From Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid.
“We only have a few hours, so listen carefully.”
“Alex Rider lay on his back, drying out in the mid-day sun.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Eagle Strike
“‘Beep, beep,’ Lindsay calls out.”
From Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall
“’What I’d like from you is the truth, Miss Brennan.’”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Exposure
“So, all went as planned– actually better.”
From Lauren Allbright's Exit Strategy
“I inhaled deeply, then exhaled.”
Arvin Ahmadi's Down and Across
“Okay, okay, okay.”
From R.J. Palacio’s Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
“Night came quickly to Skeleton Key.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Skeleton Key
“One afternoon, when Bruno came home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the family’s maid — who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet — standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates, even the things he’d hidden at the back that belonged to him and were nobody else’s business.”
John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“It was mid afternoon in early July and the world was, in general asleep.”
From Patricia St. John's Twice Freed
“I bounded over the gray, dusty terrain toward the huge dome of Conrad Bubble.”
From Andy Weir's Artemis
“Michael J. Roscoe was a careful man.”
From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Point Blanc
“The monster stood not a tongue’s length away, eyes fixed on our throats, shriveled brain crowded with fantasies of murder.”
From Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Library of Souls
“Jyn Erso hid in the dark.”
From Beth Revis' Star Wars: Rebel Rising.
“The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and the wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats.”
From Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern Reach: Annihilation
First Sentence of a New World 