Camille Regholec's Look on the Heart.
“‘Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…'”
“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.
“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.
First Sentence of a New World 