From Darcey Bell's A Simple Favor
“Hi, Moms!”
“We run past the broken wing of an exploded jet fighter, the jagged metal lodged in the middle of a city street like a shark’s fin.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Fate of Ten
“It’s funny the things that get stuck in your head.”
From Jeff Hirsch's Black River Falls
“The nightmare is over.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Revenge of Seven
“I am afraid.”
From Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah
“Just off the main highway that runs through Waco, Texas, sits a pink house–one built in that kind of Southwestern adobe style you might find in Arizona or Nevada.”
From Clint Harp's Handcrafted
“Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero.”
From Fredrik Backman's My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“It’s strange, what the mind can digest and what it resists.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: A Map of Days
“These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.”
From Ronald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Tonight’s escape fantasy stars Six.”
From Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies: The Fall of Five
“Dear Mr. Richard Gere, In Mom’s underwear drawer–as I was separating her ‘personal’ clothes from the ‘lightly used’ articles I could donate to the local thrift shop–I found a letter you wrote.”
From Matthew Quick’s The Good Luck of Right Now
“Fifty thousand people had come to Suffolk Air Show on the east coast of England.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Never Say Die
“A sharp, undulating tone – drilling into his brain.”
From Chris McGeorge's Guess Who
“Dolly Rawlins stood in her kitchen ironing the shirt collar and cuffs she had carefully starched, just the way Harry always liked them.”
From Lynda La Plante's Widows
“‘Yasha!'”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Russian Roulette.
First Sentence of a New World 