From Charise Mericle Harper’s Bad Sister
“I was a bad sister.”
“Hello, sports fans!!!”
From Yehudi Mercado's Chunky
“Happy birthday to you!”
From Vera Brosgol's Be Prepared
“Christine, your collar was undone the whole time!”
From Jen Wang's Stargazing
“…Need to flip the top and bottom numbers.”
From Tori Sharp's Just Pretend
“In summer, nothing ever seemed to change.”
From Shannon Hale’s Best Friends
“Mom?”
From Raina Telgemeier's Guts
“Are you sure you’re all packed?”
From Raina Telgemeier's Sisters
“Smile!!”
From Raina Telgemeier's Smile
“I believe in sweat equity.”
From Chip Gaines' No Pain, No Gaines
“People often say that humans don’t adopt cats; it’s more a case of them adopting us.”
From James Bowen's The Little Book of Bob
“It was January in northern New York State, sixty-seven years ago.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: Farmer Boy
“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
“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
“MacGyver opened his eyes.”
From Melinda Metz's Talk to the Paw
First Sentence of a New World 