From Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington
“Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.”
“I emerge from the simulation with a yell.”
From Veronica Roth's Divergent: Four
“To be honest, I’m not great with words, so I wasn’t keen on writing anything for this book.”
From Rick Riordan‘s Hotel Valhalla: Guide to the Norse Worlds
“Big Ed is about to tell it again.”
From Leslie Connor's All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
“The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal.”
From Matthew Quick's Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
“I stared down an overconfident Sherlock Holmes, begging him to so much as twitch.”
From Heather W. Petty's Lock & Mori: Mind Games
“Gayle!”
From Ira Marcus' Shark Summer
“My mom says worry is like a leaky faucet–every drip makes you imagine something bad on the way… trouble… trouble… trouble… do something… do something… do something.”
From Gennifer Choldenko’s No Passengers Beyond This Point
“It was autumn in Venice when Victor first heard of Prosper and Bo.”
From Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord
“My life in Taiwan is sweet.”
From Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu's Measuring Up
“The eerie, booming call of the steam klaxon reverberated through the cabin, wrenching the dozen snoring phraxminers from their sleep.”
From Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles: The Immortals
“Here in Sueño Bay, Robertson Island, it rains over two hundred days a year.”
From Mike and Nancy Deas’ Sueño Bay Adventures: Shadow Island
“Standing outside of St. Julia Child Elementary and Middle School, I choked on the stink.”
From Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic’s The League of Picky Eaters
“Most everyone in Utah remembers 1896 as the year the territory became a state.”
From John D. Fitzgerald's The Great Brain
“All children, except one, grow up.”
From J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
First Sentence of a New World 