From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
“I am Ivan.”
From Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan
“No.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze
“Linnet Ridgeway!”
From Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile
“The Wayland Inn was behind the slums, on the west end of Knoxville.”
Kristen Simmons’ Article 5: Breaking Point
“It was that last piece of his father’s advice that March McQuin found himself contemplating at three in the morning on a picturesque bridge over a dark canal in Amsterdam.”
From Jude Watson's Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods
“She’s sitting at the bus stop checking the likes on her Instagram feed and doesn’t even notice the man with the gun until he’s almost next to her.”
From Adrian McKinty's The Chain
“So in order to understand everything that happened, you have to start from the premise that high school sucks.”
From Jesse Andrews' Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“I’m lying on a steel table, all too aware of the giant ray gun pointed in my direction.”
From Rob Harrell's Wink
“Artemis Fowl, once self-proclaimed teenage criminal mastermind, now prefers the term juvenile genius.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian
“Elsa Anders knew she would remember everything of this moment, even as an old and bent woman.”
From Lisa Tawn Bergren's The Northern Lights: The Captain's Bride
“It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.”
From Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders
“Coriolanus released the fistful of cabbage into the pot of boiling water and swore that one day it would never pass his lips again.”
From Suzanne Collins' The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Ok–answer me this: why would anyone want to wear an overcoat in San Francisco in the middle of summer?”
From Michael Scott's The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
First Sentence of a New World 