From Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Nixie's Song
“After his mother died, Nicholas Vargas stopped bothering.”
“Come on.”
From Colleen AF Venable's Katie the Catsitter
“Most flight regulations do not allow children to fly planes on transatlantic routes.”
From Eoin Colfer’s The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges
“Nobody likes getting punched in the face.”
From Kwame Mbalia’s Tristan Strong Destroys the World
“This is how Kyle Keeley got grounded for a week.”
From Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library
“The longest day of my life began tardily.”
From John Green's Paper Towns
“It was January in northern New York State, sixty-seven years ago.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Farmer Boy
“I believe in returning dead bodies.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant's Tomb
“If a person wants to murder any member of a family, then it is very important that the entire family also be done away with, or the distraught survivors might very well decide to take bloody revenge, or at the least make a detailed report at the local police station.”
From Eoin Colfer's The Fowl Twins
“No.”
From Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze
“It was that last piece of his father’s advice that March McQuin found himself contemplating at three in the morning on a picturesque bridge over a dark canal in Amsterdam.”
From Jude Watson's Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods
“I’m lying on a steel table, all too aware of the giant ray gun pointed in my direction.”
From Rob Harrell's Wink
“Artemis Fowl, once self-proclaimed teenage criminal mastermind, now prefers the term juvenile genius.”
From Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian
“Elsa Anders knew she would remember everything of this moment, even as an old and bent woman.”
From Lisa Tawn Bergren's The Northern Lights: The Captain's Bride
First Sentence of a New World 