From Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.”
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
From Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
“The day after my mother died, the priest and I wrapped her body in a gray shroud and carried her to the village church.”
From Avi's Crispin: The Cross of Lead.
“Hello, friend.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Murder of an Angel
“The reel screeched, nearly jerked the pole from my fingers.”
From Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs' Virals: Code
“Here we go again.”
Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, Not Buddy
“We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be.”
Ransom Rigg's Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children: Hollow City
“Hello, friend.”
From James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Confessions: The Paris Mysteries.
“I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.”
R. J. Palacio's Wonder.
First Sentence of a New World 