, very soon– you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill.
“He stood motionless in the entryway, staring at his own shadow splayed before him like a stain upon the floor.”
From Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker's House.
“The office had no windows, only electric lanterns to light the hundreds of spines standing in their cherry wood bookcases.”
From Ted Dekker's Thr3e.
“If you didn’t know much about the Baudelaire orphans, and you saw them sitting on their suitcase at Damocles Docks, you might think that they were bound for an exciting adventure.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window.
“He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.”
From James Dashner's The Maze Runner.
“The stretch of road that leads out of the city, past Hazy Harbor and into the town of Tedia, is perhaps the most unpleasant in the world.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room.
”The world is a clock winding down.”
From Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Infinite Sea.
“The whole thing started with a dog tag.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals.
”Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”
From John Green's The Fault In Our Stars.
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.”
From Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning.
“In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark.”
From Jeanne DuPrau's Book of Ember: The City of Ember.
First Sentence of a New World 