From Theodore Taylor's The Cay
“Like silent, hungry sharks that swim in the darkness of the sea, the German submarines arrived in the middle of the night.”
“I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one.”
From Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
“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
“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”
From Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Okay…”
From Benjamin Renner's The Big Bad Fox
“Nicholas Vargas had never been all that good at sports.”
Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: A Giant Problem
“Christopher was dead.”
From Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“I don’t have to look up to know Mom is making another surprise visit.”
From Matthew Quick's The Silver Linings Playbook
“Every morning, the sun comes up and turns the earth red, and I think: This could be the day when everything changes.”
From Ally Condie's Crossed
“Jannit Maarten, boatbuilder, was on her way to the Palace.”
Angie Sage's Septimus Heap: Queste
“My name is Newell.”
From Jason Platt's Middle School Misadventures
“Wake up, Hilda, it’s almost time to get off the train.”
From Matilda Nordtvedt's Song of the Brook
“Ryan.”
From David Bell's The Request
“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure.”
From C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
First Sentence of a New World 