From James Dashner's The Maze Runner: The Fever Code
“Stephen, Stephen, Stephen.”
“Stop it!”
From Mari Mancusi’s Dangerous Secrets: The Story of Iduna and Agnarr
“Lying down, shivering on the last seat of school bus 161, pinned by his teensy doggie gaze, which is completely 100% cute—I’m such a girl, I know—I say, ‘You won’t believe the bull I had to endure today.”
From Matthew Quick's Sorta Like a Rockstar
“It was an afternoon in late September.”
From Richard and Florence Atwater's Mr. Popper's Penguins
“So far, my only clients as ‘Dr. Ragostin, Scientific Perditorian’ had been a stout, elderly widow anxious to find her lost lapdog; a frightened lady who could not locate a valuable heart-shaped ruby that had been given to her by her husband; and an army general whose most cherished souvenir of the Crimean War had disappeared, namely, his bullet-riddled leg-bone signed by the field doctor who had amputated it.”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan
“The pains began at two thirty in the morning.”
From Karen Kingsbury's The Bridge
“Smile!!”
From Raina Telgemeier's Smile
“One evening at supper, Pa asked, ‘How would you like to work in town, Laura?'”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Little Town on the Prairie
“The charity auction hadn’t started until well after midnight, when the gala dinner had ended.”
From Michael Scott's The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
“I’m a girl of extremes.”
From James Patterson's Maximum Ride: Fang
“A knock makes me jump.”
From Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing: Graduation Day
“Miss?”
From Jenny B. Jones' There You'll Find Me
“…And the start of our adventure.”
From Rich Moyer's Ham Helsing: Vampire Hunter
“In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks.”
From Roald Dahl’s The Witches
“I pace in our cell in Erudite headquarters, her words echoing in my mind: my name will be Edith Prior, and there is much I am happy to forget.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Allegiant
First Sentence of a New World 