From Hallie Ephron's Careful What You Wish For
“Emily Harlow wasn’t convinced that her sock drawer sparked joy.”
“The dog stilled in his morning walk, watching as a seagull soared overhead.”
From Tom Sullivan’s Alive Day
“It was a perfectly normal school morning in the Campbell household–disorganized, chaotic and at least one of my children was running around half-naked–right up until the moment the police arrived at our front door to question me in connection with the death of Howard Grant.”
From Margot Hunt's Best Friends Forever
“Galer Street School is a place where compassion, academics, and global connectitude join together to create civic-minded citizens of a sustainable and diverse planet.
From Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette
“’Wow!’ I can remember saying as soon as Vivian stepped out of the bathroom and showed me the positive result of the pregnancy test.”
From Nicholas Spark's Two by Two
“So you’ve decided to have a child.”
From Bill Cosby's Fatherhood
“When I was growing up, theater and music were my first loves, so my original show business goals revolved around being in musical comedies on Broadway, like Ethel Merman and Mary Martin.”
From Carol Burnett's In Such Good Company
“What you need to know about him back then is that if the police put seven college students in a lineup looking for the one who played trombone in the marching band, Calvin Sweeney would be picked, ten times out of ten.”
From Sue Halpern's Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
“Did things ever get so outlandishly rock-bottom rotten that you went around muttering, not necessarily out loud, but muttering nonetheless: I don’t believe it!”
From James Kirkwood's P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
“MacGyver opened his eyes.”
From Melinda Metz's Talk to the Paw
“The street lamp flickers, illuminating the grey pavement mottled by patches of dirty snow and slick black ice.”
From Shalini Boland's The Secret Mother
“Screw you, Bing Crosby.”
From Taylor Adams' No Exit
“It was noon–when the sun was at its highest point and the dog was at his lowest moments.”
Tom Sullivan and Betty White's Together: A Story of Shared Vision
“They say the best things in life are free.”
Tim Hawkins' Diary of a Jackwagon
“Sometimes becoming who we’re supposed to be means building walls around ourselves.”
Erin and Ben Napier's Make Something Good Today
First Sentence of a New World 