From James Bowen's The Little Book of Bob
“People often say that humans don’t adopt cats; it’s more a case of them adopting us.”
“If my kids had been with me, it wouldn’t have happened.”
From Heather Chavez's No Bad Deed
“A tracer round sliced a bright red streak through the black night in front of me.”
From Trent Reedy’s Divided We Fall: Burning Nation
“A bank robbery.”
From Fredrik Backman's Anxious People
“The longest day of my life began tardily.”
From John Green's Paper Towns
“My wife, Megan, wrote an e-vite to our dinner party that was like Megan herself: funny, sharp, and a touch mysterious.”
From James Patterson and Richard DiLallo's The Store
First Sentence of a New World 